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there are way more than one freshwater angel, but the one OP would enjoy the most from a hardiness perspective is p. scalare. Plenty of really cool morphs and a good personality. I like the silver angels or blue zebras myself, but its up to what your "tank aesthetic" is.

okay, good to know. i kept cherries in my tap water years ago and they were ok, just never saw them berried or babies. I have a buffering substrate which should lower this level over time, but I suppose I should start doing top offs with distilled or RO water to combat the high GH .

Hello! I am currently cycling a tank for neos or crs and my water is extremely hard , 20-30 is what my test says (my local water is listed as 150ppm so I assume it's around that). I can't find any info on whether this will cause problems with the shrimp or not, people only are talking about low...

How about a loach of some kind? There are some pretty cool ones out there, either bigger or smaller. stocking up on neons even more could be spectacular in a big tank too. I usually personally just go to the fish store with knowledge of most common species and pick something that's compatible...

some full grown odessa barbs or scissortail rasboras might be nice.

Have you considred upside down catfish? theyre fascinating top dwellers

BN plecos are less territorial as I understand, but I would worry about combining one with a different species of pleco-like fish instead of its own

Look up a picture of pop-eye, does the eye look similar to that? is it milky or white around the edges at all?

It looks ok from these pics but they're a little blurry. Could you describe the problem?

yup! Once the tank is cycled just get some snails or shrimp and they'll clean it right off

I wouldn't do a clown pleco. Personally I have one in with a blue phantom and he's pretty territorial. Tank is big enough for them to establish their own territories, but they squabble. Scared to think he might do the same to the twig cat considering they are both catfish and both will feed on...

that sounds good! Good luck too

where are you buying your fish from? All the same place? Some places have parasites in their systems or take bad care of their fish, so they can be sick when you buy them, especially if you are losing fish every couple of months. What sicknesses have your fish been dying of? Internal parasites...

if cories are too much, really I'd go with some amano shrimp or something, lol...

i inch per gallon rule is outdated and does not take into account for activity level of the fish or their bioload. using inch per gallon, you'd be keeping a goldfish in a 12 gallon tank and a common pleco in a 24 gallon, which doesn't work at all! Though I've never kept pictus myself, it seems...

I would personally go with a cockatoo cichlid, and some small shoaling fish perhaps a dwarf rainbowfish or some small rasboras and corydoras. You might enjoy more "group" behavior if you've only kept things like rainbow shakrs, pleco, and a few barbs

Hello, so I have a 55gal semi-aggressive community about 3 years old where I'm trying to fill in the foreground. The substrate is eco-complete, and right now the only plant doing well is giant vallisneria. Like, it is doing VERY well. Sending runners out constantly, big, beefy leaves (3-4ft long...

Hi! So I will be going to college next yr and was wondering if anyone had stocking suggestions for like a 2.5-5gal tank? Technically I am probably pushing it with 2.5 though... they really only allow bowls, but I will never keep a fish in a bowl so I'll see what I can do. I'd just like some...

i have tried pulling gently, he’s really on there and i don’t wanna hurt him

i have a golden nugget pleco who just got out of quarantine and went into my 55gal, obviously he was a little washed out from the stress and such, and was doing somewhat ok other than me thinking it was a little strange that he was sitting out in the open vs hiding in driftwood. i thought it was...