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Can anyone think of any reason not to put small neocaridina shrimp and apple/ramshorn/pond snails together in the same breeding tank? Neither adult will eat the other, obviously. As far as breeding, the shrimp are livebearers, so the snails have no chance of snarfing the young'ns, and since...

So I've been running this filter that came with a starter kit for a few months, and the filtering pad is starting to look pretty ragged. Eventually rinsing it out isn't going to cut it and I'm going to have to replace the media, which is normal. The problem it, this chintzy filter doesn't have...

I've had my dp (Mahar Shalal Hashbaz) for a few weeks now, and from the beginning he'd had a ghost shrimp and two red cherry shrimp in the tank with him. I'd picked up the red cherries for a ridiculously high price at a lfs, so I was initially very hesitant about putting them in their with the...

I went to Lowe's to look for some pool filter sand for a substrate, and found, in the pool section, 25 lbs of "diatomaceous earth", which I assumed had to be the same thing. Naturally I researched it on the internet when I got home, just to make sure, and only found reference to it as used in...

I know this has been discussed before, but typically what is said is that fish can easily go for a week without being fed. I would like to know peoples' opinions on how long that week can be stretched out to, because I'm leaving for 10-11 days for the holidays, and don't know who I would ask to...

I am hoping to breed my new red cherry shrimp, but I am finding a lot of conflicting adviced online. Namely, I have read that: 1) Red cherry shrimp need plants to lay their eggs on 2) You should use a nylon net (presumably for the eggs to fall through) to prevent the shrimp parents from...

I was just wondering this because my baby clown loaches are by far the most entertaining critters in the tank, the way they snuffle around everywhere, swim under and through things, whisker the other fish, fight and swim around with each other, beg for food, etc. The other day I saw a tank with...

I keep reading various peoples' claims that a fish will have a stomach approximately the size of one of its eyes -- I really am beginning to doubt this. I'm assuming this little tidbit of wisdom is claiming that the stomach is about as big as a sphere whose circumference matches that of one of...

I just added a (plastic) floating plant to try to give my clown loaches some shade so they'll be less timid when the light's on. I didn't especially like the way it looked at first, but I think I may be able to get used to it, especially if the loaches are in favor. I was wondering what...

I've had this fish for a few weeks, and it seems to be doing as well as the other zebras, but it looks funny (and has since I got it). It also seems like it has to swim harder to keep up with the others, because of its relatively small tail. How on earth did it end up all crooked and with a...

I'm sure this has been noticed before, but I still find it peculiar how much a clown loach looks like a stretched-out tiger barb. It almost can't be coincidence -- does anyone have any thoughts on whether this is parallel evolution, or whether they have a common ancestor?

I've recently added three clown loaches to my 29 gallon aquarium, and for the last couple days I've almost never seen them. Even when the one came out, it only barely nosed two inches from its makeshift den in the back, then fled back in. I've got three very active zebra danios and three...

I have my fluorescent hood light on a timer for around 12 hours right now, because I want it to be on in the morning and also after work, at least for a little while. I would really rather have it on less time, though, because this seems to be stimulating excessive algae growth, and because it...

Hey folks! I recently got a pair of clown loaches for my 29 gallon (yes, I know they get big -- if I still want them I'll upgrade, otherwise I'll sell/give them away), and one of them came with some bonus gill flukes, almost certainly. I picked him because he's very bold and has good...