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Does anyone have experience with these Spectralux LED T5 bulbs? I bought two t5 fixtures that came with these Spectralux 6500K BLUE bulbs. I was wondering why they are called "blue" when the light they emit looks yellowish. Do these "blue" bulbs cause algae growth?

Purchased a brand new Fluval E-300 heater and I'm a bit concerned. I installed it fully submersed not touching the sand. I set the heater to 75 degrees. After the heater was set, the LCD went back to showing current water temp. It was on 71.5 when I set it. It has now been 2 hours since and the...

In 12 years I have never forgotten to use dechlorinator after a water change. Today I forgot. it only took 20 minutes to kill my red tail shark. :(

Since my city uses chloramine to treat our water, I can't just let the water sit out overnight since chloramine does not evaporate. So I was thinking about using a few drops per gallon of stress coat to treat the water for my house plants. I also have PRIME, but it contains hydrosulfite salts...

So all the units are scheduled for termite spraying starting Monday. I have 3 aquariums in the house. What can I do to protect my fish? Taking them out of the aquariums is out of the question. I have 3 huge columbian sharks that I would have no where to put. All the rooms, garage, closets are...

This happened overnight. All my barbs were fine last night as I fed them. Found this guy upside down on the gravel this morning. He is the biggest barb out of the 5. Is that blood under the skin? Or is that an indication of something else? It's only red like that on one side. He was in a 30...

This little guy got issues. Can't really figure out if it's internal parasites or something else. Maybe TB or just stomach issues of some sort? It started about a month ago. I noticed one of my tiger barbs (youngest one) was not as colorful as the other 4. Over a period of a month, his belly...

Here we go again. Got up to 90 degrees yesterday in some parts of Southern Cali. One of my tanks temp. is up to 82 degrees right now. I turned off the heater yesterday thinking it will drop down to upper 70's overnight...nope...woke up this morning and it's now up to 82 degrees in my 30gal...

Having a weird electrical problem at the house. Seems like it started after the power went out on our block from high winds 2 days ago. The power only went out for about 10 seconds and then kicked back on. Well earlier tonight we started experiencing an electrical problem. At first the problem...

MY dad has a 30gal aquarium with 3 platys. One of the platys has developed dropsy. I do PWC and test his water every 2-3 days when I visit(tank is currently cycling). The parameters are all fine as of now. Not sure why it developed dropsy. The one platy is pretty bloated and is no longer...

My dad got a 30gal aquarium that's currently going through a cycle with 3 platys. The platys have been in there for about a month and seem to be doing good. I check on the tank every 2-3 days or so and that's when I do 50% water changes while it cycles. Current water parameter readings are...

I have 4 panda corys in a 30gal. I've had them for over two months now and they have been doing good. About 3-4 days ago I noticed one of the corys started swimming in circles up against the side of the tank. All day long it will swim in 10" radius circles. When I feed the fish, this cory will...

One of my Serpae tetras seems to have swimming bladder problems. About 4 days ago it started swimming sideways. I immediately transferred it to a 5gal bucket with fresh water and an airstone going. The next day it got worse, swimming upside down and doing the spiral swim. I started it treating...

I have a 10gal glass aquarium I'm building a stand for. I was wondering if 1/2" oak plywood top panel would be strong enough to handle the weight. Here is the plywood panel I'm talking about Shop 1/2 x 2 x 4 Oak Plywood at Lowes.com Thanks.

Being that they have a labyrinth organ and need to come up to the surface...I never see my panda corys active at night. They just go into their cave and stay there. How do they not suffocate overnight?

Just bought a new snail yesterday. It was at the bottom of the tank the entire yesterday. Woke up today to find it half an inch above the water line. Is this normal? My water might be a little too warm for it...it's @ 80 degrees right now without the heater. I've also read that Zebra snails like...

Is it a bad idea to burn incense in the same room the aquarium is in? Will the smoke pollute the water in the tank? Anyone? Thanks.

I bought two tiny panda corys yesterday for my 30 gallon. This tank has 5 albino tiger barbs and 3 serpae tetras. I acclimated the corys by letting the bag float in my tank for about 20 minutes and then I poured a bit of the tank water in the bag. Let it float for another 15 min and a bit more...

I have one of my aquariums in my bedroom. It's a 36 gallon freshwater. It's about 3-4 feet away from my bed. There is always a higher level of humidity in that bedroom than anywhere in the house. You can feel it as soon as you step into the bedroom. I've been wondering if its actually bad for my...

Here is the story. I have 5 albino tiger barbs in one of my tanks. Have had them for about 3 months now. 2 of them are large and 3 are still small. Well about 4 weeks ago I had ich in the tank that attacked one of the large barbs. The rest of the barbs and other fish seemed to be fine. So I took...

OK, I admit I know nothing about coral and never had it in any of my tanks. About 6 years ago I purchased an aquarium on ebay and since the seller was local I went and picked it up. He included a bucket of misc goodies with the tank. Some fake plants, some power heads and a bunch of other stuff...

WOW just WOW...last night the temp. in my tank was 78 degrees. Woke up today and see my rainbows sitting up top not moving too much. My other fish which are two loaches and a red tail shark seem to be normal, swimming around as usual. I was puzzled for a second there...looked at my thermometer...

I got 6 mickey mouse platy's about a month ago. They were all doing good, except one. This one platy kept sitting on the gravel most of the time and about every 5 minutes it would swim all the way up and release some bubbles at the surface and would immediately go back down. When it swims up to...

OK, I have ICH outbreak in one of my tanks and I've been dosing it with Clout and removed the carbon filter. My loaches in that tank are having a bad reaction from clout. They are not moving and their skin got darker. I've been dosing for 3 days with temp. of 84 degrees and the Ich problem seems...

So I had this electronic gift certificate from petco.com in my email for about a year now. Decided to purchase some fish from them for one of my 30gal tanks since it was kind of empty. All I had in there was 1 green tiger barb and 5 tetra serpaes. The tiger barb is around 2" and the tetras are...