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That's the plan anyways. The back story is that the good LFS in my area closed and a while back I learned that the "expensive" fish from the good place lasted years and the cheap fish from PetCo died in a few months. The LFS place that I was going to is really the only place to go to that had...

I, personally, never have. I have two Aqueon Pro's and the instructions specifically say that they automatically shut off if they sense that the water level has fallen, how they do that, I don't know. Long story short, I just had one of them crack after two years of reliable service and I'm...

Yesterday morning I found my favorite fish dead, my BN Pleco. I'm not sure what happened, my levels were perfect, I do a weekly 30-50% water change. I kind of wonder if it wasn't finding enough food. The tank was immaculate and over the past few months it was coming out more and more during...

I'm currently running a Aqueon 55/75 as well as a canister on my tank. A while back my HOB starting getting louder. I've quieted it down a bit, but it's still quite a bit louder then I'd like it to be and this isn't the falling water sound, this is the motor itself and sometimes it's even just...

I was just sitting down to read a book and noticed some rattling over by my tank. It was different then the usual sound so I got up to investigate. Upon taking off the lid of my Aqeuon 55/75 I found white mold on both of the blue bio screens as well as the oxygen/bio drip thing in the front. I...

I've been having this problem for the last few weeks now. I've noticed that everytime I change the water in my tank (and shut off the pump when I do it), the filter is loud for the next few days, then it seems to quiet down. It's not the water sloshing around in the sump, it's definitely the...

I'm setting up a QT tank and I just stuck the filter media in the main tank's filter sump. How long do I need to leave it in there? I have everything for the new tank but the heater since I could get that $10 cheaper on Amazon. So the soonest I could do anything with the new tank is...

About two weeks ago I started having some problems with brown algae. I'm sure it's just it's mainly from over feeding as that's about the time I started feeding them a lot more (but no more then they could eat in about 2 minutes). I'm scaling back their food and keeping the lights on less, but...

The first question is easy. I was thinking about tossing some snails in my tank and then it dawned on me that I should probably qt them. Looking around on the internet, opinions on qt'ing them are all over the board. Some say there aren't any snail diseases that fish can get, some say they...

I noticed a few days ago that my red tailed shark had a white spot on it's tail. I'm not sure if it's bigger now, but it's certainly more visible. For some reason, it's hard to see at certain angles (kind of the way a fish changes colors at certain angles), so it was easier to take a video and...

Right now I have two tanks. A small 2 gallon tank with two neons that I'm looking to get rid of and a 40 gallon. The 40 gallon has 5 tiger barbs, 1 pearl gourami, 1 flame (?) gourami, 1 red tail shark and a BN pleco. I'm just fishing up a salt/heat Ich treatment. Yesterday I swapped out...

Right now, I have a 40 gallon breeder with 9 fish (and possibly 5 more small fish in the next month or so) and an Aqueon 55/75 HOB filter. For no particular reason I was thinking of adding a canister. My levels are good. In the month or so I've had my tank I've never seen anything spike or had...

I just notice a few long white strands in my tank. At first I thought one of the silk plants was unraveling, but when I tried to grab it, it just fell apart in my hand. I had just done a PWC a few hours ago and it certainly wasn't there then so it must have popped up in the last hour or two...

I just set up a new tank with 9 fish in it (fully cycled, all levels at or near zero). I noticed after a few days that a few of the barbs had developed Ich. I picked up a bottle of Ick Guard II and I have a few questions. The bottle gives dosing instructions and mentions that you can treat...

So, I started my fishless cycle on a 40G tank on (about) the 14th. Dosed it up to what I know realize was probably too high. It sat at 7ppm for the first few days and then suddenly dropped down to 1 or 2ppm. I checked the nitrites and they were climbing, nitrates were at zero. I added half...

Well, not just a new tank, but new to everything. My daughter suckered me into one of those 2g neon tanks about a month ago and it's been such a PITA to keep up with that I finally decided to fill up one of my 40 gallon tanks that I used to use for lizards. My first question was going to be...