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An amazing tank, you and the tank are both a great inspiration! Great job!

First I want to say thanks for the advice... extremely helpful!   Ok, so I've done some more accurate temperature searching and the house is around 75 during the summer (where no heating will be needed) and 67 during the winter (where heating will be needed).   I was thinking a Bristlenose...

Well, I have been thinking about it some, and I have a big summer project planned. I have a 55g tank and a 10g tank, which you guys may or may not know. I got these tanks when I started fish keeping and have not gotten another tank since then. Many things have changed in the tank since then, and...

    Just wondering, what's the name of this fish store?

  No it's not. Plus I wouldn't recommend keeping a livebearer with those other fish, since from what I've heard, livebearers like higher pH's, while corries and tetras (again depends on type) prefer lower pH's.

comocrayfish, they don't need teeth, similar to how they can get a piece of a flake without teeth.   However, your plants would be very easy to tear then, maybe you should try and get harder to tear plants so they can not tear it.

Yanks gave you good advice. Look for Silk plants. Also be careful not  to get plants with limestone bases, because the bases can "dissolve" in the water drastically increasing your pH

That stinks. Thanks for letting us know.

I have the recommendation of 1 male guppy in a 3g tank. I would then remove a betta from the 3g, and put it in the 5g area. (Some people say three is fine, but I believe at least 5) You may want to also put the recommended temperatures, for example, cold water or warm water since people getting...

I believe in keeping it to the max. There are very few filters which will result in you having too much flow through your tank, and unless your having too much flow (which I can't tell through your numbers), more flow is always better in my opinion.

  It was covered that they were being moved to friends/family, however, I was questioning whether his friends/family would have proper setups since my experience is most people when first starting to care for fish (no experience level was mentioned but I was assuming they weren't all experts)...

If you have not cycled it, then yes it will be unsafe. Who was giving you the advise? I recommend daily water changes with a liquid test kit. And exactly what liquids did you put in? Some plants will help and then you need to wait it out, which is why water changes are so useful. Test twice a...

  Lol sorry for the confusion. I would go with sand, because yes it's a little bit extra effort, but when you get the final look it looks so much nicer ;) .

Sucker fish would out grow your tank, and I think your talking about pleco because Chinese Algae Eaters prefer colder water from what I've heard. What do you plan on doing with your fry, they will need a 29g+ tank eventually. However, you could try some shrimp that could eat some leftover...

I believe in sticking with tap water because I know it's safe, since it's the same water we're given as drinking water. If it were unsafe to drink then they wouldn't give it to us because there would be some major law suits. I don't know the quality of rain water, however, if you have something...