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what impact does a 50/50 flourescent bulb have on an aquarium? what does having one of the lights blue do differently than having them both white? does it help the plants or something? i saw one at petsmart.com and was just wondering what difference it makes.

i read on a snapple cap that if left in the dark, a goldfish will eventually turn white. haha i thought it was really interesting.. does anyone know why?!

okay, i'll opt for the 5 gallon before i get a dp. Thanks for all the info! that link really helped, Puffer_Freak

would it be impossible to keep the dp in the 2.5g? i know 5 gallons per dp is the general rule of thumb, but if it's just one, would he be okay?

hey, i was wondering if i could put 1 dwarf puffer in my 2.5 gallon tank. he would be alone with a couple of life plants and few ghost shrimp, sand substrate, heater, and a filter made for a 10 gallon tank. right now i have 2 guppies in there, but im thinking about moving things around a...

haha are you sure 'he's' not a woman? the pink makes it look like a female to me.. great pic though! ive always wanted rams =]

wow, nice turtle.. my friend had like 10 of those before.. he was selling them. he also had mississippi maps, pensylvania cooters, and red eared sliders. I thought of buying one, but they get so big! and i have no where to keep it. the maps were cute though :wub:

i hate it! i was all excited when i got them for my tank, then after about a week theyre both dead. i acclimated them and everything! i know that otos are usually sensitive to adjusting to new environments, but still! i hate having to keep going back to the pet store and buying more!

:lol: how many pets did you lose?! :crazy: i buried my two turtles somewhere in the backyard when i was little, mom threw away all the dead fish, and when my betta died i buried him at school :D and the others trashed.

thanks for the advice.. i moved all the plants to the sides of the tank, one of the rocks are in the middle.. and the wood thing isnt driftwood, it's some log thing that looks kinda cool. i'll try to get another picture of the updated tank to get some feedback on it. thanks again!

wow. that's a lot of food in their tummies

i just bought a buncha new plants for my brothers tank, and after i put everything in there.. it looks a little.. cluttered. apparently i dont have any aquascaping skills so could you guys help me redecorate? i want it to look natural and varied, but i dont know where to place the plants...

cool. :thumbs: thanks for the help guys!

thanks guys. i ended up buying the smaller package of 12 assortments for $25. the tank will be planted, but not too overcrowded. hopefully the plants will grow in. ill try to post pictures of me setting up the tank when they get in

the tank is 29g and im not too sure about the lighting.. maybe 30watts?

i was wondering if there is any way around getting a CO2 injector. if you overfiltrate your tank a lot, could you risk overstocking the tank to add fertilizer and CO2 to the tank instead of buying or making an injector yourself?

if i got a higher wattage, would low light plants be able to tolerate the same amount of light as high light plants?

i was planning on getting this online: http://www.aquariumplants.com/cgi-bin/cart/as081.html it says it covers about a 20g. what do you guys think?

do you guys think $50 bucks is too much to spend on plants? i was thinking about ordering some online, but i wanted to know if this is normal. did your planted tanks make an impact on the weight of your wallets?

awesome, thanks bshockstubb for all the help!

i kinda like the frogs, theyre fun to watch swim up and grab a gulp of air.. as for the snails, they dont really do anything.. but i'll look into the glowlight tetras. Do you know if a pair of rams would be compatible with them if i could find them?

i was thinking about ordering from that site too, have any of you bought the plant assortment packages they have? i wanted to get the 24 plant one but i'm not sure because it doesnt list the plants that come in it. also, do you know how long it takes for standard delivery to get to california?

i dont see how that would help really, i'd just be really hungry.. :dunno:

the fish are open to suggestion too, whether or not i should keep them or return them. i'm kind of attached to the neons though, so theyll probably stay. i checked aquariumplants.com and they had nice plants, i was thinking about buying one of the packages, has anyone ever tried them?

hey, for christmas i thought i'd redecorate and restock my brother's fish tank. His is pretty ugly right now and not very well stocked. he has 2 gourami's in there, 2 platies, 2 guppies, a couple of neon tetras, and some african dwarf frogs and snails in there. plus my gae that i added from my...

i dont know if this is okay, but i usually just break off little chunks of the cube with feeding tweezers and drop the peice in the tank. the water thaws it out almost instantly and i think it's a lot easier than feeding the worms one by one.. the fish don't fight over the food that way.

okay, i've pretty much decided that i'm going to take all the fish home with me. but im going to leave the tank here with the ghost shrimp so i wont have to empty everything out and recycle when i get back here. at home the fish will temporarily (and some permanently) be housed in my brother's...

its a 2 hr ride though, and if i pack everything ill have to re-establish the tank, and i didnt want to buy one of those automatic feeders just to use once

i was thinking about leaving my 2.5g tank here over the christmas break. ill be leaving for home tomorrow evening? or maybe friday and i wont be back until Jan 4th. i know im going to bring home the algae eater to put in my brother's tank, but i was wondering if the white cloud minnows could be...

originally, i was going to bring home everyone, but now i'm thinking i could leave the babies and the ghost shrimp here, and maybe the white clouds. the tank has been set up for about 3 months and its pretty well established. i think the adult guppies ate most of the fry anyways so i'll just...

my female guppy just gave birth again to a couple of fry. i was hoping she wouldnt go for another couple of days cause i have to bring them home for christmas break, but since she's already had about 8 fry, i'm wondering what i should do. 1, i could lower the water level in the tank and try to...

oh, yeah it's probably because i leave the light on for the majority of the day and feed them a lot. ill try cutting back on the light/food and see what happens. thanks for the replies!

the sand in my tank has been pretty clean for awhile now, but i just added another plant into the tank, and the sand has been getting a little brownish. and i can see green algae starting to grow on the tank walls and on a rock i have in there. i also read somewhere that live plants are usually...

thanks guys, i sort of understand the watts/gallon thing with smaller tanks. and the cryptocoryne wendtii, i'd have to check my lfs for them. i looked at online pictures and they might be a lil big for my tank.

i have a 2.5g tank with two different aponogeton plants in it and i was wondering what other plants i could use. i wanted some background plants that are a little taller. i have a 10watt flourescent bulb in it, and from other threads, im thinking i could have high light plants in it? any ideas...

i have a pretty realistic aquarium screen saver. my brother bought it from fry's for like 10 bucks, but it came with a $10 rebate so it was practically free! i think its called serenescreen or something. you can download a demo version of it online. its something like SereneScreen Marine...

wow. great pictures again! the clarity of the photos make it so beautiful!

how cute. :wub: i didnt know that

yeah, i guess i'd go crazy if the lights were on all the time too. thanks for the info