I'm new to this group AND to maintaining an aquarium, so pardon my intense ignorance. I have a small five gallon tank with two fish, one a fantail goldfish, about 1". We had a pH spike a few weeks after setting up the tank, and before I was educated about toxins in the water by the local...

Hi I've just bought a Juwel Rio 400, and am a bit confused over what I still need to buy. eg Structured Background STR600: do I need three of these, or are there more than one in a pack ? Reflectors: will I need these for coldwater fish and live plants ? If so, do the clips come as well ? Are...

http://www.petfish.net/bala.htm hmm... love the info that you find on the net these days. 25g tank min, eh.

Ok, am i dong this right, i have one of those algarde gravel vacs basically a 5 or 6 cm wide tube with siphon tubing attached. Thing is i just did it, (first time) and although it was certainly sucking up some of the waste, the flow was quite quick and i think i must have nearly done a 35% water...

i know you can add various things to your water to buffer the ph towards a certain value, that value being different depending exactly which mineral(s) you add, but does anyone know what will buffer to a ph of 7? Sodium bicarb buffers to around 8 i think coral to around 8.2 ish limestone...not...

FYI, Wal-mart has their pond stuff on clearance. I picked up a bunch of the sponge filters meant for pond pumps for $1 each. These are the ones that go over the intake like a sleeve and are made of coarse sponge. I have a bunch of them standing on end in my newly assembled home made wet/dry....

ive got 2 of them in a 40litre aquarium and have added 2 Leopard danios and theres no problem. However, we will be getting a 190litre tank at some point and again will be setting up as a tropical. Now we really want to keep a blue lobster , apple snails, a puffer of some sort and then some other...

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I am looking for help designing a MONSTER display aquarium. Octagon shaped, Approximately 8 feet in diameter and 8 feet deep. 5 feet above ground and 3 feet below. I am planning on building this tank 14 months from now so I need to get planning ASAP. Thanks for your assistance in advance. John...

Hi all, I am a newbie fish and aquarium owner and I think my plastic plants are killing my beloved guppies... or at least contributed to it. Here's my sequence of events. 1) New tank setup. 21L tropical temp., small filter box. Crushed quartz rock bottom. 2) Let tank sit for a week, filter and...

Hi everyone Well, the LFS never did order the female bettas from me, so i ended up getting one at Meijer's (a food/clothing/everything store). i added 1 fake plant and let it float at the surface incase they didn't get a long, so there would be more hiding areas. anyway, as far as i've observed,...

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I couldn't view your picture, but I wonder if yours is a silver molly? Once a long time ago my mom got a silver molly that developed black dots. We were really worried about it and felt pretty stupid when it turned out to be a dalmatian molly. ~Elizabeth "Dave__" wrote in message

We have a fairly new pond of about 8 weeks, the pool stays very clear as we have an ultra voilet light, and an air machine and pump. But we seem to have picked up blanket weed we don't know if it came on a plant we bought or if this is a common problem with ponds, any advise on getting rid of it...

I have a 12g NanoCube, with live plants, a very well-functioning biological filter (no ammonia or nitrites at all, except a tiny spike when I change water because of the broken-down chloramine--that fades to 0 in a few hours). I have 5 lively Golden Barbs, and used to have 2 otos, but they...

Hi all, Got a nice little 2 foot tank set up with bristlenoses and a seperate guppy fry containment net. Was running a small fluval 1 internal power filter but it seems to clog up about every third day. With the smallest amount of slime blocking it off. So today i bought a brand new Weipro TC-800...

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Hello everyone, Been offline for a while, hope everyone's ok! Moved into a new apartment recently and got a new tank to go with it! It's an Oceanic 40G Stretch Hex. Goregeous. I've got lots of plants, 110W of CF lighting, DIY CO2 and have started cycling it with six zebra danios. I added the...

I've had just a little experience with buying fish lately, but I've got a lot retail experience, and from both sides of the checkout counter I might add. Dances with Ferrets and some others were answering my question regarding the obligation of the retailer to "stand behind their fish", be...

I have 3 columbian sharks which are 3-4". When I first got them they swam constantly all over the tank and went nuts at feeding time. The last few weeks they started staying in a small area in the corner of the tank and only eat food after its been laying on the bottom for awhile and happens to...