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Welcome to the forum. Everyone has already given you great advice. Are you using a water conditioner? (This removes chlorine making the water safe for you betta.) How often are you doing water changes? Due to ammonia and or nitrite poisoning, (which is common in new aquariums), you will need to...

Welcome to the forum. If the tank is empty then do a 100% water change, and if you have fish in it, then do 60% to 70% every couple of days. You may have to do this a few times until the smell clears up. I have had this happen to me, but I can't say it is the same problem you have, because I use...

Black Zebra Lace Veiltail Angelfish are beautiful. I'm not sure what mine is called, but they are Veiltail.

I think that pretty much any type of lighting works well for growing plants. I believe where the problem comes into for growing aquarium plants is that some species need CO2 injection. Light needs to penetrate water depth and cover a sufficient area of the bottom of the tank for plants. Judge...

Thank you for the laugh......:rofl: You jumped feet first into MTS......Beautiful tanks.

Talk about instant MTS, very nice I have seen the pictures you posted of your tanks on your other thread.

Beautiful setups, thank you for sharing them with us. Stick around in the future and enter one in the Tank of the Month.

Hi, there fellow Texan, order you one-off Amazon, there are plenty of styles to choose from. I ordered the Aquatic Fundamentals AMZ-102101 Aquarium Stand 10 Gallon Black and I like it. Or you can build your own out of two-by-fours and cinder blocks.

Welcome to the forum. I am sorry to hear this happening to your angelfish. This is called Furunculosis: Hole in the Side Disease, click on the name for the link to a webpage telling all you need to know about this, how to prevent it, and how to treat it.

First, what are your water parameters, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate? How long has your aquarium been setup, is it a new setup? How often do you do water changes? How long have you had your honey gourami and where did you purchase him? Stringy white poop can be a symptom of several problems, a...

Don't know about everyone else in the world, but last night at 2 am here in the States time jumped forward an hour. So don't forget to reset your clocks.

Youtube is your friend when learning about aquariums, I have spent hours and days on youtube watching videos and still do today.

Your welcome, most important is to be patient with yourself, you're just starting to learn. We are always here to help.

Welcome to the forum. A five-gallon tank is not good for much, so be careful and don't overstock. You should really look into nano fish species, there are several out there. I don't believe in a male Betta in anything less than a ten-gallon, but many do use a five-gallon for a betta. If you want...

Welcome to the forum. Do not add any more fish until your aquarium has finished its cycle and the beneficial bacteria has matured enough to take on the load. As a matter you need to get rid of some of the fish you have now, more about that below. Don't stress yourself out because we have all...

Hey don't feel bad because three times I flooded my floors refilling my tanks after doing water changes. The moral of the story, while refilling an aquarium don't take your eyes off it, and don't allow anything to distract you.

LOL obscured it is... :lol: I had the background custom made to fit my aquarium. I found the picture on the internet, emailed it to a printing company giving them the exact dimensions I needed. The printed company printed the image on vinyl the same stuff used to make outside signs. It is pretty...

This thread just made my day, lol. Go out to eat at a seafood restaurant wearing these. Eat fish at the restaurant. Then go to the bathroom and change the earrings after you have eaten. Walk out of the restaurant wearing these.

Welcome to the forum. One thing about backgrounds and planted tanks. If your planted tank turns out like mine then the background will be mute. Here are a couple of pictures of my 55-gallon one showing the background before I started setting up the tank. The second picture is several months...

Wow how can a bacteria like that be stopped or prevented?

I think Sky is in a small amount of shock and confusion being in a new home. Anyone can correct me if I am mistaken, but most Bettas like Sky and Max bought through an LFS have spent their entire lives inside a small space. When they finally reach their forever home, it can be a bit of a shock...

Ok thanks but would Melafix help stop bacteria infection before it got so bad as to eat through a fish's body, the first time a bacteria infection is suspected.

Like the comment before he has had good luck with tetras and Angels, but it is a hit or miss and mostly miss. Angels get large, I started out with ten Red Eyed Tetras and they get pretty big, with two small Angels. A few months later the Angels are huge and I keep losing Red Eyed Tetras, I see...

Congrats on your new Betta, he looks like he has lots of personality. Max is still very young and very small when I got him, he is growing but his color seems to be the same. If anything else Max's color has gotten deeper, I think it is because he is happy in his new home. Keep us up on how Sky...

@Colin_T Do think Melafix will work to stop bacterial infections like the one @heavenlydi 's fish has. I know it is too late for the dwarf gourami, but to help something like this before it gets too bad in the future.

Thank You, Here is the link to a thread I have about Max, it is an old thread now, and he had grown a bit since then....Max the Betta

I bought Max a few months ago from the Petsmart nearest me. The water in the cups was so murky I could barely see the Bettas. Max was the most expensive of all of the Bettas there that day because he is a double tail butterfly betta. So I was taking a chance since the water looked so bad. But he...

Did the worm that you found look like the one shown in the picture you posted?

I don't have any friends, I find they cost too much.

So sorry about your dwarf gourami, but that looks really bad to me. That looks like a parasite of some type and not poop. I tried looking this up on the internet but failed to find anything that comes close. I did find a different post here on this forum along the same lines but person's dwarf...

I use my computer with Windows 7 and Firefox. I get two different responses when I click on Blue Button New Posts and the What's New tab. But it is not a big deal.

You should set up a hospital quarantine tank. You can do this with a clean plastic tote, a heater, and an air stone with an air pump. Take the sick fish out of your community tank, putting them in the tote for medications. Lightly medicate the tank, then increase the medications as needed. While...

The poor guy looks very stressed and tired. A 2.5-gallon tank is not good for much, maybe a snail. Betta's for a fish, have higher intelligence. This is the reason they can get stressed, but they are also very hardy. I still wonder why they are kept in small cups at the lfs. This gives people...

I never was a bicycle rider, but I road motorcycles for years, and have had a few near misses. I learned to watch what I was doing, but also watch what other people were doing. I did have something strange happen when I was pulling a heavy trailer behind my pickup truck. When pulling a heavy...

When you are sure the tank is completely cycled, this can take a few weeks. Then start with a few fish, don't add too many fish all at one time. Your beneficial bacteria have to grow to adjust for the fish you add, that is why you add the fish slowly.

Bacteria Bloom as others has already said. I have this happen everything I set up a new tank, nothing to worry about.