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Royal Gramma, Gobies, Mandarins, Jawfish, Blennies, Clownfish, Dottyback I think all of the above would work (though not necessarily together)

My two cents: you need to have mechanical filtration between your macroalgae and your pump, otherwise you're going to clog your pump. Funnily enough, I just finished cycling my own 20G AIO aquarium and I am working on just this right now - want to maximize copepod populations for a Mandarin...

The one you want to regularly change is the carbon filter, because they may eventually leach back into the tank when they are spent. The other ones, I would literally never replace unless you see them degrading (as can happen with some biological media), and then you want a bunch of lead time...

If you can talk your parents into 10G do it. What happens is you get a little tank, and then if you decide this whole fish thing is fun you start kicking yourself about all the plants and critters you could get if you had space. So basically get the biggest tank you can.

There are people out on these forums who know more about this stuff than I do, but I'd say the size of the water change after you are at 0 ammonia and 0 nitrites (fyi I have never in my fishkeeping life had the API nitrite test turn up anything) would depend on how high your nitrate level is...

" Once everything reads correctly, turn off the filter and do a 80% water change. Fill a bucket with tap water and add water conditioner (How long do I have to wait before adding the water to the tank, especially for when I have fish in there?) " If someone didn't answer this yet, it's more or...

I have small volunteer plants growing in my new tank - they look like some feather macro algae I have seen in the store, but which I have never put in my tank! There are a few on the glass and a couple popping out of the substrate. Anyone know what they are? Thanks!

Thanks all, I will see if I can get a picture. Is there a downside to (proper) dosing with No Planaria? It sounds like it kills off many types of worms, and I hate seeing these things wriggling around in there, heaven forbid they start multiplying.

Hi everyone, So a couple of days ago I noticed a worm in my substrate, which I immediately vacuumed out of the tank. Come back today and I've spotted a few more, and I am trying to decide a course of action. Root cause is that I overestimated how much food my shrimp colony would need, which I...

Thanks again all - I ended up going with a bit of an off the wall solution. I went out and bought a leafy silk plant and glued the base to the aquarium lid. It got me pretty much exactly the overhung 'jungly' look I was going for - now we'll just see how long it takes me to get annoyed at the...

Thanks all, those are a couple ideas I'll look at. If anyone has a recommendation for a super low light natural plant that would fit this description would be interested too

I unfortunately don't have much (any) light to offer a real plant due to the tank location, if I could find something that basically never needs sunlight and won't need constant management so it won't take over the tank, I'd be more than happy to get one

HI all, Question for you how I'd like to liven up the top of my tank a bit, but I haven't had much luck finding fake plants that either float (and trail downward into the water) or perhaps attach to the side other tank. Anyone seen these and able to provide some links? Thanks!

Thanks all for the input - as long as they aren't some plague that's going to mess up my tank I am good Positive news is that in inspecting my tank top to bottom in this process I discovered that I have two tiny platy fry hanging out in the corner of my tank, so that's fun!

They seem grounded, they move abruptly like bugs and not ponderously/smoothly like snails. I have been trying to catch one swimming but they are so tiny.. I just noticed that my ornaments are littered with white dots as well, though these don't appear to be moving. They are the spitting of...

Here, for scale that is not a very large zucchinI slice, it is the tiny black dots FYI no new fish or items in the tank for about 1.5 months, plastic plants only

So I just dropped a zicchinI slice into my aquarium as a snack for my nerite snails, they happily munched for a bit and moved on, and then I came back and the thing has 7 or 8 tiny black dots on it - and they are moving! They are so small I can't see any features, but I am trying to figure out...

Mystery solved. White spots all over one of the fish today so I guess we've got ick.

Thanks - I've got gravel, don't know if that rules out that theory. I have heard mollies aren't suited for the 10 gallon tank (I have also learned not to listen to the phrase 'it should be ok' from certain fish vendors), could this all just be the one aggressive fish?

Hi Never posted here before but I am at a loss. Aquarium has been cycled for quite some time. 10G, a couple plates and a couple mollies, running the topfin 10G filter with some bio max added. Sits at 78 with little deviation. I have consistently 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, <5ppm nitrates. PH is a...