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Im new to salt, but have 8 fresh tanks as i breed... my question is can i use water that was mixed a week or 2 ago and has been sitting in a clean, sealed container??? Sg matches still. Water smells fine. I need to do a small wc due to a wounded fish and was wondering if the water was ok to use...

As some of you may know, i was recently given a mated pair of clowns, and salt to starts a nano sw tank. The clowns are doing great but are only in a 10g right now. Their permanent home will be an 18 tall, but first i have to reseal it as the previous owners had resealed it and i dont know it...

Hey!! I just got an awesome tank from my bf and his parents!!! A small, right now unknown, but will be calling for details soon. Comes with a mated pair of clowns... Help!!! Please!!!! I will post details as i get them!!

so... a while ago, like 4+ months ago, i got a few platy, and saved 2, a female and what i thought was a juv male... the female dropped fry, but i only managed 2 save a few... recently after a rather large drop with a bunch of dead fry, she passed away, and now the smaller platy, who i thought...

I got a marbled cray about 6 weeks ago... she has molted 4 times now and grown to 2.75 inches... but after her last molt she looks very blue... i feed her primarily algae wafers, with occasional shrimp wafers... here are pics from since i got her to now... last 2 are from today

So i was cleaning my back yard and flipped over some old plywood, 2 find a bunch of red backed salamanders... i grabbed a few, lowered the board, then went back 2 find more when i found this guy!!! I live in maine and this is the first time ive caught a yellow spotted so big!! I was thinking...

I just discovered my longfin leopard danio has a sore... she is in a 55g with another of her kind, 2 red eye tetras, 2 painted tetras, 7 angels including 1 breeding pair that spawned a few days ago but all eggs are gone, 1 BNP, a african butterfly and an apple snail. Params are normal...

I was given a small marbled cray on march 24th... she has since been eating fry starter from angelsplus and has molted twice... is this a normal growth rate for them??? Ill post pics of her after both molts...first pic was a couple days after her first molt in my tank, others were taken 2day...

I got an African Butterfly Fish a couple weeks ago. After 2+ weeks of qt he is not in the 55g dt... he is awesome!! Not only does he eat his crickets, he also will eat freeze dried bloodworms, and has been nibbling flakes when i feed the angels. He has shown no signs of aggression toward his...

I have an angel currently in qt, and has gone through a 4 day round of furan 2 for an open red sore on her anal fin that had eroded through 2 the other side... during the treatment it stayed pretty much the same, now the other side is growing anx i can see bones in the resulting hole... also...

I have an emerald cory with pop eye effecting both eyes, and a red line behind one eye also has issues staying on bottom now and then... anyone know how 2 treat him?? Is in a 55g tank with 8 small angels, 2 other cory cats, tetras, danios, kuhli's and a large male BNP. 0 ammo, 0 trites, <20...

I know this is an easy one, but im a SA cichlid girl (angels and an Oscar) and he is in my sis in laws 55 with her 6ish inch oscar... they get along great.

Last nite i did my usual weekly 50% wc, and during it, while i was removing water, my male angel, who is in a 20g with his female, started zooming around the tank and bouncing off the sides. I refilled the tank and figuring it had been due 2 low water level i went 2 bed. This morning hear him...

So i went in 2 get more feeder guppies for my breeding project (creating my own line of fancy guppies from wild type feeders) and saw this guy/girl in the guppy tank. Im a regular and they were busy so the owner handed me the net and said grab however many you want so i made sure i got this...

When i got my 55g setup, this was in a bag with the filters, airstones, and airhose... what is it?? Its an inch tall/long when closed... and the small part fits in airhose...

I got a 55g tank monday, and it came with a good sized angel (fish in question), a 5 or 6 inch rainbow shark, a 5 inch BN and 1 red minor tertra. Everyone seems to be doing fine, except i noticed the angel's tail appears to have some fin rot, and his anal fin is splitting. It was fine yesterday...

So i came home from work with my new kuhli loaches, acclimated them, and added them to my tank, while trying to feed my other fish after adding them, i saw a little tiny shimmer out of the corner of my eye... !!! A guppy fry!!! I had bought 7 feeder guppies the day before, all were female, and...

I found this guy swimming in the water of my tank... so i scooped him out, he is a lil over al inch when stretched out, and is white. Water params are all fine, tank has been up a month or so and was cycled using sand from my old tank. Has MTS snails, ramshorn snails, 5 feeder gups, an angel...

So i got this small red duck for 75c the other day, and figured i would give it to my Oscar to play with. And she attacked it with a vengance so its now hers. Anyone else have any "toys" their fish like to play with??

i know they are legal,to have, just not to ship into state and was wondering if anyone in maine had babies they would be willing to sell? i have a 20g, and am hopeing to get a 55 soon so would like 1 at the least, possible up to 4. yellow or purple preffered, but any color will do. i like seeing...

i have a 20g tank with sand substrate, and it will be lightly planted. i was wondering if the snails (malaysian trumpets and 3 ramshorns) will be ok with the kuhlis. i know some loaches love to eat snails and just wanted to make sure my red ramshorns wont get eaten... also in this tank will be...

so a few days ago i got my old 20g tank back... as of 2day it is up and doing a fish in cycle. I am going to put a horseshoe crab shell i found by the water 2day in it (still need to boil it) as well as doing a stone scape, and will be making a sandfall for it... any ways thought id share pics...

i currently have a 1g hex with 2 adult, 2 baby glass shrimp, and about 10 baby, 18 adult rcs... thought id share some pics...

So... in my adventure in the fish world ive created and found alot of tools esp when needing something for my smaller tanks. This leads to lots of invention. This thread will have some of my invented tools. Feel free to add any uve made, or ask any questions. The syphon i use to spot clean my...

I am new to Shrimp keeping and as such had some questions... like how fast shrimplets grow, and other things. i ordered 15 RCS from a site member and got them about a week ago, but when i got them i had 22 little surprises in the bag with my largest female. apparently she was berried and the...