Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / May 2004

In the continuing saga of the upgrade of my tanks, I have come across what I
believe to be a first.
Dark beard algae goes bright alien psychedelic pink/purple when dried.
To prepare my fish for the move from the old tank, Saturday I removed almost

Sorry should have put this in my last post. Whilst reading through the
documentation for the Rena Filstar XP it came with a bag of activated carbon
and it said that the filter must have a bag in place and changed every 4-12
weeks. Now I only use carbon to strip old medicines out, ...

Just came back in from work and I have what looks like eggs from some Green
Tigers that I have stuck to the outside of the Internal filter on a Rio 400.
I am assuming that they are from the the Tigers as there is a Green Tiger
hovering near by.

I got a gold fish and I was wondering what everyone thought...   I got him
yesterday at a dirty pet shop(i know ...my 1st mistake), the water he came
in was blue (i later realized this is why thier light was off...) So I threw
in Aquari-sol, stress coat, and AquaSafe. HE/She is in a ...

hi, i`d like to set up a native tank, I`d like to get perch if possible.
has anyone had any experience of this?
I have a 5ft tank on the way and enough filters etc to cover it, I just need
some help with the practicalities. Are there suppliers of perch or will i

I had a wicked case of beard algae and I tried everything to get rid of it.
Finally, I had my LFS order me 4 American flag fish.  In the last 4 weeks
they've completely eliminated the problem.  The trouble is now they have
nothing left to eat.  They don't seem to eat the flake food ...

Obtained a bottle of Meth blue for treating eggs so they don;t grow fungus.
Mostly Corydoras eggs.
Can someone please tell me the dosage per litre or gallon for fungus
preventative?

I went to Mexico for spring break, and picked up a handful of see shells
from the Sea of Cortez.  Would these be ok, granted I rinsed them well?
-Grant

Hi, I have a 20 gallon tank w/ a Penguin Bio-Wheel 125. About 3 weeks
ago, I noticed the Penguin was starting to die. About a week and half
ago, I put a Liberty Ehiem onto the tank. I was going to leave the
Penguin on the tank until the Eheim was cycled. My Penguin has just

I don't know what most folks do, but I quickly grew tired of heaving
buckets of water up on top of my desk to refill my 15-gallon tank--and I
haven't even started on my 40-gallon one yet! In addition, I mention
this because I thought it could be of use to some, though I am not in ...

Hi NetMax, I just wanted to add some comments about your Continuous Gravel
Vacuum design.  I had gotten some ideas from you a couple of weeks/month ago
about how to simplify priming a canister filter, and the design is virtually
identical to your Figure 2 in the Continuous Gravel ...

I swear this never happens.
So a couple of weeks ago I walk into PetCo and find they they have
stopped selling their bettas in the hideously small 6 oz cups and have
switched them to more economical 3 oz cups (about the size of the

I bought my son a betta just over a month ago, and I'm finding his
behavior a bit puzzling.
He just sort of 'sits' on rocks on the bottom of the tank. He'll
occasionally move from spot to spot, but, generally, that's the way he

Sorry to take up anyone's time ;-)
Frustrated that the cloud still wasn't easing up while the chemistry
remains solid the same and good, I stepped back for a second and thought
"outside the box" just a tiny little bit and realized that my dumb self

Was as usual, browsing(read=drooling) over this one tank stocked full of
these little beauts... I couldn't find the SKU sticker for it, so I asked
someone who I'd never seen before(read=spends too much time there, I know
almost everybody) and asked him for a price on these little ...