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I've been looking around for a single centerpiece fish for my 29 and noticed that the Wet Spot has wild-caught Leopold's Angelfish (a.k.a. Long Nose Angelfish, P. leopoldi) in stock. This smaller species would likely be a better fit for a 29 than the ubiquitous P. scalare. Does anybody have...

I've had a breeding pair of GBRs for the past 11 months and will be soon down to a single GBR, as the female has been suffering from a series of tumor-like growths (cancer?) since June. It doesn't appear that she'll survive the weekend. Anyway, I had planned on adding a Bolivian Ram to this...

So I've decided to add a pleco to each of my SA community tanks. A Clown will be going into my 20 high and a Bristlenose will be going into my 29. I have a couple of questions for pleco owners. (1) How many times a week should I be supplementing vegetables (or algae wafers)? The 29 where my BN...

Over the past couple of months, I've noticed a green-colored algae that's growing on a piece of bogwood in my 29. Recently, I've noticed that, when the tank lights come on at 8 am, some of this algae is orange. Over the course of the first hour that the lights come on, the algae slowly turns...

So, I went on vacation for a week and had our babysitter feed our cats and fish. I came home this afternoon to find the substrate and wood of my 20 gallon high covered in this light brown material. See the attached pics. I've never seen anything like this before. It looks like it came from the...

So, the folks at AqAdvisor.com state that the Bolivian Ram is too aggressive to co-exist with Green Neons (presumably due to their size... the slightly larger regular Neons are OK with Bolivians, according to them). Does anybody have experience with these two species in the same tank? I was...

I'm looking for a shoal of tetras for my 20 gallon tall (24" x 12" x 16") and was a little surprised to see a number of web sites that list 24" long tanks as appropriate for a small shoal of Bleeding Hearts. Is this accurate? My intuition tells me that a 24" long tank may eventually be too...

I was wondering if anybody out there has had experience with Blue Emperor Tetras (aka Purple Emperor Tetra... Inpaichthys kerri). I'm considering a shoal of these in my 20 high and was wondering about their activity level, tank level preference, sensitivity to ammonia/nitrite/nitrate, and any...

So this is my new office tank that will be stocked with South American fish (likely a shoal of tetras and either a Bolivian Ram or a pair of Apistos). It's been cycling for a few weeks and has entered the "nitrite spike" phase, so it will hopefully be ready in another week and a half or so. I've...

So I'm currently cycling a 20 gallon high in my office and am pondering stocking ideas. One was doing a single Bolivian Ram in this tank, with a small-ish shoal of Emperor or Lemon Tetras (8-10). Despite the fact that the ram would be the only bottom-dweller, my initial though is that a 24" x...

So I've decided to add a small-ish aquarium to the corner of a wall in my office. I don't have much lateral room, but a 20 gallon high will fit. I'd like to do a nano tank with Celestial Pearl Danios (maybe 12-15 of them) and, while I'm OK doing a species-only tank, I'd like to put something...

So, it appears that my tank has a parasite problem. About a week and a half ago, one of my Cardinal Tetras was breathing heavily, lost some color, bloated, and died about three days later. Yesterday, my female GBR was breathing heavily and I wasn't sure if that was due to disease or if she was...

So it turns out that hair algae hitched on to one of the plants I purchased from the LFS and has been growing all over my Hornwort. It's still a relatively minor annoyance, but I'm beginning to find it in my filter and would like to get rid of it. Any suggestions? The hair algae only grows on...

So I'm converting one of our bedrooms into an office and was planning on setting up a 20 long in there. I've been wanting to do loaches and barbs for a while, and figured that this might be a good opportunity. I imagine that a shoal of 7-8 Dwarf Chains would be best for a tank this size. I was...

I wanted a few more Cardinal Tetras for my display tank (and I literally only have room for a few more), so I purchased three at the LFS about four weeks ago and stuck them in my freshly-cycled 10 gallon quarantine tank. I knew that they'd be at least somewhat stressed due to insufficient...

Are there any good, detailed web sites (or books) out there for constructing biotopes? I've come across a couple good descriptions of individual biotopes here and there, but it seems that most list fish and plants only by genera, rather than specific species.

One of my corys has a fuzzy patch on his side, above one of the gills (see pic). Does this look familiar to anyone? Bacterial or fungal? The city is not behaving any differently than normal. I had a Rummy with an apparent bacterial infection (columnaris?) in September. I treated the tank with...

So I ordered a pair of GBRs from a breeder in SoCal last week. They shipped on Wednesday and were supposed to arrive on either Friday or Saturday. Nothing on Friday and nothing on Saturday. Heat packets only work for 72 hours. Uh-oh. On Sunday morning, USPS listed the fish as recently having...

So, I have a 29 gallon tank (18" tall) with a run-of-the-mill 17 W T8 full-spectrum bulb. (The attached photo is slightly overexposed and the lighting is a little more subdued than it appears. Outside of the hair algae growing on the Hornwort at the top, I have very little growing elsewhere in...

Being something of a masochist, I've decided to try a pair of GBRs in my SA community tank (currently contains tetras and corys). These are coming from a reputable breeder in SoCal with free two-day shipping. Given the minimal financial risk, I figured why not. I have a couple of questions for...

This tank has been stocked for about 3 1/2 months now. It is not quite a biotope, but has a strong South American flavor. Stocking includes: 7 Cardinal Tetra 7 Black Neon Tetra 7 Rummynose Tetra 4 Sterbai Cory 2 Assassin Snail (for now) Will be adding 1-2 dwarf cichlids soon Plants are a...

These things have been growing all over the sides of my freshwater tank since I began cycling. I'm assuming that they hitchhiked in on one of more of my plants. I can't tell if they're copepods or water fleas, or perhaps something else? Is there anything that will eat these? My corys and...

I was wondering if anybody has any experience in keeping German Blue Rams at temperatures in the upper 70s F (rather than the low/mid 80s). Several sources state that 82 F is the "sweet spot" for GBRs and that they'll be more disease-prone at lower temps. I've also read conflicting articles that...

After doing a 20% water change, I cleaned my filter yesterday morning. Before cleaning the pastic filter pieces with Q-tips, I stored my filter media in a large cup of tank water. I then squeezed the sponge filter piece in the bucket of spent tank water about 6-7 times and moved my charcoal...

I have a 29 gallon tank that is almost fully stocked (7 Cardinal Tetras, 7 Black Neon Tetras, 7 Rummynose Tetras, and 4 Sterbai Corys) and I'm looking for a single small cichlid to round my tank. Would a single Cockatoo work in a peaceful community tank that is moderately-to-heavily planted (one...