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Thank you, aquariumlover and LyraGuppi! Aquariumlover, I bought the plants a few places.. I did buy one mother sword, but I trimmed it back quite a bit because it was actually close to like 2' tall, so that's all new growth.. it did probably take like a year to grow that large. Some of the...

Looks wonderful!!! I once had a tank with a DHG carpet and it took a couple weeks for it to get settled and grow out the roots and bit, and then it started shooting off runners like crazy. I'm sure it's just getting fully acclimated. :) Love the hardscape! Can't wait to see the plants grow out!

Hello! My name is Jennifer and I'm new to this forum (as you've probably guessed). I've been in the hobby for a few years now, learning as I go. :) I've currently got a low tech 75 gallon planted community tank - which is a loose Amazon "biotope" with just South American fish and plants, and...

I am posting this for a friend.. She's got a 35 gallon tank and has already had two deaths. Tank is established and cycled: 0 nitrites and ammonia, 5-10 nitrates and pH of 6.4 which has been steady for the past year. Temp is 79. It's a heavily planted tank and water changes are done biweekly at...

I've had both german blue rams and bolivian rams in my community tanks without issue. I had a pair of GBRs spawn and while, yes, they did their best to chase away the other fish, no one was ever actually nipped or harmed. So just one is just fine unless you get a crazy one. They'll get mean to...

My cardinals and rosys aren't juveniles any more. The pencilfish will be wild caught so they may not be juveniles either. Checkerboard cichlids stay pretty small and are probably the most shy and least aggressive of cichlids so I'm not too worried about them. I'm mostly worried about the...

I'm in the process of combining my tanks into a 75 gallon tank and so I am looking at stocking options. I like to keep south american themed tanks since they work well with my soft, acidic water. This will be a planted tank, and I want community fish. Right now I have 11 cardinal tetras, 11...

Hahah, so true!! I'm 90% sure I want corals. I love having live plants in my tank. I will talk to my LFS about getting the goby and pistol as a pair. Didn't know what was even a potential option. I love fw angelfish, and some of the cardinal fish remind me of angels, except pretty bad@$$. I...

As the title says, I am thinking about switching my 37gal FW planted to a saltwater tank.. Not sure if it'll be FOWLR or any corals.. If I do corals, they'd be easy ones. I'm just curious if I can keep the fish I'm interested in within my tank. I really like Kauderns Cardinal fish and Spotted...

I also agree that it's best not to go with an oversized heater in the event of the heater breaking. What I like to do is get two heaters in my tank that are slightly undersized and have them both running at the same time. This way, if one breaks, the other heater can still keep up well enough...

Thank you guys! I've been looking around around quite a bit today and this seems like a great forum.

I was recently referred to this forum by another member but realized I actually joined in 2011.. I'm not sure I've posted since 2011 though, and I've 'grown' quite a bit since 2011. =) I know I have read through posts on here since then, and I am looking for a new forum to call 'home', so I...

I'm redoing my aquascape and I'll be getting rid of some of my plants. I don't want to throw them away, but they're fairly young plants and with my low wattage bulbs they're not in pristine condition. They're not dead mind you, but I figured I'd offer to send them to someone. I'm located in...

I know that bamboo rots, so I was researching what to do on this. I appreciate this suggestion, I had thought of it but I wasn't sure what would be safe for a tank or not. The person who designed the tank said they just switch out the bamboo as it starts to rot because it's so cheap and easy to...

Yeah, I know it's obviously not the most "natural" of tanks, and natural would make the fish the happiest.. I just wanted to know if people thought that this would keep the fish comfortable enough.

I've got a 28 gallon tank with pool filter sand substrate. I've just got the normal t5 hood with a 6500k bulb. I didn't know ANYTHING about plants in a tank when I first planted my tank, and so a lot of the plants I have are actually high light plants that would probably prefer a more high tech...

Here's a picture of what I believe to be a male.. maybe.. and here's a blurry pic of the two swimming together, which they're doing an awful lot of. :) I'm glad that whatever gender they are, they seem to be getting along swimmingly!

So, I picked up two GBRs, I'm thinking one's female and one's male.. They had four and three had pink bellies and one did not, I got the one without pink on the belly, and one with pink. Both have black on the pelvic fins though, but I've read that's not a sure fire way to tell if it's a female...

Oh thank you, these are all good things to hear. I love my angel, but I'm scared it's harassing is only going to get worse. I took the angel in from a friend because adding it to his tank didn't go over well at all and the fish got attacked. It's all healed up now, but I don't want it picking on...

Hey, I'm a new member, but a frequent visitor to the forum. I'd just never joined because I didn't have a question I couldn't find the answer to yet. Here's my question: I've got a tank that's a few months old.. I started it from decorations and substrate that were from an established tank...