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Hi, all, I haven't posted here in awhile, but am so proud of one of my neons today that I had to share this story. As I posted a while back, I built an aquabridge to use between two 29-gallon tanks...

Hi there, I am so frustrated with holes in my leaves! I have three planted tanks, and all of my Amazon swords, hygrophila, and java fern have leaves that are full of holes. There are so many holes that the leaves look like lace. The Amazon sword leaves are all disintegrated at the tips...

I found this little treasure in our local book exchange. It's an instructional booklet for starting your first aquarium, dated 1966. The cover is below, and this link takes you the rest of the booklet. The picture on the cover (What exactly is happening there?) must be especially...

Some pictures of my aquariums as they look this month...They are all works in progress, of course....particularly now, soon after a plague. The 55-gallon houses a powder blue dwarf gourami, six glowlight tetras, five neons, and two baby horseface loaches that may need to be rehomed into a...

I use a mix of Marineland Emperor filters, and the Aquaclear line. I shifted to Aquaclears on some tanks a few years ago when I became frustrated at what seemed like constant noise from the Emperors. I also really like the Aquaclear box--its size and versatility and appearance compared to...

I have seen some stunning pictures online of aquariums with giant hygro in them, but I can't seem to find it available for sale in very many places. I bought some on Ebay, but it arrived in fairly skimpy clippings, and much of it died off. Some has survived, but it is very skinny and sparse...

Hi, there, I am a long-time but intermittent user of this site. On my latest visits, I've found that I can't follow links posted by site members. For example, Aiken Drum currently has a post in Freshwater--General Discussion that includes a link to the Practical Fishkeeping website...

Not mine...Just ran across it on Imgur and thought others might like to see. There are step-by-step pictures of the build. https://imgur.com/t/staff_picks/ZcS4O2p https://i.imgur.com/dRfm3Eu.jpeg

Bridge still has air bubbles clinging to the sides of it--they discovered it very quickly!

This is a trial run at a hardscape for a 29-gallon, forest-themed, planted tank. It's my first try at a hardscape, and I am pretty sure I'll end up revising it. I welcome any ideas, corrections, or suggestions anyone has. It's made with play sand, branches found by the Potomac River and...

I'm having problems with the format of my posts. For a while, I would get huge spaces between paragraphs. Hitting the return once would create three skips down before the next paragraph. Then I would have to go back in Preview Mode and delete two of the returns. Now, I can't get any...

Hi there, planted tank keepers, I want to try making my first aquascaped tank, and I think I've already made a serious mistake that will cause me to tear everything down. Not a great loss, as I don't have any plants or fish yet, but I did spend a lot of time getting the rockwork just right...

Wow, you all are still here! I used to post here a lot, but then moved and had to give up my aquariums for now. I will be back! It's great to see this community still up and thriving! For now, can anyone help me identify this fish? He is pretty and orange. Thanks very much in advance...

I introduced Malaysian trumpet snails into two different tanks, one with black substrate and one with white. All the snails were medium brown in color when introduced, and all came from the same group. Now, many months later, I notice that all the snails in my white-substrate tank have white...

I was putting drops in my tank according to the directions, and the whole dropper fell out of the top, dumping half the bottle into my tank. How could the whole top just fall off like that??????? Warning to others: Drop the drops into a cup rather than directly into the aquarium, just in...

In my old tank, I used to have a beautiful school of seven praecox (dwarf neon) rainbowfish. They were all roughly the same size, and they swam together all the time, with never any sign of aggression. In the group, their colors were brilliant, and they seemed happy in the group. When we moved...

I redid my largest tank a few months ago to include more plants and was shocked and thrilled that most of them actually lived! Some of them (pennywort, rotala, wisteria) are actually thriving and spreading! My sword, anubias, and java fern are pretty stable. I did lose a lot of hygro...

I just inherited a free 30-gallon tank, but it came with some fish that are much too big for it, and they are also not compatible with one another. I am offering them to good homes for free. These are not the types of fish I normally keep, so please forgive the amateur attempts at describing...

I just inherited a free 30-gallon tank, but it came with some fish that are much too big for it, and they are also not compatible with one another. I am offering them to good homes for free. These are not the types of fish I normally keep, so please forgive the amateur attempts at describing...

My betta is so cute, I can't stand it. I was changing water, and the current from the python drove all the loose plants at the top of the aquarium together into a spinning ball at the corner of the tank. Betta was mesmerized and hovered watching it for awhile. Then, all of a sudden, he dove...

for a 55-gallon aquarium. Please respond if you have a good deal for me. :-D Thanks.

Hi there, everyone, I left AA in late 2007 after making a very angry post about the trojan that was infecting AA. It messed up my computer badly during an already difficult time, and I had to reinstall my entire operating system....so I left after posting a few choice words about the fact...

Okay, is this for real? Youtube video of smart goldfish Youtube video of smart goldfish

A friend has a female betta in a 5-gallon tank. The betta spent the entire first day in the tank attacking her own image in the glass, and it was necessary to put paper on the sides. Now she wants a companion for the betta, but she doesn't like catfish or snails. Is there any tankmate that...

I have always thought this about my rams. I love the picture with the article: a coupla fish clearly sizing each other up. :D http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16796139/ Freshwater chichlids have reasoning capacity of 4- or 5-year-old child By Robin Lloyd Senior Editor Updated: 8:49 p.m...