Pet Forum / Aquaria / General / January 2004

My pacu is going crazy and tearing up everthing
Any ideas?

hey all.looking for inof on "gourami disease"..info on web seems to be more
treatment related than cause specific, and even that is contradictory..is this
caused by bacteria or parasites? anyone have information or know of a good
informative site? thanks!

this might sound bit offf but here is my question, by the way i am from
sydney australlia.
i used to have tank when i was little kid and ever since i dream of having a
large and big tank. so now i start working i bought a new 250 Gallon

I was just curious about kosher salt for the aquarium. I saw some in the
kitchen and it didn't have any additives. Could that be used in a pinch?
(pun not intentended).
Enquiring minds want to know.

Hey all, I recently moved my aquarium to my new apartment, and I notice a
new kind of organism which has emerged from one of my pieces of live rock.
It is a white milky cocoon looking deal with some denseness in the base of
the cocoon attached to the live rock. It is white with ...

I have a 4 week old tropical tank set up.The nitrate reading is at danger
level.Some of the fish are dying. How do I reduce the nitrate content

I've just finished treating my betta for velvet and he's seems to be
doing much better now, which is fortunate.
His velvet wasn't going away and so I decided to treat him to a
second saltwater dip, but leave him in there longer than last time,

Anyone know how to lower Nitrite levels quickly ?
I fear that I have introduced too many fish into my cycled tank at one time.
The current Nitrite reading is 0.5, but all the fish seem fine - I have 3
Platies, 4 green tiger barbs & a small catfish.

I have a community (5g) tank with guppies, female bettas.  I keep my
male bettas separate.  I've been trying to breed them and I put a male
betta in the tank.
Now I never thought this would happen, but the females started to bite

have had 5 dwarf frogs in my tank now for aroudn 18 months , they are  a
source or great amusement .
Unfortunatleytoday one became terribly bloated and died.
Anybody have any ideas as to why , and can i stop it ahppening to the other

I'm trying to get rid of the black algae which is spreading in my tank.
It's probably due to high levels of phosphate and nitrate in the water.
Burt I can't cure this with a conventional water change, as my London tap
water is also really high in phosphate and nitrate.

"luminos" <x@x.net> wrote in message news:...

I posted recently about starting the fishless cycle in my new 75 gallon
tank.  Here is what I have done so far:
Set up tank with gravel, airstones, and filled it.
Added water conditioner to remove chlorine.

   After 16 days of having 6 White Clouds in my 20gallon show tank, the
ammonia levels have returned to zero.  They peaked at about 0.45 ppm, and
have been declining for the last 5 or 6 days, to zero today.  If anything, I
have been feeding them more lately.  My nitrite levels have ...

       I'm trying to find a source for altums, if anyone is aware of
someone selling such, could you direct me that way