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Hey everyone! Here's my question for the next week or two: Have any of you ever kept RCS or CRS in your community tank successfully? I tried about a year ago but my Gold Barbs tore them to nothing. I just got rid of them to an LFS yesterday, and I'd like to try again, but I'm worried I'm going...

Hey everyone, it's been a long time since I've logged in! A lot has happened since last summer, I moved out of my parents and into a new apartment, and have been incredibly busy, and unfortunately lost touch with my Aquatic friends in the formerly luxurious 55g Planted Boe.Rainbow/Neon aquarium...

Hey everyone! Long time no see. I had a few questions about a pressurized Co2 system I'm acquiring from a friend who is retiring his beer tap (unfortunately). I have no pictures of it since I just saw it last night. The Co2 Regulator is a standard regulator, with no built in Bubble Counter. I...

Tell me all about them (how to measure, dose, how often, where to find and buy them). I'm beyond sick of buying seachem flourish! Mainly I need potassium and a little bit of phosphate, and definitely iron. For now the nitrate is covered by my fish ;D, but I am heavily interested in the use of...

I am currently using the Nutrafin Natural Co2 system, and let me tell you. I HATE THIS PROUDUCT! The canister is good, never had a problem, it should've came with a check valve for it's price, but whatever, the problem with this system is the "Bubble Counter". I don't know why it's called that...

I have tried putting shrimp such as RCS and CRS in my 55g planted. I have successfully stocked one Atya Shrimp who has been fine and filter feeding for months without being harmed by my "semi" aggressive barbs. But when I put RCS in, they were vanquished, and I decided to wait and try again. So...

I bought RCS months back and CRS for my 55g planted last night. The first time I bought RCS they were very small and got torn to shreds by my Gold Barbs. I hate my Barbs. Last night I decided to try again because the CRS were on sale for 4.00 so I picked up two. I tried feeding my Barbs while I...

My 55g planted tank was doing fine, had some algae, was using Excel, then started injecting DIY Co2, 5 days later my tank is cloudy during the day, clears up at night, clear in the morning, then cloudy as all heck by the end of the photoperiod. I have 2 ac70 filters. And during last weeks PWC I...

Need males and females. Anyone have a colony that's big enough to part with 10 of them? I'm sure you guys/girls will be willing to deal at a better price than my LFS' do. Around here they are way to expensive.

What the heck? My tap has .25 ppm of ammonia. I haven't had any fish loss, and I do water changes frequently but am never able to get a 0 ammonia reading from my tank. I finally decided to test my tap. It's a very light green. What do I do? I use prime so that detoxifies it, but it still comes...

Ok, my rainbowfish are the dominant fish in my tank, and are always beating my neon tetras to the food at feeding time. I inject c02 into my tank, so I was wondering, since my dad has a NOS in his mustang, that if I injected Nitrous into my tank, would my tetras be faster so that they could eat...

Which one of these can be used in aquariums for sinking driftwood causing no harm to my aquatic life? Thank you!

Is it Silicone 1 or Silicone 2 that is aquarium safe? I have silicone 1, which I think is correct, but I do not remember. I am about to apply some to slate and driftwood, so I figured I'd double check.

I currently am reading .25 ppm of ammonia in both my 29g and 55g. My 29g has no plants anymore, and is being used as a QT, before I bought new Golden Barbs today it had 6 otos keeping my diatom algae at bay, and read .25 My 55g is very lightly planted right now, and is reading .25 as well...

I've been using SeaChem's Acid Buffer for about a week now. I use the recommended dose on my 55g Planted, and I'm trying to get the PH to a nice healthy 6.8, but it does'nt seem to be moving it at all. I've even cut back on my water changes to help it stay down, but it won't even move from 7.6...

I have brown leaves on my plants, I have not been injecting c02 for about a month now, and restarted using my Kent iron and manganese supplement. I want to switch to the flourish line, but am not sure which supplements to use. Any advice? I am going to be setting up my co2 again soon as well.

I recently bought 2 SAEs and I know my red tailed shark finally decided to act like an RTS and never left them alone. Now one is missing. I think he may have jumped out of my tank which is uncovered, and on to the floor, and one of my two cats may have eaten him. He is nowhere to be found! Any...

I now work at my LFS, and pretty stoked about the discount fish and equipment, I got my $8.00 SAEs' for $4.00 each! The other good news is the owner is an honest guy who doesn't lie to the customers, so I'm excited about that too!

I would've posted this under Unhealthy Fish, but they're not diseased and I know how to cure them, so here it is: Throughout my time spent in the Aquarium Hobby, I've noticed nipped fins on my what are supposed to be the "dominant" fish in my tank. I have: 1 Red Tailed Black Shark (who should...

Out of my three platys, 2 are now dead. Water parameters are perfect. I don't even know where the one is. I looked everywhere inside and outside of the tank. What did I do wrong? More room for B. Rainbows I guess. I'm still annoyed though.

I bought a used 55g with a unattractive black stand (IMO) a couple months back. I never got the motivation to start it up. But since my 19th Birthday is on the way, everyone is asking what I want for my b-day and I just finally decided I want the essentials to start my 55g up (I'm aquiring the...

Does fluorite gravel lose it's nutrients over time? Because I am not looking forward to buying more anytime soon!!! I've had mine for about two months now, and I'm wondering if I'm going to have to change it soon.

I had two High Fin Platys in my tank. The one died in the first couple weeks I bought them, and I bought them in january. Now the other is not eating, not being social like usual, and not at the water's surface swimming back and forth like she usually does. My parameters were all good, except...

My fish are one of my two hobbies. I play in a pretty active metal rock band, and for the past two days, we've been in the studio, and my mother has been watching my fish. BUT she doesn't know anything but the common sense of fish keeping (which is even sometimes dangerous overfeeding, etc)...

My nitrates tested 80ppm! I thought plants are supposed to lower them as nitrates serve as a fert? And I think my well water already has high nitrates. How do I lower them?