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today i had a particularly invigorating phone call (ha) during which i was watching my tank, when i noticed a brownish dot on the side. i thought it was a bug on the outside, or a spot of the various things my dogs may leave wherever their noses fall, so i go to wipe it off. it's on the...

i just got my first aquaclear filter the other day and set it up last night on my old tank to begin seeding the filter... it's so loud! 8O i'm fairly certain it's running properly... water is running through it and the flow is steady... but i've never really heard my filter running before...

I am a completely noob to saltwater. I've never had a SW tank, and frankly I don't even know where to start. I've had FW for a couple years now, but I just aquired a new tank and want to do something a little more challenging. I have a 20 gallon tank and a new aquaclear 30 (rated for 10-30...

are there any inverts (besides snails and ghost shrimp) that can go in a teensy 3-gallon tank? i have my 3gal set up with lots of plants and just one dwarf puffer (and a constant supply of hitchiker snails that the puffer snacks on) and i'm wondering if there's anything i could put in there...

i just got a little (about 3" from head to tail) crayfish from petsmart (it snuck into the shipment of feeder fish) that has a slightly purple-ish back. it's super cool. i have a bridge ornament in my tank that he likes to hide under, so i call him the troll under the bridge. um... anybody...

today i just noticed a tiny crack in the top of my 10 gal, so before it spreads any more and i have a huge mess (and dead fish), i want to get a new tank. what's the best way to transfer everything over with least stress and biological losses? figures. just when i start to have plants that...

oh no. i just went to feed my fish, and what do i spot but a snail hanging out on one of my plants. i know that it had to have come from the plants since the only snails i've ever bought were ramshorns. but the thing is... i put the new plants in a bucket of ice and let them sit there until...

after doing some reading about planted tanks, i finally decided to get some live plants.... i went to petsmart, got 2 java ferns, 3 bunches of anacharis and 2 bunches of water wisteria for my 10 gal. it seems like a lot of plants to have in there, but i'm fairly certain that i'll have...

i know that fish can change colours... but i never saw it happen this fast! i've kept my betta in a little 1gal tank (no lectures please) for over a year now, but this morning i put him in my new 10 gal and... wow! he went from all a dark, beautiful blue... to nearly all red/green in about 2...

i know most puffers are supposed to be slightly brackish, even though they're usually kept in fw at the lfs. is this also true for dwarf puffers? i have a tank of guppy fry that i'm ready to move back over to my main tank, so this one's gonna be empty... so i thought i'd finally get some dwarf...

I was at my LFS the other day and they had a couple tiny seahorses. That made me decide I want to start up a sw tank. I'm planning on getting a 29 gal setup (was gonna do fw discus, but if it's doable to do sw, I'll do that), but what else would I need? Is that an appropriate size for...

I'm currently suffering the worst bout of algae I've ever had. My tank looks like a swamp despite daily 50% pwc. It's been completely green for almost 2 weeks and I'm getting horribly frustrated with changing the water all the time. Today I found one of my ADFs up in the filter, dead. I...

I'm currently raising my first successful batch of guppy fry. They're about a week old and as far as I can tell, I haven't lost a single one yet! But I was wondering why this time was so different from the rest... the only thing I changed was the food. Before I always just crushed up some...

I don't want guppies anymore, after my third time losing the entire tank, so i was thinking dwarf puffers, but i don't know how to go about getting snails for them to eat. help?

What's the smallest tank you would recommend for a figure 8 puffer? I know they stay small, but i don't know if my soon-to-be-empty 3 gallon is tooooo small. If it is, what do you suggest for the 3gal? (and please don't say a betta...)

What are some good places to start looking for khuli loaches in nj? I'm outside of Trenton and go to school at Montclair, so I have most of the top half of NJ covered. I've tried all the LFS within 10/20 minutes of me and they don't have them often... also absolutely fish in clifton, where I...

After buying my new angelfish last night, I got in a car accident on the way home. The first thing that registered as the other guy hit me was the sound of water sloshing in the bag and the thought "oh no, my angel's gonna die!" :lol: Well, after assessing the damage (not much) I brought the...

I'm planning on starting a tank of discus and angels, but my LFS has an absolutely beautiful baby angel that I don't want to miss out on. Problem is, the only tank I have cycled is my 10 gallon tank with a small (2-3") paradise gourami and my pair of honey gouramis. The angel is small, its...

I was in a new LFS (well, not so local) tonight and they had gouramis that were called albino paradise gouramis. BEAUTIFUL. I had to buy one, even though all their tails were beat up. The guy was real nice and listened when I said "I want THAT one, not the other one that looks nearly...

How many of you buy your livebearers when they're already pregnant? I know that when I have to replenish my guppy stock (because they always seem to die after giving birth) I always buy females that look pregnant. Is there any disadvantage to this? (aside from obvious in-store inbreeding)

i just adopted a 10 gal FW tank (i consider it a rescue mission) but i'm not interested in another boring (imo) FW community tank... so i'm looking to sell the fish (except one angel... yes, from a 10-gal :roll:) back to the LFS and start a SW. is it worth my time/money to put the work into...

i just got an otocinculus (or however you spell it) a couple days ago, and this morning when i turned on my tank light, ALL his colour was gone. the black stripe down the sides was completely gone, and the only colour he had was a little on his face. i went to work, certain i'd come home to a...

last night female guppy number FOUR had her babies and then died. i wake up this morning to find a breeder net full of fry and a dead mother. i don't understand. she was doing fine before, just like the other three. i have yet to have a female survive giving birth. what am i doing wrong?

i've finally decided to suck up the cost and get my discus tank, especially since my LFS has an absolutely BEAUTIFUL rainbow discus that hopefully won't be sold by the time i'm ready for it. since i found THE fish i want and refuse to buy a discus on an impulse (especially because the only...

i know that everybody here (mostly) swears by prime and that's what i use most of the time... but i have a bottle of amquel plus here that i got when petsmart was out of prime and i don't really want to throw it out. the labels seem pretty much parallel, but i'm just wondering if it's any good...