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    Krib compatibility

    ]Why are they so hard to find? I hear and read that a ton of people like them and I've never seen them in a chain store or even my local ones
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    Krib compatibility

    Found a local fish stores that can order a male and female for me. Hopefully the price won't be rough since it's a personal order
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    Filtration Order in Canister Filter....

    I'm fairly new but this is my setup I have a Fluval 306 canister It came set up as Mechanical on bottom tray Biological in middle tray Fine sponge with carbon on top tray I heard (and it makes sense) that having a fine sponge above the media causes particles to get stuck in the media since...
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    Krib compatibility

    i currently have a 45 Gallon tank with a very young Rainbow shark, BN Pleco, and 5 Twinbar Platys. ive been looking online at different fish to see what i should get next and the Kribs sound awesome. but i dont know how they would work with my current fish. i know they're aggressive when...
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    Canister filter creating too much current

    i added ammonia and got it to where it could convert it to nitrite within 36-48 hours then put 1 Rainbow Shark and 4 Twinbars in (those twinbars are serious poop machines. i only feed them once a day right now). im still doing water testing on a daily basis and ammonia hasnt gone above .50ppm. i...
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    Canister filter creating too much current

    in case you were wondering what biohome is, here's a link to a video. it's not exactly well known. at least not in the U.S.. hopefully it's as good as it sounds
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    Canister filter creating too much current

    so im fairly new to aquariums, had a 10 Gallon aquarium for about 3 months and then decided to get a 45 Gallon aquarium. Ive got it set up with a Fluval 306 Canister filter with one tray for mechanical, one tray completely full of Biohome Ultimate media, and the third tray half full of Biohome...
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    can i move one filter to a different tank

    I did water changes/ cleaning with a siphon vac every Thursday of 25%. The tank always looked spotless. Heater stayed at 78 at all times. In my previous thread about ick, the guy said it could've been due to the 3 week cycle I did in the new tank. But everything was fine until I changed the...
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    can i move one filter to a different tank

    so my 45G tank had an ick outbreak. i had just swapped the substrate to white sand from black gravel so i didnt notice the early signs. i thought it was just sand on the cherry barbs (beginner mistake). only three of the fish remain and they seem to be getting better. my girlfriend has a 10G...
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    Relativley new aquarium with ick

    i just put in the ick killer for the second time. 9 of them didnt make it. including my favorite, the rainbow shark. the remaining three seem to be getting better. the pleco really seems like it isnt effecting him at all. the orange and black molly and twinbar look pretty rough on their fins but...
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    Relativley new aquarium with ick

    all of the fish had been in there for about a month with no problems at all. i did a fishless cycle for 2 weeks. i added API bacterial supplement the very first day i set it up. at the start of week three i moved 2 black and orange mollys from my girlfriends 10G tank to my 45G tank. after 1 week...
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    Relativley new aquarium with ick

    i bought a 45 gallon aquarium from petsmart and let it cycle for about 3 weeks before putting any fish in it. (its been running a Fluval Aquaclear 30-50G filter, heater set to 75F and had a gravel substrate since day one) first i added 3 twinbar platys. a week later 5 cherry barbs. then a...
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