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It is called "tiger lotus" in the aquarium trade, and is a tropical water lily. In certain times of year it will grow longer stems with lily pads and might even flower.

The NLS website isn't the best, they don't seem to be listing all of their foods on there... they definitely do flakes, but they only come in 2 varieties: freshwater and saltwater..

I feed the new life spectrum freshwater flakes to my tropicals (as well as their pellets), and the flake food seems pretty high quality, but I suspect might be too high protein for goldfish..
But I...

Filters look to be SunSun - a chinese brand, and very cheap - but don't let that scare you. I have one and it works great.

Undergravel filter will not work with sand, but you can still use the...

Your tetras are in a scary new place, without the support of a school, and I would dare guess in an uncycled tank - they will be incredibly stressed, causing them to behave in a way they would not...

Mine are with khuli loaches, otos, emerald eye rasboras and a betta, and everyone seems to get a share when it's feeding time. While they will feed actively and will peck at a wafer on the bottom,...

Blue gouramis supposedly average about 3 years in captivity, and the lucky ones get to live till 5, so 7 years is super old. Also, while a 10 gallon is way too cramped for a gourami for swimming...

I have platies, a platinum gourami and black neons in the same tank, and the black neons are the quickest, most verocius little fry-eaters I have ever seen. They will chase the fry through the...

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- MTS will dig and aerate your substrate, as already mentioned, which is particularly important with sand.
- Will eat uneated fish food, algae, dead fish (losses happen......

I was going to recomend a blue mystery snail, but they tend to come out of the water and would not work in an uncovered tank... How about some cheerful red ramshorns? They only eat dead plant matter...

Yep, I would go for a sunsun. Or two smaller sunsuns (http://www.trademe.co.nz/pets-animals/fish/pumps-filters/auction-565007573.htm) - works out cheaper, and without the UV... that's the one I have....

Just a note here (being from New Zealand) - the traders that sell the SunSun on TradeMe actually have a store in Auckland, and they offer warranties and can source SunSun parts if needed, so it's...

Ah, cheapie filters... Most people will tell you to get the expensive one, you get what you pay for, and I suppose that is often true...
However, I'm somewhat limited on funds myself, and have been...

Well, if you like SHINY things, check out pearl gouramis... they are the more peaceful of the gouramis and do ok with most tankmates (although I would not keep more than 1 male per tank..).

Or a...

I have used bleach on glass tanks for algae removing - works pretty well (and really fast), just make sure you overdose the dechlorinator when you fill the tank up for the first time..

As for the...

1. While tiger barb aggression can never be ruled out, I would say you would see them chase other fish if this was the cause of the deaths. Also, I would suspect that the first few corpses may have...

Otos, they are pretty great for algae munching (and they LOVE brown algae, even though it is not an algae). With 6 of them in a 65 gallon, you might not even need to supplement their diet much, from...

What temperature do you have inside your house? While guppies are tropical fish, they do ok in slightly lower temps than many other tropicals - if your house stays at or above 18*C (64.4*F), guppies...

One of the problems with cycling with fish (as you have done) is that the filter only develops enough beneficial bacteria to support the fish you already have - that means that you can only add a few...

it is possible that you have males of two different species of ancistrus (there are about 3 almost identical "bristlenose" types in the trade), which would account for them looking different and...

Veggies and algae wafers should be fine to keep your BN fed, and I believe that they would have to be pretty starved to try the slimecoat thing... They would first eat every scap of algae in the...

So long as there is a bit of driftwood in the pond for him, he should do ok.

You are harming your bristlenose by keeping him in a 6 gallon. I know it might not seem that way, since he is probably eating and swimming around and appearing happy, but trust me, he's not doing as...

The man at my LFS said 3 years after opening, but I have no idea where he got his info from... the thing is, I really only test when something seems off or if I'm cycling a new tank, so I don't even...

Stem plants (the saggitaria, and whatever it is you already have there... sorry, I'm not help with ID!) tend to get most of their nutrients from the water column. The vals tend to be more of a root...