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I wanted to eventually get a school of about nine or ten diamond tetras to keep with my angelfish, who is currently still a quarter-sized baby. I want to wait a bit before adding more fish, though. Will diamonds be suitable, or will they be nippy even in a group this size? I was also looking at...

So against all odds I was able to get my dream 45 gallon tank a lot sooner than I thought! This is by far the largest aquarium I've ever had and I'm so excited to get started on it. I have a little liquid-filled level checker, and the stand is perfectly level. Unfortunately, the tank bottom or...

I have plans to set up a 45 gallon tank sometime this year. I have a stand and will order the tank eventually when I have money, but not quite yet. My wallet doesn't agree with me on this one just yet. But to prepare for the biggest and hopefully best aquarium I have owned, I have a few concerns...

Lately I have been wanting to upgrade my 20 gallon long to a bigger tank, and possibly be able to get one tall enough to add an angel fish. I was eyeing a nice Visio 45 gallon 25-inch-tall tank and found a decent price as well as a good-looking stand, but when I mentioned that I was excited to...

These are the only live foods available around here, and I would like to be absolutely certain what they are. Shop owner insists they are bloodworms, but they are definitely not. I thought they were tubifex a few days ago, until I read about California blackworms, which look very similar...

I bought a pair of scarlet badis yesterday and I love them! They were the first fish I wanted for my first tank, but I was never able to find them until now. I feel lucky! I currently have them in a 5.5 gallon with plenty of plants and a few cherry shrimp. One is for sure a male, but the...

My female betta has looked fat for a long time, and since she seemed healthy, I just thought she might be full of eggs. For the past month and a half, she has had a bump growing slowly on the right side of her belly. Aside from the bump, she seems to be healthy. She is eating well and is active...

I had some harlequin rasboras come down with something recently, and I'm not sure what it is. I thought it was columnaris or fungus, but the descriptions of those diseases didn't match what I was seeing. I was treating the tank with daily water changes and aquarium salt. I don't think this has...

My ram "Ram-bam" was sick for a long time with an unknown problem that made him not eat and lose weight, and four months ago I thought he wouldn't make it. He has since recovered and regained weight(though I think he is still a little bit skinny) and regained color. This photo did not show his...

I have some tiny whitish snails in my 5.5 gallon quarantine with my kuhli loach now. They are kinda sorta cone shaped, but not long and pointy like the Malaysian trumpet snails I've seen. But maybe they are baby Malaysian trumpet snails? They range from 1-3 millimeters long, are white on the...

Probably unimportant backstory time! I bought this little sparkling gourami pretty much on a whim about two months ago. I know it was probably a bad idea to buy a fish on a whim like this, but so far, he's getting along well in the tank. The other fish don't bother the gourami, and the gourami...

I purchased this kuhli loach one week ago tomorrow. About two days ago, it started to grow white spots, and now has definite ick dotted along its body. There aren't a lot of "icks" on it, though, and the fish seems to be behaving normally. It is the only fish in the tank(a 5.5 gallon with some...

I'm confused as to what a fire red shrimp is exactly. I thought it was just a very red cherry shrimp, but some articles I read speak of them as if they are a separate species. Are they the same species or aren't they? Some photos I viewed of fire red shrimp look a lot like my own "cherry...

I went to several fish stores today searching for some plant species for my tank, which is ten gallons, with two clamp lamps providing 26 watts with 6500K CFL bulbs, and no CO2, but some use of root tabs, flourish excel and liquid ferts if necessary. Some of the plants I was looking for include...

Plant noob here. Needing some advice, so I don't screw up... I want to plant my ten-gallon tank with some easy plants like dwarf sag, crypt wendtii and dwarf hairgrass, (At least, from what I've read those sound easy and undemanding!) and have some anubias, java fern and java moss on driftwood...

I got this LED light as a birthday gift. It cost about $60, they said. I don't know anything about LEDs, let alone this brand of light, and was wondering if it is a good brand. A google search didn't find any information on this particular light, but apparently there are some other Aqua Japan...

I have a 20 long with one strip light with an 18 watt fluorescent bulb. It provides okay light, but nothing spectacular, and apparently not enough light to keep java moss from going brown. :( Though, somehow my java ferns and anubias are content, because they are sprouting new leaves regularly...

I have two Aquaclear 20 filters with some problems. The first was knocked off a shelf, and the box part of the filter was cracked on the side opposite the cord, impeller, etc., and will definitely leak if I try to use it. I don't think the filter has been damaged beyond this crack. I have read...

I just got a little African dwarf frog from my neighbor and the poor thing is nothing but a skeleton! They were feeding only fish flakes and fish pellets, and it apparently wasn't eating those. I've never kept a frog before, let alone a sick one, so I don't know what I'm doing. I have it right...

I mean the pointy thin red nematode worms that hang out in the fish's intestines and like to hang out of their buttholes. I've seen three cases in the last few months. (One in my own fish, which I ordered levamisole for to treat the tanks with, one on harlequin rasboras in Petco, and one on some...

I have a 20 gallon long tank (30 inches) and its light has broken. It was working just fine until I unplugged it to move the extension cord and plugged it back in. Now it wont turn on when plugged into any electrical outlet, so I think I may have broken something in the power cord when I...

I'm going to feed Metronidazole to cure hexamita in a platy, but i'm not sure how exactly to feed it. I have New life spectrum small fish pellets, Xtreme aquatics flakes, and frozen bloodworms. The instructions say to mix it into a food paste, but can I mush up some flakes or pellets into a...

I have a little 2.5 gallon tank on my desk with java moss in it. It's going to become a little cherry shrimp tank. It currently has a small penn plax led bendy-neck light, but I don't think that will let the moss get enough light.(I don't even know how many watts it is.) I looked at small...

The ones included in the freshwater master test kits(or the other test kits, if they are the same size). I had a little slip-up earlier and dropped and broke two of my glass tubes, so I only have two left. I just need a couple more(four in total, to do all four tests in one sitting), but I'd...

In my 20 gallon long, there are ghost shrimp, live plants, one zebra snail, and a single betta, who was supposed to be a placeholder until my platies are ready to go in there(to feed the biological filter, yadda yadda). The betta has had off and on bouts with fin rot since i got him several...