Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / February 2004

Can anyone tell me which RO unit could take place of an aquarium
Pharmaceutical "tap water filter"?
I have been using the "tap water filter" for about two years and am ready to
go with an RO unit, just because I

I've got an adult female who isn't pregnant, but looks like it... she's
swollen in the belly, rear half has turned whitish, and she's been in
isolation for a week now... Before she was just laying on bottom... laying
on powerhead... I wasn't sure what it was because there were no ...

These are the fish I was thinking of putting in my planted 55G.  Looking for
some feedback about whether it's too much, etc.
1 pair Siamese Fighting Fish
1 pair Kribs

I just replaced my old Whisper Jr filter with an AC 150.  The tank is
10 gallons.  The Whisper shot its output stream across the top of the
tank and the current broke against the front glass.  It looked like I
got a good amount of filter output from the Whisper when the media was

My largest Silver Shark was lying in the middle of the lounge room floor
this morning.  His head was missing and there were teeth marks in his body.
I only have a 1" gap between the aquarium cover and the glass and I never
would have believed that the fish could get out or the cat ...

Does any aquarist (preferably locally in Saskatchewan)
have any Hepsetus odoe (African Pike Tetra) that are
overgrowing their aquariums and may want to part with
these fish for this or any other reason?

Ok, I may have jumped the gun on this, but I put 3 3" bronze/green cory cats
in the 55g the day before yesterday, all by themselves....they came from a
tank that had 4 kribs 1m/3f, 3 kuhli loaches, 3 cories, and a
bristlenose.... 2 of the paired off immediately, and hid under/near a ...

I've been doing a fishless cycle for many weeks now.  I can't remember
exactly when I started, but I think it is something like 5 weeks by now.
The ammonia has dropped to 0 ppm, but the nitrite level is still pegged
about a week after I first noticed it.  I've got a 75gal which I ...

I recently set up a 10,20 long and a 29 gallon tank. I tried cycle and
special blend.  the 10 and 20 took over a month to cycle with still a trace
of nitrite after a the month. The 29 was stuck in the nitrite part of the
cycle with the nitrite off the scale for about 3 weeks, i did ...

I have a 10 gal. tank i use for young fry. It contains 1 ghost shrimp,2 cory
cats,1 otto cat,1 pregnant guppy,2 black kuhli loaches and had 6  5/16"
dalmation mollie fry, now 4. The mollies have been in there for about 2
weeks and this morning 2 were gone. The only guy i would ...

Has anyone experience with zebra otos?  I would very much like to get some
of these in a few of months time.
My water is hard and alkaline (pH=8, GH=19) and at this stage I'm not
intending to attempt to lower that.  The tank is 112 litre (about 29 US

A friend will be giving my soon to be 3 year old daughter a 1.8 gal. Sponge
Bob Aquarium for her birthday.  I have much larger tanks and am not really
familiar with what would be good in such a small space  (except a betta - we
already have one of those).  I would like to be armed ...

I like the silver dollar but understand it's a "lawn mower" What plants do
these guys eat?? I have hornwart,water sprite,duckweed,java fern and some of
those wal-mart water lillies. Will my plants be safe ?? Just got my 55gal.
today and a silver dollar would sure look nice in there. ...

We have a pair of Gold Rams that laid eggs today.  I also found out that
they will hatch in 48 to 60 hours.  I have removed everyone that I thought
could be a threat to the fry.  what should I feed them and for how long.
Should I remove the parents?  They do seem to be doing a great ...

Together with other fish, I have:
3 x Corydoras Virginiae
6 Bronze Catfish
6 Khuli Loaches