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I have a 5g tank that only has RCS and java moss in it. Both seem to be doing great; the java moss seem to be growing well, and I've recently had a boom of baby RCS. Unfortunately, I've noticed that I have small worms crawling along the glass of the tank. I have also seen what probably is...

I have three tanks that I had been dosing Excel in, and I'm wondering if I need to continue to in the future. My 20g high tank will have a CO2 setup shortly, and I'll stop dosing Excel once I have that running. My 10g tank has easier to maintain plants in it: amazon frogbit, java ferns, and a...

I just purchased a ZooMed Aquasun T5 HO 24" light for my 20g high tank to replace the Marineland double bright I was using. I'm liking it so far, except that if I try to use the brackets to secure it to the aquarium, I can't use my glass top. :ermm: Other than just setting it on top of the...

So I found a discounted surge protector by CyberPower that allows for multiple transformers (my light timer will fit into one of those spots nicely), so I bought two to replace the super cheapo Wal-Mart plug strips that have plugs blocked because of transformers. Then, as I read the fine print...

So I'm trying to find a spot where I can place my 4th aquarium (succumb to the MTS :lol:), and one of the places that would work fairly well is right near my entertainment center. This tank would be a 5.5g planted tank, inhabitants still in the planning stages. Does anyone have any of their...

At this point, I'm thinking I need to make one ore more changes to my 20g high tank to help the plants in it now and future plants I intend to add to it down the road. I've changed my substrate from standard PetCo gravel to eco-complete, but still seem to be having problems with quite a few of...

I needed to add some more eco-complete to my 20g high tank, so I bought another bag. I can't really use all of it in my tank, so I decided I'd try to use some of it in another. My 10g tank has new sand in it, and my 5g is a RCS breeder with a sandy bottom, so I won't be changing those...

After I moved my RCS from a 2.5g to a 5.5g, and rescaped my 20g high with eco-complete, I just knew I wasn't done with the pain. My 10g had this white PetCo gravel in it, and I was convinced that a darker substrate would show the fish better and look better in the tank. So, today is the day I...

I have a 10g tank with: 8 harlequin espeis 1 dwarf honey gourami 1 male guppy assorted snails and shrimp I had thought that the guppy might be chasing the harlequins around the tank a bit, but it was especially evident when I dropped a piece of zucchini in the tank (mostly for the...

I have a 20g high tank with one 20 lb bag of eco-complete in it, and now realize that I could probably stand to put around another 5-10 lbs of the substrate in it. The problem is, they seem to only come in 20 lb bags. Has anyone seen something smaller than 20 lbs for eco-complete? Or, if not...

I have a few plants I'd like a hand identifying. I believe the first one is a crypt, and the last is an anubias.

I figured I'd double-check myself to make sure I'm not missing anything. My most recent, and should be final (barring deaths) addition to my 10g tank was a honey dwarf gourami. I went that route because they seem to be smaller than the blue dwarf gouramis, and hopefully not as fragile. fish 1...

Now that I've moved my RCS breeding colony over to a 5.5g tank, I find myself wondering what the heck I should do with the 2.5g they were in originally. A betta would be cramped, and I'm not sure I want to go that route. The majority of the micro fish (harlequin espy, mosquito rasbora, emerald...

I had a 2.5g tank with RCS and java moss in it that I decided to re-home to a new 5.5g tank I bought at an aquarium auction. I didn't move the small amount of Fluval substrate that I had in the tank with them, however (considering making a planted nano-tank). Is there a substrate that would...

I've decided that I wanted to remove the cheap colored chain store gravel with eco-complete in my 20g tank, and had a few questions. 1) Is 20lbs of the new substrate enough for a 20g high? I know I wouldn't have enough for a 20g regular tank, but wasn't sure how much I should have for mine. I...

I've recently rescaped my tank with some new plants that I purchased at an event my aquarium club held. Two of the plants I added to my tank were bacopa australis and moneywort. When I tried to add these two bunch plants to my tank, I relearned one of the things I hated about anacharis...

I've bought some new plants for my tank, but wanted to clean them of any unwanted snails (pond, ramshorns) before adding them. I've read about a number of dipping solutions I could try, including hydrogen peroxide and saltwater. Neither of those seemed to have much effect when I tried them...

I've had some issues with cleanup crews in my 20g high tank. The ghost shrimp I had in there were hunted down by the inhabitants until there was only one survivor that I moved to another tank. And now, the pygmy cories that I had added to the tank seem to be slowly dying off (only 3 left). I...

I came home today to what looks like a pink shrimp getting mauled by almost all of the amano/ghost shrimp in my 10g tank. The pink looking shrimp is around the same size as the amano/ghost shrimp in the tank, but I couldn't tell you which species it might have been. Was this shrimp already on...

I have a nano tank (2.5g) with shrimp in it that's been having problems. The types of shrimp in the tank were RCS and bumblebee shrimp. Unfortunately, the entire population of RCS died off in the tank; I just found what I suspect is the last one today. At least 2 out of 4 of the BBS are still...

Does anyone know the relationship between pH and GH/KH? It seems to be somewhat unpredictable how they interact. I have two scenarios in particular that make the correlation between them unclear. Scenario 1 I was fishless cycling my 10g tank a while back. It's a planted tank with java...

How long do you keep your lights on for planted tanks? I've seen a suggested time of 8-12 hours a day, so I have my lights on for 10 hours. All of my lights are on a timer. 20g high: amazon swords, java fern, anubias, crypt, and others (can't remember offhand) 10g: java ferns, java moss...

I've decided that the 2.5g tank that I've had as a hospital tank is ineffective for other temporary uses, like a QT or breeding tank. I've therefore decided to do the appropriate thing: succumb to MTS and turn it into a shrimp tank! :dance: Here's a link to the tank I'm starting with...

Yesterday I put a slice of zucchini in my 20g tank for my ottos to much on. It turns out that the majority of my fish are nibbling on it during the day, and the ottos at night. This brings up an interesting question: is it possible that zucchini would clean out the systems of my fish in a...

I seem to be having a shrimp problem in both of my tanks. My ghost shrimp have been hunted down to the last couple in my 20g tank. The most likely culprits are my female bettas, but my five banded barbs could also be responsible. Unfortunately, my RCS may have been hunted to extinction in my...