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I'm starting my first reef tank and I've been super extra cautious with everything. I cycled my DT and QT for three months before bringing home my first fish yesterday, a Midas blenny. He was eating and happy looking in qt. After I turned the lights off he seemed stress so I left a hall light on...

So I've been in the hobby for a couple of years now, and have several heavily planted tanks. The lights over my 55 just completely up and died today because it was the first thing I ever bought and didn't realize until now they were total crap. It's an odyssea 48" t5ho with two 55 watt bulbs...

So I have a 55 gallon HEAVILY planted tank. A year or two ago I bought an odyssea 48" inch t5ho light ballast. At the time I was just starting out and just trying to find something that would fit the tank without having to get a custom lid (the tank is from the 80s and just slightly off standard...

So my 55 has been well established for a year now, I hardly ever have issues other then a little bit of hair algae and some platys that have become lumpy looking over the past few months (I've been all over the Internet and chalked it up to age and crappy breeding, but if you know anything about...

So, I have an empty fully mature 20 gallon. I was thinking about putting a pair or one kribensis in there. Aqua advisor is having a hissy fit about it right now, so I wanted your consensus on stocking. I have an aquaclear 20 filter and an elite mini for a little extra current for my hillstream...

So I got a convict cichlid for a nice big specimen tank. I picked this particular one out because he was so funny spitting pebbles out to build a little cave and flaring at the other cichlids. also I wanted to potentially save someone newer to the hobby from introducing a particularly aggressive...

I recently lost my puffer fish, and I may be giving up my dream of having one. I already have a 55 tropical community, and I think for my empty 20 I'd like to keep it a species or specimen tank. The only critter that's in there is a reticulated hillstream loach, the temp hangs out at 72-75, and...

I have a 20 gallon set up with all of the proper equipment and maintenence with a figure eight puffer fish and a reticulated hillstream loach (they ignore each other, zero problems ever). I keep a tank of pond snails to feed him on a regular basis, along with mysis shrimp and krill. He's...

So I'm planning on getting a pufferfish, but I want to start breeding ramshorn or common pond snails for his nommins before I bring him home. All the lfs' I call don't have them for sale or even an infestation. No one sells them because they're pests. Where can I purchase some? Or does someone...

So, we recently had a very successful venture into making a 55 gallon aquascape, and the disease has caught! My girlfriend wants to upgrade my five gallon betta tank to a 20 gallon paludarium. I have a lot of questions and not a lot of an idea of where to start. Okay, she wants a frog in...

So my plants have recently grown like crazy. Most all of them have grown to the top of the tank, which is awfsome, but I tried to rearrange them recently but like the new layout even less than the old. My five gallon isnt looking perfect to me either. Any composition advice? I have rotala...

One of my platy keeps moseying on up to my new angelfish and like pecking at him, almost as though he's cleaning him. The platy doesn't chase him like a nipping behavior and the angel just submits and doesn't swim away. What the hell?

I've been treating this little dude for two weeks now with the temp at around 85 and kordons rid ich. None of the other fish have been infected and he still has the same exact spots he did at the start. It's like their life cycle isn't speeding up and they're not dropping off. Seeing this, I've...

So, I bought some platies from my ****** lfs and thought I was being good and quarantining them, they looked healthy to me so I put them in my main tank long before I should have. Almost immediately I noticed a white lip on one fish, and on another I noticed a dull grey sheen to part of his...

I have a gorgeous betta fish, I think he's about a year old now. He has a great 5 gallon tank with a 15 gallon filter that I keep at a low setting so he can swim comfortably. It's a high light, excel dosed tank with lots of plants, and a couple of otocinclus. I do everything I can to make sure...

I finally finally finished preparing my 55 gallon tank! The setup: 2 54 watt t5 ho bulbs, 2 DIY co2 systems, 2 aquaclear 50s, and a Fluval E 200 heater. After some more experience and time to save money I'll be upgrading to pressurized co2 and probably another of the same light. I'm...

My 5 gallon betta tank. It has hygro, wisteria, crypt, rotalia, Anubias, and baby dwarf tears (just planted). I have a 15 watt light and another 10 watt on one side. I supplement flourish excel every day. The tank is home to a betta, an apple snail, and two dwarf frogs. Any reccomendations on...

So, I have a few questions. First, I've heard over and over again that the wpg rule does not apply to small tanks, but nowhere can I find information on how it does break down. In fact, people seem to disagree in general over even the reason that that is the case. What is considered high...

I have a 5 gallon tank with a 15 watt light and no co2. What kind of plants might thrive well in there? My poor betta is getting ripped fins. I know plenty about co2 systems and will probably put one in later this year after Im done with my 55 gallon build. For right now I just want some...

So, I understand co2 systems zero. We have already been misled about filters, heaters, and everything else. Once we found someone decently knowledgable with plants that didnt look sick, he was reccomending a 220 dollar co2 system he didn't even stock. I've been researching my tank needs for...

I inherited a 55 gallon. The measurements are so absurd it's just going to have to remain lidless. is there a good planted tank light that I would be able to safely mount on this thing? It's a 48 by 12 tank without a center brace. But this outside rim makes it 48.5 by 13. The rim is between an...

So Im about to set up a 55 gallon tank and I have a lot a lot of questions. First off, layout. I wanted to do an iwagumi style tank, because obsessions. I definitely want a java miss tree as a centerpiece. Where the hell do I find driftwood intended for this purpose, just so I dont end up with...

I recently inherited a 55 gallon tank in which I plan to implement an iwagumi style layout. I've been researching my stocking ideas endlessly, but Id love some feedback from more experienced tank owners. Id also like to know if anyone feels im overstocking, though no calculators have advised me...