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Really? zero responses? Thanks guys...wtf?:banghead:

I have a 30 gallon tank with lots of rocks and hiding places. Originally I got 2 brichardi cichlids. Shortly after getting them there were lots of babies. About a year later one of the original parents and two of the juveniles are alive. Can I put other fish in here? More brichardi cichlids? I...

really? no one has any other advice?

I have a 25 gallon tall aquarium with sand and large rocks to replicate a tanganyikan setup. The pH is about 8 and the water is pretty hard. I had two brichardis in there, both of which were about 2 inches long maybe. One was almost definately male and the other female. Today I found the female...

I recently moved my fish from a 10 gallon tank into a 20 gallon long. My fish include 3 platies and 10 harlequin rasboras. Any suggestions on other fish I could have? The tank is well filtered and has a sandy bottom with some small river stones and a few large rocks.

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yeah they sound like nematodes / planaria. not dangerous, your fish may eat them, but they signify a not so clean tank

yes mine were like that too! That's funny. I had three black females and two black/orange females, and two males and a few babies and they all seemed to stick with others of their same color. The black females wouldn't tolerate anyone coming into their area.

I would worry about chemicals leeching out of the plastic maybe (?) especially with possible interactions with medications or salts you may put in the water.

I haven't been posting on here in ages because I've been keeping Madagascar roaches for the last several months and don't have an aquarium. However, I miss aquariums and am considering getting a setup for a small colony of red claw crabs. I know people often keep these guys in tanks that are...

I have a 20 gallon long and I was thinking about putting a pair of masked julies in there by themselves. Any opinions? Can they have any other tank mates? Will they be boring in there by themselves? Advice? :)

I need some too! :-p

It may be time to admit defeat. I've the EI index and no luck. The algae is everywhere and it looks terrible. I've come to the conclusion that the fact that I basically don't have CO2 is the problem. I had been using DIY CO2 but it didn't work very well so I removed it. The algae was a big...

I have an issue with hair/thread/possibly staghorn algae. My tank is 20 gallon long with the lights on 4 hours, off 4, on 4 and I do no use any fertilizers. I have a DIY CO2 setup which probably is mostly useless. My tank is not overrun by algae quite yet but its pretty bad and my hair grass...

I don't actually have a nitrite test kit {cowers in shame} but I'll have to get one today when I go to the fish store. Now that Mr.Gourami-san has died I'm not sure what else to put in my tank if anything. 3 platys, 4 cories and 4 gold barbs, plus 2 ottos is what I have. Maybe some more gold...

Yikes, stupid move on my part. I'm not sure how I could have done this without thinking. My nitrates are always at 0 and I check them weekly. I did a big water change last night after realizing that my nitrates were at 10ppm (ooops). I did switch out my largest filter sponge for a new just a few...

so my hair algae problem is getting worse. I was advised to stop dosing nitrate (what I hadn't been doing anyway) and to start dosing with dry ferts to add phosphates and iron. Well I tried that and the problem got worse. The light are on 4 hours, off 4 hours, on 4 hours by the way. I just read...

So I found my gourami dead this morning. Sad. He was my showcase fish. Now I'm not sure what to do about it. I'm not sure why he died and I really dont want to medicate the entire tank unless I need to. I have a planted tank and at the moment I'm having an issue with hair algae. I really doubt...

can I get the congensis?

hey there, is the anubias still available? lemme know. I tried to message you but it didn't work.

So [anyone notice that I always start a post with "So"? I'm from Wisconsin :-p] a few months ago I got my first gourami. He's a gold gourami, about 3 inches long, and his name is Mr.Gourami-san. I have a 20 gallon tank and originally I got the gold guy and another blue gourami. Woops. They...

If you salvage the media from the original filter and all the bacteria is still doing fine on there, then you're not in too much trouble. Your old media will colonize any other media in your new filter pretty fast. I think cycling a tank is almost entirely about the filter, so if you move the...

Thanks for all the responses! Very useful information. So the dry ferts that I have are as follows: Plantex CSM+B, monopotassium phosphate, and potassium nitrate. So, if I use Excel, should I omit the potassium nitrate? As you know I haven't actually been using anything but root tabs up to this...

I got one of these beauties a month or so ago. It also molted basically right after I got it, but unfortunately it died right away too. I was SUPER excited to get it, but now I think I'm done with shrimies :(. I love shrimp, but the 5 ghost shrimp and the bamboo shrimp I had in my tank all died...

Well thanks for all the help guys! :) For lighting I have one 39watt 10,000k white bulb and a blue bulb (I got the blue so that I wouldn't have too much light). Both are just a couple months old. The algae on the glass is mostly green dust algae but also a fair amount of spot algae. I wish it...