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Hi everyone, Just wanted to ask everyone their opinions on burying aponogeton's bulb? I've always buried them and had no issues until I recently upgraded my tank and changed the gravel. The gravel was a nightmare! Long story short, most of my plants didn't like the new gravel including the...

I was visiting my LFS recently, and they gave me a sick halfmoon for free. I feel so sorry for him, his beautiful tail and dorsal fin are almost gone. Because, I don't have a hospital tank at the moment, I'm housing him in a breeding cage in my 40g, I'm hoping it's not too late for his fins...

Hi guys My GBR has just laid some eggs!! I'm so excited!! I do have a few questions! There's about 20 cardinal tetra, and a Longfin bristlenose. Will the fry be eaten by my cardinals tetra and Bristlenose?? And another question is when and what do I feed the fry?? Ill also need to sponge the...

Hi all, I have a 40 gallon high with a longfin bristlenose pleco and an apple snail. I will be stocking it to a planted community tank, but cant make up my mind on what to stock it with. Its currently bare bottom but am waiting to receive my seachem flourite. Its also running a Fluval 406 and...

Hi, Hows it going guys? Thank y'all for reading my post. My bristlenose pleco has had a weird growth just behind his left eye for a few months now. It hasn't really grown in size as far as i can tell, however, i would like to find out what it is. I believe its a female because it still hasnt...

I've read around the internet saying that u need to remove each stem and trim it that way. I would like to avoid that as much as possible because I have so many! And be a nightmare to replant them! So I'm just wondering if there is a need to trim them, or any other method to do so? Cheers

My eheim jäger 50w heater seems abit faulty. Just wanted to get confirmation if it is. The on/off lights is constantly on! Only when I turn it down 2/3degree celsius the light will turn on but after a while the lights will turn back on and never turn off again. And doesn't matter what temp I...

So after a week of deliberating between the fluval edge and the fluval chi! I decided to go with edge! Because it fits in my room nicer and the filter is alot more flexible! Chi's filter is so limiting, u can't even put what u want in there. I bought the fluval edge yesterday. And got it...

One of my Otto was stuck I managed to free him without too much damage! But its dorsal fin is ripped and he has many red spots on his belly. I'm wondering if he's gonna make it! Any help?

Hi guys, so im planning to buy a new aquarium for my betta! this time its just gonna be for him, only him! haha my last 10g was originally meant to be for betta only but somehow became a community! so im just curious if anyone here have any experience with this particular aquarium! im not sure...

I woke up on the wrong side of the bed yesterday (07/01/11)!! I looked at my 10g and wasn't happy with it at all! All my plants are getting huge!! Especially my water sprite! So i tried trimming it! But wasnt happy because it's looked so bald!!! Decided to uproot both of my water sprite + narrow...

Anyone know what could have caused one of my 6 cards to lose both it's eyes? Water parameters are ph 6.6, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate <10, temp 78. I have 3 ottos, one Betta, 6 cards and a few malaysian trumpet snails in a 10 gallon with an ac70filter. The tank is heavily planted too.

Hey guys, so I've being presoaking my pellets for a long time now. And recently I started using NLS pellets and I did abit of read on their website and I read that presoaking Ur pellets doesn't actually do anything. Here's the article! It's under "feeding" last paragraph...

My 10gallon has being running for about 4months acting as a quarantine/ hospital tank. Early may I decided to make it a simply betta tank but found myself a month later with a heavily planted 10g with a new light fixture, heater. I currently have 3 ottos, and a half-moon betta. My question is...

I recently brought 3 ottos. And they clean out my tank so well that I've decided to feed them some algae wafers incase they get hungry. I fed them when it's dark, I came back 1 hour later and see my betta sitting near the wafers obviously eating it and he looks really bloated!! Omg I didn't know...

Went to my LFS this morning and brought 3 ottos! In the past ive being doin the old acclimating method, floating the bag method, but Ive read that dripping method is alot safer and better way to acclimate fish! So here I am :) I hope I'm doin it right! I tied 2 knots in the air tube allowing...

Im planning on buying either ottos or shrimp to add to my 10 gallons which is a heavily planted betta tank! It used to be a QT tank but it was sitting there for months and I couldn't bare an empty tank. So now i don't know what to do if I do decide to buy ottos. And I don't think I can afford...

hey guys, i just have a question i couldnt find the answer to myself. I think its me being paranoid but ive had this oranda for about 1 year now and its growth seems to be stunt i say this because hes so small, maybe because i see it every single day!! heres a pic and heres a pic of him with...

Do anyone have experience with the two combination? I have a 10 gallon tank, quiet heavily planted (not sure what classifies as heavily tbh) with a juvenile betta. My ph is at 6.6 however my tap water is at 7.6. With my ammonia nitrite at 0, and nitrate 5ppm. With research I've done, Ottos are...

I have an aquaone easy read thermometer that's submerged and one aqua one digital thermometer with a probe both in the same tank but I'm getting different readings. One reads 26.5 ( probe) one reads 27.5 ( submerged) both in celsius. So I'm not sure which one to believe so to say. I want an...

This tank is old! i cant upgrade it coz of my parents!! I brought it back in 2002 so is the fantail!! the red cap oranda is only about 1 year old! i have an eheim pro 2 2028, a 150W rena heater, an air pump cant remember the brand of it but i pumps about 600 liters of air per hour, small...

Anybody uses equilibrium? Are they necessarY?

I was told that carbon can absorb fertilizers from water column. So I'm gonna remove it tomorrow morning. The problem is I just dosed my 10 gallon with API leaf zone. Should I redose it after removing the carbon? Cheers guys

I've recently planted my 10 gallon with a betta and hopefully once my plants becomes denser I'll add some RCS. I'm so wondering if it's ok to keep my temp at 27 celsius degrees.

Hey guys just wondered if any of u have any experience with the seachem flourish range; flourish, excel, trace, nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus. And are they necessary for low to medium light plants? I have 2 27watts 6500k daylight PL tubes. 10 gallons