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Okay so i understand what's wrong with my turtle. He can't submerge. Just now, i was trying to feed him pumpkin and a little piece fell in the water. He was trying so hard to swim into the water to catch it! But it seemed like something was keeping him floating from inside the water no matter...

His tank has 4 yellow labs. Would that be a problem? I don't see the cichlids taking particular interest in him but I've seen them trying to peck the turtle's feet on or two times and then losing interest again.

I just got a one and a half inch long Indian roofed turtle. It's been two days and I've noticed that my turtle doesn't like light or the sun. The moment I turn on the light or the morning light comes in the room, he would jump in the water and swim around or float. But at night when it's...

Hi! So I put my male cray in my female cray's tank for a few hours now. My male cray started to attack the female in 10 minutes. Apparently I'm fairly new to keeping crays and I got scared and removed the male cray. I immediately talked to the breeder and sent him videos and he told me that this...

Thanks for replying. I moved her to a different tank so that she doesn't feel stressed. Apparently both of my crayfishes are abnormally sweet. Today, I saw a guppy pecking at my male cray's claws. He just sat there like he didn't even notice. This happened a few times until the guppy got bored...

Hello, I've brought a female blue crayfish for my male blue crayfish today and since she's been on the road for almost three days due to shipping, I decided to isolate her instead of putting her in the male's tank. So I've put her in my 45 gallon tank where i already have 3 pairs of rosy barbs...

I have this wonderful male blue crayfish for a few months now and I'm thinking about getting a female cray for him. I have had this question for a long time about what would happen if i tried to breed different colors of crayfish. Youtube tells me crossbreeding is possible. So if I bred a red...

Thanks for replying. I think it's dead already. The other crayfish looks healthy till now, eating the molted exoskeleton. I just hope it doesn't follow the path of the other one. Any advise on keeping crays? I've learnt the basics like water parameters and food habits. But I'm not experienced...

Hello. I just got my first pair of crayfish yesterday. Got my shipment after two days. And one of them has molted today. It was a surprise since I didn't expect a molt this soon. But it happened anyways and the process didn't take long, probably around 10 minutes. But after molting, the crayfish...

Hi Forum! So I'm interested in cichlids now and thinking of getting some labs and demasonis...some peacocks maybe. And I've found out that the substrate, lighting system and background seriously effect how your fish colours up. I think I like the pictures of cichlid tank with that mysterious...

Alright, she's in the water and i can see she's shedding skin-a lot of it. Mostly white skin hanging off her legs and face, also the striped skin of her throat too. Is this normal? The drop of blood on her nose is gone, I've tried to feed her egg yolk(boiled) softening it with a bit of water...

Now she has blood on one of her nostrils. What do i do about her? I can't even make her eat to at least give her nutritions to fight problems internally. Can you force feed a turtle?

Addicted to fishes! Whenever I go to fish stores, whoever I have accompanying me starts to grumble, curse and swear to never come with me again because of the time I waste just staring at fishes instead of buying them, and of course for the explosion of confusion over which species to get. I...

Hi! I'm still young in fish keeping comparing to most of the people in the forum but in my opinion I personally am not really a hard believer in the thumb rule of one gallon per one inch. I mean of course too much overstocking looks ugly and is very unhealthy, but I think as long as your tank...

She isn't still eating, I keep trying though-she's gotten so thin in a week. But she walks around all day like she's exploring, never daring to pass through the door of my bedroom, only watching from a distance what's going on outside. Last night, she's slept under my bed. I let her out after...

Hello forum. So I brought this Indian roofed turtle home about 5 days ago, it's somewhere close to 4 inches, probably a female and currently has a 40 gallon tank to live in. She was quite an unexpected welcome for me and while at the store her shell was wet and it was hard to notice the thin...

I have a bigger tank with a few guppy fry in it-I was thinking of moving these molly fry there since I have another black molly squaring off and I'll need to use the tank for her delivery soon. Can I introduce the fry directly to the new water or should I mix some water from the bigger tank and...

Oh well, the redness seem to have gone away and they're swimming around actively now. They are currently in a 5 gallon tank. Water parameters are perfect last I checked. But yeah my tap water is considerably hard and I usually treat it with water conditioner. I do about 30% water change every...

So my white molly has just given birth. I brought her yesterday and since she was heavily pregnant, I put her in a seperate tank. The problem is all of her fry have this red patch on their bellies and most of them are just lying around, breathing heavy. I wonder why this keeps happening to my...

Hi forum, so I was thinking of testing my luck in Betta breeding and wondering what colour and tail type I should choose for a beautiful combination. I would like to get something like a Calico combination that we see in giant avatars (if it's possible that is) or maybe a combination of royal...

Hi! I was wondering what could be some great plants for midground in a low tech tank. On the back of the tank, my imaginary scape contains bushes of Java fern, Rotala rotundifolia green, Corymbosa Compacta, Nymphoides Hydrophylla Taiwan and pearlweed. On the foreground, there would be styrogen...

Yes, we do get limescale as you've mentioned.

To speak of the truth, I'm really thankful that all of you are so helpful and passionate about the hobby, it amazes me how much you care about other people's fishes and matters circling that. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any of the terms you've mentioned. But I do have heard that the water is...

Yep,I am new to fish keeping, nearly one year now. But yeah I do know what cycling is for the sake of my half a year of studying about the hobby in google and watching hundreds of videos before I came in the hobby. Generally, I leave water for a few days before using it in my tank but I've just...

And, what if I use RO water for now instead of treating the water with chemical? Will that be okay? Or should I be concerned that all the fries would turn out female? Since I heard that RO water is soft and...soft water is reluctant to give us gonopodiums?

Nope, I meant that I have been using sponge filters for the previous fries, and now if I want to grow these fries separately, I'd have to buy another one. I think I'd put them with their cousins. And the other fries are in 3 gallons each, not exactly sure but somewhere close, I suppose. Too small?

Yeah, who knows? (Actually, I do write!)😅 But really, it's a pleasure to be able to share my part of the hobby with all of you. I wish I joined this forum earlier. There's so much I didn't know and so much I'm learning!

Thank you! I'm thinking of keeping some of them in the main tank. Most probably, I'd be giving away the rest. (Who knows, the way I'm getting addicted to this hobby, I might even end up with another tank!😸)

Hey, I was wondering if changing water kills fries. I guess I read that somewhere. Does it really? Cause I had never changed water of fries before they turned 2 weeks since I had filter. But now I've run out of filter too. Can I move the fries with the 2 week olds or would they become live meal...

Thank you for the suggestions! I'll keep them in mind next time!

OMG, you're right. I have 2 batches of dumbo ear platinum red tail kiddos-24 of the first one-and each survived last 1.5 months, 19 of the second batch, now into their 3rd week. Then 5 molly fries of the same age. And now I have 17 more to consider. and if I'm right, my dumbo ear female is due...

Remember this guppy? Yes, I posted a thread about her weird behaviour weeks ago, and yes, she hadn't given birth then as I'd thought. In the last few weeks, she turned huge, about double of what she was in the picture above that I'd posted. Yesterday, I felt as though I needed to sepearte her...