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I just cleaned the tank yesterday and he's already made a new bubblenest!

There definitely is reflection if the light is on.... He was bought in a cup, right inside Petsmart near the door, so the water was prolly pretty cold. The water in the tank now is about 72 degrees F, according to the thermometer on the side. I don't know how accurate those are though...

We just got a betta that we put in a 2 1/2 gallon tank with no filter or heater. (We just had a filter and heater in there with the previous betta, and the betta kept wrapping himself around the bottom of the filter and I think that's what killed him--his fins were all ripped.) There are rocks...

Does it matter if you mix brands of declorinator? Like, for the last few years or so I've used a generic brand for my tank because it's worked really well for us but I couldn't find it today when I changed the water so I used Aquasafe. Do you think it matters?

I have a large gravel vaccuum for my 44 gallon tank and it's growing mold inside the long, thin part of the tube. Is there any way to clean that out? Does it matter? Should I just buy a new one?

I have a biowheel for both tanks and it's definitely cross contamination. I moved a plant from the 10 gallon into the 44 gallon before I saw any signs of ich, because it had outgrown the 10 gallon. Yeah, I'm an idiot. You don't have to tell me. :blink:

I wasn't too worried about my puny 10 gallon 2 month old tank with cheapo fish. But now the fish from my large tank have ich! Just the kissing gourami so far, and I bought quick cure to put in the tank. My only question is it says to take out the carbon and I don't understand how to do that. I...

So I should just euthanize the poor suckers and let the ich die from lack of hosts, eh?

I don't know much about my water parameters because I don't have a testing kit of my own. I took the water to Petsmart tonight and they told me the pH was high but that was all. This is a relatively new tank, only 2 months old. I only let it go a week or so before I put fish in and I started...

I'm beginning to hate platies too. I just got 3, and I've never seen fish poop as much as those guys. EVERY time I look at them, they're pooping. :huh:

Can you add sand while there a fish in the tank?

Alright, so tonight I went out to buy a honey gourami and I came home with 3 platys and 2 black skirt tetras. Can I still put a honey gourami in anyway?

My sharks did the same thing and nothing came of it.

I don't really like them much either but the hubby does.

They just got old. They were between 3 and 5 years old and the last one lived a lot longer than I thought he would, because everything was going great until he decided to pick on the bigger fish and they decided the set him straight. Bye-bye Barbies. :byebye:

Where did you get such nice rocks? Just found them outside?

I was considering getting a betta only I wanted more than one fish, and I was under the impression bettas could really only be by themselves or with a small frog of some sort. I just read that some good tank mates would be dwarf gouramis, head & tail lite tetras, moons, mollies, catfish, or a...

I didn't know if I should make a new thread for this, but does anyone know where I can buy rocks that look natural? At the pet stores around here, they only have brightly colored castles and lil fishing signs and whatnot. Although, now there's so many plants in my tank there's barely any room...

And he is cute. Here he is lounging on my daughter's Care Bear couch. :P

Is it just me or do platys look a lot like swordtails, minus the sword tail?

Ooh, I just read sword tails shouldn't be kept in anything less than a 15 gallon. :( Will small gouramis be ok in a 10 gallon? We've nixed the neon tetra idea already. Also, if I have gouramis, will they eat live plants because I was kind of hoping to try my hand at a planted tank. I figured...

I have a kissing gourami in my 44 gallon tank and it's been there since the beginning--of all the fish I've had, those seem to be the easiest to keep for me. That and my gorgeous parrot fish who eats out of my hand. :wub: I think it would be neat to have baby fish...never had that before...

For our 10 gallon, which we just got, I wanted to put some small fish in it, like some guppies and maybe a few swordtails. My husband wants neon tetras. So, how many neon tetras do you think I can keep in a 10 gallon tank by themselves? Are there any good tank mates for neon tetras? We're...

I bought a 10 gallon tank for some small fish, and I was planning to put it on top of my dresser, because it's a thick, sturdy wood, but I read never to do that. I've seen other people do it though, and they said they haven't had any problems. Should I risk it, or spend the money for a stand?

I just have a typical blood parrot fish, like the one pictured in the stickied thread. I've had him for about 3 years and he doesn't seem to be growing at all. I've been feeding him TetraColor Tropical Flakes (Natural Color Enhancer) and occassionally bloodworms. He's in a 44 gallon corner tank...

I went to the store today and we've decided on a 28 gallon bow front tank. I noticed some more fish I was thinking might do ok with a betta, but now I'm thinking twice about it. What do you think about fancy guppies with a betta?

I'm planning to get a 20 gallon tank specifically for a betta, some neons and maybe a small gourami. You think that would work? Also, do I need to cycle the tank before putting in live plants? I figured the plants HELPED with the cycling but my husband said they would probably die if I just...

I could have sworn somewhere on this site I saw a section of books that were highly recommended...if there is, could you link me? if not, do you have any suggestions? *freshwater*

Sinuhe, where is your avatar from? I like it! ^_^

I'm just planning on taking my fish from my current tank to put in there, because they're finally growing. 2 bala sharks and a parrot fish and a kissing gourami. I might get some tiger barbs for it too.

I've been wanting to get a bigger tank for my fish (they need it) and I was thinking about a 75 gallon tank, but I was wondering what kind of filtration system a tank that big would require. At our lfs, they sell an external "cylinder" filter with tanks 75 and above. What do you think?

I went to the fish store today, and the clerk asked me if I had fish and I said yes, but that I didn't use aquarium salt (because there were a ton of signs everywhere saying that freshwater fish do well with aquarium salt) and he kind of got snotty with me and told me that whoever told me they...

Do you think if I added another bubble maker it would help? I've tried live plants but I don't really like them because the fish like to pull them out of the pebbles and then they just float all over the tank, and I have to fix them every day.

I don't know, I don't even know how to test that... :*) Oh, and the catfish is a pictus catfish.

When I started my tank, I knew nothing about fish, I just wanted the pretty ones. I bought them at PETSMART (yeah yeah) and actually didn't have many problems with them, so I thought it was all good. I started researching tropical fish when I decided to get more, to find out what ones would be...