Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / April 2004

I'm looking to start a tank again and would like to stock it with show
guppies.  Anyone know of a club in Vancouver, BC where I can purchase some?
Thanks

I have a small set up at home with a Fluval 2 Plus canister filter.
The instructions with regards to filter maintenance are unclear (or
I'm stupid) so I'm seeking advice here.
I did a 25% water change today and tried to clean the filter. I did

Well, I did some more in depth looking around and still couldn't find anything
to help out with sexing juveniles so I called Aquarium Adventure and told them
what's up.  Packed the buggers in a jumbo ziplock beside another filled with
warm water, wrapped it all in a towel and stuck ...

Hello Alll fish lovers,
I have 6 tanks set up now and am wanting to get a new 125 gallon to
replace one of my 55 gallon tanks because my Fish are getting huge and
need a bigger place to live. I have used petco/petmart type purchased

I've stocked my 75 gallon aquarium with various varieties of pygmy fish --
threadfin rainbows, honey gouramis, pygmy corys, dicrossus maculatus dwarf
cichlids, and a few others.
I could probably add a good number more to my fish load, but I'm not in

I'm on day 5 of having axolotl eggs, and they are starting to
turn into little curly shapes, so at last I'm fairly sure the
male did his bit and at least some of them are going to hatch.
I want to divide the tank - the eggs are at one end, and I'd

My axolotls have decided to get friendly!
I've found eggs everywhere today!
Now I've read the advice on breeding at Caudata's website,
but I'd like to know if anyone has any anecdotes they can

Ok, so here I am, three filters, air pump, heater and light, all on one
tank. There's also a UV sterilizer.
I separate the UV from the rest as this was the only company to realize that
the equipment they produce, is used in an aquarium filled with WATER.

i'm still in the planning stages of a 500 liter/139 gallon tank and i
have a few questions. Recently, i asked the LFS for an estimate and
on that estimate i saw that there was no "real" filter. Just a built
in biofilter with some carbon and sponge. Maybe they missed on the

I had a kh test kit in my AP Freshwater Master Test Kit that I bought some
time ago. Recently I bought a new one and realized that there was no kh
tester in it. Does anyone know why they might have stopped including kh in
the kit? Can't find individual kh locally. Hate to order ...

I've never heard of THIS happening before.  When doing the morning
feeding, I slide the tank cover slightly to drop the pellets.  Well this
morning my betta jumped out!  And before I could react, he actually jumped
back IN from the countertop!

I have a 10 gallon tank which currently houses a (huge) mystery snail,
a columbian ramshorn snail, one ghost shrimp and one very small
Leopard Danio. Over the last few months I've lost the other Danios and
do not want to restock with them. Having only had Bettas and Danios I

Over the past month, I've added 12 pygmy cory cats to my tank.
Unfortunately, two of them have died in the past week or so.  I think a
third one of them is showing signs of weakness, and I'm worried he might
not make it.

This is my first post. I've had a couple pretty sucessful aquariums
since about 1996 or 1997. Right now I have a 10g and a 30g. I had 3
tetras in the 30g when I decided to take the tetras out of the 30g and
put them in the 10g.

Continuing the Eradication of BBA thread, I've taken down my 29g that was
pretty infested and did a total tank nuking with clorox....  I was hesitant,
but that larger than life thread about it earlier,  kinda persuaded me to
look and see that I indeed needed to do something so that ...