Thanks Georgie Very helpful unfortunately the filter was too powerful for my tank at this time. It was pushing some of my angelfish into the corner. I will hold onto the filter for when I get a larger tank and return to your advise at that time thank you so much

I'm setting up 2 new 10 gallons to fix an overcrowding issue in my 20 gallon. I also have a 5 gallon I received with a small pleco when a friend was moving ( no clue what kind of pleco). I know they are not big tanks by any means but unfortunately I have no room for anything bigger until my basement ...

Awesome totally cleared that up no it didn't come with a manual(2nd hand) but I was thinking I would go online and see if I can print it from their sites

She didn't take them decided she probably couldn't fit their tunes in due to all her ornaments in the tank

LOL I wanted it in tank talk and couldn't figure out for the life of me how to move it so I just started a new one thanx

Okay so it has been a month and all my fish are still alive :d I recently picked up a free 2nd hand tank and filter unfortunately the tank was cracked :YMSIGH: The filter works though and we were thinking of using it instead as it is a more powerful filter. The only problem is that I don't know if ...

The filter is a marineland magnum h.o.t. But I don't know if mine comes with the bio wheel or if I am supposed to put carbon in it some where.

Okay so I went to pick up a free tank that a gentleman originally got when our walmart was going out of selling fish. Unfortunately the tank was cracked and unusable but the original filter from walmart came with it. Can I use it right away? is there anything I need to do to it first like cycling it ...

She called it an allergy something to do with cleaning the tank with a cut and getting an infection from it. She already has the other fish in the tank they are all old two of her ciclids died of old age ( she said). That is why she only has one. I was thinking Danielle and I might take a walk over ...

Okay so there is a lady that goes to my church and looks after the aquarium at the manor she works at. We were talking about her recent marina allergy and it came out about my botias she said she has been wanting loaches but has never been able to find them :) she wants them to go in the 55 gallon ...

Very haunting. Where is she from?

i would say! that is beautiful! where do you buy the live plants from?

i know the lakes are so beautiful in this area and there are so many of them, the rocks and trees and lakes just make for beautiful landscapes. people in big cities just dont know what they're missing. although you are in canmore which if i recall has some beautiful views there with lakes and the ...

you guys can breath easy lol when i didnt here back from anyone before i went to bed i erred on the side of caution and just threw it in the garbage.

do you think this may be the reason behind the deteriorating fins?

my lfs puts no chemicals in her water only salt so she told me no adding that chlorine eliminator. she says she doent baby her fish that way they wont die when other people dont baby them. figured i should double check with ppl that actually know what they are talking about. thanks you guys are ...

ok so i have my container of new tap water here waiting for me to add i threw in some aquarium salt but i dont have any chemicals for dechlorization as my lfs says no chemicals. one of my friends says she used to leave her new tap water sit over night before adding it to get rid of chemicals. which ...

ok thank you i will do the water change today when i am done work. i hope it is not the botia but i dont really see their interactions since they never come out when i can see them. i remembered yesterday a friend of mine once mentioned a friend of her moms that lives in a village not far from here ...

Today I was looking at my silver dollars and realized that their fins don't look so hot 2 of them have huge amounts that are disappearing. The other day I noticed that one of my angels had a hole through the fin, today that hole is a rip so now that is four fish in a matter of days with fin problems ...

can i still use those wafers for cycling the tank now or is it too late since the fish are already in there? I feel like I need to go in and tell the LFS all this stuff I am learning. I was there when we bought the fish and we told her it was a new tank we had just gotten and all we wanted were a ...

was just sitting here eating some smoked salmon and my two year old is very messy so there are all kinds of flakes and a large piece she didn't finish. can i feed these to my loaches, lobster, neon rainbow's,danio's, dollars, and angelfish? or is it bad for them?

Gah and now of course I am realizing that I shouldn't have said the name of my town as there is only one fish store here and I used to babysit for the owner as a teen. :| I am so sorry if you are reading this and realizing that I am talking about you and your fish store. In all honesty I blame it on ...

Tina,
The tank came with a bios filter, is this what you are talking about when you say micro-organism filter?
Birger,
Unfortunately I am in a small city literally in the middle of nowhere! I live 6 hours north of Saskatoon,and 8 hours north of Winnipeg. The closest larger city centers to me would ...

tina, you would not believe the amount of times i had to do a partial water change since i put those fish in i was having unbelievable problems with cloudy water. I could barely see the fish and make out the plant at the back when standing right in front of the tank I thought I was going to loose ...

i looked at the red tail shark pics and it is not them, they are definately blue botia they look exactly like the pictures. unfortunately i have expressed all of my concerns to my husband about how things will likely end up in the tank, with the community not really being that compatible and the ...

you are good Mats that is exactly what it is thanx she called it a neon and so it threw me off because i not knowing a lot about fish automatically thought neon tetra.

i am not sure what type of pico or lobster they are but here are pics of them. The lobster was hiding more than usual so it is not a very good pic.

yeah getting frustrated with my husband and the shop owner a little all i wanted was more goldfish to fill the 20 gallon tank he bought instead of a new filter for my 2 gallon. when she said she had none and nothing that could survive with them my husband and her started shopping (i would have ...

My husband bought 3 for a new tank we just set up, we also bought a lobster, a huge pleco, 4 dollars, 4 angels, 4 zebra danios, and 4 tetras(i think). so far they don't seem aggressive but i cant really tell i guess since they only come out of their tubes when there is absolutely no movement outside ...

Yes! Yes! Yes! These are My fish the modesta ones. So from what i just read on the link provided it sounds like they should not be mixed in with my Pico, Dollars, Angels, Tetras and Zebras. It says that they are territorial and will often fight and should be put only with larger fish, so far all of ...