Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / November 2003

Tired of looking at multi-hundred dollar aquariums in stores, I've begun to
think about building my own. Is there a formula for determining the thickness
of the glass? What is the best method for framing odd shaped aquariums or any
aquarium for that matter.For the larger aquariums ...

Those four clown loaches looked so cute and lonesome there at the
store...
They're now aclimating into the Qtine tank. (Heaven help the small
snails that are in there now...)

Anyone ever try mixing neons and cardinals? Thinking putting in 6 cardinals
with my 7 neons. I wonder if there is any agressive tendencies between the
two species...
- Seweryn

I have a beta male for about 3 months now. He was very active. I have
him mated with female beta twice. First time i had fungus in my mating
tank and beta ate all the eggs. Second time, i used Maroxy. Male beta
was taking care of the fries coming out of the eggs. There were about

Old question, new question-er! This is a dupe of a post to
rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc.
I have a 20 gallon tank, cycling just fine, no ammonia or nitrItes,
hardness and nitrAte on the high side but not really bad. No real

Does anyone know where I can find some nice pictures of tropical fish from?

I've done it again, bought a fish I don't know the name of :-) It's here:
http://public.questus.dyndns.org/pleco.htm
The pet store said it was a L037, but the pictures of L037 on
http://www.planetcatfish.com/ doesn't look like this one!

...I cannot, for the life of me, raise pond snails. I know it's crazy,
but it's true.
For about a month now, I have been trying to convince the little
blighters to breed so I can feed them to my puffers before their teeth

we just got a 30 gallon freshwater tank and are starting out with
chiclids and some guppies and brine shrimp, some neon tetras and a
crab.
what are some creatures we can add later on that will add some spice,

Hi, I noticed my cories were flashing & scratching this past weekend, so I
started a treatment for parasites with a product called Maracide (contains
Aniline Green - synonym for Malachite Green).  The package says to treat for
5 days, but after 3 days of treatment, I have noticed ...

I have a Pristella maxillaris (X-ray tetra, red-tailed pristella) that has
something strange on his body in the caudal peduncle, just anterior of the
caudal fin. Where this part of the body is normally translucent, this fish's
caudal peduncle is filled with some kind of black tissue ...

Hi All: My wife bought 2 new Beta Fish.  The Bowls are more like vases
and The neck is small. I can see that it is going to be difficult to
get a net in there to remove the fish for cleaning and it has to be
done on two bowls. Are there any suggestions on how to make this

I think you guys have discussed this topic many times...but...I have
replaced my lamp light ("aquarium lamp") for an agro-lite lamp. According to
the info in the package has a 600 lumens output. THe light is quite
yelowish, and I am wondering if it is good for the plants. If I am ...

Almost every aquarium treatment and medicine clearly states that the
carbon filter should be removed before adding the medicine. However, I
have never come across any guidelines for how long it should be
removed for. It seems such an obvious question, but really I don't

Don't know about you, but it is easy to temperature match new water in
the summer in Iowa.   How is at about same temp as I keep the tropical
tanks.   But now that cold weather has set in, the house can be 10-12
Fahrenheit degrees colder than those tanks.  (Fortunately Goldfish ...