I was just sitting here and turned out the lights in the tank with only minimal light from another room but still enough to see the fish. I notice the following: 1. The tetras really get close. When the light is on, they school but not often, they are all over the tank. 2. The Loaches shoot up to...

I'm wondering how you all go about filling a large, new aquarium. Do you use some sort of treated tap water, or do you buy bottled water, or what? Forgive my ignorance. I'm new at this. (And I'm thinking of getting a 29 gallon tank.) -- 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail) ~~~~~~ "I...

Here's what I did: I was concerned about my betta's fins, thinking he had fin-rot. His fins were tearing a bit, and when the dorsal fin started with a small pin hole, then a few days later that elongated (about 1/4 inch) and then one morning it tore off leaving a long strip at the rear. ...

Question, in the last week or so my Mickey Mouse platy's belly has grown/swelled to twice the normal size. Is it possible she is pregnant? Now this may sound weird because she is the only platy in the tank, however she and one of my guppies have been inseparable ever since I introduced the guppies...

For Christmas I bought my 3 year old a 3.5 gallon tank and a crayfish and boy does he LOVE it. He gets so excited when he wakes up from his nap and it's time to feed Jack the crayfish. Jack also happens to be my son's name. He is not very orginal when naming things. Now he wants to add some...

Hello, New here, been lurking for about a month. Great resource this is. Now I have a question. I have a 10 gal. with six Serpae Tetras and three Green Cories. It is just a cheap outfit I picked up at Wal-Mart with a 10/15 Whisper filter. I have no live plants, the aquarium seems to be doing well...

I have a very lethargic Molly, which is spending virtually all its time sitting on the bottom. No sign of spots, redness, bulging eyes, and it does it if food is available (I just isolated it to the quarantine tank.) Any ideas? Any good sites on identifying and treating fish diseases? Thanks...

I'm fairly certain that my male Betta has "fungus." At least he looks very much like the picture on the box of "medicine" that I got to treat him. He has the white fuzzy-looking stuff on his "chin" and his fins have split into strips instead of a solid, single fin. He hasn't been eating, and he...

Hi all, I have a yellow cichlid which was labelled as ps. acci yellow. I googled. I presume they meant acei but I can't find any yellow morph. Moreover this has a horizontal stripe and is a bit slimmer than I'd expect. Help welcome! I have a photo and a video of my juveniles:

After making my friends suffer much fish talk and fish gazing two of them are going to get aquariums of their own. I was wondering what would be the fastest way for them to mature their tanks? I was thinking of giving or lending them a cup full of gravel..and maybe the ceramic turtle thats in my...

I mentioned in an earlier post that I have a 100 gallon tank. For filtering I have to powerheads, one reverse flow, and two filters an Emperor 400 and a smaller single bio-wheel Emperor. Question, would a freshwater tank get any filtering benefit from a protein skimmer?? I was under the...

I have a simple and somewhat well known to every seasoned aquarist method (sorry - I don't mean to say I invent all of this stuff - this particular method I originally saw in an issue of tfh) of keeping an aquarium's water level up and stable over a period of weeks) You need to have a big (5...

I was able to use my vortex today without incidents because I used 2 fluval hose elbows to hold the in/out tubing in the tank. No spills at all! I am very happy with my vortex and totally take back the negative words I have said about them in the past! There are amazingly good accessories out...

I have a 100 gallon tank which I am getting serious about again. The tank is in great shape and has around 15 fish in it right now. All good community fish no aggressive types. But I have been thinking about varying the kinds of critters in it. I found some shrimp at a local store and at a...

I have 4 Aqua Clear 110s and was thinking about placing a Aqua Clear Surface Skimmer on one of them. http://www.aquariumguys.com/aquaclear25.html Does anyone have experience and/or recommendations conserning the Aqua Clear Surface Skimmer? If so, hows it work for you?

I have a 30 gallon hex tank that is running nicely (healthy plants, good water quality), that has 5 adult mollies and 7 four week-old babies in it. The tank is being totally over-run by trumpet snails. Two months ago I noticed a single large snail, and now there are hundreds if not thousands of...

I was watching my male Dwarf Gourami in the 15 gall kitchen tank this morning. The tank is suffering from a snail infestation at the moment. He was picking the snails off of the glass, holding them for a few seconds in his mouth and then throwing them down onto the substrate. So I'm wondering if...

I am having a problem with persistant whitespot, only affecting my one clown loach. I have tried serveral whitespot treatment, but the problem persists -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG

Ok, yesterday I got a new 20gal tank from Big alls, I like there store where they accualy know their stuff even the casheer. They told me when I had ick with my Cl loaches not to use Ick meds. As my loaches are scaleless alot of chemicals can harm them than more fish, so I was sold some cheeper...

Is 1 teaspoon of salt per 5 gallons any of a bit hurtful for kuhli loaches? Thanks, I have 5 kuhli loaches in with my bedroom fancy guppy tank and some other fauna in there as well, any of the salt damaging? Also - any one know where I could get a test kit that measures those trace amounts of salt...