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thanks everyone. I will stick with Aquasafe, as it's most commonly available in my region

What do people think is the best dechlorinator and why? I only used tetra aqua safe but hear good things about seachem prime and API. What others are there?

I will be sure to upload more photos soon. I haven't seen the fish flare often, making me suspect it might be a female, as my other male bettas seem to flare quit frequently. On top of that, I haven't seen any form of bubble nest being built. I suspect it's a female

That's what I figured. It's a shame tho

Yesterday I went to my LFS, looking to buy some supplies, and as one does, spotted a betta which I just had to have. It was a short finned galaxy koi betta, living in a community tank. I asked about it and was told that it was a male. I bought it and introduced it to my community tank and he...

I have had a school of 6 corydora swarzi for about a month now and they seemed to be pretty active from day to day bases. A couple of days ago I noticed the school went from 6 to 5. I looked around the tank and was unable to spot the last one, since the tank is heavily planted. I didn't think...

Don't worry I feed bloodworms once/twice a week. Today I bought Sera insect flakes (larvae), the closest thing I could find to Fluval Bug bites. The corries seem to love them. They get a mix of plates and pallets sera and hakari. In the future I hope to introduce live food in their diet, but...

So I recently got a group of 6 corydora swarzi in my 60l planted community tank. They settled in quit quickly, are active and enjoy foods such as high quality flake and pallet. They have even been eating froze tublex worms, but they eat the bloodworm and then spit them out through their gills...

Honey gouramis are very peaceful and get along with all other community fish. Here are some idea for tank mates any smaller tetra/rasboras, small rainbows, hatchetfish etc. In terms of bottom dwellers; kuhli loaches, corrys, plecos etc. Paradise fish look very similar to gouramis and can be kept...

Just scoop them out with a net or just a cap. But if you want to keep the bucket filled with water but want to eliminated the chance of any mosquitoes laying more eggs, add some kind of lid.

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You don't need to worry about introducing disease from live food such as brine shrimp. BP fry require live foods to be raised, but they will grow lower (like all fish) Do add cool water? If you want to trigger these fish, do a 50%-80% COOL water change, as this will trick them into thinking...

Yep they are definitely mature. What are your water parameters like? When was the last time you did a water change?

I recently got a group of 5, 1 male and 4 female, fortailed rainbofish. I haven't kept any rainbows before, so I was excited to try them out. They really seem to appreciate the planted community setup, shared by 5 corrydora's two plecos and 4 ottos. I been feeding a mixed diet, and doing...

Hey I just commented about this on another about this on another thread. I'm posting it here as I feel is more relevant to the category: Breeding bristlenose plecos is not that difficult. The most important thing is that your fish are of breeding age, usually about a year old, and can be...

Breeding bristlenose plecos is not that difficult. The most important thing is that your fish are of breeding age, usually about a year old, and can be immediately sexed. The male will then claim a cave and try to entice the female to breed and eventually trap the female in the cave where she...

This is a very common thing to happen. It happen to me last year, in my 180l planted community, stocked with angles, gouramis, appistos and Colombian tetras. I took the babies out the first time they spawned and kept pulling the fry for months to sell to my LFS. Before summer, when I was...

Yep that's how it goes with guppies. U might find someone to give these guppies off to, especially if you are planning on getting more females. You will have even more fry then.

What you want is 2-3 females per male. Your ration should be a bitt better now that you got the fry, but you might want to toss in a couple of new females in the tank to keep them from inbreeding

I definitely heard of some corries not schooling with others as much, but this doesn't bother me as long as they are healthy. I'm planning on adding more fish down the road, some of which my be more corries

As stated above, I do 80% daily water changes. I also add nitrifying bacteria. The tank is already heavily planted with epiphytes and stem plants. I do agree that adding floating plants would help massively and I plan to purchase some on Friday. I do agree with you, that the toxin my not be the...

So this week I set up my new 60l planted community tank. I decided to go with a fish in cycle, as this is a method I used successfully in the past. I bough 6 corries yesterday, and after acclimating and introducing them to the tank I noticed two were looking weaker than the others. I went back...

I was wondering if you can tell the difference between the female of each strain. In guppies, I found that they often just look gray or little colour

Unfortunately I don't have time to do all this anytime soon. I'm moving out soon and have just cleaned my aquarium after the summer for my family to take care of. When I get a chance I will do that, I have all the equipment needed, just the matter of time.

The glass plate connecting the front and back glass panel of my 180l aquarium. I understand that this keeps the shape of the tank true, by preventing bending but is it necessary to attach it back? I do not want to risk any leaks from the tank

Thank you! I have sent out emails to local fish stores in the city I'm moving to, because I haven't moved there yet, to find out if they will take fish and shrimp I breed. If they all decline I don't think I will set up a breeding tank but rather an aquascape. I know breeding fish is not a way...

I have bred fish in the past and have experience with both triggering the fish to breed and raising the fry. I know that to get the best results I should have a species only tank but since I'm only planning on having one tank, I do not want to dedicate it only to one species. Are there any...

I'm planning to set up a multi species breeding tank. I think I will go with endler livebearers, shrimp (either yellow or blue) and cory catfish (a variety that's relatively easy to breed don't know which yet). I want to maximise the yield of each. I have never bred cories before so I will do...

Yea I would prefer a bigger tank, but I still don't know how big of a tank I can keep or which fish I want to keep in the tank at all. As of right now, it could be a shrimp colony or a bigger school of tetras

Oh sorry, idk how I missed that. I'm moving to Netherlands.

So I have kind of a weird question. I planning to move to a different country and would like to continue the aquarium hobby. I will leave my current tanks and fish at home and am wondering about the prices so I can start thinking about a budget for a new tank/s (I have no idea on which fish I...

I agree with the previous comment, first you should identify the reason why they jump out and how to solve it. Floating plants would help but the best way is to ensure the cover has no holes or that they are at least properly covered. In terms of stoking, I like the gourami idea. You could get...

Update: Just saw one of the babies in the tank. That was unexpected but it's a nice surprise. It has grown a lot since I put it in and it's too big to be eaten by the anglefish, so it should start coming out more often now. I think I put about 4 in the tank, haven't seen all of them since but...

After about a week, I pulled the fry, and put them in a large plastic box with a filter where I grew them out. 2 weeks later I had another spawn, which I pulled out again and placed in the same box. Once they have grown to the right size 5cm, I sold them to my LFS and kept a couple in my own...

I have an internal filter, I have seen some pond snails in there but never an assassin. It's a good tip, I will keep and eye out, thanks.

Yea, sorry I forgot about this. I got a couple of more snails and then around 2 months ago I started seeing some babies. Now, where ever you look there is a bunch of them. Unfortunately, there are no pest snails in the tank anymore, even tho I added lots many times, they all seem to disappear...

I had 2 spawns of my brown bristelnose pleocs (one about a month ago and the other one about 2 weeks ago). They are all growing out in the same tank. I lost a few but there is still around 100 or more. I feed them algae waffers every day (2-3 times) but sometimes it seems they don't eat them. I...