Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / July 2004

Hi, as the subject says, I have extremely cloudy water. The tank is
fully cycled 20g and is a year old. I know this cloudiness is a
bacterial bloom, the water is not green, so an algae bloom is out. The
inhabitants of the tank are:

A year+ ago, I bought four African American Dwarf frogs.   Unfortunately,
two have since died (Both instances due to my own negligence, and I am
painfully aware that I'm an a.shole).
I'd like to do good by the last two frogs.  I understand they are quite

I am a newbie but advancing.
After Nine months of 23 fish in a 50 gallon tank, and about 7 assorted
plants, it is time to give it a good strip down and clean out.  I had a
small UGF in the tank but it did not cover the entire bottom, and I always

I'm setting up a 5 gal tank for my male betta and a mystery snail.  I want
to get him some tank mates now that I have more real estate.  My tap water
is pretty hard and alkaline, pH=7.8.  After a week or so in the tank, the
pH rises to 8.5 or so (due to the aquarium gravel, I ...

I've been been feeding my tank of Tetra's and Gourami's with flake
food, and I have just added a betta to the tank, and he isn't
interested!  He sucks bits in, but then spits them out again!  (My wife
swears he eats the white coloured ones though...)

I am setting up a 5 Gal. tank for a male Betta. I have been planning to keep
both a female and a male but have run into advice about not keeping them
together because the male might become aggressive towards the female. Is
this true? If it is, what other kinds of fish can i keep ...

Hi All,
I recently picked up a loach from my LFS. The owner said that the
loach is from Indonesia but was not sure exactly what it is.
Could anybody help me with identifying this loach and its basic

I have a 20 gallon tank set up with the following:
 5 Zebra Danio
 4 Black-Skirt Tetra
 3 Mollies

I have some a green sailfin molly I caught a few weeks ago, and I he has
some growths on him I hope someone can help me identify.  I have a fish
disease book, and didn't see it in there.  The growths started out as a
small white spot, kind of like an ick spot, but not as many.  The ...

I went to a couple of different places that had pea gravel in bags,
found some busted open and snitched a handful of each.  Came home, and
washed it reasonably and then dumped both into separate bowls of
vinegar.  The one with smaller grains had, maybe 2-4 grains that slowly

Somebody posted a link to an Australian site that sold 3D backgrounds a
while back. I'm unable to find that posting, but maybe somebody bookmarked
the site?
Any other site that sells different kinds of 3D backgrounds? I'm not after

I will be going on a weeks vacation and have a 2.5G tank with 2 small
fish in it.  I purchased WARDLEY VACATION FOOD. it says each shell
will provide food for 15 average size fish for 10-14 days.  I am
wondering if I can cut the shell in half and use it with my 2 small

Here are my 3 questions, read on to hear the full story:
Is it worth trying to get the alkalinity up from 3-4dH? Have I done
more harm than good boiling the ceramic media? Should I try to kick
start the cycle?

This pattern has been going on a while.
I change the bettas water (about 1 gal of his 1.5 gal tank every week) and
a couple of days later he suddenly gets fin rot overnight. I treat with 1
tsp salt to the 1.5 gal and a couple of days later he's fine again.  For a

I have a new (used) 55G that I am setting up.  After reading and reading
I have decided that the best filtration for me would be a combination of
an RUGF and a power or canister filter.  A couple of questions:
- Is driving a RUGF with the output from a canister filter a reasonable ...