Pet Forum / Aquaria / General / January 2007

Hi all - I know this topic is talked about frequently, but I'm
beginning to think there may be as many individual solutions as
problems. And I'm pretty much a newbie...so bear with me!  Here are my
particulars:

I've got some white, cottony "threads" (~1/4" long) showing up on the glass
and a little on a rock, but I see nothing on the fish.  Any ideas on what it
could be (fungus?) and treatment?
Thanks,

For those who fled rec.ponds due to the troll invasion.  There will soon be
a safe place on Usenet to post pond and pond fish related messages. This was
found on another NG:
"Hi Everyone:

I have used this filter for approx 2 yrs & it worked OK until I recently
cleaned it & since then the motor is noisy whereas before it was silent.
Unfortunately for such a good product the instruction manual is almost
useless & doesn't have any trouble shooting section.

I just transferred my three goldfish into a large tank. I want to use the
smaller tank to keep warm water tropical fish. Do I need to thoroughly clean
the tank which has underwater gravel filter tray and an external water
filter before I introduce any tropical fish?

Two weeks ago I bought a lovely red Siamese fighter. At the shop he was
housed in a small jar/tank. He has now settled down in his new 55 gallon
tank with 2 angels 5 cardinals, 5 pentazonal barbs, 4 zebra's and 2 clown
fish.

The dumbass...should be banned....like he deserves for bad mouthing disabled veterans, the 4F fuckup looser! They got your number Roy Tristan....
From wrecked ponds thanks to scumbag Tristan.

We have a 29 gallon aquarium, currently doesn't have many fish.  We have 4
neon tetras, 1 rummy-nosed tetra, 1 platy, 1 silver molly, and a
plecostamus.  What do you recommend that we could add to this group?
TIA

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Got a couple of air stones for my tank and I need to sink them to the bottom.
Ideally I want to sink the hoses along the edge of the tank and then bury the
air stones.  My tank is mega deep (800mm) and I am finding it hard to get the
air stones placed and the tubes down so I can ...

I have read a number of threads over the last few days all having a go
at any Juwel internal filter. I except that a large external is a good
thing but I am looking at the least amount of clutter I can as "the
other half" is more than keen to stop me having a tank at all if it

Short of getting some angels is there any way to stop guppies from
breeding?  My tank is beginning to look like fish soup!

I've just added (yesterday) an external to my 190L Jewel tanks. the tank
usually has, as well as the standard jewel corner filter, a fluval 4+
filter. At the moment they are all running, inc the external one.
Can I take out the fluval? Is there enough biological filter material in ...

I replaced my fish tank lights with new ones. now one of my fish is
hiding from the lights. The new lights are 50/50 6500k lights. Can these
lights hurt my fish?

I thought I would share a few videos of my current reef set up. the first
video shows how it looked a couple of months after set up in December 2005.
The second shows how it has progressed in 9 months and the last is the
difference a year makes (December 2006)