Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / June 2004

I am going on vacation for about six weeks, and trying to figure out a
way to feed my five goldfish (2"-3") in a 55 gallon tank running one
Emperor 400 and one Emperor 280 filters.  This is the first time I
will be away for this long.  I have asked a friend to look after my

-I have a 10 gal tank
-silent filter that came with the tank
-1 live plant
-5 female guppies

We've got a six month old tank - 6 mollies (4 of which are 6 month old), 6
guppies and 3 clown loach...
All seems fine but after puttnig the loach in we lost a guppy and baby molly
within a day or two - never seen again - coincidence?

Ok, so I went out an purchased the canister filter of my dreams.
Bought it on Ebay actually.  The problem is that I've never had a
canister filter and don't know exactly what to do with it.  I need
media for filtration but what do I buy?  It should be here about

Either I've just had a brilliant idea, or I've just caught up to where
everyone else is.  If it's the latter, I guess I need to go back to remedial
fish keeping school.
I've just started using a 5CC syringe (left over from when a sick ferret

Just a warning to anyone who decides to try this stuff - it killed 3
of my fish within 48 hours.
I have a 46 gallon, established tank.  After reading up on Easy Balance
I decided to try it.  The dose is one teaspoon per 5 gallons.  I put 7 teaspoons

I was reading up on Netmax's website (extremely helpful BTW), and I'd
like to purchase some Malaysian Trumpet snails for the new tank I just
set up.  The problem is that none of the pet stores around here -
including Aquarium Adventure - stock them.  I generally got very weird

I ruined my 4 year old 20 gallon tank I think (Big hairy Algae problem)
Haven't been paying attention to the tank enough.  My 3" clowns don't
seem to like the aformentioned FFood.  (Granules de Crevette?)  There
is a picture of a clown on the label, so I don't get it.  Assuming the ...

My water change system calls for a pump that could pump 15G of water up 4
feet within a few minutes (around 5 mins).  The pump would only be used once
a week (for those 5 or so minutes), or as often as my one tank requires its
water changed.  Any recommendations for a cheap, yet ...

Hey there fishy folks.
I know some of you idolize Faith from Bettatalk.com, but there are some things
that, as a Betta breeder, I simply do not agree with.
Don't get me wrong, she's created some fantastic lines, but some things she

I'm looking for opinions about Via Aqua pumps.  I'm especially interested in
getting the Via Aqua 1300 for very light duty work (ie: minutes of run time
a week as part of a water change system).  Does Via Aqua make decent pumps?
Or am I throwing money away by getting one?

Well my Red Fish died after a year with me...  After the funeral I got
a new betta, this one is blue and named Jaws.  Jaws was fine the first
day, but this has quickly changed.  Second day he ate, but hung out at
the bottom.  Today was worse:  he wouldn't eat, and was laying

Anyone know anything about "Giant Ottos"?  I saw some in my LFS this weekend
when unloading some plants.  They didn't know much about them except the
survival rate was higher than regular ottos.
bob

This is sort of a follow up to my previous message (Water Change Pump
Recommendations).  First, here are the requirements ... pump 15G of water up
4 feet in about 5 minutes.  This will only be done once a week (ie: pump
runs for 5 mins a week).  So here's some of the pumps I've ...

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