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That turned out stunning! Well done! I'm sure it'll be an overgrown jungle in no time, and you'll be trimming plants nearly every water change like I have to (misery loves company, but frogs love jungles, so...we do what we have to do). :-)

I have a couple of these ceramic caves for my dwarf plecos. My clown plec prefers a self-dug cave he made below one of my driftwood pieces, but the Leopard Frog plec lives full time in one of these...he's like an eel, poking his nose out to see what's going on or if there's food he should grab...

Soup and Dumpling - I love it! :-) Glad they're settling in so well! I'm sure your plants will settle in nicely once you get them all mounted/planted in the new place.

I put a square of moss in my betta tank last year. Man, that was impossible to clean or keep clean. I don't think I'd do it again, personally. I removed it, but some of the moss lives on attached to some wood I have in there, and it's much more manageable there, for some reason. I have some...

I love bettas...they have such personality, and throw such adorable tantrums if you're late with the food. Or in my Smudge's case, if you try to put up an algae shield background on the tank for part of the day to block natural sunlight - he hates it, so I'm stuck cleaning algae out of the tank...

Oh goodness - what a handsome fellow! I can see why you scooped him up. It'll be interesting to see if he retains that same coloring as he grows!

I had mopani wood in my ADF tank for quite awhile - I didn't soak or boil it first, just gave it a quick rinse and stuck it in there, since it was dense enough to sink right away. I don't recall seeing any sap leeching from mine. My frogs liked it well enough to tunnel under, and the only...

All of the advice I've seen is that 78F is the upper limit of what you'd want to keep them at long-term. And they'd be in cooler temps closer to the mid-lower 70's in the wild. So I don't think I'd keep mine at 80F for long periods of time, personally. I normally vent my tank when I see the...

My heater in the tank is set to 76F - but my canister filter sits on a small stand beside the desk where the tank is, which is closer to the actual house heating vent. So when the house heat is running more often, the tank occasionally goes up to around 80F (because the filter is in that warm...

So cute! Congratulations! And yes, terracotta pots are great. I break mine in half so I don't have to bury them...then they just sit on the surface like a little cave. The calls are more like buzzing, but I was pretty stoked to hear at least two different types of calls from my tank earlier...

I do hope your two remaining do well, and that you're eventually able to get a few more. They really are such fun little critters with such personality. :-)

I understand that - I have the same issue with Bettas (and yes, I have another one after much hand-wringing about it, but if I can't get this one to live a "normal" lifespan, I may well give up on them). I lost a couple of ADFs last year as well...one to suspected impaction (due to a specific...

Congrats on the new frogs, coming soon! I have a similar 6 gallon tank for my ADFs and they do quite well in it. I have five...yes, I know most people would say that's overstocked, but they seem to have plenty of space and they get along very well...20 percent water changes weekly, a tiny ZooMed...

I'm so sorry to hear that. :-( I was going to move my ADFs into a tank I'd previously medicated after a few months, and ultimately decided not to, because I read somewhere that meds can hang in the substrate for a long while, and I didn't want to tear the whole tank down. I think I might be...

I have these for mine - they look great, and my leopard frog pleco *loves* them (my clown plec is happier in a sort of cave under a piece of driftwood that he hollowed out for himself): https://plecoceramics.com/products/pleco-cave-natural-medium

I feed my community tank small amounts twice daily, and the plecos (I have two - a clown pleco and a leopard frog pleco) grab some little things then, but specifically for the plecos, I wait until after the lights go out just before I'm heading to bed, and I drop some sinking wafers in just for...

Great info- thanks! I have an HOB filter on my current tank (it's sized for a 55), and I have it running at about half-speed so one side has decent flow, and the other is calmer for my honey gourami. My plants are doing pretty well with that, but I really need to get my fertilizer game on (to...

I love my ADFs - they're adorable and charming, and the males often sing in their tank late at night. And yes, I keep mine on fine sand to avoid impaction (though I did lose one to impaction from a stupid frog pellet...which was more than a little annoying and obviously I don't feed that brand...

I like my plants too much to do an all cichlid tank, but I did not know you could put sick or injured fish in the sump...I could see that being very handy on occasion. And the filter's built into it, I'd just have to replace the media. I just read in a couple places that a sump could pull too...

