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My sister is getting married and her idea for a center piece is, a small vase/bowl with a sunflower in it, rocks at the bottom, and a betta or goldfish?!?!? Of course the fish lover in me burst out and voiced my opinion. So now I am way too eccentric and why did I have to ruin everything? Maybe...

So I just purchased a used 125g tank, the guy emptied it today and it has quite a bit of algae and used for salt water. My questions are: How do I clean up the algae good? Is there anything special I need to clean it with since it was used for saltwater? I am upgrading my 55g, transferring over...

Okay so I'm getting a 125g tank and I want to do cichlids!! Soooo...as far as aesthetics go these are my favs so far: Yellow labs Salousi Powder blue Red zebra Yellow tailed acei Pseudotropheus demasoni Really need advice on how to figure out who I can and can't have together. Can I even do a...

I am currently treating my 55g for ich with heat and salt, I used 1 tbsp per 5g of water adding it in with my drip acclimator over two days, heat is currently at 87 turned up 1 degree every 12 hrs. Rigged my filter to sit up higher and lowered water level by about 2" to get a splash and am...

Walmart has some spotted puffers, the label says they need x amount of salt per x amount of gallons and that they are community fish, is this info correct? Why would they have freshwater fish in with them?

Okay so I found out my bf's "unknown" fish is a Madagascar Rainbowfish. Also found out they like schooling. So I went to the same store and the lfs guy told me they only had 1 left, so I bring it home and acclimate it, put it in the tank and my current rainbow is ignoring it. Is this normal? Oh...

Okay so I am upgrading my current residents from a 20g long to a 29g they include: 3 guppies 2f 1m 2 panda cories 1 platy f 1 hillstream loach New stock would bring me to: 6 guppies 4f 2m 4-6 panda cories 1 hillstream loach 1-2 dwarf gouramis Platy is going to be rehomed in my 55g with 2 more...

Last time I had a guppy give premature labor I had just brought her home from the fish store and she didn't make it. Now I've just had one of my guppys (this is her first batch) give birth to 7 "fry" 5 with sacks still on them but mostly developed (only 3 made it thru the night) and 2 eggs. Is...

I love the look of sand, but I have been told it hard to clean any I have opinions would be great! Also is it 1 pound of sand for each gallon?

I brought home plants Saturday and by Sunday all 3 of my guppies are flashing. I did a 100% water change vacuuming the gravel twice. Added quickcure cause that's all I had, and was not able to get to the fish store until this weekend. Soo because I have cories I did half doses of med from Sunday...

This is weird, I bought a few plants from that fish place when I was there yesterday, I am watching my fish and I notice something that looks like a piece of string or root, upon closer inspection this "worm" is actually swimming in my tank. Any ideas what it could be and should I remove it?

What exactly is needed for a quarantine tank? I was thinking of doing a little DIY one with a 5g tote. My thoughts: Heater Filter media Bubbler Plants Should I buy a whole filter?

I want to try plants as a background in my tank instead of the tape on/stick on background that goes on the glass. Any suggestions? I am currently looking into lighting but not sure where to start. I bought the tank at a yard sale for 10 bucks but it looked like they put too hot of a bulb in it...

I love this tank, thinking about getting some driftwood for the middle and moving the tree to the other side

I have my 20g long tank divided for about 33 fry of varying sizes lol I am noticing the water doesn't look good on that side of the tank, I have moved the hob filter (whisper ex 30) closer to the screen but it doesn't seem to help. As I plan on having lots of fry, would it hurt to do another...

How long between nitrItes showing and nitrAtes showing up. Had 1 no2 yesterday, atleast 2 this morning (looks darker than that but the purples are so hard to tell) so I checcked no3 and it looks like 10 to me. I haven't been checking nitrAtes cause I didn't think I was supposed to have them yet...

So I opted for a net breeder to keep my platy male from attacking one of my pregnant females. (She is due soon I'm just not sure how soon.) The difference between the net one and the plastic one is like night and day. There's enough room for a few small plants and for her to swim around! She is...

Hello all just a quick question, I put a media bag with some gravel and a pinch of fish food in the back of a friends filter to try and get some bb for a tank I'm cycling (fishless). How long before the bacteria colonizes on it and I can move it to my tank? Would it be better to take the carbon...

Is this what squared off looks like?

I added stability to my 20g tank I've been cycling for a week (for fry) I have a male mickey mouse platy attacking my pregnant female (who is not a mickey), I tried putting her in breeder but she hated it and freaked out. Reading more about stability its not really suggested, did I just make a...

I have been cycling my tank since monday, added ammonia a little crushed up fishie food, lowered my water level for bubbles, temp is about 84, I didn't think anything would change for a while but checking this morning my ph has dropped it was about 7.6 originally (had to use high ph test) now it...

My platy is hanging out at the bottom of my tank, I don't think she is pregnant enough for labor but I dunno. Is this a sign of labor?

Got a new bottle of prime, the bottle is kinda sucked in and when I opened it there is stuff floating in it.

Lfs is telling me not to put crushed coral in tank it will sky rocket my ph, but its at like 6.2 right now. I thought I could use it in small amounts is the lfs wrong?

Is there any way to tell if a pregnant platy aborted, and a pregnant guppy?