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I have been looking at tetras for my tank and see that cadinal/neon/glowlight are most recommended, i know the cardinals can be difficult what about the neon and the glowlight? Any advice would be good here.

I thought the dwarf frogs did good with fish it was just the African clawed frog you had to watch out for?

I was thinking of neons, zebra danios were also mentioned somewhere, and cherry barbs but given how red the barbs are might not be a good idea, i hear red sets betts off.

I have a betta in a 10 gal tank and he seems to have become a little territorial about the entire tank, we would like to get a couple more fish, but i am worried he may become aggressive towards the new comers. Is it true that by removing the fish in question for up to a week and then...

The only things in the tank are marina gravel, a little bridge we got at the pet store for them to hide under, a couple small fake plants, and some river stones.

I must have some magic water or something, its been 3 days with no water change and my water readings are still 0 across the board, has anyone ever run into this? it seems strange given that there have been fish in there for a month +. EDIT:Is there a way to test your test kits? eg. could i...

Someone just told me that sea monkeys would make a good live food for my fish tank, i'm not really sure what they are other than little underwater critters, was this person right? or could this cause issues in my tank?

well i'm gonna stop doing changes to see if i can get some readings, for water conditioning i use nutrafin aqua plus which says it dechloinats, and i feed them nutrafin max complete flake food for all tropical fish. Also as a side note, i messed up, in all my post i have been calling the...

Not sure what prime is, I use Aquafin water conditioner and an aquafin mini master liquid test kit. expiry date of 2014.

I do 30% changes everyother day, at one point I was doing them everyday because I read that the fish love it and it wouldn't do any harm, i'm questioning that now.

It is an albino shark and yeah 10 gal is way too small, it is a temporary home till I get a bigger tank, and yeah I just ran all the tests again and all readings are still 0. And no live plants, I haven't gotten that far yet, not gonna add anything else to the tank until i get this issue fixed...

Ok so long story short I bought the fish and the tank same day, I had no clue about cycling until it was too late, Now i have had the tank with fish in it for a month to six weeks and seems as if my tank never cycled. I had one NH3 spike at the begging and then all the readings NH3/NO2/NO3...

Well the room is pretty well regulated for heat most of the year, as for Petsmart, we have one here I was there last weekend and the cheapest heater they had was 40$, I think they jack the prices up around here as we have few options. Has anyone bought fish online?I was considering it but it...

A friend just offered me a 10 gal tank he no longer uses, it has a filter and lights but no heater, Are there any fish out there that like a cool tank and stay small that would be good for this setup?

How long should I let the dechlorination stuff work on the new water before i add it to the tank? Could adding the water too soon be stopping my tank from cycling?

The other pet shop in town keeps all their Bettas prebagged(the bag is about the size of a small fist) floating on top of another tank with the bags knotted shut, makes me wonder how they get food/air. Long story short, we don't shop there anymore.

Yeah a bigger tank is in the cards, i just wanted to start small/cheap. When I get some free cash i'm going to atleast a 30 would rather have a 40+ though heh

Well i had no idea about cycling a tank at first, we got the tank and fish same day, and i only learned later that night about cycling a tank so it was too late by then, I do more research now so hoping to avoid future pitfalls. We have had the tank running now for 6weeks ish, so I assume it is...

It all adds up now, and yeah i don't listen to the sales ppl anymore, one sold my GF a Blood parrot and told her it would be good mixed in with a Betta and some sharks, we ended up with a dead betta and traumatized sharks so that was the end of taking their advice. The betta we have now pretty...

I was in a pet shop a while back and when I looked at their bettas(kept in clear cups about the size of a med softdrink) I noticed that every one seems to have a light blue color to the water. Does this serve a purpose or is it just decoration?

I was told recently by a friend that Windsor canning & pickling salt would be good to use in my tank as is has no added ingredients, the two pet shops in my area hardly carry anything for fish so I can't find any proper salt to use does anyone know if this is safe for my little fish buddies...

A word about Tripods, if you live in an area that has a "Dollar store"(actual name of the store not just any buck or two place) you can find a small tripod there for, you guessed it, a buck heh. They are not very big so you will still need to set it on something to get the height you need but at...

Hi all, new member here also new to tanks, I was told I should post a little info here so here it is: Setup: 10 gal tank with 50W heater and Elite hush filter. Stock: 1 male Betta 1 albino rainbow shark Water conditions: pH - 6.5-7.0 NH3 - 0 NO3 - 0 NO2 - 0