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Your welcome! :) and maybe go on the puffer forum (that's the name). They are A LOT of help! Goodluck!

I love pomeranians! My girl doesn't shed a lot, if she does they come out in like a chunk rather then little hairs everywhere, she never bothers the other pets, like birds rabbits and small animals like that (but its more down to the individual dogs personality). She's the perfect size and they...

I was thinking awhile back to have figure 8s in my 35 gal and I went on the puffer forum and very experienced people said I could have 2 IF I decorated we'll and could try bubblebee gobys with them but you still have to be careful cause they are puffers and they all can be aggressive. Also I...

Be careful with the GSP, they can get to 6 inch and if they are bored they will pace up and down the glass and it will drive you crazy! Depends on how you decorate, but then again some still will pace until they are put into bigger tanks. Also idealy they should be in a full marine tank when...

Looks like dropsy, my betta looked like that and then sadly passed :( I don't know if you can do anything for him though, maybe someone else has more experience with this.

My lfs has a rule of when you have a new tank you need to set it up and run it for 40 days, then you can come get fish and get there guarantee - That if the fish dies in a month then you can get a new fish. But you can still get fish the same day you buy the tank, you just don't get that...

"Its okay to put a common pleco in a 10 gal" and "I didn't know puffers eat snails"

I have tried bettas in community tanks and some have been okay with other fish and some killed the other fish, also I've noticed most of the community fish would bite the bettas long finns and they would always look horrible, so for sure have a back up tank for the betta, or maybe try a female...

Lol, nicely said! Great advise, and yah I've learnt to just tell the guy what he did wrong right away cause ignoring and hints that I'm mad doesn't seem to get across a males brain :P

I agree with Krystak its between her and him nothing to do with you, if what he did wasn't super bad then its between them, and she should have told him it in the first place. Guys arnt like girls, they don't realize when they do something wrong lol. Its kinda a favour to her in a way that you...

My betta geta whiter around his face when he gets stressed out like during big water changes. Maybe that's what your seeing.

No problem! I hope everything works out! And when your ready you can always post on here for help with stocking your tank, everyone has great ideas. Goodluck!

Its probably not a good idea to have that type of molly in a tank that size, maybe the 4 mollies are causing a lot of wast, but when my tank wasn't cycled my fish died how you were describing so that's why I'm thinking maybe ammonia spike. But I can't be forsure until you get the test kit. So...

Maybe from over stocking there is a mini cycle, try doing good 50 percent changes if you can to see if that helps. But no noticable things on the fish like white dots or sucked in tummies anything different?

Daily water changes would be good.

Is your fish tank cycled? If it is then maybe there was a spike in ammonia or nitrite somehow, how are you cleaning the filter media?

For the betta tank why not try some good begginer plants such as java fern and anubias tied to rocks or drift wood, mine are growing crazy in my low light set up and some flourish ferts, and for the the plants in the sand some good root tabs could make up for the light situation

In my case as soon as I changed my tank to all real plants rock and driftwood my fish are a lot happier, my kribs tummy used to be a light purple but as soon as I switched to plants its now a bright red :)

How about trying a bottle of safestart by tetra. When I didn't know about cycling and I already had some phantom tetras in my tank and my nitrite way sky high I used a bottle of safestart and it cycled the tank in a week and no fish died! It would make the process a lot easier for your fish, and...

So I have a male and female german blue ram, and my female has been very shy and doesn't fight with anyone in the tank. The male in the tank would chase her sometimes and when she would see him she would lose her color. So I thought they would not be a pair and I believe they still arnt a pair...

And I'm using seachem flourish for fertiliser.

Its a t8, and its 17 watts sorry, is that okay?

So i am new to plant keeping and i have got liquid fertilizer and excel co2 that i will be adding evey week.The only plant i have in there right now is a java fern tied to a piece of wood, i head that i will need to dose some iron for that plant? Also i only have normal gravel so can anyone give...

Great! Thanks for the help!

Sorry to ask one more question but if I'm switching from fresh to brackish and raising the SG 1.002 per week and doing a 50% water change, then the buckets adding water back should ALL be 1.004? Is that right? Then next water change my water will be at 1.002, so then the buckets will need to be...

Thanks for the information!! I understand it way better now :)

Thannks for the reply that really helps :). My last question is when I'm adding the salt to the buckets (5 gal bucket) it takes me about 3 buckets to change 50% out, so when I put those three buckets back in, should the SG of each bucket match the tank at 1.003?

They need 1.005 and 1.008 specific gravity. I'm confused on how much water to change out, and should I make a strong salt solution and slowely add it to make the SG go to where I want it to be in thee tank? And how should I make sure all the salt is dissolved properly? I know ppl say let it sit...

Yah I have a hydrometer but the math still confusees me.

Hey everyone! So I'm planning on having a figure 8 puffer in my 36 gal tank. I know about brackish tanks but I'm still confused with the water change process? Can anyone tell me their routine. Like how to make sure everything is dissolved, and how to calculate the salinity of the water so I can...

Yah I think I'm gunna go with the mbuna. Thanks for the awsome link!

When its working it shows a red light and that wasn't what im worried about, its still heating fine tho.

Okay soo I have an all glass 200watts heater that I got in an aqueon kit. I have had it for about two months and I noticed at night I saw a flash of light on the top of the heater!!! Right under the dial. I don't know what it was but I thought maybe water got in there. So I took it back and they...

Hey Everyone!  so I am getting a new 55 gallon tank and i want to make it an african cichlid tank.  My question is on what types to put together, for a beginner should i have an all male peacock tank, or  male and female (with proper ratios) mbuna tank.  can anyone suggest a great stocking list...

thanks for the reply.  i just wanna add another question in there lol i have a 36 gal tank and the filter is a aqueon 30 quiet flow. I wanna get a better more filter capacity filter. Now what is a good filter i should get?

Hey all!  So I am planning on upgrading to a better filter in my 36 gal tank. my question is how do i go abouts doing this? how do i properly switch the filter without the bacteria dying? can i just put the filter media in the new filter and switch them? I was thinking that will probably work...

good to know thanks! 

Thanks for the info :) I'll have a look at aquabid and ebay, but what happends if the fish come to me and there dead, or die shortly after getting them? And I'm not sure what type of fish yet, my new 36 gal is almost cycled, but I was looking into a type of killifish, but still planning

Hey everyone! So I was wondering if anyone knows of any places I could order live fish from online. I'm in canada, so places that ship here that arnt to costly or even better a place in canada. I've neve done this before so if someone could tell me how the shipping process is done that would be...

okay thanks guys!