Many of you here have read posts by me in the past, and I've always been glad to assist if I could. I need a little help with something that shouldn't be much trouble. I'm currently located in Wisconsin, but plan to move to the Dallas, Texas area in the near future. I'm looking for employment in...

I have finally decided to tackle my aquarium's algae problem. For many months now I have simply bit the bullet and scrubbed my tank with a algae scrubber, but over time the situation grew out of control because I couldn't reach all the little nooks and crannies and the tank was starting to...

I am starting a new 10 gal tank (it's almost 2 weeks old). Just wondering if it advisable to clean the filter at all during cycling or just leave it be? Thus far it is showing now signs of clogging so I'm thinking I should just leave it. Any thoughts? Will it need at least a quick rinsing...

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Hello, My usually healthy, happy betta seems to have something wrong. I am not sure what the problem is, but his back-side seems to be (what I can only describe as) "rotting away". A little of his tail is missing from around there and he has what seems to be an injury or chunk taken out of...

What to do, what to do ? Tank is a juwel Rio 400l, with it's own bio-filter (I'm not using the carbon sponge), a Rena XP3 cannister filter which is normally running one of their biochem-zorb sachets, and a Vorton15 UV. It has a good number of plants, gravel, etc, 4 CL's, 5 angels about...

I have decided w/ 36g Hex is going to be a african tank. I am going to get the tank tomorrow and am getting filter/gravel etc for it on monday. Question is what kinds should i get? Because of the shape of the tank (think it is 2 feet tall and about the same across) I guess I can't have as many as...

Py-Acqua TEAM is proud to announce that beta version 0,9 of our GNU-GPL Aquarium Tank software is now on line. This release is full of new instruments that makes Py-Acqua more competitive: among the numerous new functionalities, we would like to point out the possibility of plugins insertion, the...

Py-Acqua TEAM is proud to announce that beta version 0,9 of our GNU-GPL Aquarium Tank software is now on line This release is full of new instruments that makes Py-Acqua more competitive regarding traditional software. Among the numerous new functionalities, we would like to point out the...

Hello, just did my monthly filter clean. Boy, are goldfish dirty buggers. The sponges were disgusting. Anyway, rinsed them in some tank water and removed some charcoal that was in there. (ashamed to say for about 6 weeks). Anyway, I put it all back together. Topped it up with some tank water...

My wife and I just purchased a pretty cool 5 gallon hex tank with bio wheel filter from walmart for a hospital tank. What is the best treatment for new fishfrom the LFS? Should i treat them with a combo of melafix and pimafix???? maybe a different regiment??? I figured this would be a safe bet so...

Sometimes (Like right now) the Loaches race up and down the tank at high speed. Up and down and up and down. Like they are going crazy. Is this normal?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, So my tank still isn't cycled. The nitrites are at 0. But after adding the "Cycle" additive the ammonia seems not to spike as hard, hovering around 1 ppm. I really want to see some major nitrite although I realize it is toxic.

Look at this! I found this doing a google image search to get ideas on how to "renovate" the inside of my tank. http://icechef.com/images/Ice%20Sculptures/Recent%20Carvings/3-20-04_Live_Fish_Tank_4.JPG

I've heard that non-iodized salt can be used in fresh-water tanks in place of sea-salt. Is this true ?? And can you tell me what the caking ingredients are to avoid....Many Thanks ~ED

Got some eggs again today. This time I wasn't going to let nature take its course, so I scooped them up and moved them to a breeding net in my shrimp tank. Not before half of them had been eaten, unfortunately. :( But, a good dozen are now resting comfortably in the small tank. More reports as...

Tell it to the sheriff, You see Carol. I am forwarding all your e-mail straight to thier office right he since you are accusing of "premeditated" murder. it is their job to protect you, from me. However we only have your word That I am out there to kill you. And...

Trying to understand Thunderbird

Woke up and fed the fish, didnt notice anything unusual. Sat down to the news and coffee, looked over and every fish in the tank was at the top of the water, all at the same time. For a split second I thought it was humorous they were all eating at the same time until I noticed that they werent...

I returned to the original scene of my ill fated angel fish yesterday morning, I'm still convinced that they were good fish and I killed them by messing around with too many ferts and not watching my pH and other water parameters. There were 4 left in the tank from which I had originally purchased,...