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Hello everybody, My golden rams and I are having a bit of a crisis. Two weeks ago my pretty pale female GR passed on quite suddenly. That day I did a complete water work-up, adjusted a few things and did a 25% water change. Everything was fine for a few days, so I called my LFS (unfortunately...

Hi all, I have a standard 29 gallon tank, planted with about 10 live plants, plus two mystery snails, 1 nerite snail, and 1 ghost shrimp. Here is my fish list: Name # Length Total glass cats 5, 1.5, 7.5 Platies 4, 1.5, 6 hatchets 3, 1, 3 guppies 2, 1, 2 Rams 2, 1, 2 Cories 2...

I have been having a lot of issues with my tank, so I'm starting to think that perhaps it is overstocked. I got the idea to get a second filter, a much better filter, for my 29 gallon tank. I ended up getting an API Filstar XP-S. It came in the mail today from Amazon and I was so excited to...

Hi all I'm having a problem in my 29 gallon that has me completely perplexed. About three weeks ago I noticed ich on my hatchetfish. I tried Kordon Ich attack to get rid of the ich, along with raising the temperature. The ich got so bad it killed 2 hatchets and started spreading to the other...

I was looking through an old photo album and found a picture of my very first tank, circa 1977. It got me wondering if anyone else has old pictures of their first set up? This pic looks like I posed the fish care book and their food, along with the beat-up fishbowl housing my swordtail fry...

Hi all! I'm almost done stocking my 29 gallon, and I have my eyes on maybe 2 cichlids. In particular, angelfish and golden rams. Both can be jerks, I know. The question is, which is the least jerky? I'm not going to own both species, it will be one or the other. Tank stock:. 6 glass cats, 4...

Hello! Got an air pump problem that has me stumped. A couple weeks ago I bought a (40 gallon) Tetra 77853 Whisper Air Pump to power an air stone in my 29 gallon tank. Last week I decided that if I'm going to have three pregnant female platies, I might as well try to save the fry. So I set up...

I'm so relieved that my tank made it through the cycle, that I feel like showing it off a bit. [emoji2] There are 4 twinbar platies, 6 glass catfish, and one spotted corydoras. The tank is planted with both real and plastic plants. The plastic plants were added when I realized just how...

Hi all, I kept fish as a child, but never seemed to have these many issues. My tank has been slowly going through its first cycle​. I made the mistake of thinking the tank had already cycled and went and bought fish. So now I have 4 twin bar platys, One spotted corydoras, and sixth glass...

Hi again! Thanks all again for the warm welcome. I'm happy to report that as of yesterday the ammonia in the tank was down to .25 (from 1.0-2.0). So things are moving along in the right direction, without me having to add Prime or do anything else, water wise. I really think vacuuming the...

Hi everyone, Nice to meet you! I had a 10 gallon freshwater tank when I was a kid from age 7-13. In it, I kept all kinds of freshwater fish, zebra danios, neon tetras, angelfish, algae eaters, and swordtails. I actually successfully bred the swordtails, only to have them all change to males...