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That's true with some species of snail. The nerite snail can't breed in the home aquarium as the eggs need brackish water to hatch. Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk

I can't help you as I don't have experience. Most likely people will ask for your GH and KH as these parameters are crucial for fish health, if you supply those and maybe pictures of the fish that will probably help you get an answer faster. Jordan Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk

That sounds very ominous..... Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk

If that's the case I'll be able to confirm whether it's a Echinodurus or not on Thursday. The reason I'll be able to confirm is that I'm adding three Bristlenose pleco to the tank on Thursday. They are well known for eating sword plants, or so I hear. Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk

Here's the thread discussing corydoras poisoning themselves: http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?threads/446773/ I think the large take away from that thread is to transport corydoras the way Byron does and possibly ask the LFS to bag them separately or in groups of 2-3 (depends how many you...

Yeah, I agree with what you're saying. I did a little bit more research, the answers to my question are very mixed but it seems shrimp only survive if they have somewhere inaccessible to the crawfish. Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk

Well, I guess I really need to wait and see if it flowers. Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk

This plant has continued to grow at an alarming rate of about a leaf (sometimes two) per day. I think it looks very similar to aponogeton crispus. I may have to rethink it's placement, right now it makes a nice focal point but if it is aponogeton crispus it's going to get much larger than it is...

While visiting one of my LFS yesterday I saw they had dwarf crayfish (labeled as "small lobsters" lol). I was wondering if these get along with shrimp, tetras, Corys etc? I know their larger cousin the crayfish will kill said fish occasionally. Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk

I read somewhere (can't seem to source it atm, will try when I get home) that it does help heal tissue damage in fish. If I remember correctly the group of fish that were given stress coat plus regenerated tissue faster than fish left on clean water. If I remember correctly this test was NOT...

Going to try and find relatively full grown bn. That way I can get 1 male and two females. As for the Kuhlis, can you give me a slightly more in depth explanation to why they will suffer? Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk

I have a 60 gallon tank with a footprint of 100 x 43cm (height is 57cm). I intend to stock 8 kuhli loaches, 3 Bristlenose pleco and 18 Corys. As well as a school of 24 red or black phantom tetras. My water parameters suit these fish at 8 dGh, 15 KH and Ph of 7.2-7.6 (hard to tell with the test...

Good to know, the outtake is about 2 inches under the surface of the water. Seeing as I have a canister filter and this is a 60 Gallon aquarium, a sponge filter won't cut it. The tank has lots of spider wood and plenty of places for the Kuhli's to hide. Tank bottom is 100 x 43 cm so plenty of...

After just setting up my tank I had some brown diatome algae growing on a Anubias Bonzai that I was, unsuccessfully, cleaning manually. After about a week I added Neocaridina heteropoda "wild". Cherry shrimp were originally bred from these, that said, I'm not sure if Cherries will eat the same...

I bought about twenty juvenile Neocaridina heteropoda "wild". Today I did my tank maintenance, while cleaning the filter I found about 8 shrimp between 0.5 - 1 cm long. I got them all out and put them into the tank. Seeing as they were all alive and at the bottom of the filter they must have...

Thank you for all the replies! I understand the biggest contenders are Barclaya longifolia and Aponogeton sp. I looked up pictures of Barclaya longifolia and it seems similar except that the leaves are slightly wavier (if that makes sense) and straight whilst the leave on the plant in question...

Here are a few more pictures of the bulb. Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk

It would seem the plant on the wood is DBT, I was told in the store that it can thrive without CO2 or very strong lighting. Is this correct?

I'll compare images on google in a moment. I have to disagree with you on the amazon sword part, the bottom is a bulb without a doubt, I planted it yesterday so tomorrow I'll pull it out of the tank and show you guys a picture of the bulb. The closest image I found on the internet was that of an...

Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk Edit: Lower lighting atm as I turned on one of the 4 lights for the picture, the 8 hour photo period I supply my plants with is over for today.

