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Á la this guy NGL if I was the president I’d do stuff like that in the white house

Happy Birthday!!!!🎁🎉🎊🎂

Been thinking about what to feed the fish when they come… I’m the community I feed bug bites bottom feeder formula (usually crushed up) and occasional repashy. Would pencils/neons/a pistols go for the same bug bites or would a different food be preferable? I have some normal floating flakes that...

That’s good to know! I’ll have to research them.

I hadn’t heard of hoplos until now, they look so cute! It’s like a loach-shaped catfish. What tank are you planning to put him in? My vote personally is for the rainbows, they’re really cool fish. And it seems like you keep coming back to them! I’d love to keep some someday. My LFS had a TON in...

There’s a homeless man near my house who’s been making woven stick art at the street corner. Contemplating buying a piece from him for my new tank 🤔

I remember hearing a quote: “The hard thing about being a Galileo isn’t ‘standing against the majority opinion’; it’s ‘actually having a better theory’.”

Beeg snails

Oh gosh 😂

Yeah I think most Americans can at least visualize metric measurements even if they aren’t the standard. The go-to for small lengths is still the inch, but I hear “millimeters” probably more often than fractions of an inch. Meters are easy cause they’re about the same as a yard, which is just 3...

I’m curious: do YOU pronounce “betta” with a short e (like “better”) or a long e (like the Greek letter beta or the word “bay”)

Welcome to the forum! We’d love to see pictures of your tanks.

The pictures you’ve sent show barely any algae at all. Definitely not worth getting a new fish to solve. If it’s bothering you that much, I would just pull it off by hand. Never get a fish to do an aquarists’ job. So called “algae eating” fish are wonderful fish to keep, but will not keep your...

Looks like it from a quick test on my part. Why were we not able to search three-letter words before? I guess I never noticed that limit.

I had heard of pika but didn’t realize they were native to North America! So cute! I think I was getting them mixed up with hyraxes (another “not-rabbit”, native the Middle East)

Looks like normal hair algae to me.

If I was gonna keep a large tank I think, rather than keep huge fish, I’d rather be able to have a huge environment for normal sized fish. Get to see real schooling behavior, or have dwarf cichlids where their “territory” is actually a small territory rather than taking up the whole tank.

Was eying the different tank sizes while I was at the stores the other day. I’d love to have a larger tank one day. 33 long was cool because it just looked my two 20s connected into one tank. 40 breeder is also nice. Then I see a tank that’s the length of the 33 but height of the 40 and I think...

Thanks, it looks great from a full tank shot but up close I can still see all the little bubbles underneath and it’s driving me crazy. Been over it with a credit card but those things are tough. Thanks, much appreciated! Dad said if I get a nice store discount, he might start up a saltwater...

Just went on a fish store trip + progress on my South American tank! First fish store was a local one I hadn’t been to before, but heard good things about. They had a really cool variety of less common freshwater fish, incl. golden wonder killies,knight gobies (which I’ve never heard of before...

Your Walmart sold aquarium fish? Or am I missing something

Not much new. Added some oak leaves from my backyard to see if they would add tannins. I avoided bird poop and rinsed them off in hot water before adding. I don’t see any tannins or industrial yet but they did go from floating to sinking so I guess they’re doing something. @GaryE —...

I transferred the remaining plants back to my other tank and they promptly died anyway :flushem: I was planning to get different species of floaters for this tank anyway, it just would’ve been a plus if I could get those to grow

Always phone.

Your fish are beautiful! My face literally lit up looking at these

I don’t think you could keep a horse, farm, or work animal in one of those.

Still having second thoughts abt pair vs single- would it be that bad if I just had the pair but let them eat their babies?

Are those dragon tongue beans? I don’t know anything about growing them in a fish tank but they sure are tasty 👅

If both that died looked “pregnant”, it could possibly be worms

Yeah, I was always intending to get a real light. I was just hoping I get get a head start with plants since the tank was gonna be sitting for two weeks.

Outside the scope of the issue right now lol. My plants do fine in my established tank, just trying to get them to grow in this brand-new tank with no fish, no heater, and no light yet. My water is also very soft already so I don’t know that will ever need R/O.

It’s a 20 long. I don’t know the specs of the light because it’s just a desk lamp I’ve had forever. It’s an LED light. I try to keep it on about 8 hours a day. My room light is also on all day so the plants are rarely actually in the dark. The lamp and the sad remnants of my floating plants

I should’ve clarified that I also left a piece of sponge from the old filter in the tank.

So as y’all know I’m setting up a second tank. I got the tank, substrate, sponge filter, and water (dechlorinated) set up about 3 weeks ago, but refrained from adding anything else just yet because I had to be away from home the past two weeks. My plan was to insta-cycle the tank once I had fish...