Somewhere I ran across the idea of using cork for a backdrop. Looking around on the web, I've found cork bark and cork wall tiles. The cork bark is way too thick - usually 1"-2". I don't want to take that much out of a 12" deep aquarium. The wall tiles are mostly 3/8" which would be about...

I have a 75 gallon tank with: six large silver dollars (4 inches), four large goramis, three big bala sharks (six inches), two clown loaches, a few cory cats, assorted tetras, two tiger barbs, and a plecostamus. (sorry about the spelling). I keep the tank at 78 degrees. It has been set up for a...

As some of you may remember from previous posts, about 4 months ago, I decided to set up my fish tank. After previous success with a fishless cycle, I did it again. Once my ammonia dropped, I added my fish. A black ghost, 4 tiger barbs, 2 mollies, a cory and a pleco (I have a 29 gal tank). Well,...

i have noticed that my rainbow rubs up against the filter intake, he has a white cottony substance on his fins and side. It also looks like he has some growth on his moth as well. New tank that is cycling. any help would be aprechiated.

hi, my platy and 1 or 2 of her babys are hanging at the top of the tank seemingly gasping for air but i have only recently put a new airstone in. my other fish are fine eating normally i am giving the tank a routene clean today, but, i had some fancy guppys they started doing this and then died, i...

just made a quick web page to show my current 55gal and my new 220 that I'm setting up. sorry, no thumbnails yet. http://x-bit.org/aqua the buffalo head cichlid (steatocranus casuarius) on the front page is not mine. but, it's one of my favorite fish of all time so I had to use it :)

Hello, Just have a few questions about tank cycling. About 4 weeks ago I moved my baby oscar from a 20g to a 64g (~240L) tank. He loves it. I put as much water from the 20g tank into the 64g tank, since it had cycled (well it had 4 betta females in it and a male occasionally for over a...

I'm making planters out of cross-stich sheets and nylon thread, then when I have the right shape using aquarium silicone to cover them in either aquarium gravel or river rocks (some of each.) The substrate in the planters is going to be laterite mixed with vermiculite, with pond fertilizer tablets...

I am trying to perform a fishless cycle on my aquarium. Currently I'm adding 1/2 teaspoon of ammonia nightly (enough to bring the concentration to 2ppm) and the next day my ammonia level is zero. My concern is my Nitrite. About two weeks ago it spiked to 5ppm and recently (about 5 days ago) it has...

I have a planted 10 gallon w/ three cherry barbs and two oto cats. I recenty bought one of the otos. The day after I introduced her, she became lethargic and swollen, barely eating. I thought she was on her way out, since I read otos can be tough to acclimate to new tanks. that was about three...

Hello, I figured since we had a "biggest lies my LFS told me" thread, I would start this one after a little thing I saw in my LFS today. I saw one of these cichlids(http://bonderosa.rutgers.edu/images/Cichlid.JPG) and another pale yellow one (don't know what, but definitely a cichlid!) in a...

Will the carbon in my filter remove liquid fertilizer added to the water? Jamie

I managed to put my female guppy into a separate floating breeded trap about 2 hrs before she had little ones, so I now have about 12-14 babies. I have had little ones before, but this time I was able to see about 1/2 dozen being born. My question is, are they born in a sac? It seemed that they...

Assume complete ignorance, because that's what I have--I bought two double-strip shoplights expecting to pop the bulbs in and that be that. Of course the lights aren't working. Help!!! How do you wire shoplights? Is a starter something I have to buy separately? I have already ripped the boxes...

I'll be going to the fish store, which is fairly far from where I live, today for a couple different reasons and I was wondering about any particular medications I should think about picking up. The new-mother platy I talked about yesterday showed a white, mossy- looking infection in her gill on...

I went to feed the remaining 4 fish this morning and notice this bug or something crawling up the acrylic on the inside of the tank! It is about 1/4th the size of a dime, oval shaped, appears flat and is greyish in color. Has two small antennae sticking out the front and was slowly making its...

Hi, I bought 7 discus 2 weeks ago. One of them did not make it. The reset are fine. I noticed one of the remaining discus now have tiny holes in the head area, not really big and they looked more like air bubbbles. I'm worry this one may have the HITH and will get all other discus in trouble. The...

Hi: I bought a aquarium (fresh water, tropical) 4 weeks ago and I have 4 danios and 1 tetra and they all seem to be doing fine. I took a test of my tank and I found the following readings from the color charts. Nitrate: 20 Nitrite: 0 Hardness: 150 Alkalinity: 20 pH: ...

Hello all I noticed, just before I left for work this morning, that I had left the canister filter power turned off last night after I fed the fish. I'm furious with myself and, although the fish looked fine when I left, I'm dreading what I am going to find when I get home. Luckily the tank is...

I knew we had one large clown loach (about 6" long), but I just saw two of them! How did that happen? I guess only one used to be out at any given time, so we assumed it was only one. :) -- Victor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me...