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Hi all, I was gifted a 29G freshwater starter kit from Walmart about 10 years ago. I enjoyed it for some years, and have since moved and am looking to get back into it again. The bulb is missing, so I need to buy another one. I think it's a T-8 bulb. What kind do you recommend I get? The...

Hello all, Novice here. I have a 29G tank that had 3 red wag platys. Today one of them died :(. Now all that is left is a male and female. I took out one of the artificial plants for cleaning and after putting it back, I noticed a tiny little fry. By now I've noticed a total of 3. I...

thanks for the advice, I will see what they say.

here is the other side of the bully in case it helps:

Well, I snapped some pics in case it helps. I swear i was told by the guy at LFS that the male had the bigger blacker bottom fin. This is one of the new ones, I thought was male: This is my veteran platy: This is my new bully:

Hi all, Still new to this hobby. I recently lost almost all of my stock due to Ich. All that survived was a female red wag platy. It has been 2 weeks since the Ich, so I went to LFS to get 2 more Platys, 1 female and 1 male. My stock is now 2 female, 1 male. The new female Platy seems to...

All, thanks for the advice. I will discontinue the RO water and wait a month before restocking, and even then I will do it in increments of 2 fish. I think I will also try the dumping of LFS water when re-stocking. Thanks for the links Sharpchick, I will do some research on what fish to get.

I have the master test kit from API, as well as a solo Ammonia test kit. They are both the same thing. Use a vial, put 5ml of water and 8 drops of each bottle. Both kits work fine for me. Right now I have no ammonia so the results are pure yellow, no traces of green. I did get ammonia...

Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0.25 Nitrate 5 pH 7.8 To me, all that makes sense, like its mini-cycling or something since things got disrupted. I guess what I'm wanting to know with this thread is if I have any bad habits. Also, how long to wait before adding fish after this ick incident? Lastly, why...

I will test when I get home since the tank is a little cloudy, but for the past 2 weeks it has been: Ammonia 0, NitrItes 0, NitrAtes 15ppm before water change. With levels like that, I typically have done 5 gallon change every 5 days to a week. I was doing larger changes more often back in...

First I want to apologize for this long post. I have been lurking around these forums, reading, gathering information, and dealing with my problems for about 6 months now. I have been having issues with my fish tank since the beginning. I feel like I am missing something, so I will just tell...