Recent content by NewTankGuy

Ya I ordered plants from eBay, and after I received my plants, and put them tank, then the nightmare began.  From that one plant order, my tank became INFESTED with leaches, yes LEACHES dozens and dozens of them, a massive outbreak of pond snails (8 Assassin snails in a 29 gal cant keep up with...

Thanks for the link!! These do look much more like what I am finding, and like you, i KEEP finding them.  I have removed everytthing from my tank, including every bit of substrate, but did keep my HOB filter to not break the tanks cycle.  However, they muse be living in the filter, because I...

so is there no real way to eliminate them from the tank entirely (without killing EVERYTHING)?  I just have to watch closely and do it one by one?  SO its it just like once you get them in a tank, they will always be in that tank?

So apparently I now have Dragonfly Nymphs in my tank.  I have broken the tank completely down, trashed everything, except my HOB filter (just so I didnt have to cycle all over again).  However, I am still finding these guys and what I think is their egg sacks.  The egg sacks are clear jello...

Be careful!!! Fish TB can EASILY spread to humans, and other pets, just by putting your hand in the tank with any kind of small wound or scratch!!   http://www.myaquariumclub.com/fish-tuberculosis-tb-7416.html

So in my 75 gal, I have 2 female albino BN pleco, and a black spotted male BN pleco, and well they made babies! lol.  Now its been about 2-3 weeks since i found the BN pleco Fry, and they are free swimming, and have a small amount of color already to them. They laid their eggs in a cave i have...

So my ablino cory cat laid eggs yesterday morning, but today when i tested the water I noticed a small spike in ammonia in the tank (went from 0ppm to about 0.25ppm-0.50ppm) so by instinct I want to do a water change because of the ammonia, but I didnt know if doing so will kill off all the eggs...

So I seen this guy pressed against the glass today in the gravel and have no idea what it is, or what I should do about it, let alone where it even came from.  It is defiantly alive, and to me looking like a little earthworm.  So any advice would be awesome, as I did not intentionally put this...

Great, thanks guys! Everything I read seems to say CO2 Injection, is not necessary, but preferred, so it just had me thinking, but you do bring up a excellent point.....why fix whats not broken.

So I am still pretty new to the aquarium hobby, and again need some advice.  I have two tanks going right now, a 75 gal, and a 29 gal-tall, both heavily planted, but that is something I have built up too over the last several months.  In the 75 gal, I have 60 lbs of Eco-Complete substrate(about...

Thanks for the feedback everyone! So if the snails wont hurt anything, or destroy the balance of my tanks i dont really care that they are in there.  However, I dont want a million of them so from the advice i have gotten, I put a few Assassin Snails in there (which actually are pretty sweet...