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I have a long established (8-9 years) 55 gal tank, live plants, eco complete for the base. Variety of fresh water fish, not overstocked. All water readings within normal ranges, lighting on for 4 hours a day, no direct sunlight. Fish fed every few days. No CO2. I have been fighting black hair...

I have an african dwarf (for about a year) in my 55 gallon. Normally a couple times a week I will feed him with tweezers thawed blood worms which he goes for. The last few weeks though he is not taking any of them. I've dropped some frog pellets for him in his hiding places but don't know if he...

How long do fish (Neon Tetras) live? I have a well established tank with all the proper parameters (measured by liquid test kit), nothing new added to tank in many many months (6 months or more) and that was simply adding additional plants. 3/4 water change...

Currently I have a 55 gallon, established tank with 2 HOB filters (cam link in my sig). The local fish store has marineland canister filters on sale @ 50% off for today only. Are canister filters worth the cost? They seem like they are easier to maintain than the HOB and they certainly give...

Last summer I switched to eco complete from plain gravel (I wanted it for the plants) - established 55 gal. I do a minimum 50% - 75% water change every week ( and surface clean the eco, tank is not over stocked, well filtered with 2 t5 lights (plant spectrum) on for 7-8 hours a day on a...

I have an established tank (55gal), all water parameters are fine, no new fish or plant additions for 6 or more months only change to aquarium was switching to eco-complete form gravel 10 days ago. A female guppy which always seems to be pregnant is once again bloated but it does not look the...

Established 55gal tank, over filtered, stocked with an assortment of fish, well planted, minimum 50 - 75% water change weekly, parameters all fine. Fish are fed every other day twice then, then every 3rd day. Had 2 small algae eaters for the last 18 months or more, a few months ago one died...

We bought a used tank and stand that we began setting up tonight (leak test). There is a minute gap between the tank and the stand in the entire middle portion of both sides where the tank and stand meet. The tank is tempered glass (55 gal). Image attached. Also, I have leveled the...

I am wanting to make water changes easier for my current tank and the larger one we will migrate to later this summer. We will have a 50gal water container under the aquarium where the water will be brought to temp, treated, etc and after the weekly water change this will be the replacement...

Our 40 gallon tank has 2 filters, one which I want o replace with a larger filter in order to pass the smaller one to a friend. My question is I do not want to cause a mini cycle by losing so much beneficial bacteria. My plan was to purchase the new larger filter (HOB) and put the old smaller...

Currently we have about a 40 gallon tank, established, fully stocked with a mixture of live plants and artificial. This tank (we transferred from a smaller one) is 6 or 7 months old and was a "starter" set from a chain pet store. The light that came with it is a single fluorescent tube, 24"...

Our 40 or so gallon tank has some easy to grow plants in it that were recommended here (annibus? or something similar). The plants grew really quick and I added a few more (replacing plastic). Tank is probably 1/3 or more real plants to 2/3 plastic. The plants never were real green but more...

I have a 40 gallon tank in an office that has the correct sized adjustable heater. There is the possibility that the heat could be turned down to 58 without my discovering it for a day or so. Since I am only there in the evenings, it could be a long cold day before I discover this. I know...

Potted plants - can they introduce disease? I am looking at adding a few live plants to our 40 gal tank. I planted a few small Wisteria plants that were "prepackaged" and after a few weeks have not died so they must be taking. The local fish store sells some potted plants but i am hesitant to...

MM Platy - aggressive? In our newer 40gal tank over the last couple weeks we introduced a MM Platy and a number of smaller fish. A couple have died but looked beat up to me. Tonight I was watching a glofish danio and it was fine. A couple hours later he was clearly injured and looked beat up...

While I was helping the 10 year old learn how to test the water last night we came up with a wish list for stocking our aquarium and i told him I would post it for feed back. (tank is 39 or 40 gallons, plastic plants but will slowly transition to some live) Currently have (all small sized) 6...

A week ago we completed moving everything out of the 10 gal tank to a 39 gallon tank. The move appears to be successful with no loss (yet) of fish. The new tank is running the filter that came with it as well as the filter that was on the 10 gal. Gravel was moved over and used on top of the...

After we set up the new aquarium over the weekend I know I will be asked about adding fish. Currently we have 4 or 5 Danio Zebra/glofish. All small. What else is recommended? I am certainly not going to ask the people at the chain pet store. The 10 year old boy really wants to add some glass...

Over the weekend we will be moving everything from the 10gal tank to a new 40 gal tank. Here is the process I am thinking of Do a partial drain of the old tank into a large bucket (5 gallons) and transfer the fish (5 zebra danio/glofish - small), heater, some plants into it and cover with a...

I'll be transferring my few fish to a larger new tank (10 gal to 40 gal) this weekend. Not sure if I will start from scratch as far as cycling is concerned. I may have the chance to obtain some gravel or small stones from a long time established (and healthy) fresh water tank. Are there any...

Unfortunately a month and a half ago the fish store convinced me to go with a 10 gallon start up tank. Big mistake. I picked up a 40 gallon tank kit over the weekend and plan to take down the 10 and setup the 40. They can't be run concurrently as they go in the same location in my office...

To make it short, we purchased a 10gal beginner set-up at the advise of a pet store clerk (mistake #1). We set it up as instructed and began adding fish that same week (mistake #2). for the last 6 weeks or so we are beginning to slowly understand some of the steps we need to take. Though we...

We have a 10 gallon fresh water tank. After testing the water and the fish store saying it was OK to begin to add fish we began adding a couple fish at a time (all small fish) there are 5 or 6 total and they began being added a week or two ago. I have been going to the store twice a eek to test...

Good Morning, I have a 10 gallon tank I set up in my office for myself and a 10 year old to take care of. He's shown an interest in fish and the local chain pet store suggested a 10 gallon tank (now, I wish we had gotten a 20 gallon but they were clear on starting with a 10). The tank was...