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If you have a situation where you want fast flowing water, say for hillstream loaches, a sponge filter isn't going to do it. On the other hand, a sponge filter is great for fish that do not do well in a strong flow, such as bettas. Also, as you mentioned, many sponge filters take up a fair...

My males never hang out together on purpose but two of the females do. One of the other females is the most cantankerous (for a honey gourami) of the whole group. She routinely chases away any nearby honey gourami but ignores all the other fish. All my males are fairly chill and have established...

These are very tricky to sex. I bought a group of 7 and all were too young to sex when I got them. Eventually I started to see some differences and I did a lot of research online and I am now certain I have 3 males and 4 females. The males have a yellow edge on the dorsal and anal fins while...

Regarding the first question, basically you treat a buce like an anubias. They're epiphytes so you don't bury the rhizome. You can bury the roots, but my experience with multiple buces is that when I buy them there are very few roots so it's impossible to bury the roots. This leads to your third...

They're one of my favorite fish. I currently have a school of 8 in my heavily planted 75 gallon community tank. They school nicely, have perfect manners, and are very good looking.

Hygger has a number of lights, besides the above-mentioned HG957 I can recommend the Remote Control LED Aquarium Light. One advantage to this one is that if the power goes out it does remember your programmed settings, although when the power comes back on the light is at full 100% intensity for...

I think you should definitely put the betta in a styrofoam container to help retain the heat. Bettas like temperatures in the 78 - 80 degree range and she could get chilled if the temperature drops too low and ends up sick. Of course, buckle the containers with a seat belt so that they don't go...

I set up a 6 gallon tank for a betta and went through 3 bettas from the local Pet... chain store in 7 months. After that I drove about 2 hours to the closest lfs and bought a betta that wasn't in an oversized petri dish and he's still healthy, active, inquisitive, and feisty one year later. I...

I agree that your tank probably isn't fully cycled yet. Nevertheless, it's not unusual for a betta to glass surf. I had three bettas prior to the one I have now and none glass surfed, but my current betta (in a fully-cycled tank) glass surfed incessantly for weeks. It didn't matter if I turned...

I've found opaline gouramis to be rather aggressive, especially when they're larger than the other fish they live with. I think they are best kept with other fish of the same size or larger, not with smaller fish like TBs.

If the gouramis are immature it can be quite difficult to determine their sex, if not impossible. Ideally your lfs will let you bring one back in case you inadvertently end up with 2 of the same gender.

I was just about to do the weekly water change on my 75 gallon community aquarium. As usual, I tested the water before starting the water change and I was surprised to get a pH reading of 8.4 with the API master kit and an ammonia reading of 0.25. Last week the readings were 7.4 and 0.0...

Opaline gouramis are often quite aggressive. Many years ago I had one in a community tank and one day, after I had it for a couple months, I came home to find every fish killed except the opaline gourami and a cory. I suggest returning the opaline to the store if you can. Also, keeping more...

I think you have a thicklip gourami because the tail looks transparent. The tail of a honey gourami is pretty much the same color as its body. A thicklip's tail is transparent. Thicklip gouramis do get bigger than honeys, but I don't find them to be aggressive towards other fish. I have 3 in a...

Hello, I've never had honey gouramis so I can't speak to their behavior, but I have 2 female and 1 male sunset thicklip gouramis. They are beautiful fish. Yes, they definitely have personality and often swim to the front of the tank whenever anyone walks anywhere near it. They are peaceful in...

Thanks for those suggestions. I think the Marbled Hatchet is the most attractive of the hatchet fishes but I would need to figure out how to close off the opening for the canister filter hoses. I was already thinking about doubling the number of Neons, or maybe even more than doubling. They'd be...

I just updated my decades old 40 gallon aquarium to a 70-gallon aquarium the other day. The inhabitants of this spacious tank are 3 sunset thicklip gouramis, 6 harlequin rasboras, 8 black neons, and 4 amano shrimp. Obviously, I can fit a few more fish in there. I'd like a few suggestions on what...

I've successfully moved aquariums over distances of several hundred miles, including staying in a motel overnight with my fish. One thing I'd suggest is putting the fish in big coolers rather than buckets. You don't have to worry about splashing or jumping and the temperature will be steadier...

Basically, you need some ripples. How much rippling depends upon the fish and to a certain extent how much sound you want. I got my first canister filter about a year ago and I spent a few weeks trying out different positionings. I ended up having it so the holes are below the surface and...

I just did a fish-in cycle two weeks ago with a sponge filter full of bacteria from my other tank rather than bottled bacteria, but I had readings quite similar to yours the first week. The ammonia registered .25 each day for nearly a week, nitrites were always 0 - it never registered at all...