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I have a 10 gallon freshwater tank with some tetras, a small algae eater, and a julii catfish. I had gotten a plant from a friend's tank a few months ago, which I believe to be some type of Ludwigia? I started to use Flourish Excel in my tank and within a day, all of my plants were "melting" -...

I got the plant from a friend's tank about 6 months ago so since I didn't purchase them myself, I'm not too positive what type of plant it is? But it looks like some sort of ludwigia maybe? It's the plants on the right side of the tank when you're looking at the photo I posted. (sorry, I know...

I cleaned everything off as best I could and then spot treated the fake decorations before I put them back into the tank. Since then, I have been adding the Excel to the tank daily. Question about that - can using too much of that be harmful to the live plants in the tank? For some reason, the...

There's actually not much algae on the live plants themselves, it's mostly overtaking the fake bamboo plant and the rock cave at this point. So I guess that's good news because hopefully that means it will take less time to clear this all up. When I scrub the decorations with a toothbrush it...

I have attached a photo of my tank so you can see how many plants are in there - not too many.. just the big bunch on the right side of the tank, and then the banana plant in the front. Everything else is fake. As you can see, I also have a bubbler in the middle of the tank to help with water...

It is a full spectrum fluorescent bulb (whatever came with the hood - I had a better bulb at one point but it died). I will cut the infected leaves off, but how should I treat the decorations in the tank? (I have a rock cave in there and also a tall plastic bamboo decoration). I've never really...

Hmm, I looked that up and it does seem to look like that.. I read something about overdosing with Flourish Excel but that can harm the fish so I would rather find another solution :(

This has been growing in my tank for a while now, but I'm not sure what it is? It doesn't wipe off - I have even tried using a toothbrush to scrape it off, but that doesn't work either.. it's almost like whatever it is, it is gripping onto everything. It is definitely multiplying and is now...

This has been growing in my tank for a while now, but I'm not sure what it is? It doesn't wipe off - I have even tried using a toothbrush to scrape it off, but that doesn't work either.. it's almost like whatever it is, it is gripping onto everything. It is definitely multiplying and is now...

Well I heard at one point that it is good to have an algae eater in your tank whether you have a ton of algae present or not.. I think they are a good fish to have and since having him doesn't make my tank overstocked, I'm not stressing out too much over the fact that he may not be able to help...

I have a betta fish and he lives in a minibow and it works wonderfully for him! There is plenty of room for him to swim around in and the tank is a nice shape and allows for lots of room to put plants or other decorations in there. The filter hardly moves the water around and he has gotten used...

Are they like the catfish in that they do most of their eating at night time when the other fish are sleeping?

It's not the stock bulb.. I forget the kind of bulb that came with the tank but I replaced it with what I'm assuming is a 17W (the hood has a sticker on the back that says to use 17W bulbs) fluorescent bulb so that it would be more of a white looking light rather than the yellowish tint that the...

I have a fluorescent bulb and it turns on around 2pm and shuts off around 11pm. Water temp stays around 80 degrees F.

I have a 10gal tank and it has been established for quite some time now. I added an anubias plant (attached to a piece of driftwood) and a java fern (attached to a rock) last week. When I bought the plants, they were nice and green and very healthy looking. However, over the past week the leaves...

I have a 10gal tank and recently I have had a lot of brown algae growing on the fake plants and decorations in my tank. It started spreading and is now starting to grow on the sides of my tank and on the gravel. I decided to get an otocinclus to help out with the problem, but I feel like it...

I just checked the water conditions and the pH was around 7.5, ammonia was 0, nitrites were 0, nitrAtes were 5. I was watching them just now and after I fed them, the "sick" fish stayed out for a little while but then I noticed one of the other tetras started going after him and looked like it...

It is a 10 gal tank and I have had the fish since about August of this year.. The fish has still been hiding all day but again came out when I put food in the tank. He doesn't sit still quite long enough for me to really look at him, but it appears that his right eye is "hazy" and slightly white...

I have a tank with 4 white fin rosy tetra, 2 forktail blue eye rainbowfish, and 2 julii catfish. One of my tetras has been acting strange and I was wondering if it was a possibility that it could maybe be pregnant or if maybe it is just sick? I'm not sure of the sex of any of the fish.. When I...

I have a 10g but I also have other fish in there so I don't think it would be possible to have that many in there.. I have 4 rosy tetra white-fins, a small pleco, and 2 blue-eyed forktail rainbowfish (the other two died shortly after getting them due to high nitrite levels, which are now under...

I do only have two.. the person at the fish store did mention they were schooling fish but they said they should be fine with 2 to 3 of them, however I felt iffy about that and should have gone with my gut and gotten more of them! I may consider going back and getting a couple more just so they...

I was wondering what the typical behavior of a julii catfish is? I got two of them a few weeks ago and for the most part, they swim around a lot and occasionally lay on the bottom of the tank (I assume they are just resting). Well, the last 2 days, one of them has been sitting on the bottom...

it's a 17W natural daylight fluorescent light bulb. i have no real plants in my tank, just an air bubbler, some aquarium decorations, and a piece of driftwood. as a side note, i used to have a few fancy goldfish in this tank but they all died and i restarted this aquarium for my current fish...

My light turns on at 2 in the afternoon and shuts off at 11 at night, so it is on a 9 hour cycle (I keep it on a timer). The tank is not near a window, and my blinds are usually closed so not a whole lot of sunlight gets in the room during the day.

I followed the popular instructions from this website of how to fishless cycle a new tank. My tank went through it's process and the levels were all where they needed to be. I went out and bought my first small school of fish (4 white-finned rosy tetra) and 2 julii corys and let them live in the...