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I missed the 10 gallon part...... Yea....you need a.bigger tank for just the puffers. They like to roam.

Put a few in there with places they can set up shop. Then, every few months, shake things up by moving it around. They won't become too territorial and will cohabitate just fine. I got a peacock, krib and jewel cichlid in a tank with convict and they hang out together. They race and chase...

You guys are sure passionate about this cycle business. A couple small fish in a larger tank (larger than 5 gallons anyways), especially something like a molly, is not going to create enough waste to cause issues. It just isn't. Get your water tested. Sounds to me like poisoning. If...

Man.... Ok. This is something I have quite a bit of experience in. We don't need this kind of negativity in our lives. Ignore those.who are naysayers. They have not done it, because they have read something somewhere or for whatever reason..... I am here to tell you the truth! Currently...

Usually, unless you have a large fish that gulps them down whole, you'll find a skeleton somewhere in the substrate or under a decoration. I had a volcano thing in one of my tanks for a long while. When I first got into cories, I had a tank with like 8 khuli loaches in it. They ain't the...

Shrimp are, like stated, great scavengers. They will get enough to eat if they are hungry. Especially the small varieties. It's when you get into filter feeders that you have that worry. Even then, when ya see those guys pawing at the floor, you know there is a problem. Use flake food as...

You risk dropsy feeding them blood worms as a staple. I had to learn that the hard way. Feed them this, or some other aquatic frog food. You can also help them find it easier by feeding in the same spot every time. ADF's are pretty much blind. They can see, but, they find their food by...

Shrimp pellets.

1 male and 1 female and in the right conditions, which are wet fish, you'll have more mollies than you care to deal with in no time. I started with 1 each and easily still have 60 or so. Mostly fry right now. Small lil guys. A bunch of them died. They inbreed a lot. Not good for longevity...

Tie the plants to a big rock, and use that to anchor them into the substrate. Or, you could tuck the planted ones into corners that are difficult for the diggers to get into, and use some.decor to anchor them down, like tuck the roots under it in the substrate. Some species, it doesn't matter...

I wasn't sayin it was a bad idea. Just never known anyone brave enough to do it. Always thought I should try it myself one day, because I can usually get a hold of some pretty neat driftwood along the rivers where I am at. Solid stuff. Anything from big cool looking logs to small, twisted...

You guys just grabbing any old driftwood ya find and tossing it in your tanks? I always use malaysian drift wood. Stuff is robust. You could boil it for 3 days straight and not.ruin it. My pleco's love the stuff. They chew on it and it don't wear down very fast at all.

The main idea for boiling is 2 fold. First, it will kill the potential pathogens attached to the piece. Parasites, bacteria ect. This will also help the wood sink sooner, without the need to be weighted down. Sometimes, it floats. Second, it will pull out the tannins that will discolor your...

I lost an entire tank years back from a water change. Did a maybe 30% change, routine, and within an hour the fish were swimming all crazy, bouncing off everything. About 10 minutes of frantic panic, they were still. Entire tank. Nothing changed from any other change we were doing back then...

We are overthinking again. 75% water? Maybe the surface. Haha. 5th grade science will demonstrate this. Confounding by comparing habits of maint to nature? Bad science? Since when is building a small ecosystem based off of large scale bad science? Look. The idea I cover here is simply...

it's about 3 inches right now. I put him in there when he was about an inch. Got beat up pretty bad in my 75 gallon, and I found him just in time. Fins were gone. Was tucked up in some water wisteria that I had in there at the time. I nursed him back in a hospital tank, then set the 10...

I have to disagree with some of your points. Evaporation. Where does rain come from? The evaporation process. Water does not simply materialize as rain. The Earth has a finite supply of H2O. The evaporation cycle is what creates rainfall. Hence, water volume decreases via evaporation...

MTS's will help your plants. They will not harm them. They keep the nutes moving through the substrate. They will not bother the fish either. Some fish may try to peck at them, but they will be fine. MTS's are very handy to have. Just don't overfeed the tank too often, or you'll have more...

