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Another option that I have been reading about is to buy another small tank (preferebly 5g) and keep a single predatory fish and feed the fry to it. I would like to buy a betta, but would he eat the fry? Can anyone suggest a good predatory fish that I could either keep seperate (in a small...

Due to a sudden death in my family I had to return home for 3 weeks, unfortunately leaving my tank (20 gallon, initially 4 corys, 7 neons, 4 guppies, several shrimp, heavily planted, 2.5wpg). I set up an auto feeder and lighting timer and gave a 50% water change and half filter change before...

I made my diy co2 kit a few days ago, 1 2ltr plastic bottle feeding into a smaller 300ml bottle as a bottle checker. Aquarium sealent used all over the kit. I then filled the bottle 3/4 the way with water, added 2 cups of sugar and 1 teaspoon of dried active yeast (i activated the yeast first...

Thanks guys :-) I've heard such horror stories about certain forums that I feared the worst here. It doesn't seem that way at all though. For the 5 plants it cost me 50 hong kong dollars (about $5US) and the moss cost another HK$10 (about US$1) so it's not the end of the world if I do end up...

Well, fish off a little information. This is my first tank, its a 15 gallon Juwel Rekord (24" X 12" X 14") and I'm hoping to get it nicely planted and have 5-10 neon tetra's swimming about quite happily. I'm using a 15 watt 'JBL Solar Tropic' flourescent (the highest wattage i could find for...