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Does a sponge prefilter on an intake tube do the same thing as a regular sponge filter with airstone?

i have 10 cardinal tetras and 3 of them are very round and big in the breast area.. are they sick? or do they look like this when they are pregnant? there fins are all fine and there appetite is good and they are all schooling normally..

i have a 55 gallon aquarium and i purchased a "48 inch double linear strip T5 fluorescent lamp, with: a 28 watt colourmax full-spectrum T5 and a 28 watt 6700K plant lamp T5" is this sufficient to grow my plants?:n00b:

do you think it would be ok if i plugged my co2 diffuser into my timer for my lights? or should it be on all the time?

i'm planning on adding plants to my aquarium.. can someone explain the whole co2 thing to me? i've tried looking it up and many different types of diffusers pop up, sure they look cool but what about the part outside of the aquarium? what are you putting in the water exactly?

i have had my black ghost knife for about 2 years and it has always had this bloated belly. i didn't realize it might be a sickness after i looked up pictures of other black ghost knife online. but it has always had it, what could it be? can it be treated? my bgk doesn't show any signs of...

ok. my BGK is still 3-4 inches long and he's maybe 2-3 years old!? what's going on...? and he has a weird bump in his throat. he's had it since i brought him home from the fish store. it's not an infection or anything. but i really don't know what to say about this.. should i get a new one...

my black ghost knife is about a year and a half old. only 3 inches. he doesn't pay any attention to the small guppys i got a while ago. and he doesn't pay attention to my new plattys.do u think he'd eat up neons? i know he would eventually when he gets older but right now i don't know. they are...

what would cause a fish to get panicky? one of my gouramis i've had for 2 years got all scared lately and hide behind things and rushes to the surface to breath then back under a cave. and he'll swim all away across to get away from something and run into the glass and then hide. it's weird...

i haven't fed my fish today yet, but then i stuck in some zucchini as a snack. if i leave the entire slice in there for them to munch on can they become over fed?

my clown loaches ae ganging up on my angelfish and eatting the hell out of their fins! what can i do. they even do it after eatting. my angelfish doesn't even have a tail anymore :(

i did a water change and noticed that the back end of my aquarium was lower then the front because the water was on an angle. i know it's bad if it's not level but should i be worried over a tiny angle like that? nothings happened and it's been that way for a week now .

is this normal? i've had them for maybe 3, almost 4 years and this is the first sign of agression i've seen them giving to eachother. they are turning all grey and body checking eachother and locking lips and clicking there mouths. does it come with age, territorial behaviour? should i be...

i've had a blackghost knife for about a year and he has benn the same size since i got him... around 4 inches. i'm wondering what there growing rate is.

i'm not sure buti think my bgk may be sick. he's acting normal and eating and everything, but his tummy looks very very swollen(directly under his mouth) it's almost a perfect ball.. i don't know what this might be...

ok i have 3 red plattys an angel fish(did have two but they beat eachother up) and a black ghost knife(around 4 inches) in a 55 gallon tank. how compatible would a frog be with my fish and what kinda of frog could i get? i'm looking for a profile about a frog and how to take care of them. are...

I have a question.. I know that neons are the natural pray of the angel fish but if i bought large neon's, could they live together? it hardly looks like a large one could fit in his mouth. i kno the small ones do because my angels just ate one.

what's the best kind of substrate? like for cleanliness? i heard sand is good, but if u were to vacuum the tank wouldn't it suck all the sand out with it...?

heyya everyone, i currently have 2 clown loaches in my 55 gallon tank. i also have a black ghost knife and 2 angel fish in there with them. i'm so interested in the loaches and wanted to get a variety of them, i was hoping soon to get a yo-yo loach, gold zebra loach, blue botia(orange finned)...