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Hi everyone! I was on a business trip with my family and grandma was the only one who has been looking after the house. I separated the fish food of my 20G tank to daily meals and told her what she needed to know, turning lights on and off on time, feeding fish, etc. I left and I didn't think...

Hi everyone, I made some research and found out I should not have done this, but right now I'm on vacation and I can't do anything since I'm not at home :(. I live in southeast Europe and it gets madly hot here, the temperatures reach 40-42 degrees Celcius. Throughout the year I mantained a...

Hi everyone! I am about to finish cycling my 20 gallon dirted tank and I am now thinking into stocking. i'm dead set about Mystery and Nerite snails, but mostly Mystery snails, and since I've never kept these guys I'm pretty excited. The thing ia that they require a high pH and since this is a...

Hi everyone I just finally set up my 20 gallon drited, heavily planted tank. I had an internal filter thas I purchased it about 1,5 years ago. Anyways, this filter suddenly decided to stop working :(. Fortunately, Im still cycling this tank (this is the first day), so there are no fish in it...

Hi everyone! After two months of research and after gathering all the required equipment, today i finally finished my first dirted tank! It's only a 20 gallon, but it's my first and I'll hopefully upgrate to something bigger soon! I didn't have much money to buy an organic top soil, so I had to...

Hi everyone! I'm setting up my light bulb system for my 20 gallon and I replaced the T8 neon bulb with CFLs, which I haven't purchased yet. Anyways, I went to the hardware store, and the only CFL bulbs with K rates were of low wattage, such as 9 or 11 watt. I'm looking for higher wattage bulbs...

Hi guys! I need your advice. I'll be setting up my first high light soil substrate heavily planted tank tomorrow and I have a doubt on my stock. This is the stock I've planned: - A school of cory cats. - A German Blue Ram - And the school of tetras or rasboras. Which one should I get? Theyre...

Hi everyone! Ive got a healthy java moss clump from a bidder on aquabid and it's been in my tank for almost 4 months now and it was doing Ok. I could notice it growing new strings towards the light. Anyways two weeks ago I did a waterchange and re-arranged the decor a bit, moving the driftwood...

Hi Everyone! I got a plant fertilizer from Australia, called " Plant Food ", since I am extra cautious about everything I immediately read the " ingredients " list when it got shipped to me and it says that it contains chelates of copper, iron, magnese etc. I currently have Malaysian Trumpet...

Hi Everyone! I got some java moss and 6 little java ferns shipped to me this sunday, but I am wondering how to plant them? I've read that you should tie them to driftwood but my driftwood still floats :banghead: Can you plant the java fern? About the java moss. I got a golfball sized rock from...

Hi Everyone! So I've been preparing for months, did hours of research on the plants I wanted to get and now finally Im ready to grow my own live plants in my tank. So here's the thing: I currently have only 1 10gallon tank running, I am getting a 15 this weekend, ready to set up. The plants...

Hello Everyone! So I found this pond full of hornworts, I couldn't believe it myself so got some and took them home! The pond is part of a natural park protected from the government, so there are no chemicals dumped in the water. Thank goodness I was allowed to take the plants home! Anyways, I...

Hi Everyone! About a year ago someone gave me this kind of rock because his aquarium broke. I never had the chance to ask him where did he get this from, but anyways I put it in my tank then and I lost 2 goldfish because they got stuck in it's holes :(... Since then I removed the stone and it's...

Hello Everyone! This is the first time my fish had fry, so I actually have a couple of questions. Anyways, the one that is bugging me the most is the one in the title. It's been excactly a month now, my fry were born in June 25th, can I put them in the main tank (cycled) with the mother? Is it...

Hi Everyone! I finally found a LFS in my country that had a gravel vacuum cleaner, phew Im so happy :D! No more damage to my back when I wash the gravel lol! Anyways I got it today and was about to do the weekly water change, but Im really having a hard time with it ( the pet store owner just...

Hello everyone :)! I have a 10G at home and I really find live plants exciting so I wanted to add one in my tank. Well the opportunity came. Im on vacation and there are A LOT of ponds and creeks in the village im in. haha thats why I asked my parents to come here, because of the ponds. So I...

Hello Everyone! My name is Henri ( pronounced Henry ) and I live in Albania, a small country between Italy and Greece in Europe. I really love fishkeeping and I found this great site while surfing the net, so I didn't hesitate to join. I currently have a 10G tank with a female swordtail that has...