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I added 11 yellow rcs that I ordered online to my 5gal about two weeks ago, and two of them have died. The tank has been running for about two months, and is also home to some ramshorn snails and MTS. The water parameters are normal (high pH but I'd rather it be constant than mess with trying...

I got this double tail male about a month ago, his name is Peanut. He is in a 5gal at about 76*F with some plants, a piece of Malaysian driftwood, and some slate rock in addition to course black sand substrate. The tank is filtered by a small sponge filter which is supposed to be good for up to...

Which one is better for shrimp or which do you like more? I've heard they're pretty similar and that the main difference is that willow moss is thicker and darker. I like how willow moss looks more than java moss. Is there anything else I should know?

Hi guys, I've had half a sanded down coconut shell in my tank for almost a year with no problems at all, but now all of a sudden it has little white specks and the color has gotten all splotchy, almost like light is falling on it through water, but it's actually on the coconut. any idea what's...

A few weeks ago my female betta Cleo began acting weird. She was never super active, but would sort of patrol the tank, investigating an MTS here and there etc. but now she just stays near the ground in the back corner of the tank. When I get home she still comes to the front of the tank to get...

I'm in the process of setting up a 5.5 gallon yellow shrimp tank (a yellow breed of rcs) with a bunch of Java moss, some java fern, and a piece of Malaysian driftwood. I'd really like to add some tiny fish in a few months when my shrimp colony is more established (tiny do they hopefully don't...

So first off I have a 10gal tank with lots of plants, and recently I found a tiny sprout I couldn't identify so I planted it expecting it to be just another java fern, but now it's turned into this: it started out looking like a smaller version of the front part of the plant, then grew the...

There is a fish tank in the bio department of my school with (what I think are) a bunch of danios and Rasboras in it. There are two I really like but no one seems to know what type they are. One is red and orange/yellow, ant the other is really tiny with a big blue spot. The tank was a little...

Hi guys :) I've been planning out a new tank recently, and doing that's had me day dreaming about all sorts of possible tank set ups. I ended up with a whole list of tank set ups I want to try someday, and that got me wondering about if any of you guys have "pending/dream/bucket list" tanks. If...

I was wondering if you guys had any cute/funny stories about your fish/inverts :) Today I brought home a really small female betta and a black background for my community tank. My larger female betta is usually pretty passive and I have lots of good hiding spots, but I was worried she might pick...

I upgraded my tank around 2 months ago, and now I have an empty 5.5 gallon just SITTING there ;) and I keep drooling over all sorts of stocking and aquascaping ideas. I think guppies are gorgeous, but don't want to risk putting them in with my betta, and I really like the idea of shrimp, so I...

My dad's girlfriends daughter brought home 3 goldfish in a half gallon. After months of me changing the water as often as I could I finally convinced my dad to get them AT LEAST a 2.5 gallon and bubble filter. One of the fish died in transition, so the little tank was overstocked, but was way...

I recently bought some plants from the LFS and I found two tiny pond snails on one of them before I dipped my plants in a hydrogen peroxide mix. I thought they were pretty cute, but I wasn't sure if they were going to cause huge issues in my tank, so I poured some tank water into a little one...

Just curious...

I have a planted tank with two types of Anubis, a type of java fern, water wisteria, creeping jenny, a marimo ball, and several other plants, that are all doing great. However, my bunch of elodea (which I expected to be the hardiest plant of the bunch) keeps turning translucent yellow-green and...

What types of fertilizers would be good for a 10gal tank with a 18000K, 15W bulb for anacharis, java fern, Brazilian pennywort, anubias, frogbit, a marimo ball, and maybe some guppy grass or java moss? I have some glow light tetras, some pygmy corydoras, and a female betta in there too.

I'm planning out a new aquarium, and I would like to use Tetra SafeStart PLUS during a fishless cycle, SeaChem Prime to detoxify my tap water, Tetra EasyBalance PLUS to stabilize pH levels, and Tetra FloraPride as a fertilizer. How should I add these to the water so I'm not just dumping them all...

What level of light would a 25W full spectrum 5,500K fluorescent bulb for a 10gal tank? Is that considered low, high, or in the middle?

So I want to get a school of 5-6 glow light tetras for a 10gal community tank, but I know they have to stay in a school and that you're supposed to replace them if they die so the school doesn't get too small. I was wondering about what happens 4, 5, 6 years from now when I don't want/can't...

Hi everyone, I'm hoping to start my first community tank soon, but right now just have one female betta. I've had her for about a year and got her as a "baby betta" (which I found out later probably wasn't the best idea, but things turned out alright). I had a male betta (in a separate tank :P)...

I'm trying to plan out a 10gal tank set-up, but I want to make sure it will work out before I go buy anything. I had a male betta for several years, but he died a few months ago from dropsy :( and currently have a female betta I got a few years ago as a "baby betta" (which I found out later...