Recent content by doraemon213

  Temperature is at 78F. It is higher than I wanted because of the weather here is getting really hot these days. My heater is set to 75F but obviously that wouldn't do anything to help cool down the water. I haven't seen the guppies nipping them, at least whenever I watch them, so I don't think...

I have a 20 gallon tank with 2 guppies and 6 panda cories, while 2 pandas were added for a few months with no problems, and 4 were added last week. A few questions I have:   I have noticed 2 pandas have been swimming up and down against the side of the aquarium glass A LOT. Is that abnormal? Are...

I am planning to have panda cories in a 20 gallon. I searched that the highest temperature they would prefer was 75F (23.9C), is that correct?   I am having problem getting the temperature down to 75 -- with the heater set to 75, the actual temperature has been fluctuating between 76 to 78...

Oh, I have only had the platy for 2 months... so she could be already pregnant when I bought her?   So am I still correct that platy and guppy cannot cross breed?     Thanks for the info!

... just had babies. I did not realize at all because of my poor tank lighting until I was doing water change today. There are 3 fry right now (probably a lot of the others died and I did not even know).   I did not intend to breed them. I just thought my only female platy in the tank was lonely...

Hi! I am totally new to aquascaping, so any advice would be great!   Just got a piece of wood for my 20 gallon, which is going to house panda cories, and probably some kind of small gourami and guppies. Still thinking which placement looks better:   (1)  (2)    Basically I want to have the...

The pictures are really helpful!! Thanks Ruskull!!    I hear a lot about Dwarf gourami disease... is that only prone to certain kinds of gouramis? 

Found a nice looking piece of wood in a store, still deciding if I should buy it. So, I am planning to have panda cories in my tank, and I heard they were very delicate, especially the barbels. The wood that I am interested in getting does have some splinters sticking out at some places, which...

Thanks for the replies! Those are some very useful information.   Honestly, I am still confused without pictures to look at (google searching doesn't seem accurate when it comes to these two types of gouramis).   Saw this at a store today, which was labeled as flame dwarf gourami. Is that...

Anyone? Is it abnormal to have a fish swimming crazily up and down at the side of the tank?

Does anybody know the specific differences between sunset thicklip gourami and honey gourami (visuals, living environment, etc)? Is thicklip suppoed to be bigger than honey in adult size, like 3.5 inches vs 2 inches?   I want to get the sunset thicklip, but so far I seem to have only seen honeys...

I am going to upgrade from 10 gallon to 20 gallon but not any time soon, because I am new and only recently got hold of some biological filter media. I still need to cycle the new tank and all that, so I won't be putting fish in the new one until at least a few weeks later.   So, I only have one...