Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / October 2004

Yesterday I replaced the dirty canister in my 350 Magnum filter with a
clean canister that I had soaked overnight in a soulution of 1 part
chlorox to 3 parts water. I rinsed off the chlorox soaked canister
before putting it in the filter. I thought that rinsing off the

Does anyone have any advice about a sick O cat?  I noticed this afternoon
that his stomach is bloated and he's breathing fast.  From what I've read it
sounds like dropsy but I don't know what to do about it.  Is it treatable?
I'm going to try and move him to my smaller empty tank ...

I hope the cross-post is ok, if not I apologise.
I've posted to r.a.f.m a couple of times with water hardness queries and
am slowly working out all the chemistry I've forgotten since school. In
brief, I've got very soft, pretty alkaline water, which isn't the

Howdy folks,
I'm going to be setting up a biggish tank soon, and I'm going to have
to perform water changes with water deviant in several important
respects from tapwater.  Thus, I will have to keep a mix of the stuff

i was wondering if you could help me
i'm a new to the fish world and i just got my 1st tank. it's an 18 inch long
one that hold about 20 litres of water. with 7 freshwater fish in it i have
a underwater filter (mini filter), air stone, and a little tresure chest

As mentioned I have a couple of spots of tuft algae in my tank, I have never
used bleach near my tank and am loath to do so. How effective would boiling
the ornaments in the tank be?
Cheers

I'm planning on getting an AquaController II or other similar controller
and I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations for good brands
of pH and temperature probes and any good place to buy them from. I'd
like to get probes that will last a few years before they need to ...

My LFS store has told me that I should change Eheim EhifiMech and
EhfiSubstrat every 8 months. When I asked the reason. I was told that after
a while 'bad' bacteria builds up and it becomes ineffective. If this is the
case, could I boil it (and thereby remove any impurities) and ...

Got a tank of swordtails raised from fry, along with three danios and an
ancistrus catfish (I think that's what it is, looks like a small pleco).
Recently added three females to even out the male/female balance, and now
signs of ick are starting to show, a few white spots on the ...

Assuming there is a God
Assuming the God that exists is the one you think is there
(white, right wing, long beard)
Your God seems to have something wrong with the risk/reward

Bought a juwel vision 180 tank. The 2-25watt tubes that come with it
seem to be near to ordinary household tubes. Very yellow!
 Any suggestions for 2 tubes to use. Its 18" deep, what would you
recommend for 1 tube to show off fish colours and 1 tube to encourage

I am currenly still in the process of stocking my 38Gal tank and would
like to add a Siamese Algae Eater / Siamese Flying Fox. But I am
concerned that the 3 platy fry I have might be agressed/eaten. The fry are
about 1/2inch in size, still small but starting to school with the other

I'm setting up a ten gallon aquarium with a lot of live plants.  I'm
putting a divider down the middle and one male betta on each side.  My
question is filtration.
I've read that bettas, even in the inadequate containers that most use,

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