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If your Betta is harassing the Pleco they can become defensive. Bristlenose pleco’s have spines they can flare out near their gills if they feel threatened or crowded. Typically they are used in the wild to keep other pleco’s away. If your Betta is nipping or chasing your pleco he may well be...

Love Tex. Making me really want that black orchid Betta I saw. Bwahahaha.

That was quick. Love it!

Welcome to the forums! :hi:

I’m excited. If you use them with your shrimp let me know if they seem to like them. I’m looking to get some shrimp eventually.

I think that’s green hair algae but I could be wrong.

I’m about to try them in my quarantine tank. There’s no fish in there and I got 60 for pretty cheap so I figured I’d see how they work. Supposedly they lower the ph a little bit “supposedly” wood does and I’ve never seen it actually happen so I’ll test it out. They release tannins in the water...

Ha ha! I’ve been eyeing a black orchid at my lfs for some time. He’s gorgeous, but I already have three tanks up and all of them are still undergoing some aesthetic changes, even my quarantine tank. But if you already have a tank... and all your tanks are great... I don’t see why you haven’t...

Have you ever used alder cones?

Ha ha! Almost. I feel like pleco’s are kind of smart fish, for fish. Mines definitely used to my routine. He will come stare at me when it’s wafer time and he always looks in the spot I normally drop them first. Sometimes I throw him off and drop it somewhere new. It’s entertaining watching him...

What’s your favorite aquatic plant and why?

I’ve always read up to 12 years for BN pleco’s with some exceeding that. O.O

I’d love if my walls were like that third picture. Although I’d never leave my house. Beautiful pictures.

Which freshwater fish is your least favorite and why?

I like to figure out personalities/sex before I name my fish, but you could go with something neutral or that ties in with the names of your other inhabitants?

Ted Bundy loved VW Beetles. >.>

Pretty sure my pleco Plucky has trained the Corys to bring his wafer to him. :rofl:

Have you added any fish recently? A long time ago I had a few mollies that got weird bent spines, curved like a u looking from above and I never did know for sure what happened and they would straighten out a little and then go back to the u and so forth. One of them swam really oddly. I did...

Another reason to love fall! Ha ha.

Are you sure? Have you tried standing on them? :rofl:

Congrats on your BN pleco. I love mine. I’ve never seen any under 4-5” matured so if there is a dwarf or Pygmy variety that’s something new to me. Very cool.

There are a lot of cheap fish tanks listed locally for a multitude of reasons that may suit your desires better in the long run. I was extremely lucky not too long ago with a Facebook listing on a local sale page and was able to get two filters, one a sunsun canister hw304b, a stand, a 48.5” x...

Yikes... Did not know they were so slow. Good to know. That would take awhile.

I use fertilizer in one of my tanks but only because my water is so soft and lacking in nutrients - I have needier plants in my 75 gallon that get holes in their leaves due to deficiencies if I don’t use fertilizer. Two of my three tanks I don’t use fertilizer because the plants in those tanks...

Thor is gorgeous. Beautiful Betta’s. Hope that Odin starts eating soon.

Has anyone ever used chlorine remover filters on the faucet connected to the python? They’re only about $30 so was wondering if anyone has used them before? Something like the photos attached. Just curious.

Will the catfish competition include pleco’s and Corys?

Congratulations Briggan. Truly magnificent looking Betta!

I am so happy that you got your sand in. Corys are so fun to watch as they sift through sand.

Put aquaclear 70 on tank as marineland 350b started making a periodic horrible sound and I already tried cleaning out propeller and messing with the j intake hook among other things with no success. I’m still keeping the marineland 350b on the tank as I don’t want to remove any good bacteria and...

I’ve heard of Gouramis turning back when they mature and are in the mood to breed. I don’t know how much of that is true but something I once heard. Hopefully someone who has experience with Gouramis can tell you if that’s true or what’s going on.

Whenever adding fish or on a newly completed cycle I still test water every day for the first week for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and then if everything maintains for that first week I switch to once a week for the first month and then do it once a month after. I don’t test ph, gh, kh unless...

Oh I missed the purple flower bwahahaha. Pretty cool. Hi and welcome to the forums!

Looks like a California orange poppy.

I feel the same way. I can stare at my fish for hours and my husband always asks how I can do that. But when my BN pleco comes out at night it’s a different story. My husband gets super excited and begins narrating what Plucky is thinking and doing. It’s ridiculous. “Oh yay it’s night time! Time...

I don’t have any angel fish but I’d love to see people’s angel fish if their are enough people to compete. I love these species specific competitions. :good:

It kind of looks like a panda Cory, but I’ve never seen one with three stripes. I’ve only seen them with one over the eyes and one by their tail. It’s really pretty whatever it is.