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Hello I recently purchased a 120 gallon used acrylic tank because the tank was already emptied when I went to pick up I didn't insist on it being filled before I left. Being rather new to large aquariums like this I am slowly learning about the hardware built into them. However, there is one...

Hi, Thank you so much for all your help! I picked up the tank and it is great! However the components seem to outdate the tank by many years. The wet/dry filter box (the thing with the bioballs) seems to be new however the pump seems to be old. The casing is cracked...can I still use it...

I get my driftwood straight from the beach. I then proceed to boil it, cook it in the oven and then soak it for weeks until it is water logged. This process get out any bugs or parasites that might be in it then it is safe for your fish tank! :)

Hi, In my opinion it sounds like you have a male in with those females! It is very easy to mis-sex the golden gouramis because the only way to look at the dorsal fin and see if it is more rounded or comes to a "sharper point". You definitly have a female in the pictures. I tried to put a...

I don't know very much about kribs but I though I would add another comment because this forum is generally VERY good and so i wanted you to have another comment. I have five tiger barbs. I started out with three and they tended to pick on all the fish. Now that i have five they mostly leave...

Hi, Well I finally got a large tank (150 gallons acrylic) and I am picking it up this weekend. It is second-hand but brand new as in was used for maybe two months. It comes with what looks like a wet dry filter, lighting etc. First question, how does a wet dry filter work and what do I need...

Thanks. The mono is about three and a half inches, the scat about an inch and a half and the puffer is about an inch so I am not too worried about the tank right now....the plan for the future is to eventually get a 100+. But thanks for the advice, I know it can sound like it is too small...

Hi, I am looking to buy a "surprise" exotic fish for my boyfriends tank. He has the sixty gallon tank in my profile. He keeps trying to buy new different pretty fish however we always seem to be miseducated and they usually end up being brackish. Such as the "freshwater"moray eel (who i know...

The waspfish are moved to my brackish tank and they ate frozen blood worms today! Wahoo! So far they have been moving around happily and even seem to like to play in the current (my tank has two filters so it produces a nice current). No problems with the scat and mono (right now they school...

With sand you generally want an inch or more. I have about an inch in a half to two inches in my tank. I would still suggest mixing it around a little when you clean your tank to prevent the gas pockets. I have GSP in my tank so I can't have sand sifter fish because he would eat them so...

I currently have five tiger barbs in my tank and they are aggressive fin nippers. However i do notice that in higher numbers they tend to focus on each other more and they are pretty when swimming in shoals. However, my barbs are in a tank with signifcantly bigger fish than them and more...

Id on't know what size tank you have but assuming it is a smaller one if you nitrate is really bad like above 40ppm I would do a significant water change making sure to sift the gravel or sand so as to get any left over food. (probably like 25-30 percent of the water) I also would make sure that...

I would definitely wait awhile before adding fish. I don't really think the even the cycling chemicals do a good job of getting the tank ready for fish. The best thing to do is wait until you have enough bacteria to support fish. Right now I would say that you don't.....best idea is wait...

I have to agree with papa smurf about the cichlid, they are very very aggressive fish and tend to nip their tankmates fins if not more (remember that Oscars are part of the cichlid group...and they eat everyone). there are some small south american and african cichlids that tend to be more...

Good advice! I did have this problem before the bubblers were used but i can see how they would increase the problem. What is a sand catcher? does it go in the filter?

I am only familiar with the "freshwater moray" so I will go with above responses and say that only the moray should be converted to brackish so I hope you have two tanks. You don't want to plunge the eel into brackish right away. You want to set up the other tank and start increasing the...

THAT"S HIM! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! I had a funny feeling these guys would be brackish, espacially given that they are called a "goby". I have a brackish tank (they are currently in my sick tank) that has a puffer, mono, and scat. Right now it is forty gallons but in a year or two i plan on...

Thanks for recommending those sites! However I still can't find the particular goby i have. It is really different looking in that it is mostly fins and it's body isn't as elongated as most gobies. It has the body of a small bumble bee goby (minus the colors of course). I haven't noticed its...

As a puffer owner I must agree! Puffers are very aggressive espacially as they grow larger. Mine is only two inches big and he owns the tank even against my four inch mono and three inch scat who won't go near him. I would worry first about the number of puffers. It is recommended that each...

i had a "freshwater" eel who faired well the first few months i had him. However over time he stopped eating and started to appear sickly. I read the same articles about needing brackish water so i moved him to my brackish tank but unfortunatly he was too weak and ended up passing away the...

I moved my sixty gallon fish tank three times over two hundred miles and all my fish survived. I put them in five gallon buckets filled 1/2 to three quarters full. I used my tank water and added a battery powered bubbler to keep the water oxygenated. I also taped chemical heat packs to the...

Just be careful with sand! I have black sand and i love the way it looks but I have problems with my filters a whisper and a penguin biowheel catching the sand and obstructing the way the magnetic motor functions. So about once every month i end up taking about one or both of the filters and...

How big is the tank that you are putting the fish into?

HI, After recenting puchasing two fish called "dusty panther gobies" by my LFS I can not locate any information about this fish. I was hoping you guys might be able to give some information about my new tank mates. They do seem to be gobies in that they don't seem to have a swim bladder and...

Hey I appreciate it greatly! Every little bit helps!

That is a good point about the chlorine in tap water...I had thought about it hurting the fish and thought it was so minute it wouldn't hurt them but I never thought about the bacteria....

I rinse the cartridge under warm tap water.

I use the test tube test kits made from aquarium pharmaceuticals. The few times I have ever seen ammonia and or nitrate in my tank have only occured two or three times in the year i have had my tank. I change my water weekly twenty percent using novaqua and amquel in appropriate amounts. (the...

My tank was cycled fishless for a month before any fish were added. The balas start to just sit in a corner with fins clamped. The breathing seems normal, the color is lighter and there is slight reddish color on the fins but not the belly. The scales are all normal, no sores or anything else...

I have a sixty gallon tank orginally purchased to have balas and some other more aggressive fish. Right now it has two rainbow fish, five tiger barbs, 1 reed fish, 1 golden gourami, 1 rainbow shark, 1 algae eater, 1 dwarf new world south american chichlid, and 1 featherfin squeaker and 1 bala...

Hi, i purchased a mono a week ago along with two red clawed crabs. Everything has been fine until this morning when i noticed a redish/whitish string hanging from his anus. I checked again twenty minutes later and it was mostly gone so i figured he was poohing. But when I looked again three...