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Getting two male gouramis is risky. I bought a red flame and a powder blue, and the flame terrorized the blue to the point it stopped eating. At that point I took the blue back to the LFS.

In my...

This is a good idea, I wanted to encourage my fish to use the top-third of the tank more as well, but I'm taking a different approach.

I made a hinged cover with my tank using plexiglass, and have...

That was the question that ran through my mind when he told me that. I suppose you could try and observe their behavior in the LFS tank.

I accidentally bought three females boesemani's before I knew how to tell the difference between the males and females, and also thought yours looks like a female boesemani.

The yellow/green is...

I agree, powder blue is a gorgeous gourami. I bought a flame dwarf and powder blue for a 45 gallon/4ft tank and had to take the blue back because the flame dwarf was terrorizing him to the point he...

Indeed, this is how I did my fishless cycle, and all the advice I'd read said I could stock all at once as a result.

So based on what everyone said and stuff I read elsewhere, would this be a...

Thank you for the advice everyone.

I am going to test my tap water, that is a good idea.

I have not heard of the python water change, so I googled it, and if I have this right, it is basically...

Sorry, I should have given more information and didnt mean to offend. My point in the second post was to give the other possible reasons other than the tank not being cycled yet.

i change about...

I wouldnt jump to the conclusion that I am still cycling because I followed the fishless cycle procedure, had the expected spikes followed by eventual drop in in nitrites and ammonia to zero. I also...

Hello,

When I set up my tank about two months ago and began stocking it after a fishless cycle, I used the basic filter media that came with the fluval 405 i purchased. The water flow for the...

Yesterday I added 4 Boesemani Rainbows to my tank. When I bought them, I didn't realize the male and females would color differently, but I also heard that sometimes they don't take on the full color...

I took your advice, and took him back to the store. They said they would isolate him and nurse him back to health. I'm gonna miss the little guy, though.

I got home today, and the blue gourami is looking worse off. :( Poor guy looks like his tail fin is being nipped at. I've added some more hiding places for him so maybe he can escape if some other...

It is a 45 gallon tank, but four foot wide. Since I created the tank layout using a mirror image sort of idea, I figured they'd each take one side of the tank, which they sort of did.

The red one...

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My powder blue dwarf gourami seems to have begun a hunger strike. When I first introduced him into the talk, along with a flame dwarf gourami, he seemed fine. No problems eating or anything....

Oh thank you very much for that tip smaug. I actually asked the guy at the LFS if I should separate them out and he said 'nope, just plant them as is!. I'd prefer to separate them out actually, it...

@Smaug, yes, they are indeed newly planted (about a week in the tank). So far, if anything with my other plants, I'm more concerned about exposing too much of the crowns and roots, because in some...

Thanks Cliff I'll give those a try.

The red gravel you see is designed specifically for plants:

http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11147295

and I've got 3-4 inches of it. Where you see white gravel, that is a...

So, I've finally finished setting up my fish tank, added some live plants, 6 Zebra Danios, a Flame Dwarf and a powder blue gourami. Here it is:
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I'm so excited! Today after coming home from work, my Ammonia and Nitrites were both 0 for the first time (I had dosed with about 3-4ppm ammonia the day before). Nitrates are at 40-80ppm, I finally...

I should add another bit of info though I don't know if it makes any difference, 120 of those watts is at 6.5K, while the other 120 is at 13K. This is because I used to use this fixture for...

Ah, okay, you guys are correct, I retested my tank and the pH is 7.2. I think i tested too soon after I added the days dose of ammonia.

I have a 45 gallon that I want to add plants to, and 4 60 watt bulbs. This comes to 5.3 watts per gallon. Is there any plant or fish I should not have in here? Anything that wouldn't like all that...

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I believe I am nearing the end of my fishless cycle. It is hard to tell as I'm using test strips.

13 days ago, my nitrite spiked beyond measure, and nitrate steadily rose to 160 and for the...