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What do i need to start a 25ltr marine tank a list please?

hi i have a 25 litre wall aquarium – would i be able to have it as a marine tank? if so what list of things would i need to buy for it? what names of fish could be kept in it? and how hard is it to maintain? i have never kept fish before so i dont understand alot of what i read so please reply in simple terms lol
thank you
ok, in that case can i have coral in a tropical tank? and what would be the best bright coloured fish to have?

Need advise on moving fish to bigger tank?

Ok so I have a pleco and am getting 4 angelfish my pleco is currently in a 10g and I want to move it too a 29g my problem is that I’m putting the 29g in the same spot as the 10g so I have to drain the ten so I have to put the fish in the 29g right away before I can cycle it so I am worried about losing fish. I have a 304 fluval canister filter for it does anybody know if it would work to build bacteria in the canister filter if I put it on the 10g for a little bit so that the new 29g will be sorta cycled when I put the filter on? And how I would go about protecting my fish in the 10g from the harsh curent and suction of the big canister filter. Thanks

Need Betta care help!?

First off all, I keep my Betta in a 1 Gallon tank. I dont want any messages about how thats too small because it’s not at all. I had a Betta before that live a year in a 1/2 gallon tank. And even the Pet store suggests 1 Gallon. Ok here are my questions:

- I cleaned my Betta’s tank on Thursday and the water still looks pretty clean but has “excreted/pooped” lol twice since then. It’s poop is green gross little blobs…ew. It stays at the bottom with the gravel but I’m worried it’s going to kill my fish for something. Will it hurt my fish? How often should I change it’s tank? With my last fish, I changed the water once a week. Friends of mine that have Betta say that they change it once a week too.

- My Betta seems to ALWAYS be asking for food. I dont want to feed it more than twice a day but it’s always waiting for food to come. It looks at me now because it knows I have the good stuff and it goes to the top of the tank, not to breath the bubbles out, but to look. Is this normal? It’s a smaller sized Betta so I expected it wouldnt eat that much. Right now I’m feeding it twice a day, 3 – 4 bits each feeding.

- If you put more conditioner in the tank that should be, will your fish be harmed? I’m just asking because the conditioner I have doesnt say how much I need to put it. Right now I’m putting in one “cap-full” of the conditioner. How much should I be putting in?
@Mark: ….Someone’s got a big vocabulary and a little dicktionary. But hey, I’m sure you’ve still got your looks – where are you keeping them? I didnt ask for a cocky remark. No best answer for you, honey.

Does a “cold water” fish need to have a light on at all times?

My son just got a one gallon fish aquarium with a filter and air pump. He got a gold fish today. Does he need to have the light on at night?

Do snails need oxygen when breeding them?

I am trying to raise some live snails I received from the pet store. I currently have them in a 1 gallon tank apart from all our fish. They have a live plant in it and I have fed them things like fish food and lettuce. They have not laid any eggs yet from what I can tell and have had them for about 2 weeks. Currently I do not have any filtration or air stones in their tank. Do they need these things to be able to breed?

None of them have died and a long time ago I had an infestation of snails in my old aquarium, so I do know what to look for when they have laid some eggs. And no I do not want to put them in any of our aquariums to breed, as we only want them to feed our dwarf puffers.
But do I need any oxygen being input to get them to lay eggs in the first place and for them to survive?
I don’t know the exact type, there are actually a couple different kinds, and we have about 5 of them. I know most snails are a-sexual. We got the from a pet store that has a large amount of them overtaking their aquariums.

What do i need to set up a ten gallon saltwater aquarium?

i know that i want one occellaris clown, a cardinal of some sort and a damsel or chromis.
i know i want one occellaris clown, a cardinal or damsel, and a chromis. a checklist would be nice.

I need to know about sponge filters for a 10 gallon freshwater aquarium?

Well I’m setting up a 10 gallon tank for a betta fish… And I decided I was going with a sponge filter… is the maintenance easy? And will it keep the water still and calm? I heard they can be kind of strong so what can you do about that???

I need some good ideas of what live plants i should get for my aquarium?

This will be my first live planted tank. I also will have african cichlids in the tank.