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Hello everyone, I’m finally back into having an aquarium again after 15 years. I used to post here a lot and I got some of the best advice I’ve ever received on the hobby from the users on here. One person in particular that went by the name of Rkilling1 was so incredibly helpful I’m hoping...

My tank has been doing very well for a long time, lots of plant growth, happy fish, happy snails and everything but last night my swordtail died which really sucked because he was the 'centerpiece' fish of the tank. I didn't give a whole lot of thought to it because I figured it was due to old...

I have some serious hair algae going on, I posted a while back about this and everyone was extremely helpful and told me to switch to dry ferts and when/how much to dose I ordered them and have been following a strict weekly schedule, this is the end of week one and I'm just wondering if my hair...

I have a cat that has a weird habit of drinking with her paws, she dips her paws in the water dish and then licks them, she is double pawed so she also gets lots of litter stuck in her paws and she makes an awful mess around the water bowl and by walking around with wet paws on my couch and...

I just received a ton of java moss, enough to pretty much cover the entire bottom of my tank so I laid it all down and spread it out and kinda pushed it to the gravel I am curious if this is a good idea, how does it grow? will it take over my other plants if it's around the bottoms of them? is...

I have two pieces of Ghostwood up for trade for any medium to high light plants I have lots of space to fill so i'm open to pretty much anything that's not too difficult to grow, I could use a few red plants lots of green and some ground cover too:)One piece is 22 inches and the other is 19...

I have two pieces of Ghostwood up for trade for any medium to high light plants I have lots of space to fill so i'm open to pretty much anything that's not too difficult to grow, I could use a few red plants lots of green and some ground cover too:)One piece is 22 inches and the other is 19...

I've heard about people trading plants and trimmings in the mail and it sounds like a good idea. My only question is its cold here now in MA so I’m not sure if that would matter much. My tank is a 20 gallon high and I have a 65 watt coralife light I'm not really sure what to ask for because I...

My tank has been doing pretty well since I last posted here I started dosing with seachem products (Florish,potassium.nitrate and phosporus) and I successfully switched from RO water to tap water using seachem Prime and it's working out fine. I have some issues though, some of my Java ferns are...

I've had my tank set up for quite a while now and everything is going ok but I'm a very sporadic person so I deiced to write a schedule for tank maintenance I'm going to write out a monthly plan for: Filter floss change water change trimming (if needed) dosing algae scraping c02 changing (...

My Cabomba caroliniana and Ceratophyllum demersum won't really stay up the Ceratophyllum demersum more so what is the cause of this? They are all falling over each other I’m not sure why it wasn't like this before My Rotala indica is doing fine and standing up straight so I don't know what’s...

For some reason my tank has become pretty cloudy the last week or so I've been keeping up with my water changes and washing out my filter media and my plants are doing fine as are my fish. The only thing I haven't been doing is adding Macro ferts but I ordered them and they should be in the...

I bought a "giant ahhnold" Java fern from http://www.azgardens.com/new_limited_plants.php and when it came it was really badly withered and falling apart, I put it in the tank and it's been about a month and nothing has happened so I decided to cut all the dead leaves off but now I’m afraid it...

I put plants my 20 gallon about a month ago and they have been doing good for the most part I have a few questions about some of them but I’ll save that until after. Here is a picture I just took: (I have lots of green algae on my glass and on my anubias but I just ordered some ottos from my...

I don't have anything to eat algae in my 20gallon high I don't really have any yet but I’m sure I will actually I already have a little bit of green stuff on my glass and rocks. So I need a clean up crew, what do you suggest for fish/snails what ever else for my size tank? I want to get some...

I made an order at AZ gardens about a week ago for: Java Moss Vesicularia dubyana-3 MicroSword Lilaeopsis brasiliensis-1 Marimo Ball Cladophora aegagropila-1 Java Fern Microsorum pteropus - 1 Lg 2 Sm Amazon Sword Echinodorus amazonicus -1 Anubias Barteri -1 Anubias Coffeefolia-1 Anubias Nana-1...

I started pumping in my c02 on Monday, it's two 2 liter bottles and I was getting a little over 1 bubble a sec, I used 2 cups of sugar, 1/2 tsp of yeast and it has been constant since then, until today. Today it going really slow, I’m not sure how slow exactly but it's weird, it's a burst of...

I just got my stuff today and I took out about half of the gravel I had in my 20 gallon to replace it with florite. I risked it off before adding it to the tank but it didn't matter, my tank is now pretty much pitch black! You cant see your hand in the tank more then 3 inches back, I have a...

I just finished building my DIY c02 with 2-2 liter bottles a bubble counter/gas separator and diffuser I was just finishing the last bit of gluing when a thought crossed my mind, Wouldn't it make more sense to use 1-4 liter bottle instead of 2-2liters? That way you have fewer points where...

I decided that DIY c02 was too hard for me to do with out researching it and went ahead with buying the hagen c02 kit, apparently DYI c02 involves a soda bottle, airline tubing and a drill :oops: I already bought the hagen c02 kit so I was wondering if it would be allright to use the...

Well after doing lots and lots of researching I finally ordered all my supplies and plants. I have a 20 gallon high with a penguin 200 and a small low flow aqua clear (for bio balls only) So here’s what I ordered: Corallife Single Compact Fluorescent Light(24")65 watt Aqualight Adjustable...

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=9871&N=2004+113345 Or http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=11418&ref=3969&cm_mmc=LiveAquaria_DFS_Links-_-Fish_Supplies-_-LiveAquaria_Gen_Page-_-Lighting&subref=AA&N=2004+113345 it's for a 20gallon high...

I have two hoods on my tank and I just bought 2 new bulbs for my 20 gallon tall http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=12763&ref=3969&cm_mmc=LiveAquaria_DFS_Links-_-Fish_Supplies-_-LiveAquaria_Gen_Page-_-Lighting&subref=AA&N=2004+113350 And...

This is an off-shoot of another thread here: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=84695 Basically once I get my PH back down to normal I would like to replace the fake plants in my tank with all live ones but I have never done this before and don't know anything about it. I'm in...

I want to make my tank perfect and have interesting fish and a great habitat and it to be really clean. It just seems that there is always something with it, right now my PH is really really high (see other post) and I'm pretty sure that I’ll lose my remaining fish in the process of lowering...