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Ouch I had no idea a good deal on 60 pounds of amethyst is 200 dollars, granted it was shipped from china Does anyone think I should still go through with buying it?

Can you post a picture

First of all Welcome to AA. If your interested in African cichlids there are alot of people that can give you tips of advice that will help alot.

Second thought I'm going to get 5 so their happier

Thanks everyone for the input I think I'm going to get 4 Cory cats when my tank is done cycling, does anyone know where to get them in Edmonton?and what variety should I get(bronze,albino,ect)?

That's a step in the right direction, thanks jewels. Does anyone else have experience with this?

I found a great deal on 60 pounds of polished round amethysts and I'm wondering if they could be used as substrate in one of my many aquariums?

Once a week my bottom feeders get zucchini,cucumber or lettus as well as algae pellets and meat pellets every 2-3 days

Ya sorry I diddent put any info about my new tank, It has sand bottom,soon it will have a good amount of java moss plus either red lotus or a small val and a moss ball.and I only plan on having red cherry shrimp plus a couple small ottos(plus mylasian trumpit snails). I'm using a aquaclear 30 filter(when I add shrimp I will add foam buffer) And I'm using 2X Coralife 50/50 lighting

How many small Otto cats should I put in my new 15 gal tank when it's finished cycling

Hey nanmer welcome to AA. I'm sure someone can help you fill your huge 380 tank

i use a 20.8gallon plastic garbage bin i got from rona or home depot cant remeber. let it sit for 2 days with chems in it then i can do water changes in my 2 55 gallon tanks and my 75 gallon tank all in one day

beautiful pup

thanks this will get me off to a really good start,i really appreciate all of the time and info jvision and jcgd

my new zebra pleco loves his ghost shrimp tankmates to much. i originally had 8 ghost shrimp with glolights and neons,the shrimp were doing great they even had babies, now i think im down to 3 ghost shrimp

Ok I'll forget about he shrimp what do you think of the female Betta in this tank?

Sorry that last post I wanted to say 1 female betta

I have a 55 gallon tank I'm thinking of going with an Asian theme,Mopani and mylasian wood.natural gravel(small granuals).And for plants I was thinking java moss, java fern,and a taller Asian plant.for my fish I was thinking 3 dojo loaches 3 upside-down catfish 1 red tailed black shark 1 female 6 harlequin 10 cherry shrimp I'm not sure if this setup will work please give me some comments. Thanks in advance Steve

Hey I'm thinking about starting a 30 gallon tank with a good variety of plants. I have never had more than 1 plant and some moss in my tanks so I never felt the need for fertilization or co2. I have looked around on the Internet for information and found some good stuff.I just want to know the difficulty of maintaining a medium-highly planted aquarium from someone that deals with it first hand Thanks in advance Steve

My neons and glowlights don't seem to touch my ghost shrimp. But my tetras are just little babies atm

Lol, I have 6 cherry shrimp and 15 ghost shrimp and 20 tetras in a 55 gallon and have never seen this kind of behavior from my shrimp

From what I hear mylasian trumpit snails don't touch plants and they eat a large variety of algaes

Hey everyone I'm new to fishkeeping forums so bare with me. I just signed up for AA and thought I would tell u guys something about myself. I'm 19 and live in the Edmonton area, I have only had my 3 fishtanks for about 9 months but I'm very interested in learning all I can about every aspect of the hobbie. Here is a list of my tanks 75gal-1M convict, 1F redtailed shark, 2 German gold ram, 3 electric blue ram, 2 bolivian red ram, 1 rubberlip pleco,3 black mystery snails, and 20 or more rabbit snails. Thinking of getting 3 German blue rams and putting the convict in my 55gal (temporary) quarantine/healing tank with a female pink convict. 55gal- 7 cardinal tetra, 8 glowlight tetra, 6 rummynose tetra, 1 L146 leopard frog pleco, 1 L046 zebra pleco, 9-10 ghost shrimp, 4 cherry red shrimp, 3 albino redshelled mystery snail, 4 zebra snail, 2 Asian gold clam 55gal- temporary quarantine/healing tank