My dad is upgrading his 75 gal reef tank to a 180. He's offered to give me his 75 when that happens sometime next year. He already has the new tank, just needs to get it up on the new stand (a job in and of itself) and move everything over. I'm curious as to how difficult it would be to get...

Ooo...and ADF's, too!

Good point. The meds I used in the tank were doxycycline and erythromycin. But I think you're probably right - if I want to move the frogs over there, best to tear the whole thing down and restart. A project for the new year, then. Thanks for weighing in!

Greetings all - it's been awhile since I posted (I have perpetual lurker syndrome, apparently). But I have a question that isn't really easily "searchable". I recently lost my betta after several months of attempted cures (dorsal fin rot that I didn't catch early enough due to some bad health...

Fantastic - thanks for the help!

Thanks for that - very helpful! Sounds like there might be hope, then. According the the city, my tap GH should be around 9 dgh. I don't have a test for that, but I can get one this weekend and test the tank water too.

I've been thinking about getting some shrimp, but the tank I'd want to put them in has a pretty stable PH of 6.0 My other tanks have a PH of around 7, but there's a bunch of driftwood in that big tank for the plecos (and the other tanks have non-shrimp-friendly fish/frogs). I've also been...

I have a very small HOB filter for my 6 gal, and the intake/spillover is only as wide as the clips I hang the glass top on. It fits just fine in the small gap between the lid and the side of the tank. So depending on what kind of filter you have, you might be okay with that quarter inch...

That makes sense - thanks! He didn't hurt any of the tetras, but he definitely wanted them where he wanted them, and not running amuck in "his" tank. That tank is around 38 gallons (36 x 12.5 x 19.5), but he was already blowing bubble nests dead center in the plant cover. I appreciate that he...

I have the 6 gal. rimless by Lifeguard Aquatics for my betta, and it's really quite fantastic. The length is great - Fritz uses every bit of that space, and I have floaters at one end (which he loves), and open surface at the other where my filter is. If you can afford that and fit the extra...

Thanks Colin. That's what I decided too (and I have a Betta in another tank as well, so I'm very familiar with that type of care). Fritz the Betta is also a very grumpy little fish who does not care for anyone in his domain at all (though he does put up with a Nerite, barely). I'm pleased to...

Thanks Byron. I do realize it's not just physical contact that's stressful (and one of my new Priscillas is obviously more stressed than the rest of the school), but unfortunately the LFS is closed Mon-Weds, so I wouldn't be able to even ask them about a return until Thursday. I can, however, go...

I've been away awhile - had surgery, had complications, lost King Louie (R.I.P), my beautiful pearl gourami to...something while I was barely caring for myself. Needless to say, my 38 gallon was looking a bit quiet with just the two plecos (clown and leopard frog) skulking around the bottom...

Hanging out at the top definitely isn't a good sign. You can use some medications, but it helps to know what's wrong. I've used Methylene blue on frog injuries before, but in my case, I followed some bad advice (from an ADF forum) to add salt, and my guy was gone the next day (so don't do that)...

Welcome back to the hobby from another Montanan! I'm fairly new here myself, and envious of your 200 gallon. I've always wanted to keep Oscars, just never had a big enough tank. I hope you can get your problems sorted out soon. I know there are plenty of people here with the knowledge to help...

The Omega One pellets are pretty small. I know a lot of people use Bug Bites, too, though I haven't tried them yet. Maybe wait until she's eating again, and then see how she does. I don't know what you have access to, but you could try just a standard Hikari "mini" pellet too.

You've already gotten great advice on the cycle and water quality, but I just wanted to mention that freeze-dried foods can cause gut issues, especially if you feed them dry. I don't know if you were soaking them or not, but if you do try freeze-dried again, soak them in a bit of tank water...

I have long (natural) nails (that I keep polished), and I don't even think about it when I feed my fish. Fritz (my betta) thinks my index nail is just a big spoon for him to eat out of, and he does so with gusto! He's a bit...ah...excitable at mealtimes. Unless you're putting them in the tank...

Well, I went back to my original stocking list. I'm sometimes wishy-washy like that. But while the fish shop didn't have an L134 or Sterbai yet (next week, they said, possibly), they had two clown plecos left, and I'm a sucker for a fixer-upper pet (just ask the myriad of dogs I've had over the...