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I've always had the understanding that oxygenating water is absolutely essential for healthy fish, I can't even imagine having a tank without an air pump. I have lots of air going in my outdoor pond as well, if my gold fish could talk they would tell you they love it. I've never had a problem...

I just purchased four very small silver dollars from the local pet store, I've had the light out for most of the last two days so they would get acclimated better. Tonight I noticed one of them has a weird looking mouth almost like it's rotting? It's a kind of whitish color and sick looking. One...

I have an established 29 gal with two filter units presently. I just completed the set up of a 75 gal and want to get the cycle going. I thought  would do a water change on the 29 subtracting about ten gal of waste from it and putting it into the 75 along with one of the dirty foam filters. I've...

I'm cycling a 75 gallon tank with a bio filter and a canister filter. I also have an established 29 gal with two fluval filters. I was going to take my dirty filters from the fluvals and use them to cycle to new tank. I'm just not sure the best way to do this, should I add them to the the bio...

I'm going to check both out, I do a lot of shopping on Amazon so I'll see what they have...thanks again!

They're just like the gold fish in my pond, they're so friendly. I can't do any work in the pond without them wanting to nuzzle my hands and they demand I rub their belly's.    I just set up a 75 gal tank, when I get it cycled good I want to get clown loach's. I know they do best in groups of at...

I just finished setting up my 75 gal tank and I'm looking at filtration. I have a Emperor 400 already but I want to add a canister filter. I was thinking some where in the $125.00 range. I've never had a canister type filter and I was hoping someone could give me insight into a good one, ease of...

I added the lamp eye's to the 29 gal tank and they seem to be doing very well. The lamp eye's seem to mind their own business and school together. When I first put them in, a skirt nipped at one but that's the only aggression I've seen. I have over ten days to decide whether to keep them, so I...

That's what I was afraid of, I specifically asked the person at pet smart if they would do okay in my 10 and it was a resounding yes! The tank has cycled very nicely and my filtration system seems to be optimal.   I have 6 black skirt tetras, two golden apple snails and five albino cory's in the...

I just finished cycling a 10 gal tank that I intended to use as a back up in case my 29 gal had problem. It has an under gravel filter and a 30 gal exterior filter. I'm a fanatic about my water, I do bi-weekly water changes and test almost daily. I bought 6 red eye tetra's, they looked so small...

Amen to that! I wouldn't have bought these had I known! I feel bad for the little fella's though, somebody's gotta take care of them. It makes me mad that mankind isn't satisfied with screwing his self up...he has to mess with nature as well! I've always had a soft spot for the animals that...

My little guy seems to be doing fantastic! I really thought he was a goner for sure! I think he was so undernourished when I got him, he looked awful but he's filling out now. He's hanging with the school and not sleeping in weeds anymore. I wish I could have taken photos of before and...

I Had always been a little suspect of Whisper air pumps and their flow rates so I dug out some of my medical equipment flow meters and did a little test. I have all of the Whisper line and they're fairly new.   10-30  1.2 LPM   40        2.0 LPM   60       3.2 on one side and 1.8 on the other...

I have the albino variety. My little glo fish seems to be doing 100% better today...he looks a lot better than when I brought him home. He has a great appetite and is schooling very well. I believe the poor little guy was just born scrawny and deformed. He appears to be recovering though, I'm...

This little guy is something, he was laying in the weeds last night and I thought for sure I'd putting him in a bag and taking him to pet smart to get another. This morning when I woke up he was swimming with the school and doing just fine. He's in the weeds again tonight, he seems to like to...