Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / September 2004

I have an established 55-gallon freshwater tank stocked with about 30 Lemon
Tetras, Blackskirts and Zebra Danios. A Magnum 350 and dual pad filter take
care of the filtration.
Recently, a rainbow-hued 'essence' has appeared on the water top. The

i shouldn't have bought that betta from the 24/7 grocery, etc. store!
i noticed his anal fin looked a bit thin at the bottom but i didn't
think anything of it.  well now it's starting to shred along with his
dorsal fin.  ack!!  my sister just had a baby so i haven't had time to

i'm was almost set on buying a CO2 gas unit when my LFS guy
mentioned carbo plus. He dropped of my new tank and thus i'm
going to buy a C02 system. (I finally gave up the idea of DIY
as it seems to much hassle for a 132 gal tank)

I read in a book that they get as long as 13cm.  That would be about 5
inches.  How long is yours?

have a community tank which was getting along okay then i had to move it
into a corner in the room now over the last few months all my rocks and
plants are covered on what i can onlyy describe as hairy\cotton type tufts.
any help please

Spring 2003, a guy at work gave me his 12" hypostomus plecostomus for
our backyard pond, which currently houses bass and bluegill.
We were simply going to use him or her for fertilizer after the frost,
but got soft-hearted and set up a 40 gallon pond indoors (with

I am considering making a trickle filter for my 75 gallon. Aesthetics are
not really a concern, so I thought I'd make it an above-the-tank setup and
let gravity do the work. I have perused a number of articles via google
about materials etc., but am wondering just how big a pump ...

I have recently added six White Cloud Mountain Minnows to my stable, cycled
'river' tank.
They were all quite sensible in quarantine and for the first day or so in
the main tank.

Over the last two days, one of my pair of parrot fish has developed
black markings on his nose and top lip.  He also has black streaks on
his fins.
Any idea what could have caused this?  The other parrot is fine.  We do

the female dwarf gourami that i bought on thursday doesn't have those
2 little feeler thingies...  could she perhaps still be a juvenile and
will develop them later, or is she just deformed?
TIA

okay, so the male swordtail that gets harrassed by the male guppy
seems to may have developed pop-eye.  his eyes are protruding more
than any of the other fishes eyes.  not to mention he is so small, i
mean he always was, but he is the size of the guppies.  i'm worried

Hi, I'm new to the Worcester Mass. area and Im looking for a great
aquaia store.
What can anyone recommend for cleanliness, friendlyness, good
knowledge, etc.

My girlfriend has a pregnant guppy who has already gotten quite large
and her black spot has grown significantly bigger.  We just noticed
today that she has a small white blob hanging from the area that the
fry are birthed from.  She hasn't eaten anything at all today, during

Over the last month, I have been experiencing a sad and bizarre
phenomenon in my little 5 gallon freshwater tank. First, a little
fire-belly newt that everyone loved just vanished one day without a
trace (had him for five months). After a period of mourning, I bought a

I've been looking at some diagrams of DIY C02 generators and about the
different methods used to get the C02 in the water.
I have a small internal filter laying around and was wondering if you
could hook up the C02 outlet from the bottles on to the oxygen inlet