Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / December 2003

Is it ok to use the water from a dehumidifier as a source of sterile PH
neutral water?
Thanks
Clive

Any ideas? It's about 4 inches and eats
everything placed in front of it. It was rescued
from a Goldfish tank so I'm assuming it is
cold water but I could be wrong.

Hi, I have 4 tiger barbs in my 20 gallon community tank. She was
looking alot fatter so i thought maybe she was bloated. But I looked
online for pictures of a pregnant tiger barb, and IMO she looked a
heck of alot like the picture. What are some characteristics of Tiger

I got a PennPlaxx 20gal ugf, Profile 2900 air pump, and the "Finding Nemo" dvd
for Christmas from my son!
Life is good. Very good,
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We've set up a 25gal tank and had it cycling for nearly two weeks with live
plants, stress zyme etc and all seemed OK.
We then put our initial stock in of 5 mollies and 1 new born molly which was
in the tank at the LFS.

I want to add silicone sand to a freshwater mainly amazon fish aquarium. How
do I clean it? What is your opinion regarding the pH? Thanks.

Just checked my 20 gallon to make sure everything was ok.  With the holidays
I've just had time to feed them and not observe for the last few days.
Tonight I took the time to relax and do a fish head count when I noticed one
of my 2 gold barbs has a nasty red sore on it's side.  The ...

I have a 55 gal which HAD 9 beautiful Malawi cichlids in it.  The oldest 2
were 4 and 5 years old and 7 inches long.  They were gorgeous.  I went away
on a fishing trip for 5 days and when I came home they were all dead.  Every
one of them.  Even my pleco.  My wife had bought 2 new ...

I just added 6 Neon's to my tank last night and this morning there are two.
Only two of the last six survived also.  I would like to get  a couple dozen
Neon's or Cardinals in this tank, but it is getting expensive.  $1.97 each
minus 4 each time, makes the neon's about $6.00 each

I'm hoping to go shopping for some of the equipment I will need for my new
planted 55G tank and I'm having a really hard time deciding which brand of
filter and heater to go with.  I know I want a canister filter ... they seem
to be the best you can get, and I've narrowed it down to ...

Ok.. I have a 120G freshwater tank.   Current fish population
1 Angel
5 Tiger Barbs
3 Tinfoil Barbs

I have a pair of what I thought were mollies.
The female I am sure of, but the male was sold to me as a Platy early
on, and now I am unsure.
The male is clearly exhibiting mating behaviour on the Dalmation

i have a question regarding fertilizing plants and CO2.
I found an article on making your own mixture of K2SO4, KNO3, MgSO4
and trace elements to fertilize plants.
(http://www.cam.org/~tomlins/algae.html)

I was looking on the net for a few cory tank setup ideas.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworld/catfishology/natural_catfish-aquari
um.htm
(any other links welcome :) )

Changing over from my 46g bow front to a 40g aquarium. For bacterial
purposes, how much of the old gravel is good to put back in along with new
gravel? The old gravel is about a 50/50 mix of flourite and white gravel and
want to make it mostly flourite except for the old gravel put ...