Pet Forum / Aquaria / General / November 2005

I was reading in one of my dads old aqarium mag, from the arly 90's.
They were talking about feeding caned tuna to fish. What are your Ideas
and would it be good for my glowlights and loaches

I am curious to learn from those who feed their fish live foods.
I am  culturing live fish foods and I am I'm looking to make friends
with a few folks who are doing the same. Perhaps we can trade cultures
of what we don't already have The following is what I have:

what is the difference in sex between male and female common pleco.

I have a well-established (two years old) 30-gallon freshwater tank that's
never had any problems -- crystal clear water with healthy fish, doing
weekly 25 percent water changes. I'm getting ready to set up a second tank
of approximately the same size (I think this one is ...

Recently I was given a small Elephant Nose.  It's settled in very well
and I'm very pleased with the little fellow.
My problem now is that this morning one of my Platys in the same tank
has just started with Velvet.  In my other tank I have used Protozin at

Are any of the ng PFK magazine subscribers ?
If so, has any had the Christmas Issue yet ?
Peter

Thought I'd add a picture of my tank - seems to be the thing to do
these days.  For you dialup folk, It is a little bit big - ~1000x1600
and 1.2Mb
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~rickk/fishtank.jpg

I have the following discus for sale to free up some of my tanks.
20, 2.5" to 4" Blue Turquoise & Red Turquoise $20 to $35 each
10, 4" to 4.5" Blue snakeskin $40 each
12, 5" to 6" Blue Turquoise $65 each (12 months old)

I'm about to bring up and age old question ... which is the better
filter - Fluval or Eheim ?
I realize that you could do a search on the net in regards to this
question, but can anyone really tell me which way to go here.

A few months back my amazon swords started to develop brown spots on their
leaves.  The leaves also started to seperate from the main stalk.  The
smaller swords also look a bit yellow.  Overall they aren't doing to good.
I thought that either my tank wasn't getting enough nutrients ...

i arrived home this morning to find (another) one of my tiger barbs
dead.
i have a new tank (but essentially, it's the contents of my old tank
[approx. 1 1/2 yrs. old] transferred over--water, filters, gravel,

Character In Fish by Clifford Bower- Shore, Boards a bit
discoloured,otherwise good condition .1938
I just had to buy this...mainly on the grounds that it's such a weird
subject,and therefore interesting! Does pretty much what it says on the

I have a 65gal planted tank, Eheim canister filter with some discus and
about 18 cardinal tetra. The tetra have been doing really well for 6 months,
growing and eating whenever I drop in flakes or blood worms. Recently I
added another Eheim filter at the opposite end of the tank ...

I am in the process of moving my live plant/tetra/sword setup from a 28
gal. tank to a new 30 gal tank that I am setting up with fluorite and
eco-complete.
My 28 gal. tank that is remaining I am planning on cleaning up (good

I took some pictures of my tanks today
Click on the link then click thumb nails for bigger views.
Not the best tanks in the world but the are what I am happy with
http://www.lakebuild.com.au/tank/