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I have an established 75 gallon community tank - Earlier this week we introduced some new Otos, so I have been keeping a close eye on the tank, but today I noticed two of my tiger barbs (one green and one normal) have turned a bright redish orange on their face, and the trailing edges of their...

I have a 75 gallon tank that has been having a bit of an algae issue recently. Nothing out of control, but a bit of a buildup on rocks and plants. I think a school of otos might help but am concerned about how delicate they can be. Normally I quarantine new fish in a ten gallon tank. I keep a...

Good day everyone, I am wanting to get more "umff" out of my filter and heard good things about Purigen. But my question is, how would this work in my HOB filters? Would I just drop the mesh bag with Purigen into the reservoir of the filters? Or maybe this isn't designed for HOB filters? I'm...

I have a 75 gallon that is rather heavily stocked with fish and has been established for about 4-5 months. So far I have a large piece of driftwood and a bunch of artificial plants along with some rocks. The substrate is standard aquarium gravel. The only equipment I have is the standard HOB...

This morning I noticed one of my giant danios swimming erratically and mostly on his side. Sometimes he seems to roll completely over as he turns. He's constantly swimming. He's the only one of the 6 doing this. All the other fish in the 75 gallon tank seem to be behaving normally. This tank has...

Good afternoon, I could use some advice about our Molly Fry. They are about 10 days old today. Until now they have been in a fry net. We are wanting to move them into a 20 gallon tank that will be their permanent home. The 20 gallon has been working as a QT for about a month or more, and had...

I currently have 3 normal Tiger Barbs. We want to increase their school soon (2 have died off in the 10 months since we originally got them). Do the different varieties of Tiger Barbs (regular, green, albino, and even the glo) school together? Or would they all be happier if they were all the...

Good day all, I'm hoping you can provide me your recommendation. We have a 75 gallon tank with 14 zebra danios, 3 tiger barbs (plans to add another 6-7 soon), 2 Gold dust mollys, 11 various cory cats (albino, bronze, speckled and pandas), and will be introducing 6 giant danios in about 2 weeks...

Has anyone had much experience mixing "giant" Danios with regular Zebra Danios? I have a 75 I am in the process of stocking. I already have about 15 zebra danios, some Tiger Barbs, a couple Mollies and a number of Cory Cats. I'm looking for a few larger fish that will play nice with everyone. I...

So it's that time of year again when the pumpkins are showing up. I was just wondering if anyone had ever fed pumpkin to their fish? From the sounds of it pretty much any veggie is good for the fish, so why not pumpkin? I'm thinking about just slicing of of the orange stuff (the actual pumpkin...

A couple days ago I awoke to find my 6" Pleco on the floor outside the tank. Sometime during the night he escaped, but was still alive when I found him. I scooped him back into the tank and he seemed to recover by over the last day or so his fins have started to fall apart (specifically his...

Well, more like falling Pleco. Woke up this morning and checked my tank, but couldn't find my 5 inch common Pleco. I looked and looked, but couldn't find him so I turned on the light - still nothing. Then I looked behind the tank and sure enough there he was on the floor. I thought for sure he...

I think I know the answer to this question, but wanted confirmation from some with more expertise than I. We are upgrading to a 75 gallon tank from a 20. We have been working on cycling it for almost a month and last Sunday we saw our first traces of Nitrates. Testing yesterday indicated between...

I'm keeping a close eye on my Zebra Danios - possible Ich infestation. If that turns out to be the case, I was wondering what temperature the Danios can handle. I've read that raising the temerature of the water to 86 degrees will prevent the Ich from reproducing. Danios being a cool(er) water...

We are doing a fish-in cycle with Danios (we are planning to have a large school of Danios once the tank get's established so I'm getting throw away fish just to cycle). We got 9 of them last Tuesday. On Sunday I noticed a white spot on one of the big ones. Just one spot and I'd almost call it...

We are starting up a new 75 gallon tank. On Sunday we filled it with conditioned water, but a little bio boost in and moved a filter cartridge from an established 20 gallon tank into the HOB filter of the 75 (along with 2 new filter cartridges for the 75 filter) On Monday we introduced 9...

Should Pleco go home? I apologize for the "plecoptera" title - autocorrect. 8 or so months ago we got a small common pleco. I knew they got large, but figured it would take a while. At the time we had a 20 long and an algae problem. I was looking for something to clean the algae and we figured...

Are these rocks safe for my tank? I got them from a river in Alaska - granite, I think but I'm no rock expert. They were far enough upstream to not have gotten regular exposure to saltwater, and I've cleaned them in bleach water and dumped boiling water over them. What do you think? Sent from...

Last night we put water in our new 75. We have an established 20 gallon, so I put the single filter cartridge from that tank into the larger filter of the new tank. From all I have read I heard that would "instantly" cycle the tank. Today I tested the water and had zero ammonia, zero nitrites...

About 8-10 months ago we got 4 flame tetras along with 3 female gold dust mollies. Since that time all 4 of the tetras died, but we haven't lost any other fish (4 danios, 4 tiger barbs, 4 cory cats, 1 pleco and the aforementioned mollies all live in the 20 gallon long tank). The first tetra died...

So I will be moving my existing fish from their 20g to a new 75g. Shortly after that (once I know they are all happy and alive in their new home) I'll be adding some new fish. I'm curious what everyone does with new fish. I plan to keep the 20g up and running as a QT until I am fully stocked in...

In my area I have only one LFS - well, unless you count WalMart, but I would rather go fishless than buy from them. I have a 20g now, but we will be upgrading to a 75 over the next month or so. At that time I'm looking to get a number of new fish (16 danios, 6 Tiger barbs, maybe 2-3 Mollies and...

Greetings. This is my first post, but I've already found some very useful information on these forums. I'm excited to get involved. I currently have a 20 gallon long tank that's about 10-11 months old. We've lost a few fish along the way, but overall I believe it to be a healthy tank. It's...