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Yes it had water in it, and it started to go up the "out" tube, but could just never fully make it and get going. Edit: ok, we went and got tubing and hooked it up, after like half hour of trying to get it to work, we came to the conclusion that the filter is so clogged that it won't allow it...

Ok my friend lives by himself, and his parents left a fishtank in the house, and he didnt really take care of it. There is like some marbles for gravel and a red oscar and some other small fish enhabit it. Well i went over today to help him change the water, in it, cause there was tons of poop...

My plants (2 amazon swordtails and a Myriophyllum scabratum) seem to not be doing the best. Mainly the swordtails are getting like random like patches of brown on them. Like the veins of one leaf are brown, then another leaf looks like what i would say is a brown lookin algae or something is...

I own both a mountain horned dragon and a bearded dragon. Both are tame. My MHD seems to like to wander more then my BD does. I think my MHD seems to have become very lazy when it comes to feeding as it likes to only be hand fed :P . Problem with lizards (not gecko's) is that they have claws...

All the dirty blue thing is, is a charcoal filter thing, and a while back i cut it open and emptied out all the charcoal. So it's like a spongish type filter now. My ammonia test shows 0ppm so i guess it's fine.

ok my filter looks like so and has been running for probably 3 months. http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6013/dsc00017ub1.jpg There isn't really any like stopage or blockage. My water flows back into the tank just fine. I was just wondering if it needs a changing or if it's fine. There is...

Yeah thats what i was wondering when i was looking. I saw all the coiled lights but i wasn't sure if they were flourescent. I'll get a ride down there tomorrow or something and pick up 2 of them. Yeah i been looking at the hood, and i gotta make sure i get a small(er) sized one, because there...

Looked at petsmart saw one screw in typed flourescent bulb for $13 and said screw that. Lowes didn't have any screw in flourescent bulbs. I found some and the guy wasn't sure if they were flourescent or not. I will probably order something off that site and use that. The 2 x 13 watt bulb thing...

Just a question. I have a 10 gallon tank, 6 neon's and 5 cory's, 2 small ghost shrimp. Would a ADF be too much, or would they be little waste producers like the shrimp are, or do ADF's like to be kept more then one. If they need like more then one to be happy then i won't get any. I just...

i learned where the problem came from. Was at petsmart getting 2 ghost shrimp, and looked in the neon tank and no suprise i saw snails out the wazoo all over the glass and stuff. There going to have some real fun as most of em are still small. Pic...

ok, i just woke up it's 6:30 AM. Turned on lights to my fish and tank was standing there for a min and looking at the fish. Looked at my amazon swordtail and there is this small round (probably around the size of a pin head) semi-clear brown thing scooting up and down the leaf. It looks to have...

Plants for them would be nice. Use tap water dechorlinator stuff on the water, and the water will be fine.

I think i'll try to get to my local lowes tomorrow and look for screw in florescent bulbs. They should have em.

Yes i know the yellowish hue you describe, the 2 white clear incandescent bulbs i have in there right now give that off, and it bothered me at first but not so much now. I mean sure like clear bulbs would look better but it's not the biggest concern of mine. Edit: My walmart blows all they sell...

all i need are some screw in lights so my plants can grow and stay healthy. I am running a 10 gallon aquarium. I just need like 2 10 watt bulbs (nothing bigger) so i don't have an outbreak of algae. Edit: I'm not really a DIYer. My hood on my tank takes like screw in light bulbs like all normal...

Ok, i been using incandescent bulbs for a while now and my tank is planted so i need screw in flourescent bulbs. I went to walmart to look for fluourscent lights and all they had are the LONG bulbs with prongs on the end. Where can i obtain like two 10watt flourescent bulbs? Would petsmart...

i've read that neon's will eat shrimp eggs. Is that true? How long is the lifespan of amano shrimp usually?

asked this question in 2 forums now. So cory's work well shrimp and won't eat them or anything? Seems to be the case since from what i understand you keep amano shrimp in with your cory's.

You should keep them in groups more so of 4-5+. The only downside is some people here will tell you that gravel will be a bad substrate because it will wear down there barbels, as these guys like to try and dig alot and they can't dig on rocks as big as there heads. There was a topic about...

