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My Betta is acting strange since about a week and half. He hangs out at the top of the tank and was swimming sideways for just a couple seconds a few times. But I thought it was odd how he swam. Now his tankmates are starting to pick on him, i fear its because he is sick and weak and now they...

I cleaned everything as clean as possible, the filter still is trickling out. I guess it could be a bad filter?

I'm new too. Living in Berlin, the water is quite hard as well about 7.5-8ph. I'm not sure how set you are on fish, but thought I would mention the merits of shrimp keeping. My shrimp have been doing very well, and I can really recommend shrimp keeping. They are easy, they are natural cleaners...

Hi Guys, I'm a newbie to shrimp keeping. I love my shrimp so far and a decent sized colony of about 30-40 are inhabiting my tank now. I bought something like 5 bloody marys and I think 3 blue dreams from the petshop about 3 months ago. Now I have a colony! Only the females are still alive from...

OK its public now, try now. I just cleaned it (after that video, btw). Some sludge came out. I cleaned the impeller shaft magnet and the shaft housing with a que tip. The flow is a little bit more, but still not a full flow by any means.

Gotcha, i will try that now. Here is a video in the meantime just to show what i'm working with here:

Hi all, I'm still a bit new to the hobby, but recently got a second tank. The fluval edge 2. It has a side mounted AquaClear Power Filter 20. The whole setup is about 3 months old. We have pretty hard water here where I live, maybe its gunked up. I took it out yesterday and had a look. The...

Good idea. I have a water vac. but the diameter of the tube is too big and it drains the tank in a matter of 15 seconds or so. I will look for a smaller attachment/tube to use for the nano tank. I need to clean the junk out its getting really bad now with the new snails and i just fed my betta...

It's at 28 seconds. But I'll check those Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Took me awhile as they are so tiny and you can only really see them against a black background. But I finally captured a video of them.

Something weird I just noticed. There are tiny little white swimming organisms around the snail who is behaving weird. They are also swimming elsewhere in the tank I can see. Do you think these are harmful or some kind of parasite that came from the pet store? Should i immediately quarantime my...

The PH is naturally high here where I live. I'm thinking about getting some concentrated Pete moss medium for my next tank. I'm not sure on the rock. I did the standard little bit of tank water every 10 minutes for 30 minutes. The new snails are doing great. The old ones are still behaving...

Hi, Thanks, the tank is about 3 and a half months old, so it should be cycled. I did cycle it before adding the betta. I think the amonia readings are wrong. Still getting a handle on matching the colors. It pretty much should be all 0's in the above pic.