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Still no luck. Gonna try the local mom and pop fish store tomorrow.

Hey guys- I have 4 mature black skirt tetras, 1 otocinclus, and 1 sterbai cory that I need to find a new home for ASAP. I'd like for them to go to a good home as I have to move out of the LA area next week!!!! I will GIVE them to anyone who can take them in addition my setup includes: 20...

Cories don't have scales and can't tolerate some types of medications, did you make sure whatever you used was for sensitive fish and more specifically cories?

Well just for fun when I was doing my water change today I took out the activated carbon in both my filters and added a 3/4 dose of Tetra AlgaeControl within 2 hours the water was CRYSTAL clear. It says I can do another does in 3 days up to 3 total doses if the algae comes back at all. After...

I have sand substrate and I've cleaned that as best I can. The tank has actually been here before so it's not the water. I just moved it to my sisters while I was away for a few months and brought it back when I came back. It's not the glass as the water I take out has a tinge.

Hey Guys, I haven't really posted in several months as I have been away from my tank since May, needless to say it's good to be back. I have a 20 long well planted tank with a Biowheel 150, fluorite black sand substrate, 64w Nova t5 extreme light. I moved the tank a week and a half ago (and...

Okay first of all I'm going to be switching from a 10 to a 20 long, I have lots of live plants in my 10 and I wanna switch from rock substrate to sand since I just got some Cory's. I want tahitian moon sand and then some kind of bottom substrate for the plants, what should I get and how many lbs...

So I just upgraded the filter in my 10g from the whisper 5-15 that came with it to to a Bio-Wheel Penguin 150. There are two advantages to this: 1) the bio wheel will filter the tank 15 times per hour verses 10 times per hour. 2) I plan on upgrading to a 20 gallon soon and this filter should...

I have a 10g fully cycled, well planted (10 or so live plants) tank. It currently is home to 5 black skirt tetras until I get a 20g this summer. Everything is going pretty smoothly and all the fish are happy and healthy, water parameters are good. I have it set up to mimic my Black Tetra's...

I have a 5-15 Whisper power filter and I was wondering what I can do to improve the performance of the that filter? Specifically in terms of adding more carbon to remove discoloration. I red somewhere a quick DIY tutorial on this exact process, something like opening up the pouch and stuffing in...

Hey guys I currently have a 10 gallon fully cycled with 5 black skirt tetras, well planted. It gets a lot of sunlight due to it's location my room and lately I've noticed brown algae forming on the walls of the tank. It doesn't really bother me as I know it's natural but I'm wondering what if...

Alright I'll do a 25-30% water change today. Would it be worth it to purchase another does of bio-spira?

Won't reducing the amount of Nitrite in the water hinder the cycle? Don't the bacteria need it? It's been level for 3 days now so I am expecting it to slowly start to come down and the nitrates should start to increase indicating the cycle is complete. I know the batch of BioSpira was good...

Hello- I don't know if you remember but several weeks ago I posted a thread about Black Skirt Tetras: My previous post. I hope you don't mind if I ask you a few more related questions: Both fish survived the break just fine and I've since added two live plants to my 10g tank and 3 more...

Bump. Anybody? Maybe I should post this in the main forums rather than species specific. That forum seems to get more hits.

Hello- I don't know if you remember but several weeks ago I posted a thread about Black Skirt Tetras: My previous post. I hope you don't mind if I ask you a few more related questions: Both fish survived the break just fine and I've since added two live plants to my 10g tank and 3 more...

I have a 10g tank that was semi-established. I added 1/2 a dose of bio-spira (IE the amount for a 15g tank) to mine about 24 hours ago. I've been feeding my fish a little extra to make sure ammonia is present so the bacteria can thrive. My only question is how long should I wait to do a water...

I'm running a 10 gallon tank (I know it's too small) and I currently have 2 Black Skirt Tetras in it. (That's all). Anyways one of the tetras is very social and active and commonly stays in the middle of the tank and just swims around. The other tetra is a little bit smaller and commonly finds...