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One of the biggest risks we take in this hobby is when we plunk new fish into a tank. Quarantining new fish is one option to greatly reduce the risk, but even with that, you're introducing something new into your nice sealed 'ecosystem' aquarium. Are you monitoring your water parameters...

Ellie, what's your water change schedule? Do you have a read on ammonia, nitrite and nitrate? I've had mollies get bloated and die on me in the past. Quality of food and not too much food is important for them. Wardleys is generally a horrible quality food. Like anything else, read the...

Hailey, not knowing anything about your setup, the most important thing you can do with fish-keeping is water changes. At a minimum, most tanks need a 50% weekly water change. The more crowded the tank, the more you need to do this. Siphon or bail out the old water and add new...

Welcome Riley74! Yep, I too would keep nitrates as low as possible with large weekly water changes (or sooner if needed). The dreaded brown-eye..

Holiday fun right there! I'd bring out the E-eel for the in-laws!

That's a tough one if you don't have family or an avid fish keeper to care for them for you while you're gone. An unfortunate issue with keeping any pets.

Yep. 3 goldfish and a pleco is too many fish in too small a tank. I'm assuming 2 of the goldies are commons or comets, then a fancy, then a pleco.. which could be a common pleco that can get a foot or more long. I'd personally keep only the black moor in a 20g. Comets or commons need a...

I've always just disregarded the little hose nipple in this style sponge bubbler filter and just dropped an air line with an air stone down in them. Problem is, you have to swap out your air stones every few months or they clog, back pressure your air pumps too much and ruin your air pumps...

Grover, it looks to me like you're having decent success! You wouldn't want wild growth in 15g tank anyway.. I've never really had what I'd call a "planted" tank, but I keep several tanks with lots of live plants. FWIW, all I've ever used was plant suitable T8, T5 or LED lighting, liquid...

Nice looking setups! Like said, this is going to be a nightmare if these tanks were not setup with seeded media in the filters. Using used substrate and water isn't going to cut it. Daily water param measuring and large water changes until you see nothing but nitrates. I so love the looks...

There's a lot more online forums available today than there was in the early 2000s, so you don't see many that are super busy given the 'flooded market'. That's my take anyway.. FWIW, this was the first forum I joined when I got serious in this hobby about 3yrs ago.. I started with...

Jena, it's a great thing you're not seeing any nitrites. Nitrites are very toxic to fish. More so than ammonia or nitrates. Given your nitrates are 40ppm, I'd increase the amount of water you change weekly. Ideally you try to keep your nitrates to 20ppm or less between your weekly water...