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I am looking at upgrading light fixture / lights. I want to us less electricity/ wattage. I have converted every fixture in our home with leds so naturally i have been debating on the tank I have running now. I do have plans for a new tank that will have led fixture but that is in the planning...

Ok so this is my second attempt at keeping 2 mystery snails. One floated and died after3 days. Now second one won't come out so i placed him temporarily in a bowl with tank water. At first they were both active and seemed happy. I am not new to the hobby...but snails i never really tried to...

its time for an up grade... i only have minimal time for tank maintenance as i am a busy mom. i have a 20 gallon long betta sorority with albino cory cats and a few platty. its planted with sand are there any good canister filters with flow control, quick set up and easy maintain? what...

I am going to be getting some RC shrimp soon and have Planted tanks I was wondering what is the safest plant fertilizers to use with shrimp? I really don' want to kill them by mistake.

ok so my green hygro is almost too tall for my tank, it is happy, so what do i go with it? how does this plant propagate? does t shoot out plantlings? or is like a stem plant ? just trim and place else where? still a newb to planted tanks:ermm:

I was wondering what is your favorite HOB filter? and why? so you like a particular one biased on tank size? I am pondering on upgrades, and filters for new tanks. Just wanted to see what everyone likes.;)

so since i am planing on keeping my guppies in the 10 gal which is all that i have in there at the moment besides pond snails, and i am starting a 20 long I figured it was time to think about clean up stock for both tanks. I am currently having algae problems in my 10 gal planted which i am new...

what kind of snail is this, i made the mistake of not quarantining my plants, and i am not sure i want them. The are really small no bigger than a pencil eraser. about pea sized here is the best pic i could get. i only noticed one at first and it was brownish coppery, i do see a lot more now...

I am hoping this is not BBA, it looks more like a grayish fussy mold. it is on my hob filter uplift tube and on the plastic air stone part, What is it and how do i control it? 10 gal, newly cycled, been complete for bout a 2 weeks, I know i have been running my lights too much, so i am cutting...

ok so i posted bout having 2 unexpected glass shrimp with the guppies that i got from CL, and how the shrimp died and i thought that the guppies ate them last sunday. well the adult shrimp are long gone, but I was wondering how likely is it that they had babies before dying? I noticed a little...

Ok so I wanted to post a pic and share my tank thus far, sorry if the pic is bad i took with phone. I plan to add more sand but am open to other substrate options to mix with current sand, since it is not deep enough to actually plant them yet, I was thinking eco complete? I want to go with a...

ok so here is the problem I was fairly certain that i just have feeder/wild type guppies but have you ever heard of guppies eating glass shrimp? I got this whole set up from some one on craigs list. who was moving, and I was all excited to be back in the fish keeping world. he person also said...

so I just recently got back into fish keeping, i have started a 10 gal, which holds wild/ feeder guppies and 2 glass shrimp. While i am not new to the hobby, i am new to plants, i have always admired a planted tank and really want to make it work. So far the only plants i have are some duck...

hello all, my name is Chris, while i am not new to the hobby I am returning to the tank. I have been a long time animal lover pet enthusiast, growing up with multiple pets, my mother said we were running a zoo. not really i just kept bringing them home. wether they were strays or unwanted by...