Pet Forum / Aquaria / General / October 2005

what is the best way too reseal a old metal frame aquarium,it leak
around were the glass meet the slate,is there a epoxy cement etc.

I have just visisted a LFS to find they have become even worse, at least 3-4
tanks had an extremly case of Ich, one tank had dropsy.
This LFS is awful, on many occasions I have complained to them about the
state of their fish. One day I was there and they had two male betta's in

I have finally managed to save a platy fry before it was eaten, or more to
the thruth it saved itself by hidng ontop of the filter.
at what age do they start to become coloured? as mine is still translucent?
and what is the period 'usually' for a fry to grow to a good size to be let

I've had 3 betta deaths in as many days.  I had 4 betta, each in its own
half-gallon tank.  I had two of these betta for 26 months without any
signs of illness (they were swimming and active just 12 hours before their
death).  A third betta just disappeared.  I fed it dinner one ...

   I am doing a little research to see how it would be to care for a fw
stingray... I would like to get one, Ive got an empty 125 gallon tank
setting in my aquarium room and still dont know what to get... Can anyone
give me some good info on Freshwater Stingrays, like what is ...

I had may 60g tank for a few years andI decided to go with a alot of live
plants and I added drift wood.  The guy at the plant shop said to take out
the carbon filters out of my 2 emperor 280s.  Now the wood has turned my
water kind of yellow.  How do I clear it up.   Is the only ...

I woke up yesterday morning and saw two more guppy fry in my 20gallon and I
was excited because there was three now (yesterday)... Well I woke up this
morning and noticed there were about 50 or more guppy fry swimming around in
there, so I took out the parents and put them in a ...

i just got my first pleco and have been wondering if i could set it
free when it grows too big to live happily in my tank. i read that
they live wild in florida.
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Now that I've established Coral Gravel is better than Tufaock for buffering
my pH drop ridden water (Thanks Sue :-) )
How do I know how much to put in the filter bag ?
Tanks are 400, 240, and 60 litres.

Beste lezers,
ik ben een poosje bij wanadoo famelie en heb een draad loos modem een livebox.
Heb problemen met inkomende telefoon, kan het soms aan een faxtoestel liggen of aan een tussengeschakelde antwoord apparaat. als ik wil bellen, moet ik eerst onder de telefoon hoorn een een ...

I have a 75Gal tank.
5 Guppies
3 Bleeding heart tetras
3 Plecos (2 x 6", 1 x 1")

Has anyone experienced problems keeping cory cats and plecos in the
same community tank?
--Gayze

Can anyone identify which of my Malawi's  are the parents of these please?
(Totally at a loss when it comes to a cichlid tank I'm afraid!)
Thanks
http://www.sunrise1.plus.com/cichlid%20babes.html

I am wondering how many of you would like a diy newsgroup such as
alt.aquarium.diy for talk of co2, hoods, canopies pumps etc please let me
know and I will propose a new group for us :-)
Nelson Fletcher

and dropped a few strands of cheese into the fish tank, they seemed to like
it.
is there any downside?