Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / September 2004

After all my worries about the tank at school, discovering a leak in the
home tank on a Sunday night - a Sunday before a bank holiday Monday -
was absolutely not what I needed. This is a 48 x 18 x 18 tank and I had
to strip it down to find a one inch crack all the way across a ...

I recently moved to a new place and I have to sacrifice inhabitants of the
smaller tanks int his case some swordtails, gouramis & cardinal tetras. I
managed to transfer some of the Cardinals into a planting plant which has
some soil at the bottom. I poured some water till midway and ...

I have had a 2.5" gold nugget plec for about two weeks in an established
community tank, well planted with OK water (pH 7.0, nit/nat/ammon all not
detected) temp around 22C. No obvious white spot or other illness with the
other fish, and no obvious bullying by the other fish. So I ...

Fish need a bigger home -

I have occasionally seen posts from folks who have stripped down an older
tank to clean out the gravel/substrate. If you're not using an UGF, and you
do regular deep vacuuming of the gravel, is that really neccessary?
Thanks,

my beloved male guppy, sonny jr., is almost always constipated.  he
looks all inflated and with half of his tail gone (or should i say
bitten off) it makes him look funny.  well last night i saw him
actually pooping for once.  the the poop was huge in diameter!  i felt

Hello, all,
I was doing some reading on the web, trying to find a more-or-less clear
classification of labyrinth fish, and I ran into the following snag:
According to some websites, labyrinth fish all belong to the anabantidae

i was having a look at the aqua medic CO2 kit and it comes with a C02
cylinder
of about 350g (0.77lb).
Now my current CO2 level is only at 4 ppm and i would want to up it to

hi all I've run into an fish i.d. problem some of you might be able to help me
with
Just last week I bought 6 "BLUE FLAME TETRA'S" at my local lfs," their listing
not mine". When I went back trying to buy some more they were out of them but

I have invested in a CO2 setup after having thought about it for a long
time, considering the costs, but now it's been going for about 3 weeks.
Today I noticed that my plants are bubbling! I can see long strands of tiny
bubbles coming from the leaves, as well as larger bubbels ...

I recently purchased a snowball pleco (L-102).  I have read averything
I can find on the Web about this fish (not much, BTW).  Can anyone
tell me about their experiences with this fish?  Is the "whitish" cast
of sections of its dark brown skin (apparently caused by the many fine

Hi group.
Its time for me and my fishes to get a new tank.
My tank now is a 55 gallon tank with fishes that seems to get big
enough so for the next 6 months they wont be able to be very happy

Maybe I slept thropugh that day at fish school, but many times people
sound like there is a specific formula for calculating bio-load in an
aquarium.
Now I'm not just throwing this out there willie nillie, I Googled