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replace your media only when absolutely necessary, i have had foam sponges in my HOB filters and cannister filters last 3-4 YEARS!....i have had air powered sponge filters last 20 years!! every few weeks is rediculous, it will do more harm then good also, never replace ALL of the media in your...

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using glue was your mistake, i dont see the point in doing that, i just use a few pieces of scotch tape at each end

i think you are worrying way too much

why bother buying a stand and re-enforcing it? you are better off just to build your own, i have had hundreds of tanks in my time, i have never bought a stand, i build my own...and they are much better then anything you can buy

Red Tail Shark is among the worst community tank members out there, Best kept with a tank full of african cichlids......and even then, if your going to have one.....ONLY HAVE ONE!

i use a single eheim jagger in a 100 gallon tank....it does fine, and that tank is located in a very cool basement, if your tank is located in a semi-warm location, the one eheim may be enough

feed them live baby brine shrimp and they will gobble it down like a kid to candy......

a lot of people think keeping fish in an aquarium is cruel in general, regardless of how big the tank is, its not a natural environment, keeping fish in an aquarium is really the equivalent of you living your entire life in your bedroom with no tv or electronics or anything to do, and twice a...

it "should" be fine, when you can its always best to place an aquarium against a load bearing wall, also place the tank so it runs perpendicular to the floor beams, not parallel to them

just leave the heater unplugged and stop worrying about it, putting cold water in to lower the temp is worse for the fish

depends on how big the tank is, but they can easily get to 12 inches

definitely preggo

i have been breeding all kinds of tropical fish for over 20 years.....the first thing i tell people who want to start breeding fish is that you can not look at your fry as pets, you have to look at them as inventory, and you have to have no heart when it comes to culling, and you must cull them...

4 max....but that would be without any other fish in the tank

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i would keep that sponge filter running in your main tank, only move it to the quarantine tank when you need to use that tank, leave the quarantine tank empty unless you need to use it, when you need it, fill it half way with water from your main tank, the other half new water, then move...

i have many tanks with over 100 fish.....never worry about every fish eating, thats just crazy, if they are hungry enough they will get the food, tropical fish can easily go a week or more without being fed, they will find leftover scraps on the bottom, or peck at algae, quit worrying so much

i don't know why people get so concerned over the temp of their tanks, 99% of tropical fish will be just fine in a tank anywhere from 22C to 32C there is nothing wrong with 26C as long as the temp changes are gradual its fine, its much worse and far more stressful on the fish if you do a...

nothing, unplug your heater, leave the tank light off, and stop worrying.....thats it fish are very tolerant to a wide temp range as long as the change is gradual, adding cool water will do more harm then good, the death of your fish was not cause by warm water

if they don't allow live fish....get some of these guys then :hyper: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZFR3V4U/?tag=ff0d01-20

chances are most of them will be, unless you have LOTS of plants, and i mean 80% of the tank covered in plants, live bearers are notorious for eating their own fry within seconds of birth,

no matter how well you grind up flakes, they will still be far too big for fry of any kind, for the best health and growth its best to hatch live brine shrimp for ANY fry, live brine shrimp is a must for egg laying fish fry....its the only thing they will touch from my experience, for live...

your tank is not cycled properly, and the title of the thread should be changed to "killer owner on the loose"

your worrying way too much....the temps you describe are perfectly fine, water temps in the wild fluctuate from day to night.....stop worrying, the fish dont even notice a few degrees

not nessessary for any tropical aquarium on a regular basis, i only use it in quarantine tanks when treating disease/infection which is extremely rare

would not recommend these fish with ANY community type fish, they become bullys and pests, kind of like red tail sharks

not really.... chain stores get their fish so cheap it just really isnt worth the hassle of taking other peoples fish

depends what variety and what quality they are, stores normally only want perfect fish.....that would probably only be about 25% of the fish an average home breeder would raise....so you would need to cull the bad ones ruthlessly

independent stores might....chain stores probably wouldn't even take them for free what kinds of fish are you talking about?

the first is known as a Convict Cichlid

you need to pick a direction and go with it, when you don't know where you want to end up, any road will take you there

i disagree..... piranha would be eating live fish in the wild....that is what they should be fed in captivity, it is their instinct to eat live fish, that shouldn't be taken away from them, what you have stated above is pure myth, in my experience it is very difficult to get piranha to eat...

if its a brand new filter, i would just return it to where you bought it

if they are talking about a bala shark, they can get to 12 inches or more, it wouldn't matter though because the arrowana would eventually eat everything else in the tank

also......when moving filter media around like that its important not to let the media dry out.....if it dries out the bacteria will die

congrats..... you have a majical ghost fish, they are very rare.....the can disappear and re-appear whenever they feel like it :hyper::hyper::hyper:

look platy to me

a tank with fry still needs a filter