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He's a neon dwarf gourami. He's still pretty small though. Maybe 1.5" to 2" if I had to guess. I may just go back and get another one. How do you tell the females? I'll just cut back on the number of neons I was originally going to stock, I guess. Are gouramis known to eat plants? I'm...

Sounds good. The females are a grey color, aren't they? Considerably different from their male counterparts?

I just purchased a dwarf gourami for my 12 gallon cube and was reading on fishprofiles.com that they are best kept in male/female pairs. Is this true? If it's better for the fish, I'll go pick up another one. If it's not going to be too much of a deal, I'll keep one. I mean, if the fish is...

It's stable, that's for sure. Since the media I had already had bacteria in it, I think I'm going to go ahead and buy the dwarf gourami tonight, if I can, and then add the neons slowly after the 18th, along with the plants. Thanks for the help!

Hey guys, My wife bought me a 12 gallon nano cube for my birthday yesterday. My birthday is actually on February 18th, which hopefully is when we will go buy our fish and plants. It's going to be a planted tank, but at the moment, I only have gravel from an "established" tank, and the media...

Thanks a bunch for the help. My wife and I noticed the brackish tank in our local petco, which is suprisingly well taken care of and stocked. While looking there she started saying "Look at that! Look! It went behind that piece of driftwood!". Turns to find out, it was a little dwarf puffer. I'm...

Perfect post. Thanks for the helpful tips. I had some anachris that grew like weeds as well with super low lighting and no ferts. It's a wonderful plant. I guess I'll remove the amazon sword from the stocking list and replace it with anachris. I'll keep my eye out for some other plants. Any...

That doesn't sound like a bad idea. Will the plants survive and grow with the pH and hardness being that high? I'm adding the Natural CO2 system to the tank to provide CO2, and I'll buy some flourish and maybe an iron supplement to fertilize the plants. The bulbs aren't expensive at all, so I'll...

Hello everyone. I had originally had plans to purchase a much larger aquarium for our house, which it would have been a miracle if we could fit anything much bigger than a 29 gallon, but never the less, creativity was at work. While my wife and I we're pricing aquariums, we came across a 12...

Absolutely. It's like I remove ALL the fish that we're in there for MONTHS with no problems, do a small water change, acclimate the angels for an hour or so, and then two to three days later they start to get listless and then I find them stuck to the filter. I don't think I've had an angel to...

I've got a budget to get a 55 gallon tank for $100 dollars. I'm going to be building the stand myself, so that's pretty much in the budget as well. As for equipment, I've got a RENA XP2 and a Penguin 200 Biowheel filter that I will be using. I also have the heater. I've got about $100...

I had a single peacock eel that went from my 10 gallon, to my 29 gallon, and then to my 40 gallon breeder. He lived with another dojo loach, some blood parrots, a whole community of cichlids, a senegal bichir, neon tetras, tiger barbs, neolamprologus brichardi, you name it. That was one of THE...

I've tried keeping angels OVER and OVER and never have any luck with them at all. They usually die within a few days. I figured if I acclimated them right, they'd be fine. How hard is your water?

I'm starting up a new planted tank, but I have some worries. I don't have an RO filter yet, so my pH is going to stay at around 8.3-8.4. It's that high out of the tap. I want to have a nice planted tank, and I've already got the CO2, a Rena XP2 canister filter, and a 65 watt pc light fixture...

I've had a Marineland Penguin 200 biowheel filter, an aquaclear 70, and a rena xp2. I must say that I'm extremely impressed with the Rena Xp2. It's extremely easy to use, and you can buy larger amounts of media in bulk and customize it to it your filtration needs. The canister filters have...

I absolutely love my RENA XP2. You can't beat the quality for the price. It's got humongous baskets, and the XP2 and XP3 come with two baskets, I believe. As far as noise... not as noisy as any other filter I've used. If you put it in a good cabinet, it's virtually unnoticeable. Only when the...

Wow. And angels look so innocent. Those cories sound like an awesome idea. Sounds like a great tank. Here's what I'm planning as far as equipment / decorations... Appropriate Sized Tank - Probably a 29 gallon or 30 gallon Rio Aqua Pump 2500 Plus 2 Bags of Flourite 1 8"-10" Piece of...

I'm getting ready to start my first tank that's not cichlids or saltwater / reef due to my incredibly hard water. 8.3-8.4 out of the tap with no additives. I'm going to be getting the 24 GPD PURE-FLO TFC R.O SYSTEM here within the next few weeks. It's the best Ro system that I can afford...

I'll have to check that. It's weird that none of the other fish are showing any signs of high nitrates, and even the feather dusters are all over the place. I do plan on getting a protein skimmer in the next few months. I was thinking of the miniflotor. I like the coralife super skimmer, but it...

Sounds good Max. Thanks for the tip. So a silverside every 3 to 4 days? I was feeding him one every night since Saturday. He's kind of blown up now, like a hot air balloon (for lack of better words.) One side of his tentacles are halfway out, and the others are drawn in towards his body. I'll...