Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / January 2004

A quick recap for those who missed the first post....
"2x96w compact flourescents in a nice custom poplar
box.  Pretty easy job really.  Put the thing on top of the Versa-tops
on the tank and turned it on.  Wow, that's nice, very bright, great

I've got a 2" big clown Pleco in a 15 Gal tank.  When I first got him, there
was "Salad" over everything, but now he's cleaned it all up, and there's
almost no algae left.  I am supplementing his diet with a single algae wafer
weekly.

I have a pleco that I rarely see and I'm wondering if I'm doing
something that bothers the fish.  I don't know anybody else that has
an aquarium so my only other frame of reference is the LFS.  Whenever
I go in there, I see their pleco's attached to the glass, doing their

Could someone please post an address of a web site that has a good range of
pictures of freshwater fish.
Many thanks,

my tank is still new.  I started it on 12-24-03.  I have done 2 partial
water changes.  The first about 3 gal the second 5.  After the first the
water cleared for about 2 days then got cloudy.  After the second, 01-02-04,
the water still has not cleared.  Am I just being impatient?? ...

I've never used meth blue before, but my betta has a bad case
of fungus which is suddenly worsening, so I've made him up a
little tank and put the correct dose of meth blue in it.
The water is really dark!

My tank is 60 x75 x30 centimeters. Can someone provide a formula to work out
capacity  Thanks.

About 5 months ago I inadvertantly introduced pond snails into my 20
gal octogon tank. 3 months ago I stripped the tank and did the boil
everything treatment. Missed an egg or two and have now stripped the
tank again. I do not want to intro loaches into my tank, I simply want

What would you recommend for a clean up crew for a 55G planted tank?  So far
I'm thinking of getting 6 Jullii cory cats to take care of any extra food
reaching the bottom.  However, I'm still undecided what to get to take care
of the algae.  Is an Otto better than a SAE?  Or do they ...

I've had this betta at home, in a 5g by himself, heated and filtered, and he
is the king, no doubt....
TNKY7 has taught me that you should feed it a variety, but not every day,
skip a day here and there to allow for digestion... seems to work as Bob, da

its like a alien has taken over my 155 gal fish tank.
Description of alien form:
Short - looks Fuzz  but not like the bear - is not stringy
brow to black

In my 90 gallon I have:
  4 silver dollars
  4 black neon tetras
  4 red eye tetras

Hi, I have about 5 years experience with aquariums and would like to
try and breed fish. What are some easy fish to breed? I am not
interested in breeding guppys, are there any tetras that could breed
easily? the tank i would have them in would be 10 gallon. Is this

   Hi this may sound odd to all you folks who complain about snail
infestations.  I have a group of four small clown loaches and they don't
seem very thrilled about either flakes or sinking carnivore wafers.  I was
thinking the local fish store has a tank infested with those tiny ...

I have had a 60L tank set up for 7 days and today got an ammonia testing
kit.
I then tested the water and the results came out as 0.0 ammonia?
this should be higher shouldnt it after just 7 days.