Dubai aquarium cracks in emirate’s latest disturbance
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I am setting up a 3.7gallon/17 litres nano aquarium for a male betta and need ideas on a suitable filter,I have seen these at the local pet store but not sure if any are good enough?
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Hey guys thanks for all the quick responses! 10 points will defo be given! great advice aswell! keep it coming! =] I still dunno which to go for though! I live in the UK so petsmart is out of the question!
I have a pearl scale goldfish and I want to know what types of other goldfish can live in the aquarium with it. Please don’t start talking about tanks. Thank you! Please answer soon because I am going to the pet shop tomorrow.
I’ve kept freshwater tanks for years, but my current 20 gallon is my first planted aquarium. So far it’s going well, the chemistry is stable, and the critters (pair of honey gouramis, half dozen zebra danios, and five amano shrimp) and most of the plants (umbrella plants, dwarf baby tears, and what I think is some kind of liverwort) are doing really well. The amazon swords though, that I really wanted to be the focal point of the tank are nothing to write home about. They’re green and surviving, but they’re no bigger than the day I planted them (3 months ago). My understanding was that they were fast growing.
I’ve got eco-complete substrate in it, driftwood, heater, aquaclear 70 filter, and a 65 watt high efficiency/output florescent light fixture. I supplement with flourish, flourish excel (carbon), potassium and iron, but they’re still shrimpy.
So I started doing some research and found many who suggest that swords are heavy root feeders, so I need to find a way to get and keep more nutrients at the root base of these plants. Which eco-complete may not be terribly great for. I know jiffy pellets are used to start hydroponically grown terrestrial plants for exactly this same reason. I also know peat can be added to the filter to soften and acidify the water, but I’m wondering about using them to pot the swords before burrying them in the substrate.
Has anyone ever used them in an aquarium? Did they help? Did they screw up the water chemistry? Any other ideas on how to coax along baby swords?
I have some old fish cave house decorations for aquariums, in which I haven’t used in years.
I went to get one today to put in my aquarium for my betta, and so I went to rinse if off very good and I even let it set in some simmering water I boiled on the stove to sanitize it a little.
Anyways there’s a smell coming off of it, like a chemical or maybe the paint smell.
I’m a little worried to put it in the aquarium due to the smell, I’m afraid it might harm
my betta, so what do you think?
Here is my newly (in the 6th week) setup saltwater reef tank, my clowns are not sure what they want to host. They have been hosting my frogspawn, toadstool leather and goniopora(SP)
