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I finally decided on a yellow fish in my tank!! I chose to add a school of albino silver tipped tetra! So far 6 in my quarenteen tank. Thank you all for your suggestions!! It took me longer to decide than I thought. I visited the lfs last weekend and he had just gotten these in. I needed to clean the quarenteen tank and make sure parameters were good b4 throwing some fish in. Let me tell ya....it was hard walking away with no fish that day!🤣 but I believe that is what saves fishy lives!! Again many thanks for all the great ideas!

They are adorable!! Probably my favorite fish!! I love watching them look for food! I have peppered Cory's and they seem so shy. Never see them during the day. Congratulations on your babies!!

I did use a scotchbrite! Thank you!! And a kitchen too bc I couldn't find a razor. Good as new!! Whew! I was worried about fire, electrocution ect. Thank you all!! Good as new!!

So far it looks fine. I havnt gotten all the crud off yet. I will have to look for the razor for acrylic! Thanks. The more I chip away at this the more I see that the heater is looking brand new again!

It was like cement. I decided to soak it in vinegar water. Hopefully no harm to heater. I can scrape it off with fingernail in thinner areas. Where it is thick I will prob have to let it soak a while. Thank you for responding. I will look for a razor blade. I don't have any for my tanks as this tank is acrylic. I have been trying to figure out what I will use to scrape it off with. Thanks!

I have fresh water sponge growing in my hob reservoir in my 36 gal. I was going to turn my heat down in my tank a degree or two and spotted this brown crusty burnt looking substance on my heater! Could this be fresh water sponge burnt to a crisp? How can I get this off? The heater is working fine. Seems to be no visible damage anywhere on the heater. I do have it growing on my heater in the 20 gal but it is does not look like this! We have a snow storm coming and the closest place for me to get a new heater is lfs 15 miles (no big deal but $$$) Another pic shows the bracket it was sitting in. The dark spot on heater was i side the holder.

Thank you!! Yes it is! I feel like it's verification that I am giving the fish a healthy environment. I hope I am!

I am not a fish breeder. I'm just very excited to find new life in my 20gal! Last Friday I was peering into my little eco system and saw some swift movement. I couldn't believe what I was seeing!! Two baby corydoras!! I have 3 adults. 1 of them is probably about 4yrs and the other 2 are only about 1yr. I never expected any babies. I have never seen their eggs. And I have a Panda garra that I was sure would eat any babies. I think it was he that wiped out my shrimp colony. He seems to be leaving the corys alone and they do have little crevices to hide in. I also recently have had one mountain minnow fry survive. Just an exited new fish baby momma sharing!

Mine just appeared in my tank one day. If you search on YouTube there is a man with a channel that also had one appear in his tank and talks about it in a few of his videos. So does the Chanel "secret history living in your aquarium" his videos are pretty scientific. Very interesting

You must keep a pristine tank!! It's a good sign when you have these! They are a living thing. I believe they assist in keeping the water filtered as well. I don't know much about them. I also believe they are introduced by our water system.

I have had this growing in my cooler (70°) tank for a few years. I transferred some hornwart frm that tank to my warmer (80°ish)tank. A month ago I was cleaning the sponges from my hob and noticed the growth of it inside. Today I noticed it had spawned a new one and the original has doubled in size!! Such fun watching a habitat grow! Just thought I would share what I thought was interesting. The last pic is when I first noticed it.

Great idea!!

@Zeaqua @nabokovfan87 Yes! I was looking at a Japanese rice fish this morn, daisy's blue and golden something rather. So, you think a big tank with a bunch of littles would be a good look? I will need to think about this. I am getting so many really interesting ideas! Thanks!

Definitely considering those! Thanks!

My tank is 34" long 14" deep and 15" tall. I have decided to save the barbs for a larger tank. I saw an amazing set up in lansing I would love to replicate at pruess pets. I looked up the green rasbora, what an adorable fish. I would love that with my mountain minnows in my 20. It needs a pop of color too! They would be fun in this lager tank as well. Hengali rasbora are the smallest I have in the 36. No one bothers them. I will Def put the green rasb on my list! Thank you for the interesting suggestion!!

You all are very persuasive on the honey gourami! My lfs has a few rn but I have 2 new plattys in quarantine. Prob by December I will have honeys in my quarentine! I will post when and what!! Thanks everyone! This has been fun!

@KaijuKaijuthank you. it's a 36 gal. I have had this tank for almost 30yrs. It sat in my attic for half of that time until I got bored and started watching YouTube videos🤣 then I became a science project for our kiddos and three tanks later.....granted, one is a quarenteen tank always running. I appreciate your great suggestions. I will keep them in mind while shopping and experimenting!

@KaijuI do have a list above of what I do already have in my tank. I prob won't be able to fit much more after i add my yellows unless I am replacing. I do have a few plants but would like more. I just threw in some guppy grass, a spiral Val and a spiraled crypt. Here are pics of front and ends of my tank Here is the front @Kaiju

Awesome! I may try some shrimp!! I think sometimes the lfs owner gets annoyed at my 200 questions🤣 glad I can come here to ask!

Thank you for this info! That's very helpful. Your gourami are beautiful. I like that they both are very yellow. 2 of my lfs keep trying to sell me white fish with yellow tips on them. Like a tetra or some other fish and I am like, I want a YELLOW fish! 🤪 not a white fish with yellow. Wow! Those are very pretty! Thanks for the idea!

@KaijuAh, thank you! I would love to add shrimp to this tank. I am afraid they would be snacks for my bristle nose and the Bolivian rams. I do already have 5 Cory's. I am strongly considering the honey gourami. Maybe 3-5 of them. I am going toncheck out the otocinclus you mentioned. I have about 4 right now. I am not sure what kind, but they are not any shade of golden. Thanks so much for your suggestions!

If I go this route, how many males to females? Also are the females yellow as well? I keep seeing white females. Maybe those are a different type of honey?

Fortunately my rams don't bother any other fish in the tank, just ea other. I have 4. Maybe a few honey gourami would be nice. Thanks for the suggestion! They are very pretty

These have been on my list forever!! I mail ordered a half dozen and they all died😔 I reordered and the same thing happened. So I gave up. Now they are so much more expensive. I do love nano fish in a large tank! Thanks for reminding me of my first love! I do have mountain minnows in my 20 gal but not the yellow ones. That tank is about 5° cooler. I really enjoy mine. As for the barbs, I had not thought of female rosy barbs. I will look into that! Thank you. That Molly is very pretty too! Thank you so much for the suggestions!

I have been wanting bright yellow in my tank! Preferably a yellow school. I could settle for one or 2 larger non schooling as well. I have; 1 super red pleco 4 boliv rams 5 peppered Cory 5 lamchop (het) rasbora 7 danio- (2 pearl, 4 longfin leopard) 4 otocinclus 1 platy 2 Panda Gara numerous mystery snails (going in for trade soon) (2 orange and blk calico platty in qt to go in soon) tank is 36 gal, 78° , ph 7.6 Any suggestions? I have wracked my brain and done research and havent come up with anything but gold barbs. I have a planted tank and want to keep it nice.