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Ok cool thanks. I think I will setup a 10 gallon plant overstock/snail breeder tank. I had no idea about the food/breeding being so connected. I got some in on plants and just left them alone and they breed pretty good but only a few ever get big. I wonder if it's because they weren't getting...

Yeah I recently got one amazon puffer and 3 pea puffers (in different tanks) so I definitely want to keep lots of snails. I plan to get more amazon puffers too but my lfs only had one in stock and didn't know when they were getting more so I grabbed him. Is there a good guide of sorts on snail...

Yeah he seemed active in the store but not overly aggressive. It's nice because where I get my fish from they don't keep the bettas in jars or cups, they mix them in throughout the store with appropriate fish in their other tanks. I feel this helps them acclimate to other fish before you ever...

Can someone tell me what type of betta this is? I looked at a few identification guides, but I am not sure. Is he just a Plakat? His tail doesn't seem as rounded, but he is also not that old, just got him a couple of weeks ago. I almost thought it was female but the store said it was male...

LMAO!!!! I know bad reflections. I had the lights turned down during acclimation. It is actually a poo pillow sitting on my computer chair. haha :D **aquarium co-op did not tell me to do more treatment when I bought him. So, I will just keep a close eye on him (not hard to do cuz he is so fun...

He is in his main tank, a 55 gallon. He is the only and first fish in there so I didn't do a QT tank. Here is a quick and dirty cellphone video I took of him on his first day. He has definitely bulked up a little from a week ago, looking at him now. That is kind of what I was thinking... I...

I got an amazon puffer last weekend from my LFS. They are a great store (Aquarium Co-op) and they do their own quarantines w/internal parasite treatments before they put fish on the floor, especially wild caught. The puffer I got was their last one. It was pretty skinny, but active, so I went...

Yeah that's probably a good idea. I have calmed myself down lol and am now all for waiting as long as it takes. Honestly, I am having a good time with my plants and snails and getting everything situated the way I want it, so hopefully in a month or two I will start looking at getting fish...

I just gotta have patience. Lol I remember back in the day when I knew nothing and had a 150 gallon tank setup with fish within a week. I'm surprised those oscars survived as long as they did. I've already been at this for a couple months now but I will just have to wait a bit longer :confused:

Ok, so I came up with some new ideas for the plants. From what I was reading it seems like these would all do ok in low end brackish. Maybe I will wait a bit longer for fish even once my tanks are cycled :'( . That way I can give some more time for the plants to fill in. Vallisneria Bacopa...

I can move plants around and put some in my other tanks if that is case. Do you have suggestions for brackish plants? I thought I had read that bacopa was fine in brackish at least. It will be very low brackish which is why I was thinking the plants might be ok. I contacted the source I will be...

Ok sounds good. That's kind of what I was leaning towards. Do you know about dwarf puffers and otos? I was thinking of either doing my 16 gallon with 1 dwarf puffer and 4-6 otos or just 3-4 puffers and no otos.

I just about have a 60 gallon tank cycled and ready for fish. I have been scaping, planting, and fishless-cycling 3 tanks from scratch for the last couple of months and am getting EXCITED for fish! I have a 16 gallon bowfront, 20 gallon, and a 60 gallon. (Ignore the cloudiness and brown algae :)...

Huh weird... it didn't post lol. I replied a few days ago but maybe I didn't hit the confirm button lol. Just to say thanks for your help!!! I will be going down to my LFS this weekend to pick out some plants. I will see what is available locally and that will also help me decide.

That's why I say, "biotope-ish" lol. I don't need a perfect biotope or anything, especially because I don't know what species are even readily available/difficult or easy to work with. I would rather get a plant that looks similar to a certain region's plant but is easier to work with and...

Here is a pic of my current setup as it is right now... I stopped filling it up because I realized I was going to have to change some stuff after I decided halfway through to switch to a different species tank lol. So I was thinking of taller plants on the back corners/sides and then I would...

Thanks! Do you have any recommendations on tank mates for the amazon's? I have just begun looking into what I could put in there with them and this is my first idea but will probably change before it's time to purchase lol... I'm still learning and have never kept any of these fish so all advice...

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Yeah it seemed like a long shot to me mainly because of those angry little pea's lol. But I figured I would put it out there and see what everyone said. Ultimately I will probably end up going with an Amazon Puffer community tank. As far as I understand they do better in decent sized groups and...

Hi all, So I have been setting up a 60 gallon tank and have been very back and forth about what I want to stock it with. I eventually decided on a Tanganyika tank with Tropheus and Synondontis.... but I have come to find out that they are very expensive and very hard to find. So.... back to a...