Someone brought these up in another post and I managed to get a decent picture of one of mine the other day and thought I'd post it up. These fish are native to the east coast of the United States. They are occasionally found as hitchhikers in ghost shrimp shipments so if you're interested...

I want to try to make a small plant low-tech aquarium.

I have a couple of questions about what to do when you have baby fish in a natural planted tank. Do you get them out and raise them separately? Or do they have enough chance to grow up in a natural planted tank? Is there automatically enough baby food in the tank or should you add some? And how...

Hi all! I'm trying high tech for the first time. So far the new tank set up hasn't been going so well. So far lots of plant melt, emersed growth plants are struggling to transition and the stems that are surviving are showing some weird signs. I made my own PPS-PRO dosing, and I'm injecting...

Info: Heavily planted 20 gallon. Over a year old. Miracle Grow Organic potting mix capped with gravel. Soil is 1 inch deep, maybe 1-1/2 in some places. Gravel cap is aquarium gravel and just enough to keep soil down. Had a wide variety of plants, but the “dwarf” sag has taken over. Pic below...