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Anyone else notice how the tank linked in the OP appears to have only the front glass tinted? Is that for real, or some kind of photo error? I've never seen that before.

Do the bottles of Prime have a dropper in the top? The de-clhorinator I use does, and the first thing I did is count how many drops it takes to fill a cap. Divide that by 10 and there's your drops...

I once stocked up a 70 gal with several 1-1.5 inch blue gills, a pumpkin seed, and a green sunfish. It was fun watching them establish territories, and they got along for quite a while. The blue...

Oh my, quite impressive indeed!

How about a list of fish?

I've always had good results with them. Had one tank, a 20L, running 10 years with one, never removed. This one had a small HOB AQ filter also, but many other tanks had nothing but UGF. I always...

Hi Smex, are your two guppies male and female?

Either way, welcome to the board!

I still refuse to say Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes are Grrrrreat!

Thank you, Allesgut.

He is fed a quality flake food, and/or shrimp pellets, 5-7 days a week. Then frozen bloodworms or brine shrimp once every week or two. No exactness to this. Might skip a day a...

I wanna see pics of the SpongeBob bubbler in action! thumbs2:

I took a couple pics tonight when I fed my guys. L. Botia was bought in 1994 and kept in a 20L in my office at work for 10 years along with some Tetra's. When I left the company (s)he moved to a 30g...

I'm in the Chicago suburbs. I have a wetlands in my backyard that used to flood full every spring, bringing in mature fish that would then spawn. I collected minnows, bull heads, and crayfish here.
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Lightly stocked is the way to go. Less maintenance and more success. Maybe skip the 10 gal idea and go for a larger tank.

Thanks AF and firefly, (no offense taken) I accidentally hit post on my OP before I was ready.

While I want my fish to be happy, I have a problem with the notion that once we acquire a school of...

Another vote for WCMM's. Very beautiful fish once they mature. Actually, I just started up a 10 with 6 of these.

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AF: Thanks. These fish were all in schools back in their day. All are 10 years old or near. What do you do when the school dwindles down due to old age? Keep adding to it? Doesn't make sense to me.
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Ha Ha, no to neither.

I just decided to dive back into the hobby and start a new tank or two. The folks here seemed helpful.

Actually, I have always had great success with my tanks, maybe since...

30 gallon tank. Coasting with little attention for the last 5-6 years.

1 Large Silver Dollar
1 lohachata botia (20 years old!)
1 Black Skirt Tetra
1 Clown Pleco

Sorry I'm not too good at...

In my experience an UGF and any HOB filter on a 30 gal. is always plenty. (edit: unless grossly over stocked) For years we ran tanks with only UGF. You just have to vacuum the gravel regularly.
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Thanks for the warm welcome all!

I've poked around on the forum a bit and it looks like there are plenty of informative people here. Although I've been in the hobby for 40 years, the last 6 or so...

Hello fellow fish keepers!

I started keeping fish in my early teens... nearly 40 years ago. Since then, I've almost always had at least one tank running, sometimes many more. I've had several fish...