Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / September 2004

Sorry.

I'm in the process of buying a tank.  I'm getting a 75gallon.  I'm
planning on adding some plants and making it a community tank with
Barbs & Rainbows.
What do you all suggest for filtration.  I'm sure it's been asked

  I have had a thought, and have acted on it,...sort of.  I was at the
corner grocery store earlier this evening, purchasing some roast beef,
and what do I see, but several one gallon jars of Dill pickles sitting
up on the counter over the meats, cheeses, et cetera.  Long ...

...you had an empty, cycled 13 gallon tank, what would you put in it?
I fancy endlers.
I also fancy figure-eight puffers, but I'm pretty sure I'm not up to the
challenge of a brackish tank at the moment, and I'd like a bigger tank

Phase One:  Before I go whole hog and have the floor ripped out for the 8'
diameter 2800g tank I eventually want, I think I should go easy for a while.
Anyone using Tenacor's LARGE Acrylic tanks with the with Simplicity Plus
Filter built in?

I just added 2 dwarf puffers to a 10 gal. tank.  Other than some very
frightened MTS, they are the tank's only inhabitants.  There definitely
seems to be a dominant fish and it eats all the food I add - whether it
needs it or not - and chases the other puffer away.  Would adding a ...

I would like to introduce a small painted box turtle to our fresh water
aquarium.  I know turtles are cold blooded and need to get near a heat
source to warm from time to time.
So I need to build a sturdy shelf for them to climb on?

I'm working on a small cory tank and I have sand for the substrate. The
(possible) problem is, a guy at Petco said the sand *may* raise the pH. I
have it in a bucket of water right now and will check the pH over the next
few days to see what happens.... But.. if the pH does go up ...

I've got a 10 gallon tank with 4 rasboras, 2 cory cats, and 1 danio.
The danio chases the rasboras constantly and I think has been
attacking one of the corys, as its fins are kind of shredded. I would
like to lower the stress level of the fish by calming down or removing

I have a small 2 gallon fish tank, previously there was 1 fish (all
goldfish) in a smaller tank. We got the 2 gallon along with 2 new
(smaller) goldfish.
Now they all swim abck and forth in the tank, from one end to the

Hello fish people! I have a question that might not be that easy to answer,
first let me tell you the spec on my tank:
90 Gallon tropical running for since May 04 (About5 months)
Filters: 1 Fluval 403 Canister Filter

I'm new to this group AND to maintaining an aquarium, so pardon my
intense ignorance.
I have a small five gallon tank with two fish, one a fantail goldfish,
about 1". We had a pH spike a few weeks after setting up the tank, and

I've just bought a Juwel Rio 400, and am a bit confused over what I still
need to buy.
eg Structured Background STR600: do I need three of these, or are there more
than one in a pack ?

http://www.petfish.net/bala.htm
hmm... love the info that you find on the net these days. 25g tank min, eh.

Ok, am i dong this right, i have one of those algarde gravel vacs basically
a 5 or 6 cm wide tube with siphon tubing attached.
Thing is i just did it, (first time) and although it was certainly sucking
up some of the waste, the flow was quite quick and i think i must have