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For a 50% water change I'm gonna need a bigger bucket LOL. I'm not big into plecos but my wife likes them.

Yeah I might get a small one day. Like 3 inches? But I hear they get big. By then maybe I'll have a bigger tank :-)

One last annoying question. Do plecos help clean gravel some? I know it wouldn't be a substitute for vacuuming. I heard plecos are filter feeders.

I have some moss and 2 sword plants.

I do clean the gravel each wc, but didn't know if was necessary.

Should I be cleaning gravel with each water change or do the bacteria clean the gravel?

Yeah it's not that bad really.

Sounds awful LOL

50% sounds like a lot of work LOL, but I'll do it if necessary. Can't have my cories dying on me.

Oh okay, I wouldn't do anything like that. I only want little fish anyway.

That sounds good. I'm doing about 20% wc a week. I suppose I can monitor the water levels and adjust accordingly if problems arise. I just assumed I might need a fancier filter. Thanks for all the help. This blog has been very helpful for me.

I had more danios originally, but they were "starter" fish and a few died along the way. They only cost $1 at the pet shop. I like the danios too because they hover at the top, the skirts in the middle, and the cories at the bottom.

Okay that sounds good. I'll have to go home and estimate the fishes lengths.

I have a 20 gallon tank with about 10 small fish in it (3 danios, 4 skirts, 3 small cory cats). All the fish seem healthy and water tests are all good. I have a Marineland penguin 150 with the bio wheel filter. My wife wants to add like 3 more fish (little tetras), but I'm worried it'll start to...

I used to have fish when I was a kid. Now I have kids of my own, so we got a 20 gallon tank. It been running for 5 weeks. Things are going okay, but I changed the filter yesterday and my nitrites are way up. I didn't realize having a healthy tank was so much work! I've since read here not to...