Pet Forum / Aquaria / General / December 2004

Well it happened the other day, Three tanks  [all 3ft]  all fish dead, and
all within 2 hours.
 I,m on tank water, and it had been raining for a week, when I decided to
do my weekly water change, 10 litres out, 10 litres in, been doing it for

Anyone care to identift these juvenile cichlids?
http://www.cutecats.co.uk/cichlids.jpg
I am wondering what these are, I have 10 in total, a few of each in the
picture.

I'm a novice at this so please bear with me
Bought my first tank (92 litre) 3.5 weeks ago, have added stress zyme as
directed but the nitrite level is still too high at approx 0.25 mg/l
I was hoping to get fish in before Xmas, so any advice would be much

I have a  55  gallon freshwater community tank with a few Danio's, Black
Neon Tetra's, Lemon Tetra's, Cory Cats and one Pleco.  All in all, no more
than 25 fish.  Problem is I had a neon and lemon tetra die after something
caused their mouths to distort.  Now I have just noticed a ...

I am confused about what the difference is between these supposedly two
different fish.
Is there anyway to tell just what fish it is?
I had what I thought was 3 plecostomous, they had a batch of very large

About 6 months ago, when I started my first tank, I got a baby pleco.  I
originally had it in my 10 gallon tank with my platies.  Then I started a 55
gallon tank so I moved him in there.  I hadn't seen him for about 3 months
(since I put him in the larger tank).  Today I did a ...

I love salt water fish. but have never try to keep them. I was given a 28gal
tank is it too small?

This is the sequence of events:
I have a 15 gallon tank. I remove the fish and  plants. I dose it with
Had-A-Snail. Snails still alive. I does it several more times, eventually
putting in about a dozen doses. I then give up, as there are still snails

I have two glass cats in one of my tanks.
One of them seems to be missing a little bit from his anal fin.
pics are here:
http://members.shaw.ca/anonomoose/cats/

Can anyone help please . I have a fairly new tank with some guppies in.
These have started to perish after all seemed ok . They have each developed
a light coloured patch on their bodies seemingly under the skin rather than
on it. They are mobile at first but then forward motion ...

Complete newbie here, so forgive my stupidity! Recently  (3 months ago) got  
a small tank for some tropical fish. Had problems with the light (5/8"x12"
8W).
After about a month, it came on brightly when it was turned on but that

I need to give some away to good home Deltas and Swordtails....You pay
shipping and handling..Bob

After years of having cw fish, I've now started a tropical tank. (In
addition to the cw). It's now been planted and running for a week.
Stocking will be done very very gradually but which fish do you recommend to
start it off? I was thinking a couple of platties or guppies?

I asked in alt.aquaria, but I'll ask here also in case there are people here
that don't hang out in AQ. I bought some plants and introduced these little
tiny round snails into my tank. Now they are everywhere and they are
destroying my lillies. I setup a new tank, and want to ...

I've been breeding guppies for a while now and have gotten pretty good at
telling the male fry from the female fry.  But now I'm breeding swordtails
and was wondering how old do the fry have to be before their gender is
distinguisible?  I have a few that are getting pretty big ...