Pet Forum / Aquaria / General / November 2004

A nice (guessing 70 tank) with stand and loads of filtering equipment.
Essentially, Im ready to go.  But, Ive had smaller tanks only before with
freshwater.
I dont have loads of cash to throw at buying fish, but I was hoping for

   I have a question about filter maintenance for the Eheim 2260 canister
filter. I haven't done any maintenance (other than water changes) since I
setup this tank and realise that this is probably something I should be
doing. So here are my questions.

What is a good website for fish supplies... I'm looking for one where
someone has purchased items at a good price with good customer
service. Any help would be appreciated.
Hoops

I bought a small elephant nose today . But it passed away within 20hours.
I found the grill came in red color.
Does anyone know why?

FYI
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20041116/D86D6N2O0.html

Hi all, im a little confused by these, are they actually of any real benefit
at all?
Ive seen some on ebay and they claim to remove nitrites and ammonia and can
help with oxygenation etc?

I am just wondering if anybody has any experience with laminate wood
flooring & heavy tanks of this size??? Will it stand up to the weight of the
tank. I am putting in some laminate wood flooring in my living room where
there is currently carpet. I am worried that the weight of ...

Here's a link to my city's water report. I was hoping that some of the folks
out there that have a better understanding of water chemistry would take a
look and see how it relates to aquaria and water changes in the tank.
Currently I use water from the tap and a Python siphoning ...

I was thinking about setting up a cold water tank with a couple of goldfish
and a black moor , a friend sugguested why not get a couple of koi-carp
instead , but its only a 2 and a half foot tank.
i said it would be crazy to do such a thing , but he said that the fish will

I've never seen this before.  It's been years since I've had Mollies, but
they've always been very docile fish.
I've got 8 fry in a rearing basket.  At mealtime today, these fry were going
at it with one another, almost looked like they would kill each other for

One of my kissing gourami's seems to be getting
very aggressinve to some of my other fish. My tank
is a community 200 litre.I am almost certain that he
is responsible for the death of one of my red dwarf

One of our goldfish had to be quarantined because of an swollen eye,
caused by unknown reasons. Only one eye is inflammed. We tried to
treat it for Popeye, using Maracyn, to no effect. Recently we started
using Furan-2, and I noticed the swelling went down a little.

Wow, I need to go away more often!
I left for a week and had my wife feed the fish.  She excitedly called
the third day I was away with news she was seeing eggs everywhere in the
tank.  We have had angels breed before, so I wasn't as excited as her

OK, this is in our third tank and ive only had all three running for about 2
to 3 months.
Ive had normal growths of green algae in the other two, but maintenence and
snails and shrimps keep it all under control.

Well my male molly is on it's last leg.  Of the 6 fish I bought last week
for my new tank, the male molly just never seemed happy.
I did a water change yesterday (50%), added salt, pH 7.0 Seachem Neutral
Regulator which says that it reduces chlorine, chloramine and ammonia.