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Another good point to add would be if people do have QT, do they keep them set up all the time or have them temporary? And if they set up all the time, how are the tanks kept running? Is there always some amount of fish in there to keep the tank cycled? I would assume if that were the case they...

I've been doing a lot of reading on here and elsewhere but really can't seem to find a ton of solid information on why bacteria would never grow in the first place, even after doing everything else right (adding ammonia sources, etc). I can think of some obvious answers: you completely changed...

I think really early on in my cycle I was doing too much maintenance. Water changes are fine but cleaning the filter 2 or more times a month isn't good. I had a Tetra EX20 filter that came with my tank and it had cartridges. Thankfully I didn't follow their stupid instructions of change the...

I have Prime and follow the directions. Hopefully one capful dumped into my bucket of incoming tank water is enough to neutralize the bad stuff. I'm really certain I am putting in at any given time 10 gal or less of water during water changes so I'm pretty sure one capful of Prime is enough to...

I'll throw in my cycling experience. I actually ended up doing a fish in cycle using 6 zebra danios and a whole bottle of Tetra Safe Start. I honestly believe that stuff is crap and I'll get to that in a moment. But as my tank was starting out with the fish and Safe Start in there, I thought...

If you can find them, galaxy rasbora's are beautiful fish. Being a part of the same family that danio's are makes that surprisingly hardy (you wouldn't think it looking at them). My galaxy was accidently mixed in with some emerald rasbora's I purchased. Didn't even realize till I got home and...

The aquarium you see in my profile picture is a 20gal (roughly 78 liters) tank kit that was from Tetra brand. It included a Tetra EX20 filter (which is incredibly silent running), a filter cartridge, samples of various Tetra products, and the local fish store even threw in about $30 of various...

Ah, the great filter media debate :) The simple answer is DON'T buy overpriced filter media from the store. The best answer I can give is go to Drs Foster and Smith.com, search for filter pads and buy the large sheets of various densities (fine, super fine, coarse, etc). The Fluval C4 and...

Just going to bump this thread. I have an AC 50 on my tank and yes it does have the bypass problem, especially when the flow rate is turned up all the way. I too looked for a solution and saw the many different things people were doing to stop the bypass. Here's what I ended up doing: I...

Yes the blue wag platies are real but all the ones I've seen are so similar to the silver looking platies that unless you have the right type of lighting it would be hard to tell the difference. Believe it or not my local Petsmart about 3 months ago carried them (real blue platies) and I thought...

Agree with the 20gal tank size. That is what I have currently and it's big enough to allow me to have enough fish to make me happy, but small enough to where maintenance isn't a pain to do. Although a lot of people say a larger tank is better for beginners, I personally feel that if you can...

Since I have recently gone through this process and since I feel that there could be more threads about this subject, tonight I wanted to add my .02 on how to customize HOB cartridge based filters such as, but not limited to: the Tetra EX series, API Superclean, TopFin power filters, Aqueon...

Thank you everyone for the replies!! I wish I could fit at least 6 of each of the tetras in the tank but I will once I upgrade to a larger aquarium :) As my username states, you can really can never have enough fish :)

Hello all, I am an aquarium enthusiast from Madison, WI who has recently gotten back into the aquarium hobby after a 15 year break from it. My wife and I decided to purchase a Tetra brand aquarium kit from Petsmart (sadly Madison doesn't have an amazing LFS, at least not that I know of)...