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doglover_50 wrote:ha! From what I've read from Emma and others, with my clowns it probably isn't worth it to begin with!

It really isn't. If you WANT to do them, the Java fern takes a lot of abuse and just keeps on going though.

I imagine if by "basic plants" you mean "Java ferns" you could probably get away with putting a single incandescent bulb somewhere in the remote proximity of your tank, and be juuuust fine. There's only a few plants to my knowledge that go well in loach tanks, and the only other one I can think of a...

Hey, Duff, that really doesn't look very much like my catfish. The bottom picture is rather similar in general 'look,' but the coloration is much more pale, and the whiskers are nowhere near as pronounced. My guy's body is a lot more 'fat'. Perhaps it's a morph of some kind? It's not easy to get pic...

Everything sounds fine apart from the Giraffe Catfish, a Giraffe will try and eat things that it really cant (common sense in a fish would be wonderful). I have had 4" Giraffe's try to eat a 3" bristlenose and all that happened was the bristlenose died and the Giraffe had a badly damaged mouth. I a...

Long post. Why hello there, fine folks of Loaches Online. I am KamikazeBen, a newcomer to these parts. Over the past two or so years, the 55 gallon tank that I got for free from a friend has gone from a Bolivian Ram tank, to a very diverse tank, to a...well, not as diverse tank. I accquired the tank...

If you don't get them, then I'm driving my butt back up to UNT to get them