Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / January 2004

I just today noticed a little translucent worm wriggling around in my
tank. It was about 3 mm long and thin. Spotting another a few minutes
later, I decided to take a look in my corner filter (not cleaned for a
couple of weeks).

I've got a small 2 1/2 gallon tank with 1 Betta and an Ottocinclus. I've had
the betta since September & the Otto since November. I haven't had any
problems with them and their behaviour was always "normal".
Today I just noticed some very small whitish/translucent "bugs" moving

I've got one missing-presumed-dead molly in a heavily planted 120/gal tank.
(he was about 2 inches and chubby)
I've searched every possible spot I can see, several times, but I don't see
a body.  I'm thinking leave him and my corycats may help dispose of the

Do aquariums have a life expectancy?
I had just a basic 10 gallon.  My husband and I came home to about 10
gallons of water all over our tile and carpet last night.  It looks like it
was leaking slowly all day while we were gone at work.  There were about 3

My Silver Dollar fish, that I have owned for 16 yrs, just died and I was
curious about the normal life span of that variety of fish.  Did this fish live
longer than normal?

My platy has just given birth to fry....so far I have only spotted
two...they are SOOOO cute...
Trouble is I am having a hard time catching them....is there an easy way to
do this? I don't want them ll to get eaten.

About 5 months ago I inadvertently introduced pond snails into my 20
gal octagon 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

I would like some help identifying this fish. I would like to purchase
also please email.
It is listed at fishgeeks as unidentified.
http://fnp_tetra.tripod.com/tetra/obliqueneontetra1.jpg

Well, interesting day, decided I should post, maybe get a question answered.
Woke up this morning, and at the top of the tank, in a corner behind an
airstone "jetstream" there is about 30 small disks stuck to the glass
(eggs).

I set up a new 10 gallon aquarium a month ago. I have 1 black molly, 2
male yellow guppies , 1 yellow Balloon belly molly, 1 red platy and a
albino catfish.
Suddenly There are some new fishes ( very small 2-3 mm size). they are

I'm gonna be setting up my new 55G planted tank soon, and I'm wondering if I
should quarantine the first fish that I will introduce ... which will be 3
SAE, & 6 Ottos.  I know that the pro for quarantining the first fish is that
it's cheaper to medicate them if needed in a smaller ...

in order to prune a vallesneria, can you just cut the leaves
at the desired length?
Regards,
Benedict

Are those buckets that you can buy at home depot (the ones that have the HD
logo on the outside, I think they are 5G or so) safe for use with aquariums
(ie: water change, etc.).  Also does anyone now of a source for slightly
smaller buckets/containers?  A 5G might be a little too ...

We had a few hot days this summer.  This is not usually a problem as the
nights give the tanks a chance to cool off.  However, we had two days well
above 40 degrees and the night in between only dropped to 28 degrees.
Most of my aquariums have air pumps of some kind. However one of ...

Hello, I am new to this newsgroup. I have recently
setup a 10 gal. tank which now has 2 zebras, 2 neons,
2 peppered catfish ,one algae eater catfish and