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It's good that you did a water change as you may be dealing with a water quality issue (hoping you used a water conditioner as well). Are you somewhere where you could get to a chain pet store or Walmart or local pet store to get a test kit or some strips? Always keep these on hand and test...

Welcome! Discus are amazing fish - I hope to get some myself someday. Can't wait to see photos of your project!

The water test kit (most people use API brand) is reusable. It comes with some glass test tubes and several bottles of test solution that measure ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, and pH. GH measures your water's hardness. Some fish do better in soft water, others in hard water. So if some of your...

Please post your water parameters (ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, GH, KH, pH and water temp). Do you do regular water changes? Have you done a change recently? If so did you add water conditioner? Anything else you can think of that happened recently that might help us troubleshoot for you...

My daughter has a tank in her bedroom so I have to have a QUIET filter on it. I went with the Aqueon QuietFlow initially because of the name and have to say it is the most inaccurately named product ever. I have found the Marina slim to be the best and most quiet filter I have used. It's a...

Do you have a water test kit? If not please get one as soon as you can. You want to be testing for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate on a regular basis since your tank isn't cycled. At the first trace of any ammonia or nitrite, you'll need to do a water change. Be sure new water is dechlorinated...

I am so glad all went well!

Bye, Jesse.

Just a couple of guesses as that's all we can do (cuz the pesky fish won't talk to us).... I'm guessing it's stress. Harlequin Rasboras prefer near neutral water so any swing - either acidic or alkaline is not ideal. Your pH is pretty high for them and for the betta. I do not have much...

I recently did this going from a 10g to a 20g in the same spot. First, I took a great deal of the water out of the 10g tank and left the fish in it to lighten up the tank. I then moved the 10g tank out of the way to make room for the 20g. I scooped out the substrate from the 10g and put in...

Do any of you use a diffuser with essential oils in the same room as an aquarium? I love diffusing in my home office and am in the process of setting up a new tank in here but I don't want to harm the fish. Granted it's a fine mist of essential oils and it wouldn't be right near the fish...

It looks like it could have been ammonia poisoning if it was at that level for an extended period of time. It may boil down to a water quality issue since you had .5 ammonia, some nitrite and nitrate is a bit high (although some would argue that level is not harmful). How often have you been...

For reference, the first photo is the high range pH test right out of my tap (I have a faucet filter to remove chlorine, etc). I'd call that an 8.2 - 8.3-ish. The second photo is my tank water - hard to tell from this photo but when I move the test tube around a bit the color is between 7.4...

My tap is about 8.2. I have been able to lower it to about a 7.8 with peat granules (Fluval brand). I fill up a 5 gallon container the day before I water change and have 2 cups of peat granules in a mesh bag soaking in the water for at least 24 hours. It gets the water down to about 7.6 to...

If your filter media dried out It could have killed off your beneficial bacteria leading to an ammonia spike. I'm assuming you used a water conditioner to dechlorinate the water when you filled back up. Was the water also temperature controlled? Do you have a heater in the tank? Any...

Male Betta with a long flowy tail?

Thank you, Donya. Please forgive my total ignorance on all things saltwater related, including terminology. I'm sure what I've seen in the LFS tanks is salt crust but I am very used to crystal clear tanks in the freshwater world.

Great to know! I'll be getting my corys in a few weeks and your horror story kept flashing through my mind! I was going to order from Aqua Huna but definitely had second thoughts once I saw your shipment. Good luck with your new babies!

I have been very happy with Aquarium Co-op. SUPER fast shipping and has great plants packaged well. I ordered recently from Buce Plants online and the plants came in a baggie with no moisture source. The plants were just literally in the baggie. This might be fine - maybe the plants will...

So I am fairly new to the aquarium hobby and have only dabbled in freshwater so far. I love the fish varieties and coral in saltwater tanks and have always been interested in starting a saltwater tank. One of the things I've noticed at my area LFS's is that all of the surfaces and equipment...

The light is pretty basic so make sure you are getting low light, easy beginner plants. Some of them don't need to be rooted in the soil like Java Fern - you attach to wood or rocks. So the lack of nutrients in the gravel isn't an issue (you'd use a liquid fertilizer if needed). Several...

Do you have any plants at all? She might be stressed from lack of plants? Just trying to throw out any ideas that might help. If you don't want live plants, you could get some silk ones instead of plastic. Keep us posted!

Beautiful tank and stand. Can't wait to see more!

Wow thanks for all the puffer knowledge! Little bit is kind of obsessed with Murphy's teeth, LOL. He sure is a cutie. Might not be something I can reasonably maintain at this stage of my fishkeeping life. I'll look into the smaller varieties listed above. Appreciate it!

That is really an interesting idea! But don't they get really big? Are there dwarf varieties? I guess I should read up on this as my daughter is obsessed with Murphy, the puffer in the Aquarium Co-op guy's videos.

Setting up my 2nd 20 gallon tank and might have the opportunity to set up a third shortly after (YAY!). Tank dimensions are 24" x 14" x 14". My water parameters are GH 25, KH 120, and pH between 7.8 and 8. What would your dream tank be in terms of livestock with this tank size and water params?

Can you please post more about your tank and water parameters? What else is in your tank livestock wise? Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, GH, pH, KH and water temperature. How often you do water changes and do you clean your gravel? What type of filtration do you use and is the tank heated -...

So what does everyone do for work to earn money to support their fish addiction? I work in marketing for a major tech company. It pays well enough to support an incurable case of MTS and I get to work from home and stare at fishies all day.

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I'm guessing it's either fin rot or the fins are being damaged by something in the tank. What decorations do you have in the tank? Plastic plants? Sharp decor? What other livestock is in the tank? Can you also post your water parameters (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, GH, KH, water...

Yay for a cycled tank! Can't wait to see your fancy goldfish! Have fun!

I've had this green glofish (skirt) tetra for about a month now. He's a long-tail variety. He's doing well but around Christmas I noticed that he had some spots on his tail fin. Some of the nice folks on this forum said it looked like excess mucous from an injury. I've been keeping an eye on...

Finally got around to putting this on YouTube so I could post the link. This is the paint mixer drill attachment agitating the sand. It made cleaning the sand go by really fast and my daughter had a great time with it. Sorry for the vertical video!

So, not sure yet. I don't have the tank filled up with water. Still playing around with the hardscape and waiting for plants to arrive. Right now I have the spider wood soaking in a bucket to get rid of some tannins and water log it (hopefully). But I am planning to glue and/or tie it down...

Whew.... glad you found him!

Is that (spirulina) the only thing you are feeding them? I think that's primarily algae and those tetras are not algae eaters. We have the same fish in my daughter's tank. They LOVE Tetra Color Flakes. It's their absolute favorite. I feed them those flakes once a day. For the second...