Pet Forum / Aquaria / General / February 2006

Has anybody had a central brace break on a Juwel Rio 300 tank ?  I have
and am desperate to find out what to do, the front of the tank has bowed
but only every so slightly.  If anybody can help I'd be really grateful.
Cheers

My Chiclid has a couple of knobs I can best describe as
warts. They are flesh coloured and a few are near the top
of it's body and one near it's tail.
His health is not affected, he eats and is very active.

Dear Friends, good day and a great week to all of you!
I would like some advice and feedback from anyone who shares the same
experience.
My year old Albino Oscar (leaving in a roomy 465 litre American

I returned from holiday to find my 96 litre tank at 62 degrees instead
of 78: my 3 platys and 5 bleeding heart tetras are still alive but I'm
worried about increasing the water temperature too quickly. Has anyone
any experience of how quickly temperature can be increased safely?

Hi,  for some time i had a piece of hardwood driftwood  in my aquarium (45
litres with 7 white cloud mountain minnow and four neon tetra).  i then
decided i did not want it in and put it outside in the garden (london. u.k.)
for a year.

Ive a pair of angels, wasnt sure their were a breeding pair untill about two
week ago i caught them eating eggs laid on a plant, i removed the eggs to
tub with some meth blue and an airstone and they all turned white after
about 4 days i discarded them.

Hi , i do hope somebody can help , one of my parrot fish is looking
incredibley short of breath , he kept heading for the top of the tank to
talk a gulp of air , both my air pumps are working fine , but he seems to of
lost all his energy and is now struggling and is just sat near ...

Need help dont want to lose any other fish, i have post a couple times about
ongoing problems in my guppy tank that I thought was ick, I was very wrong,
I had got clear ick and treated for several days and was losing fish I lost
five so far, two before treating with ick med, ...

We just changed the water in my bowl containing a crown tail betta and
when we refilled the water with tap water, there were a whole bunch of
tiny bubbles in the bowl.  We added the tap water conditioner and
everything and there are still a whole bunch of really small bubbles in

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Dear Friends, good day and a great week to all of you!
I would like some advice and feedback from anyone who shares the same
experience.
My year old Albino Oscar (leaving in a roomy 465 litre American

So a long time ago I bought one of those small 25 watt water heaters
for the fish bowl.  It screws onto the side of the bowl much like a
vice.  I actually think its a Hagen Radiant Heater. Well anyway,
apparently they have a feature that regulates and maintains a certain

I guess we take continuous power for granted in the UK, and perhaps we
shouldn't. My part of North London lost power from 10pm until 11pm last
night.
I've several tanks of fish and I wasn't unduly worried as the central

Has any one used a Solar Powered Air Pump? Can anyone let me know how
good it is?
How long did it last? Any problem faced with these Air Pumps?
Thanks,