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We don't have a sponge filter in there right now, but I have the sponges from my established shrimp tank I can put in there... it was planted though, so I'm not sure how much beneficial bacteria is on them. I'll keep testing it every day or every other day. My thought was that we'd be seeing...

There's only plastic plants in the tank we took from. And about 7 big fish (5-6 in) and 5 small fish.

I read the post about silent cycling. That's partially why I was wondering if my tank had in fact cycled or at least partway. I attached a pic. There's 5 plants in there, but they're not fully grown.

I did not clean the ceramics lol. They went straight from the established tank to the new tank still dripping wet from the filter.

Sorry, 40b is 40g breeder. We used a mesh bagful of ceramic media that's been in our established tank for almost a year. In addition some of the plants came from an established tank, so likely had some bacteria on it. We tested for nitrites, but unfortunately only today so I can't tell if it...

Set up a 40b a week and a half ago. Added quickstart and filter media from one of our established tanks (been running almost 2 years). Added a few small fish to help with the ammonia to feed the bacteria from the filter media, and about 5 plants. Just tested our water today, and there's 0s...

Tank size: 36g tank age: 4 months pH: 8 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 10 - 20 tank temp: 78 Volume and Frequency of water changes: weekly, 30-40% Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: prime Tank inhabitants: 5 danios (2 glofish, 3 regular), 5 glofish tetras, 1 dalmatian molly adult, 1...

Hey all, long time no post. Well one of my glofish danios has what looks like an erupted cyst on the side of it. Pretty nasty looking. I put it in a hospital tank and salted it. Is there anything else I can do for my fish?

I love the glass snail! Very cute. I like the tank layout too. Hopefully your betta gets to feeling better and beats ich

Thanks everyone for the help! I never knew that the labels at pet stores could be so generic or off.

We do have one that has a spot that looks like yo but none of the others have it. I wonder if we got one yoyo and the rest zebra?

It does look like this. When I Google botia histrionica it appears to go by the common name golden zebra loach as well. Certainly confusing! As long as I know the approximate size and that they're all the same I'm happy lol.

here's one of the babies we bought today. Still golden zebra?

That's what I thought too, just wanted to make sure. The two we bought from Petsmart today were under the name yoyo loach, but they're identical. They're babies so they're small. I'll try to get a good picture of one of the babies

So we did all of our research and decided on golden zebra loaches. We bought 4 initially but lost one, so now we have 3 left. We just bought 2 that are identical to our zebras, but they were under the name yoyo loach. I've read online (including past posts on this website) that sometimes they...

I might get dalmation mollies, I forgot about them but I've wanted them from the beginning

Tank dimensions are 48L x 12D x 24H. Ph works out to a stable 8. I know the water hardness is 12 but not sure what the unit of measurement is. We haven't started cycling it yet so it'll be a little while before we add fish.

I was thinking about that, but will it be aggressive to my other fish? It seems like I've got a very peaceful arrangement right now and I don't want aggression causing stress

Ooh, how pretty!

So we went and ended up buying a 60g tank recently. We're going to stock it with our current tank (5 GlassFish, 2 platys, and 3 zebra loaches) and add another platy and 2 more zebra loaches once it's cycled. I'm looking for suggestions of brightly colored fish to add to it. I love looking at...

Ah, a fellow Glofish lover! I have 3 tetras and 2 danios right now (had 5 tetras and 4 danios but had some deaths) in a 20g right now. They're about to move to my 35g long here soon, so I'm excited to bump their numbers up. I definitely love the colors!

It's an obsession, for real.

So MTS is a real disease. I currently have a 35g going and a 20g going, both with fish. We are buying a 55g on Wednesday. Doh! So now we're researching more fish to put into the 55g...

Far too late for me lol. I started with a 10g, then bought a 35g, now I also have a 20g. Only the 35 and the 20 are up and running, but hubby wants to do a planted tank in the 10g

I too have a bully platy in my tank. When I had 3 platys he would chase one of them around. When that platy mysteriously died he settled down a little.

Yes it was, I think we messed it up by adding them too soon maybe.

Sounds like they should be alright on smooth gravel but sand is better. Thanks everyone! We'll figure out the substrate first before we get anymore Cory's

That's horrible! I had no idea people would do this to sharks

I'm wondering if the gravel we originally kept them on was too rough for their barbels? We got 4 originally to start with and lost 3 pretty quickly. We just lost the last little guy yesterday.

Hi all! Me again. We've not had good luck with our cory catfish and I'm wondering if anybody has ever kept them on smooth gravel substrate with any luck? We're considering switching substrate to a smaller round gravel or sandy substrate if that would help. Thanks.

Lol I have glofish danios in with glofish tetras in a 20g tank. They're active little swimmers for sure. I feed them tropical flake and freeze dried bloodworms

You got me with living room strobe lights!!! And yeah, j have noticed that they tend to do multiple tanks of the glofish. The PetSmart and Petco by me have a decent variety of fish, but I have been into stores that have a much larger variety when there's fewer glofish tanks.

I'm in MD!!! I work in VA though.

Welcome! I'm new too! Your tanks look great!

Wr had fish when I was little but I don't remember what kind. My first personal fish was a betta named Twinky