Not an Amazon sword, the black thing protruding from the surface is a bulb. Will add a few more pictures in a minute.

So I bought these two plants yesterday and one was advertised as an aquarium lily but now I'm not so sure about that anymore. The other one I simply have no idea what it's called. The image of the plant in the sand is supposed to be a sort of aquarium lily, it simply doesn't look like any...

Very informative! When you say bag Cory's separately do I request from the LFS each fish be put in a separate bag? Something tells me not all LFS will be to pleased with that. Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk

Not that I'm an expert by any means, maybe it's sperm? Not sure how shrimp breed though.

I was watching a lecture by a corydoras breeder (linked below), in the lecture he mentions that corydoras produce some sort of toxin from a gland near their fins when scared. This leads them to dying. In his lecture he recommends putting them in a bucket and scaring the daylights out of them...

I actually got 3 small floating water lettuce today with the other plants on accident, I'l lleave them in until I can get my hands on some Brazilian Pennywort, the hairgrass has 100% begun to spread as there are little green tufts of it coming up between the places I planted it. Thanks for the...

Well I bought into the whole "Pest snails are good!" argument. When I planted my tank I left all the pest snails (which were pond snails). I did this because as mentioned earlier here snails will only grow as much as you feed them, so as long as I don't over feed the population will stay in...

I decided to cycle my tank using the "Silent cycle" method, for those who don't now, that's cycling with plants. I added 2 pots of Anubias nana, 1 pot of a strange moss like plant that I know not the name (Will add a picture tomorrow), 2 pots of Vallisneria, 1 pot of bacopa, 1 Dwarf Aquarium...

No I didn't take that into consideration, which makes my math flawed as well [emoji23]. I took into consideration that the amount of pollutant doesn't change. If the pollutant was produced at a rate in which 1 ppm was produced ever 24 hours than, referring to my first post, ten percent every day...

I claim not to be a fish expert. I'm a total beginner, haven't completely set up my first tank. Would just like to add that logically this is incorrect. For the sake of argument let's say you have 10 ppm of X pollutant in your water. If you remove ten percent of that water today you'll now...

Thanks for the reply. After reading your comment I have obtained more knowledge on angelfish (again thank you). It has also helped me reach the conclusion that angelfish won't work in my set up as my tank most definitely cannot support 12 angelfish as well as the fish mentioned in my OP. I find...

Hi there, I have a 250 lit tank (about 60 Gallons) that I intend to stock with 3 bristlenose plecos about 22 Red or Black phantom tetras and 18 Corys. I was wondering if I can stock Angel Fish with said fish? Assuming I can I would like to know how many should be kept together, what gender they...

Tomorrow I should have some Christmas moss arriving at my house with some other plants. I intend to tie it onto the spider wood in my tank but some branches are covered in a white fungus. I am aware this fungus is harmless and will go away on its own eventually. The question is can I tie moss...

Sorry for the bad quality, the original picture was 5MB but the site wouldn't let me upload it. Had to reduce the quality significantly. Now that you mention it, I'm almost positive that it is Dwarf Hairgrass because the Latin name Eleocharis parvula rings a huge bell from yesterday when I...

I tried play sand and pool filter sand, the main difference is you need to clean play sand. That can be a pain in the ass. Sent from my MX4 using Tapatalk

Went to my LFS today in order to buy some plants. Was looking for some Sagittaria subulata, Vallisneria Sublata, Anubias nana, Hydrocotyle leucocephala and Christmas moss. All that was in stock was the Anubias nana, I bought it and on impulse a carpeting grass I was told will work in low light...

I bought a second hand 65 Gallon tank, a Jebo filter and an air pump all for $115. Well a few days ago I was finally ready to set up the tank, bought everything I needed, had checked the tank and filter for leaks. Sadly the filter decided to kick the bucket between the time I last checked it and...

Yes I think reducing the phantoms to 20 and adding 15 of the N. marginatu would be nice. Thanks for all the help.

As a beginner I attest to that being true lol.