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I just recently emptied my 23 gallon tank from any fish and I was wondering what cichlids I could get? I want one that would be outgoing and swimming around a lot and excited to see me for food. I was thinking convicts, but are those too shy?

Hello. My rope fish (Noodle) manged to get very sick. I don't know what the disease exactly is but I'm treating it as if it were cotton mouth. It happened when I went on vacation for a week and a half. When I got home I realized something was very wrong so I measured all my parameters and they...

Help! I bought a new RT-Catfish 4 days ago. He's 4 inches and not accepting any pellets or dried shrimps. I tried to put some shrimps near his mouth and he dosen't eat it. But when i get an earthworm he rushed at my hands and snatched it. Area near my house dissent provide live foods. I got...

I like a lot of fish. Just making this post to see what other people like. Me- my dream fish (or top 5) would be: 1. a pond of butterfly koi (to me they look like dragons with their whiskers and long flowing fins) 2. broadtail ryukin (I love them, they're adorable, but I already have plans for a...

I currently have a nano tank and desperately need another pleco. Right now I have a L162, but all it does is hide and only comes out during water changes since I clean his hiding spot. Also in that tank are various shrimp(cross breeding), cpos(the aquarium I got my pair from were raised in a...

Looking to add an Alligator Gar or Spotted Gar to my collection. If you’re selling one, feel free to message me. Located in Riverside, CA. Thanks for looking!

I was given 15 Bumble bee Cichlids from an old classmate who's husband recently passed. it was his hobby. I already have a flower horn in a tank above this one so I had not stocked this tank yet and said why not.. I want to know what these fish are worth. I would like to pay her for them...

Hey all, about 3 days ago I got an RTG Arowana and 3 angelfish, they get along just fine but last night my Aro jumped out of his tank. His tail is hanging on by the thread and scales look pink. I have heated up the aquarium to 30 degrees Celsius and added salt to the tank. The Arowana is 6...

He has been losing pieces of his tail/fins everyday I thought he was being bullied so I separated him but he keeps losing more chunks of his tail. PLEASE HELP.

im gonna make a paludarium and when i went to the fish store these archerfish grabbed my attention and i really want them now but they need brackish water, can a jardini arowana live in brackish water?

I've realized that, no matter what fish we've got, we realize that there's always more fish on our wish list. Some of the fish we'll be able to purchase, keep, and care for; others, we will have to view at aquariums, hoping for the day we can own one of those fish. Here are my dream fish...

Hello, I have 5 red belly piranhas in a 125 gallon tank. I bought them 2 months ago and 2 of them are growing exponentially faster than most they are 3 times the size of the others. (Got then when they were a half an inch) I can tell the other 3 are honestly just not growing like normal ...

They stopped fighting and started to prepare the tank for breeding :) . Red Texas x super red dragon flowerhorn Cichlids

Hi, I want to set up a ray tank and have a few questions for which I am having trouble finding answers. I have been keeping fish for about three years now and decided I want to set up a ray tank finally. I've been doing a lot of reading and watching videos and decided I want to start with a...

so I was at the bait shop. Buying minnows. For my native tank. I bought 8 dozen crappie minnows like I always do. But they sold me this mixed in with the crappies. And I don't know what it is ! Please help me ID this fish. I don't have a clue !

Hello MFK! I'm in the process of building my first fish rack. The rack will consist of 5-10g, 5-29g and 1-100g rubbermaid. They will all be connected using a central filtration system. What size pump should I be looking at to filter this system?

Hi everyone, I have been out of the hobby for a while now and am eager to return. For years I have kept numerous Central/South American Cichlids. I was previously prone to overstocking the tank and adding numerous fish species that although were able to coexist, became stressful worrying about...

Hi guys, i have a 4 feet tank and i have a couple of cichlids including a firemouth, a tiger Oscar, an albino oscar, electric yellow auratus, stripped auratus, a golden Severum, a Convict cichlid a rainbow Shark, a pleco, 2 apple snails, a green terror, and a yellow parrot. Guys my issue is that...

Hey guys, Arapaima speculation question for anyone, Do you think an outdoor fish predator such a Blue Heron could/would prey on a decent sized outdoor Arapaima? I ask because Arapaima are supposedly 'armored' from predators and are known to eat birds but I am not sure how this would contend...

Hi guys, so I have a Electric Blue Acara and a Green Terror. They occasionally show breeding behaviors. Especially the Green Terror. He would shake like crazy and sometimes bite on something and shake. Meanwhile, the Electric Blue Acara seems like it's mimicking the Green Terror. Is it possible...