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I'm in a bind. One of my 2 zebra danios that are left(lost two last week) is having problems swimming and almost seems like he's panting. There doesn't appear to be any signs of anything else wrong(the other Zebra danio and my betta are acting perfectly normal. The tank has been setup for...

Here's a pic of my 10 gallon. What do you all think? I know that the two plants in the front are crypt wendtii, and the one in the back right is anachris. Pretty sure that the one in the middle on the driftwood is anubias nana, and the one in the back left a corkscrew val. The algae is finally...

I finally got a drop checker(a Red Sea one). Made the 4dKH solution for it, put it into the checker, and added the 2 drops of the solution it came with. Couldn't make out any color, so I added 2 more, and still no noticable color. Finally, after a nice little search(yeah search function) found...

Went out to dinner and just got home, only to find the neon tetras all dead, top of the tank covered in foam(run a small air pump at night to keep CO2 from going too high at night), and no one else acting normal. The only way I can think of to describe the foam is like the foam you get in your...

I just got some new anachris(figure I'll give it a second shot, this time with two different varieties), and the one with the little thin leaves has small root coming out halway up some of the plants. When I got it, it was in a bundle, and I seperated it out so that it wouldn't be crowded. Also...

Can you run too much light for a given tank size? I know you can run too low of a light for a given tank for the plants(learned it the hard way), but not sure on the too much side. Also, where would a 36 watt 6700k PL over a 10 gallon put me on lighting levels? Medium(guessing)? Thanks in...

At what point does CO2 become a good idea? Is it based off of lighting? Or is it based off of fish compared to plant numbers and types? Or, is it something else all together? I've read about how CO2 gets setup, but can't seem to find when it becomes a good idea as compared to a bad idea. Thanks.

Where's the best place to place a HOB filter on the tank(besides the obvious:angel:) for best water filtration and turnover? I would love to keep the Aquaclear 20 turned all the way down and still get good filtration.

I have a 10 gallon tank, with one betta, some anachris, and a Crypto Wendtii with a F15T8 10000k lamp. Some of the anachris is turning a grayish brown color. The crypto wendtii had a few leaves that got wilted(touch them and they fall apart, but I've heard that it wilting a bit is normal), so I...

I figured that this would be the right place to ask this. I have a 10 gallon tank, gravel bottom, Aquaclear 20 filter, and an old Stainless aquarium light(with a coralife 10000k F15T8 lamp in it). Currently, have some anachris and a Bronze Wendtii(Cryptocoryne wendtii) and one betta. I'm...

I'm doing a fishless cycle on a 10 gallon tank with an AquaClear 20 filter without the carbon in it. Thursday night, I took my readings, and they were ammonia at .25(dosed back up to 4), nitrite 2.0, and nitrate 40. I also threw in some flake fish food that I pulverized to a powder to keep some...

Today, I went to the last LFS in the area, and said about cycling the tank without fish. They actually said that they prefer when customers do that because they then have healthier fish. A LFS RECOMMENDS fishless cycling. They told me the only reason that they don't insist on all customers doing...

I'm currently doing a fishless cycle, and went a bit overboard on the ammonia the first time, so I had to do a PWC to bring it down to readable levels. I immediately realized that I needed a better way to get the used water to the drain, and laid my eyes on some spare PVC and fittings I have...

Got my 10 gallon today, as well as filter, heater, gravel(natural looking river gravel), gravel vacumn, water conditioner, and API Freshwater master test kit. Going to do a fishless cycle. Once the cycle is complete, I'll be adding 5 glowlight tetra, 5 orange laser cory, and a betta, in that...

After a lot of reading, and a small problem, I've changed my original plans. A new tank is in order(only because I really don't want the risk of a leak due to needing to redo all the seams on the tank I have right now). With where I want to set it up at, a 10 gallon is all that I can really...

I was filling the 10 gallon tank I have(used) to check for leaks when the sides literally pealed apart from each other. Thankfully I was doing this in the bathtub, so the only mess I had to deal with was one piece of broken glass. I already found a place to get a replacement piece with the same...

I'll be honest, I'm going to try an experiment, but would like to see if anyone knows the answer first. Does anyone know if water "raining" down through an aluminum(I've heard that copper is toxic to fish) radiator back into the tank kill fish? I'm asking because I want to do both a computer...