Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / May 2004

I was wondering if anyone can point me to a newsgroup / forum about
ecospheres.  I recently saw those ecosphere balls at
http://www.eco-sphere.com/home.htm and wanted one.  Yes I realize it's
old news, but I just found out about it.  Anyways, the price is way too

Hi I have an aquarium running for 2 months now 36x14x14 inches nitrites 0.
3 adult guppies 7 baby guppies 1 Queen Pleco 5 neon tetra 3 black tetras and
1000 snails.  I change 10 litres water a week.  I vacuumed the gravel a
month ago and a day later the water went greeny brown so ...

Can anyone help me keep my mystery snails alive...
I have a big Mummy/Daddy Mystery snail and about 30-40 little snails in a
small 1½ foot hex tank...
There is nothing wrong with them at the moment, but I think they will become

We have a 220 litre cichlid tank that has been running happily for
several months now (see http://fish.alansilver.co.uk/Mark3/). It was
running an Eheim Ecco 2235 filter, but I wasn't happy with it. I had a
lot of trouble every time it needed cleaning (which was far more

Hi there people...
I`m having a bit of a dilemma with some fish...
I`ve had a pink gourami , blue gourami and a male guppy die within a
week....

I have found the second hand tank I have leaks, do I have to remove the
current silicone before re-siliconing the tank? Ovbiously I am using the
aquarium safe silicone sealant...
Des.

Long long ago, I saw a 'fluffy' finned fish in a shallow stream at a Korean
tourist village. I don't know if the fish was 'installed' in the stream, but
to some degree, the stream was artificial. I think there were metallic
colors on the fins, else the fish wouldn't have visually ...

help
on one of my tanks there are a ton of little white owrms ranging from 2 mm
to 2cm in length. thwey are white
any idea what they are, if they harm fish and how to kill them/>

I live in Barton upon Humber near Hull and was wondering if anyone knew of a
good place to buy tropical fishes in the area? Its a long shot posting on
here I guess but my local fish stockist is always riddled with disease since
the poor local fish buying idiots seem to keep buying ...

Wow, this is waaaay more that I ever thought to do.  'Course, it's not
nearly as complex as some of the other projects I've tackled.  :P  I'm
definitely interested in doing this.  My boyfriend is an electrician
so maybe he can help me with some of the more techinical aspects of

Just wondering if anyone had any ideas when I can let my 3 young guppies
loose from their breeding net into the tank it self?
They are a little over 6 and a half weeks old, and I have already been able
to identify two as female.  They are around 15mm long atm.

I have recently installed a fishpond in my garden would like
information as to the most suitable fish for my pond.

I have a fishpond in my garden as yet I have no fish the problem being
I have a cat I would like to know if there is a way of protecting fish
from cats.

I paid a professional aquarist to move my 120 gallon fish tank. He did a
great job, and offered, for free to convert the intake and outtake on my
eheim filters by drilling and putting in threaded bulkheads in the back of
the tank. The tank looks great, no more green hoses inside of ...

I stumbled across the following article (www.ccwa.com/chloramines.htm)
that states that Reverse Osmosis will NOT remove chloramines from
water.
Also this is the first site I've found that lists a toxicity level for