2 pieces of driftwood, 2 Myriophyllum scabratum plants, 1 large swordtail and 1 medium swordtail. Thats all the stuff i got in my tank. So yeah it's pretty decently planted. I thought they lived more so on the bottom of the tank? I was thinking since the cory's scour around on the bottom so...

i currently have 6 neon's and 5 bronze cory's in my 10 gallon and all is well. I asked this in begginner questions and they said 1-2 ghost shrimp would probably be fine, but someone said some fish eat them. He wasn't sure if cory's would bother them though and i figured you guys would know. I...

I currently have a 10 gallon tank, with 6 neon's and 5 cory's (bronze). All is well and good. Was wondering if i could add like a lone shrimp or like one of those african dwarf frogs. Both are neat lil creatures i have seen at my LFS. I think they sell ghost shrimp, but i can't remember, i just...

Fishless cycling takes more then a week, were talking 3-4 weeks mabye even a little more. Neon's are not hardy fish, neither are cory's.

Shouldn't it only take like 2-3 weeks to do a fishless cycle?

Everything seems to be fixed now. I quit using the med, and threw out that plant. They all seem to be fine now. I know that i won't see the bacteria, i was just wondering if it was large enough that it could hold enough bacteria that changing the main filter wouldn't cause any problems. I...

If i saw someone that thought that a clownfish belonged in a goldfish bowl because they saw finding nemo. I would come unglued, to put it mildly. Yes i do believe there needs to be more promotion for proper fish care techniques and such. People like to think that fish appear in a tank and take...

I didn't use it today. I did do a partial water change again today though. When i was reorganizing the plants i used my gravel vac to suck out all the crap floating around. Should i stick my new filter cartridge in there, if so how would this work. I got one in there that i took and cut open...

I included them in my 2nd post. It's really hard to tell exactly what is wrong. I don't know if im paranoid or if there hurt. I think there fine but it just looks odd. I looked at a pic on planent catfish and they look about the same. Mine are C. Aeneus. I might have found the problem in my...

There is something wrong with my corys. There all acting very weird. I think a few of them are starting to miss scales or something. It looks like there worn away kinda just behind there head. Someone please help me. I think im heading to my LFS, i ask them if they might know whats up.

Seems you always end up in my topics. Ammonia - 0ppm Nitrite - 0ppm Nitrate - 5ppm pH - ~6.2 The temp in the tank is usually almost always at 80. I have left the water level a little lower then normal so that the water that is dumped back into the tank from the filter makes more of a splash...

ok last sunday i got 5 corys and 6 neons. The 2 danios that were keeping my tank cycled i believed to be that one of them MIGHT be getting ick. I picked up some ick medication (called quick cure), to be safe. Ok fast foward to about yesterday. Fish are doing good. Cory's don't hide each time i...

Would like playsand from home depot be better for them?

Is this substrate small enough for my cory's to dig in? http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/664/dsc00660pt3.jpg There like really tiny rocks. I bought these like cubed tubifex worms to feed them. I stick it in the tank and get a lot of water in them and squish it around so it makes it go down to...

My mom rushed me so i looked for some ick treatment stuff while i was there. Saw some stuff called Quick Cure, says "fast relief for ick & other parasites". I use a carbon filter, but i opened it the other day and dumped out like all the carbon, so it's just like a pad filter only, like a...

10 gallon tank. planted ammonia - 0ppm nitrite - 0ppm nitrate - ~10ppm pH - ~6.2 I think it is about the size of a grain of salt. I'm about to head to the store, what would be a good brand of ick treatment to pick up.

I was planning on getting my cory's and neon's mabye today, but when i woke up today (like an hour ago), i went and turned on my lights and looked at my 2 danios i got sitting in the tank to keep it cycling. One has this small white spot DIRECTLY on top of its head. I know almost nothing about...

I'll go look into sponges like tomorrow or something. Does it say like filtration sponge or something? I'm totally lost on this filtration thing. I know i got carbon, and it will eventually put all the crap it absorbed back into the water (if i read correctly).

I'll go look into sponges like tomorrow or something. Does it say like filtration sponge or something? I'm totally lost on this filtration thing. I know i got carbon, and it will eventually put all the crap it absorbed back into the water (if i read correctly).

my tank is already cycled so like, should i stick a sponge in there along with the carbon thing? How would i know when i could remove the carbon thing, without killing off all my good bacteria.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3635400 That is what i have, and i have read that basically carbon sucks, except when you wish to get rid of meds. I keep hearing about sponges, can someone give me a link to what a sponge setup looks like, because i'm terribly confused...