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plecos come in lots of patterns and will keep your tank sparkling clean! They are miracle workers. Some people complain that they are messy, but I "vacuum every week anyway so it doesn't make any difference. No more scraping the glass! No mor s rubbing the decorations! No more replacing plastic...

He's a beaut! Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

How so you get a sponge filter out of the tank to clean it without dripping a ton of filthy sludge off it? Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

Python! Wonderful invention. Worth every penny. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

My husband bought me a turntable for Christmas so day before yesterday I put a record on. It was a little loud but not house rattling. The next day my ctenopoma was belly up. Do fish prefer silence to music? Can I play my LPs softly? Thanks. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

my clown loaches. They swim in crazy formations and patterns, at the front of the tank. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

try feeding the bloated one cooked skinned mashed peas. It acts like a laxative and helps if they pig out on bloodworms or brine shrimp. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

Most reputable lfs will take them back. What I wonder is what they do with them. They have no way of knowing what kind of tank they came from. Anybody out there work at a LFS who can tell us? Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

Take everything out and wash the tank with a strong salt solution. Then rinse rinse and rinse again. The rinse some more. Do the same thing with the gravel. It wouldn't hurt to let both the tank and the gravel dry out completely for a couple of months. You'll have to spread the gravel out and...

cories will dig caves, though usually they are in the back of the tank where the provide good cover. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

I have one of those growing happily in a pot in my south facing window! Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

The barbs might nibble on the angels' fins. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

Shark and beginner ignorance The shark is a black red-tailed shark. When I first became interested in having fish, I bought half a dozen books and knew pretty quickly there are no easy answers since even folks from universities had different opinions on various thing. I went to the five local...

looking for peace Today was water change day so I took all the furniture out of the 30 gallon and out the shark in his own ten gallon and the bigger lab in a ten gallon, leaving the ctenopoma and the angel and the juvenile lab in the 30 gallon. The angel is Very peaceful, so after I rehome the...

My angel hangs out in the front and when the clown loaches were in that tank, they'd have playtimes when they swam around like maniacs, but it didn't bother the angel at all.

I moved my bigger clown loach to the community tank. It was immediately adopted by the smaller ones and they are all living happily ever after with the gold gourami, 8 neons, and 4 glowfish tetra in a 28 gallon bowfront. Back in the 30 gallon which came with the angelfish, the shark has given...

My gold gourami is my favorite fish of all of them. Full of personality and eye-catching. Visitors always point him out. But picked him out from a 150 because he was at the front of the tank following me around. For my other tank I picked a particular yellow lab. My shark was turning into a...

The angel is more than five years old and lived with a Jack Dempsey and an Oscar until they died. His owner was going to flush him and take the tank to the dump. The owner of this particular LFS was very knowledgable but he died recently. His kids (in their early twenties) apparently don't...

Yes, that's the fish. My LFS had this label on the tank and it is what was rung up on the cash register. Can I put my Angel in with neons, glow fish tetras, and red black-tail veil-tail tetras? Thanks

I took the photos. How to I post them here? The red cichlid is Ctenopoma Ansorgi. The angel is in that tank because the tank came with the angel and ten gallons of really slimy water. I didn't move him to my other tank because I was repeatedly told not to put him in with my variety of tetras...

My veil tail and fins angel was happy in his 30 gallon tank with a red-tail black shark, two clown loaches, and small cichlid. I got two yellow paradise South African cichlids and all heck broke loose. The shark became aggressive and was chasing the new yellows, and the clowns and red are...

I put the dose of Prime in a 16 ounce plastic cup and then fill the cup with water. Then I hold the python in one hand and the cup in the other and dribble the prime into the stream of new water. It's way easier to do it than to write it out. LOL

My python has a 50 foot hose and it works great. I got it on amazon.

About four months ago I bought a pair of clown loaches for my 30 gallon tall tank. It also has an angel, a red tailed shark, and a small cichlid with a long name. The tank is heavily planted (silk, not live) with lots of caves. But the clown loaches and the cichlid spend all their time living...

I ended up with two ten gallon cycled quarantine tanks. Put some neons in one and two gouramis in the other. All are dead. Parameters were all zero. These tanks both have sponge filters. How do I sanitize these filters? And is flushing the tanks and plants under fresh water sufficient or do I...