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I got a nice school of 8 decent sized Juli Cories for my 125. And added them in about a week ago. I haven't had the best of luck with cories in this tank but all 8 seem to be doing well so I wanted to show them off. Also, never had such a large school of cories before! They're so much more fun...

So, I was informed that the power grid in my area was going through a scheduled outage today. I was given a bit of notice so I was able to do a 50% water change last night and reduce the amount of food given to my tanks for a few days to minimize waste (though not a full fast as my fish are...

That's what my new pleco was labeled as. No L number. Just 'Chocolate Albino' which sounds more like a color morph than it's own subspecies. I know plecos can be tricky to ID so I asked the employee helping me if he had any idea the max size of this fish. When he pulled out his phone to look it...

So, when I first got back into the hobby I got a lovely 25 gal hex tank. (I love me an odd shaped tank) I had some angels in it because I figured the height of the tank would really work with them. The angels soon got a 125 gal because 'oh yes' they decided 'eggs even though we got no more...

So, after a bit of struggle with some water chemistry, I figured I'd managed to get a handle on it. So, I decided to try again to plant my 125 gal tank. I got some java fern, swords, and two lovely St. Elmo's Fire swords, and there were still a few disparate plants that somehow hung on through...

So, here's the dealio... I've been toying with the idea of getting a nice Mystery Snail for a while but I'm not sure if I should what with the tanks I've already got. The first tank I would think to put it in is my 35 Hex, the biggest problem with that one though, is that it has pond snails in...

So I just got a new pleco in my tank. L-137 for everyone who's savy to plecos... although I'll admit I've run into three different plecos under that number while looking it up. Blue Eyed Red Fin, Candy Stripe, and Violet Bruno... Is there a site where the official list of the L numbers are so I...

So, my last tank build thread isn't really done and that's for a very simple reason. My fish out grew it faster than I had anticipated and I didn't work fast enough to have it all set up just the way I wanted it. I'll still keep it but I might have to re-work it after I finish this move...

So, I've always been a bit less than impressed with snails as a general species. I never found them particularly attractive and my aunt had this one tank that was choked full of pest snails until it was pretty much ruined so that probably made me go Gah! Snails bad! But as I was searching for...

So, I've got some black skirt tetras some with long fins some with normal. The question I have is that before I turn on the light I notice that their skirts are really very black. But after not very much time at all (say thirty minutes or so) the black coloration is already fading out. I turn...

So, after losing all but one fish to Ich (this fish is now known as Ripley) I've decided to rebuild my main tank as a planted tank. Ripley is in another smaller tank with two new buddies since Ripley is in fact a tetra (a very stubborn tetra it seems) and I didn't want her alone in there. It...

it's another. Basically through a series of various unfortunate circumstances including but not limited to Ich and other fish illnesses I had to tear my whole tank apart. I figured this was the perfect time to switch over to a heavier planted aquarium rather than the few rinky dinky plants I had...

I've got a ten gallon tank that's still holding water but some of the interior silicone is peeling away. Should I just trim off the peeling part and not worry about it since it's still holding water? Or should I redo that seam? How difficult is it to repair/replace silicone? I've seen tubes of...

I think I might have an issue with the ratio of my female to male mollies. I wasn't aware of how to tell the difference between the two when I got my Gold Panda and my Creamsicle Lyretail Mollies. Upon noticing some slight differences in the fins I decided to look it up to see if it was a gender...

I've had Ich in old tanks before but never this bad and never with Plecos (which is what my question is about). I've got a 35 gal hexagon tank and have a 75 gal capacity filter on it. It's been set up for about seven or eight months now. I haven't tested the water quality today but at last...

Hello all, just coming to introduce myself. I've just restarted my foray into the freshwater fish aquarium world with a bigger and more interesting shaped tank (a 35 gal hexagon) and would love an easier place to get advice than the pet store. The closest actual aquarium specialty store is...