Cranial Dump

I bought two cute little algae eaters this weekend at PetSmart. They will not grow bigger than 1.5″, which is very small for this type of fish, but I purposes chose these little guys from among the several algae eaters available. I made the 45 mile round trip to a pet store that [...]

I woke up this morning to find that the Pleco algae eater I just bought four days ago had died. I haven’t had a fatality in this aquarium before, so I think the fish was not well when I bought it.
Will head out to buy the smaller type of algae eater I found while [...]

I went looking for an algae eater for my aquarium at the pet store today, but foolishly did not do any research before making my purchase. I expected to find smaller, gold algae eaters at the pet store but they only had 3″ Plecos, which grow to be 18″ long. I told the [...]