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Algae is caused by imbalance in nutrition and light. What kind of light do you have, and how long is it on for? With some tweaking it will go away on its own in a matter of days Once you add fish, generally speaking you want to siphon every time you do a water change, (most do weekly) or as...

Usually the recommended ich treatment is to raise the temperature in the tank, as the protozoan lives and in the water and the entire tank is likely compromised at this point, even if other fish don't show signs. From...

A thing to consider with gravel and your tank's location is cleaning. Looks great in the hutch, btw. Any extra food and fish poop trickles down thru the gravel, so you have to siphon real good there. Not that sand doesn't require cleaning, but it's a less intensive process because anything...

Was lurking the forums and saw a fish named there that interested me (Norman's lampeye), plugged it in to search online and aquahuna was just one of the top results

I just stumbled onto aquahuna.com. anyone has tried them? Flat rate usps priority and live guarantee for $12.99?

55 gal all loaded up will be upwards of 500 lbs. If your hutch is solid, shouldn't be an issue, but you gotta check that wood and whether it has, or you may have to add, additional vertical support Depends on your local water (soft, hard, etc) that's why the forum asks for location, more...

Interesting debate, that's why I posted this. Bottom line is that assuming an lfs is well run just because it's a small independent business is just as wrong as assuming every single store of any given chain is a mismanaged dump.

Nice tank, always like natural looks and lots of plants. Yeah, given the size and the fish you have, better hold back on adding any more fish. A mystery would be a nice addition, and/or a grown-enough shrimp as Rocky suggested so that your betta doesn't want to try to snack on it. Having 3...

So the choice is clear. Heads, or tails.

The joy of fishkeeping. Whwre you start with the idea of putting together a few things and sit and watch these critters swim, and you end up with multiple tanks, and having to become an erudite in water quality, fisheries and horticulture 🤣

Nevermind, saw the pics in more detail. I guess some shoots are just stronger than others. I also have it across 3 tanks, 2 are thriving, one is faltering with a couple of leaves going dark/dying, other shoots doing OK (all from the same plant). As I mentioned, i think in my case personally it...

Barring more informed/experienced voices I would agree with you. In that case perhaps a bit of trimming could help by stimulating the plant to grow again, either sell or discard the trimmings. I also was told/read somewhere that although it does well either planted or floating, it does best...

Same thing happened to me with a couple of shoots, but I suspect it's because I may have damaged the rhizome when I was splitting it 🤷🏻‍♂️ what do you use for fertilizer? and do you have fish in any/all of them?

What type of ligh do you use? And some seem to have bites on them, do you have fish that do that, or snails? Personally, I'm still learning to deal with plants, but I quickly learned that light adjustment is key. Also, I use flourish for my tanks, but instead of a weekly dose I divided it on a...

All I have to say is congrats on everything. The fish and plants seem to be thriving, although I assume the cory could use some more company. Then again it is such a small surface, perhaps one more would be enough? Don't know, but visually and in water params you obviously know your stuff, and...

Guess she likes it rough 🤷🏻‍♂️

2 times and done. If you ever watched the original matrix movie. Some people are just too set on their ways, so "dependent on the system" that they will defend it to their last breath, regardless of your good intentions or evidence for your argument

I'm tempted to let it hang, however putting a sheet of plywood won't break the bank and it will be a nice weekend project for me and my son to get it and paint it so it matches the stand. Win win. Thank you all, always great feedback and points of view.

To their credit I've never seen a dead betta and while they still keep them in the small containers, their water always looks clean. I'm going to start widening my search for lfs because this is the same store where I bought 5 neons 2 weeks ago, all of which promptly died in the span of little...

Yeah, literally half of its body was enveloped by fuzz. That's the same tank on the larger picture, there were 2 dead albino cories, a bronze one was flashing like crazy, and another bronze one had a big chunk of its tail gone, probably infected and further chewed off by its tankmates. Broke my...

Indeed. With the total headache that logistics is thesedays, that "gotta move it fast" mantra is amplified. $39.95 is a damn good rate for overnight, they probably are breaking even on shipping expenses once you take into account that so far in the last 6 months alone both ups and FedEx have...

Thank you all. I still can't find ottos, nobody around seems to have any. Poor guy all alone in the tank, at least he gets along well with the cory gang. I guess cherry barbs it is. I'll be changing the tank stand soon, I'll wait until that is done to the cherries. Too bad the tiger barbs are...

Sigh. Poor animals. These are just 2 pictures of one tank. The store is in a good area, and to their credit the tanks are mostly clean any time I come by, and there is one guy who seems to know and care enough, but I saw dead and severely ill fish on several tanks, and when I asked about...

Hi everyone, I've got pics of these fish i like, but I don't know the name. The pet store's fish area employee was on break and the tags/labels didn't help much.

It's got the black frames top and bottom. Is that what you meant, @Essjay ? Thank you all

Hi guys, I've got a 29g tank, size 30 x 12 x 18 (inches). Currently I have it on top of a sturdy TV stand and I'm looking to get a tank stand, however the one I found is 27 inches long. So the question is whether this tank could safely sit on this stand with 1 or 1.5 inches "hanging out" on...

What other fish do you have, how long has the tank been established, and how much water did you change recently? What are the exact water parameters at the moment? No recent changes at all in substrate, decoration or anything else new to the tank?

Lethal (only the coolest cop buddy movie saga ever made)

Hope you find the cause and share it so we can learn from it. Sorry for your loss, a stable tank having a dieoff sounds like a nightmare scenario

Peta is the worst. Good intentions, horrible execution and even worse talking heads. Might as well have crackheads as their ambassadors. Come to think of it, a few probably were or are still 🤷🏻‍♂️

Staying constantly near the top could be in mi limited experience; a sign of swim bladder issues... does it look like he's trying to or struggling to come back to the bottom? I don't know whether isolation would stress or benefit him at this point. If there's no treatment yet indicated I don't...

The lack of barbs and the staying near the top aren't exactly normal. Most cories, if not all I suppose; do that quirky gulp of air occasionally, but not constantly. And staying near the top is definitely not in their nature. What do you have for substrate? Is he eating normally? Does it...