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Well I have a newly cycled (fishless cycle) 50 gallon tank with 6 black skirts, 1 platy, 2 mollies, 6 cories and some neons. I started with 10 now down to 7. I wasn't sure what was causeing it until tonight I saw the gang of Black Skirts ganging up on one neon tetra. I do have rocks and...

I am cycleing a 50 gallon and I think I am done, processing 5 ppm ammonia in 12 hours. I had gotten filter media from a friend to help speed it along. I got to looking at her fish today and might have seen some ich. (It's at a restaraunt and so didn't have a chance to talk to her). Now I am...

I suspect it is a type of anubias but I am not sure because of the placement in the lfs tank, but they don't always have their signs in the right places. I went to petsmart and asked for Java Fern and didn't watch them collect it and so came home with something else. I decided to keep it but I...

I am new to this and so I could be wrong but I would think that maybe the river sand would not be sterilized and so maybe would be high in bacteria. I would either boil it (if that is possible) or bake it. I don't know if you should wash it first or not, but I would (also) wash it after.

It's a 10 gallon, but I have a 50 gallon that is doing a fishless cycle and plan on moving them to it when it is done. The tank is overcrowded :blush: cause I didn 't know what I was doing when I got them. There are 3 mollies (one I haven't seen gasping), 4 cories, 2 blackskirt tetras, and...

The water stats are fine (stupid tanks not cycled but ammonia .25, nitrite 0, nitrate >10, ph 8.4 but thats normal for here) temp is at 79F and the water is hyper-oxygenated if anything (planted, bubble filter, bubble wand in addition to the HOB filter.) There doesn't seem to be anything...

Ok,I know I am seriously overstocked (10 gallons with 3 mollies, 1 platy, 4 cories, & 2 blackskirt tetras) I have a tank that is 50 gall that is cycling and so am wanting to plop the fish in there when it is done. Right now in the 10 gallon the stats aren't bad the nitrite has been staying 0...

I have some mature media in the big (50 gall) tank that I got from a friend. I realized today that I was depriving the tank of oxygen while trying to add insulation ( a blanket) to keep the tank warm to speed up the cycle :unsure: :blush: Fortunatly some remote region of my brain thought...

I know, I know, its much better for the fish, it goes quicker than fish-in cycling, etc, etc. I just want it to be over. Everyday, I check the water and hope it will be closer to over. I put in some mature media and that hasn't seemed to help signifigantly. I have a 2.5 gallon betta tank...

Maybe are you talking about the 2 F to 1 M ratio? I know my first inclination would be to get even numbers or if I didn't want lots of babies, 1 female to several males. I think alot of the books & stuff are addressing that more than if you want to keep one or the other. I have seen mention...

You don't need to suck on the siphon hose, The directions mine came with didn't make much sense to me but I have a meathod that works pretty well, and rarely splash myself. Fill the wide end of the tube with water, cover the other end of the hose with your finger. Then you hold the large end...

It's an All-glass, or Aqueon. I have heard of the Rio but never knew what it meant. Thanks for the idea though, I was able to find the manufacturer and find out the part number, maybe I will be able to order it. Christi

Well qw got a good deal (we thought) on a tank and stand. We thought it was a 55 gallon but it only holds 47 gallons of water (it needed resealing and we measured when we filled it with water to test the seal.) The problem is at the top plastic framing thing. Since its a long tank, there is a...

I have a hood on it that will only take the incandecent, since its not sheilded. I am working on trying to fix that, but not sure what I am going to do. Oops I meant 4- 5 watts per gallon (10 gallon tank). :blush: As for the water hardness/softness, the only tests I can find for that in...