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Just wondering what everyone's opinion was... :D

I lost one a couple of weeks ago, turns out they nearly always starve to death, wish I'd known :(

I was doing a water change today using a gravel siphon. My neons (10) were hovering around the siphon (they aren't afraid of my hands anymore.) One of them, being overly curious, swims into the siphon :crazy: He gets sucked down into my bucket, still alive. I managed to catch him and put him...

You're probably fine, 2-3 weeks should be more than enough time for a filter to pick up established bacteria

That's kinda weird CFC mollies aren't full blown saltwater fish I would't think that they would survive in a marine tank. Feeding the babies to the Lionfish is pretty cold... :sick:

Ambitious Good Luck!

I'm not used to the metric system so I don't know whatall that says, but my guess is that if it has a UV bulb and proper waterflow you'll get the same results as with any other sterilizer

Thanks for all the species names, I will be sure to look into them at my LFS. My water is very hard about 10 degrees GH and ph 7.5 with a 75 degree temperature (Farenheit of course)

Cichlid Freak's right your plants will get shredded if you go with pleco's. I have an Algae Eater and he only eats algae, they harass slow moving fish though so watch out. they get large and aggressive too

I've Never seen one with that kind of marking... Probably just a color mutation...

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Siphoning really isn't that bad, besides how else are you gonna get rid of the junk in the trunk?

could be normal tank cycling wait if not, get mechanical filter.

I didn't realize there were any freshwater puffers. However the employees at Petco do not know jack about fish. I ask a question, and I get duhhhhhhh,maybe. I'll stick with a fish store that has employees with an IQ above that of a butterfly.

Don't give up on saltwater so soon, 75 gallon's is plenty you just need to get fish with personality, not just one's that look cool. I know about the whole money thing too I'm 14 and have a limited budget as well. Here's an idea: get you parents into the hobby it's educational, scientific etc...

FrankWhatever is right, you don't want to use ocean water, too many risks involved. But tell your coworker not to worry salt isn't that expensive neither is water ;)

I am a little knew to the whole aquatic gardening thing. I have a 20 gallon aquarium 12 inches high, with 30 watts of light, what kinds of plants can I pull off?

Non-livebearers that are easy to breed and don't get to big... wish I knew :/

Dwarf Gouramis breed by building nests out of bubbles at the surface of the water. Usually you need floating plant and calm water conditions to both induce breeding and allow the nest to survive. If you really want to know more, (water conditions etc.) I reccomend buying a book about breeding...

Neon tetras make a nice display, when they school it looks really neat... Anyhoo, you could probably have five in that tank if your careful, they're really small so it should be a problem. I have 10 and I am going for 20... :)

Hmmmm, a one month vacation doesn't sound like a problem to me... ;) Autofeeders are the way to go, don't trust your friends/neighbors/relatives not to overfeed.

In my opinion acrylic is superior to glass. It is thermally more efficient (I.E. it retains it's temperature) so you are less likely to lose fish from heat waves, or during the winter. As stated it is lighter, more than 4 times a strong and 25% clearer. the only issue is cost. an acrylic tank...

Threadfin butterfly has reddening pitting around the mouth, anyone know know of anyway to administer any kind of anti-biotic without crashing filter/liverock. other than an extra tank?

How old is the tank? it could be you just haven't gone through the entire algae cycling process. If your tank is only 18 gallonsI doubt that there are any filters to small for it... if you are worried about that, try adding another of the same kind, or some kind of bio-media

Cardinal or Neon Tetras make stunning species tanks. You could probably but in twenty to thirty if you have a good filter. They are really fun to watch :)

I used live plants to cycle my tank. They work great, they introduce alot of beneficial bacteria, etc right away, I never really even had a normal cycling period, There was never more than 1 ppm ammonia and never any nitrites/nitrates.

Hey LordMoose, why would doing water changes increase nitrites, they are supposed to remove them... By the way, what " Execellent Site" did you find... Sounds interesting

20 Gallon 10 Neon tetras 4 Lampeye Tetra's 2 Siamese Algae Eaters (they aren't good fish I know):devil: 1 Zebra Danio (All it's buddies died) :(

For what they are they really aren't that expensive, besides go to a hardware store, glass isn't that cheap really...

Go ahead and add it. But watch your parameters (PH especially) just to be sure

If you live in San Francisco there is a FANTASTIC LFS in Hayward, Aquarium Concepts, it focuses on marine, so they have a huge selection, most of their stock is healthy and they know ALOT about marine compatibility/feeding etc. Reasonable prices too.

Depends how big the crabs are, my bluelegs never bother my turbos... Course my chaetodon auriga ate all the snails AND all the crabs but still. Beware of buying normal rock to serve as a skeletal base for liverock. live rock is a coral skeleton, thus it has an ENOURMOUS amount of surface are...

Great Lakes is right, even the cheapest marine livestock is probably more than you'd ever pay for a freshwater fish. I wouldn't get that 10-Gallon set-up no matter what it cost (okay well, maybe if it were free) because 10 gallons is to small for a stable saltwater environment, having Fish in...

Lionfish and family Scorpaenidae in general will not eat frozen or flake foods. But don't despair you can slowly wean them onto frozen, etc by feeding a mix of live and Frozen Foods, gradually increasing the amount of frozen food in the mix. It's hard, but lionfish are so beautiful it's worth...

I wouldn't add glow in the dark gravel for two reasons, 1) You don't know what makes it glow, phosphurs, probably, these could bleed into your water and kill your fish. 2) How comfortable are the fish going to be with the gravel glowing. I have to disagree with Impur, gravel is like dirt, only...

Mbuna's would probably work too...

The Tank has been setup for about three months, all parameters are zero, and the Danios are what I used to cycle the tank.

I have a 20 gallon freshwater tank with Eclipse hood and a 25 watt heater. I have 5 neon tetras, four lamp-eye tetras, and 1 Zebra Danio. I used to have 6 Danios but five of them died mysteriously, they were all eating, all tank parameters were normal, and suddenly in the space of about 3 days...

I have a couple of Siamese algae eaters that are starting to get too big for my tank, I have a couple of ways to get them out, however I was wondering if anyone has any ideas/stories about capturing fish? Thanks!

It depends what the leaf looks like, do you think this is some kind of problem with the plant itself, or something made a whole in it. (Snail, person, whatever) If it is a problem with the plant itself you should cut the leaf off because it will divert energy to that leaf even if it is going to...