I have a 38 gallon bowfront heavily planted...even 'overstocked' by most standards I'm sure. Last water change was quite a while ago...when I moved into my house so...a little over 2 1/2 years ago. I add as it evaporates. That's it. Another tank I have, moderately planted, a 30 gallon that...

Be a water keeper. The fish will be fine. Plant your tank. As there are bacteria that convert ammonia, there is also processes for nitrites/nitrates. The solution to nitrates is plants. Plant life uses this as food. This is why I always tend to avoid most discussions in tank cycling...

Excess protein floating on the surface of the water. Normal, considering most usually don't run skimmers on freshwater setups. I have seen it many times.

I don't have any grass in that tank, but, I don't see why not, as long as you don't have anything that will dig it up. You can plant it directly in the gravel and.let it fly, and it will.carpet the tank in a.couple.months. Keep in mind, however, the more stuff you place over that UGF, the more...

I guess I'm of a.strange school....all these theories on tank cycling and stuff...fascinating really. I grab a tank, rinse me some gravel, get that in the tank, start filling that pool up. As that pool.is filling, I add a few little plants scarfed from here and there, and once the tank is...

As.for the stand strength... If you are a bit handy, just grab up some 2x4's and build a support frame on the inside of the current stand. No more worry about strength, and.you keep that nice look you got there. If designed right, it won't get in the way of anything you do in there and you'll...

They are night fish. Very timid and kinda....clumsy too. They sneak around at night looking for left overs. It's normal behavior.

For what it is worth..... I currently run an UGF in my 30 gallon. I have pea sized gravel in there for substrate, sitting directly on the filter. 30 pounds of it. I also have this tank moderately planted. Well, it was very fully planted at one point, but, now just maybe 50%. You can see...

Well worded memorial!

I had 2 powder blue dwarfs, and sadly lost them both to this very thing. No matter what I did, they succumbed. Had them in a hospital tank. One held on for a month, got a better, but then went downhill fast. I do hope your luck is better than mine.

I have one of them. I see it maybe 3 times a year. I thought it long dead, until I went crazy cleaning my substrate about a month or so ago, and low and behold, I almost sucked the little guy up in the siphon! Ain't seen it since. I assume it is still alive somewhere in there, doing its...

I have a lfs I I got them from. They were about an inch long when I got them. Looked like little oto's at a glance, but you could tell they weren't with a good look. I originally got 3, but 1 has since vanished. I assume it was snail food at some point in there. The other 2 got about 4...

Too bad you ain't in the neighborhood. Haha....I'd take every one. Free snails are the best snails. They keep things nice and.tidy. I used to get them free.from the pet store as feeders for my pea puffers. I started droppin a few into my other tanks and they took off. Tanks have never been...

I have 2 siamese algae eaters in my 38 gallon tank. They aren't the greatest algae eaters in there I gotta admit. They take care of hair algae and stuff, but mostly go nuts for food dropped in the tank. Otherwise they hang out under bushes and stuff. If you get them, make sure you get actual...

Just grab up a rubberlip pleco. Start there. They are cheap, and voracious algae eating catfish. Unless you have a 75 gallon tank or bigger, avoid a common pleco, as they get pretty large. Most rubberlips get about 4-6 inches. They should have a variety at both those locations to pick from...

Food for a.hungry pleco...

As to the lighting... There are options for this. I currently use Fluval Aquasky LED lighting. It has the ability to set them up for sunrise, daytime, sunset, night, sleep, and you can adjust all the colors of the spectrum. They are quite nice. Added bonus of doing this all via Bluetooth...

Am I the only person on the planet that has lights on 14 hours a day? Haha I don't have algae overgrowth. When the temp goes up, it grows like crazy, but, at 78/79 degrees, it's minimal. I have plecos that take care of what does grow without issue. It's just odd to me that people only have...

I got that stuff when my tank temp.was.too high and I was not.paying attention.... But yea, you can trim the plants. They will be fine. Or figure out what will eat it and add some.new.fishies....