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API Master Test Kit. API kH/gH Test Kit. Quarantine tank. Spare filters, air pumps, heaters, and all necessary fittings/materials for them (you’ll be glad when you wake up on that cold winter morning to discover your heater died and your fish don’t look happy). An assortment of appropriate...

As Macz pointed out, plants help to stabilize water quality. They also do a lot to make your critters feel safer, which can actually result in them being more active and more willing to venture out into the open, and can help to limit squabbles between tankmates. A heavily planted tank also...

This all sounds oddly familiar. We’re in an apartment. The company that owns is based in another state. Our leasing office has consistently sucked. Actions in bad faith time and time again, often in violation of the law. Meanwhile, we’ve been model tenants. Next month, we’re moving, after...

They’ll breed either way. The one thing to avoid if you’re going to culture them yourself is attracting wild fruit flies and allowing them into your culture. At that point, offspring might not be flightless.

Nine parts water to one part bleach.

Trial and error, friend. They’re flightless, which helps. You basically tap the top of the container a few times to knock them all down, hold it over your tank, and open the lid. When the desired number of flies has scrambled up and fallen into the tank, you close it. Not hard at all.

What kind of lighting are you using? Investing in a good, full-spectrum LED with substantial par is never a bad idea. Nutrients should be the second step, but don’t go overboard. You can do more harm than good. Personally, I use Seachem Flourish tabs every 4-6”. CO2 isn’t necessary for most...

Everything on the internet is true.

You can get them online, for one. I got mine at Petco. I also got some Repashy Superfly and started culturing my own. Pretty easy to do.

Do yourself a favor and watch “At Eternity’s Gate.” Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh...could anything be better? The writing was outstanding, too.

This has to be one of the best pieces of advice OP is going to get. I’m a horticulturist. Get customers all the time who ask me what plants will look good in their space and I’m like, “that’s not for me to say. I don’t have to look at it. You do. I’m here to tell you what will or won’t thrive...

I’ve used several Repashy products, and like them a lot. Also highly recommend Dennerle baby shrimp food for pretty much any shrimp. When it hits the water column, my shrimp go ballistic.

First off, I love your screen name and your Betta’s name. Guessing someone likes art. I’m with Ghelfaire. Corys need to be kept in schools. Six is generally the minimum there.

Marvin’s a picky cuss sometimes, but he can’t resist the fruit flies.

Try killing your filter and airstone and dropping a few live fruit flies in. They float, and still water with moving prey on the surface will often do the trick with labyrinth fish.