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Okay, I just saw some pictures of scats, and I am dying. I love them. They are beautiful and funky. I must own some. My husband, seeing my obsession budding, has kindly offered that I may acquire another large tank and may put in the scats that I so long for. Is anyone keeping these? I'd be...

I saw their ad in a couple fish magazines and went to their site (www.aquatraders.com). The prices on light strips are really quite good. I could actually afford what I want from them. But, in the spirit of "if it's too good to be true, it probably is", I have to wonder about them. Has anyone...

I'm so confoozed. I'm new at this planted thing, but I do my best to get lights and lightstrips that give me about 2 wpg and plants that don't think high light is necessary for life. My husband is buying me a new large tank (either 60 or 75 gallons, depending on what's on sale that week), and I...

I was living in the Dark Ages. I thought that I had it handled. So clever, I thought. I saved a cat litter bucket, and ten one-gallon jugs which used to hold iced tea from the store. With these, I performed water changes using a common gravel vacuum from Wal-Mart. Low expense! We don't need any...

My son is completely enamored of sharks. Loves them. Thinks I ought to build a tank big enough for a great white. This, um, isn't going to happen. :lol: For Christmas, however, he is getting his first fishtank. He likes the sharks at the pet stores, and I'd just love to be able to get him...

My daughter's betta is in a 10 gallon tank with a platy and a frog. The water parameters are perfect (I do the testing), it gets weekly water changes, and a good food variety. Temperature is a constant 80. He eats just fine and acts perfectly healthy and normal. However, his body seems to be...

I've fallen in love with the pictures of these. Does anyone have any experience with them?

Has anyone else experienced a rise in pH using PetSmart's store brand (Top Fin) decorations raising the pH of their water? I have a natural pH of 7.2 in my tap water. My dwarf puffer tank's pH, however, is at 8. I'm using Onyx Sand substrate, which does have a buffering effect and tends to...

My husband wants to buy a 55 gallon aquarium for our mutual Christmas gift. I've talked him out of oscars ("Look at the price of this 120 gallon, honey! They eventually need those!"), but he'd really like a knife fish. I hear that the black African knife is very hardy and easy to keep. What...

I have a 20 gallon "normal" tank (not long) which I am slowly stocking. It currently has three dwarf puffers in it (at least one male and one female, the other's being a bit androgynous at the moment). I would like to add more to this tank. I had thought to add two or three more female puffers...

Out in the Storage Hovel, covered in that thing that packrats do best, I found four aquariums. I'd like to use them, after a good cleaning, but I'm not clear on the best way to clean them. Shall I just use water and an aquarium-safe algae scrubber thing? Is there a chemical I'd do well to use...