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I have 2 Melanochromis parallelus and a yellow lab, both of the Melanochromis parallelus are believed to be males and the yellow lab is a female. I came home from work today and saw what looked to be a ghost shrimp until I looked closer and saw a little minnow (fry) not sure. First off is that...

I have a 46 gallon bowfront aquarium and I don't know what wattage of uv sterilizer to buy. I've been fighting an algae bloom for 5 months now it was so bad about 4 months ago you couldn't even see inside the tank. I completely blocked off the light in the tank with solar curtains and left the...

I pretty much just need a light system that has a normal white light florescent with a blue light. So I can just go back an forth and not switch out bulbs between day and night. I believe that's a moonlight but idk much about aquarium lights. So if anyone can help me find what i'm looking for so...

I've already setup this tank and it's looking very nice I have a Marineland 350 with duel bio-wheel, a bit too much for a 46 but... anyway I've always owned ridiculous large and aggressive fish and now i'm trying to start a community tank. I owned one about 5 years ago and had dragon fish, tiger...

Hi I need a solution for clearing up cloudy aqaurium water caused by algae. The algae not on the walls of my aquarium for I have pond snails and a pleco. Its being caused by my alage wafers for my pleco. Is there some kind of uv light or something I can buy to keep my water clear? Its gotten...

I just bought a 240 gallon tank for freshwater fish and I know it's good to and an overflow and sump tank with such a large tank. I know what a sump is but I have no idea what I should put in it. Do I put a carbon filter or bioballs or what. I also don't exactly how an overflow works either...

I'm trying to find a wide variety of paper backgrounds for my aquarium. I am currently trying to find sacred geometry. I am pretty sure they don't make those as aquarium backgrounds but I can't even find anywhere I can just buy the paper so I can just stick it on there. I just want something...

My lima shovlenose has a buldge of air in stomach after transporting what caqn I do he's upside down swimming

I'm moving in a week and i'm bringing my aquarium. I have two fish and I don't know where to get little baggies for them and I have to have them out for awhile so I can drain my aquarium and transport them to a location that's only 30 min away. They would probably be out for about 2 hours maybe...

I'm not sure where I can get the cheapest 300 gallon aquarium. Does anybody know a good place? The cheapest I could find is kind of local and It's about $2,000 for a star-fire glass with a solid oak stand and no canopy. I think that's a fantastic price and yes it's brand new and custom. If you...

I need to know what materials are safe for aquariums. I want a music genre "death metal" theme for my aquarium. I would like to know which types of metals, plastics, glue, and paint would not be harmful to fish.

I just purchased an assassin snail to rid the pond snails out of my aquarium. I have a 45 gal aquarium and I bought one assassin. I read somewhere that they won't eat pond snails all the time because they are faster than the assassin, and that they only eat snails closer to their size and leave...

Hey everybody, I currently have a 45 gallon aquarium so I know all the basic things to have like filters, heaters, test strips, gravel, thermometer, lights, etc. I know that a 300 gallon will be much harder to maintain and my main concern right know is an overflow. I have a idea of what it is...

I have a snail problem and i need to get rid of all of them. I just want a list of fish the will eat them but that are also fairly large. I have a 6" lima shovelnose catfish that will eat anything it can fit it's mouth around, other than that it's not aggressive. I'm doing the lettuce trick but...

I have a Lima shovelnose catfish, a pleco, and several snails. I got the snails free at a pet store but then I decided to buy a plant. One day later I remembered that snails kill plants. I don't know what kind of snail they are but I do know that they are one of the smallest. I believe It's...

I've owned and maintained varies kinds of fish in freshwater aquariums, but I know nothing about saltwater aquaria. Like what's so different about the two, what are some different things I need to purchase for a saltwater aquarium that's different from freshwater. What are the benefits of a...

I have a Lima shovelnose catfish and i've read online that the minimum tank size is 180 gallons for just the catfish and nothing else. I plan on upgrading my aquarium to a 300 gallon tank just to go for gold and not have to worry about it. However I'm going to be moving in about 2 years and I...

I have a Lima shovelnose catfish and i'm trying to ween him off of goldfish and i don't know how to. A guy at petsmart told me to feed him a worm or a cricket or brine shrimp or my crab and shrimp pellets to him when he's excited and hunting down the fish. The only problem with that is the...

I have a 55 gallon aquarium right now but will be upgrading to a 180+ gallon aquarium in the future. Right now the lima is about 5" long and I have a pleco (not sure the specified type he's just a common algae eater) and a few goldfish for my lima's dinner. Does anyone have any suggestions on...

I need to know why my catfish is so upset. I'm new to monster fish I normally own small tropical fish that require low maintenance. I have only owned him for about a week now so I don't know how they normally act. I just purchased 20 small goldfish for him to eat today. I'm trying to ween him...