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I am using sand as I plan to get some cory cats but I don’t plan to plant any plants in the sand. How deep would y’all say I should have the sand?

Thanks for the input that the dwarfs would fit! I’ll have to look into the blue eye rainbows. Haven’t heard of them. I thought all other rainbow fish would be too big. I’ll check it out, thanks!

I'm trying to plan my purchase when I move my 8 ember tetras into my 29g tank. Would a school of 6 dwarf rainbows work? Is there enough space? The tank dimensions are 30in wide,12in deep, and 18 in high. Thanks for your input!

My tank is getting a ridiculous amount of stringy green algae. So I researched on here and think I have a plan. As I’m still a newbie, thought I’d put it out to y’all for support or adjustments… My tank: 8 ember tetras and 1-2 cherry shrimp left (got mayfly larvae that ate the rest), some...

All of your input was so great that I still can't totally decide :) I like the idea of the false Julii's because they are a little smaller but then I really like the look of the peppereds. Maybe I'll just go with whichever I can find for sale when I'm ready! Great for me to get this advice...

I have 8 ember tetras who will move into my new 29g tank, once it’s up, planted, and cycled. I’d like to add either 6 peppered cories or 6 false Julii cories. What do y’all think? The tank will have sand, live plants, and driftwood, and anything else that would be good for the cories :). Might...

Thank you all for all the input! We’ll definitely use it. Things have been busy at work so I haven’t had the energy to reply. We have started the tank and have crypt parva, water wisteria, a couple other tall skinny plants, and five Buce that we’re going to tie to driftwood. We’ll be getting the...

So, with sponge filters, could you clarify everything you do to keep them clean? I’ve heard folks say they just squeeze them out in water from the tank but how often? Do you only submerge the sponge part (not the part we’re the air hose attaches)? I’ve mostly used hob filters so I’m not clear on...

Hi all, My students and I are going to breed some CPDs. We want to order them ASAP so they get growing (unless someone has any adults they want to sell!). They will be in a 20g High, at least in the beginning, so I'm wondering which filter or filters y'all would recommend. We only have...

We are looking into which lfs will buy or trade fish from us. The nicest one doesn’t do that tho. Have another to call. And will look into what’s required for shipping. Anyone know if the chain pet stores trade or buy? We’ll definitely check into the wild bettas. I think the students would...

Yeah, unfortunate that the 20g is high, not long. So it may be a shrimp or pencilfish tank. We’ll see. From what I’ve read, cpd pairs can be put in a small breeding tank with some moss and they will spawn. Then you just remove the pair and have the eggs hatch and fry start growing up in the...

I have money to buy whichever size tank(s) we need!!! Thanks to a wonderful man in our community that did a bunch of fundraising :) Right now we have two available tanks: a 20g high and a 25g hexagonal tank. Don’t know that either will be great for breeding fish. So, we’ll buy what we need.

I need to clarify my first message as I left something out… while our goal is to eventually breed an endangered species, we have so much to learn before we’re ready for that. So we’d like to breed a pet fish first to learn all about breeding. I’d like one that we could successfully sell so the...

My wildlife class (high schoolers) are planning to breed endangered freshwater fish at some point in the future. We still have a lot to learn since we’ve only had a tank for a few months (3 painted platies that all turned out to be males). The students have decided against getting more platies...

Found and removed two more when I had to pull out a driftwood piece and re-tie a plant onto it. Hopefully there are too many more. The shrimp seem more active already tho I don’t know how they could know what happened!

Great info, thanks! I was able to track down where this terrarium came from and it was originally an aquarium for raising salmon fry. So we are good to go. But you make a good point about the hierarchy and it does seem that the bullying is slowly decreasing. So I’ll talk to the students about...

Hmmm… Is there any way to tell the difference between aquarium and terrarium tanks? I did notice that it’s seals are black, not clear. I’ll try to trace where it came from to get more info. So, those dimensions are 20g! It does seem quite a bit bigger and I was surprised by the 12.5g result...

I did decide to wait on meds and to try to catch and remove them by hand. And I got one out last night!!! Glad to hear it could be the only one :) I’ll keep an eye out for a while tho just in case. Yes, I think it was very young and probably also from a small-sized species. Crazy looking little...

The classroom tank I have, which turned out to have 3 male platies (we were hoping to breed), is a standard 10 gallon, has several plants, driftwood, and a sunk ship decoration that they love to swim thru and hang out in. However, as of Oct 26th, these three males have been fighting. Nothing...

Hmmm.... So I looked up the damselfly larvae and I think that's definitely what it is - ACK! It's either very young or a small species because it's only about 8 mm long and probably only half a millimeter wide. Watched videos of how they hunt and ACK! However, all but two of the shrimp are...