Pet Forum / Aquaria / General / October 2007

I bought a 77 gal(US) aquarium a while ago and the monthly water replacing
is killing me! I would like to use a pump to empty and refill about 25% of
the water. I have a drain pipe that I can tap into about 5 feet above the
aquarium and the warm water bucket (that I fill up the ...

We have a 29 gallon tank with 3 small angelfish, 3 neon tetras, and a shark.
What would you recommend to go with these fish.  We need some kind of algae
eaters too.
TIA

Thanks for people's advice so far - things are going well with the new tank.
I've lost one fish so far - no sign of it anywhere, but it was acting
'weird' the night before so figure it died and was thoughtfully disposed of
by the other fish before I woke up the next morning. The ...

Hi, over past few weeks my tank water has been getting cloudy, but after
doing a water change it doesn't seem to help it, last weekend I took out
half the water which helped for a bit but then it went back to being as bad
as before, I went to the local shop and they gave me stuff ...

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Out Beta 10 gallon tank is starting to get algea in it.  Can I put a
plecostomus in the tank to or will that drive the beta fish nutz?
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tonight i was surprised to find my ghost shrimp swimming at the top of the
bowl. I have 2 ghost shimp one about an 1 and a half one just under that and
a medium size betta. the ghost shrimp have each taken a side of the bowl to
swim the length of it and the betta is staying away ...

a day befare i bought a pot aquarium with four fishes i fed them
changed water and kept under fan and one day later one of the for
fishes died what was the mistake and how to save other ones

I maybe posting to the wrong group but I'm getting desperate.
I have 2 new turtles (They were someone else's first) The tank they were in
was small and not deep.
I brought a large NEW tank (approximate a third bigger) also new Fluval 230

Just got my first aquarium (only 35 litres) and it's busy doing all the good
stuff with the bacteria, water conditioning etc.  While it's doing that, I
would appreciate some advice on with what to stock it.
My daughter is set on a couple of standard type Angel fish but after a

I'm thinking about changing my 400 l tank from fresh water to marine and was
wondering what you guys consider the simplist and lowest maintenance
equipment to go for...
if i go for live rock do i still need to use a skimmer for fish only. can i

I was browsing PFK's website and found this link to a Downing Street
petition to ban goldfish being given as prizes.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Fishprize
I've signed up and thought maybe it would be of interest to other UK