Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / November 2004

My Angels spawned the other day and we now have a bunch of little
wigglers still attached to the sword leaf.  I am amazed that they have
made it this far.  Everything I have read said that Angels, especially
first timers, take several attempts to get it right, if ever.  I am not

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My red wagtail platies have produced 7 fry which are now 3 weeks old.  The
trouble is I do not want nor cannot keep all these platies.  I was hoping
that nature would take it's course and the adults would have eaten the fry
by now but they haven't.  I'm surprised these little ...

In the last 24 hrs, I have seen what appears to be green water in my
75 gal planted tank.
The setup is <2 weeks old, and pretty heavily planted as per
conventional wisdom.  All plants are thriving, spraying out new

I just purchased a sea shell off of ebay and I told the lady that I was
going to put it in my freshwater fish tank.  She said that she did not
recommend putting ocean shells in freshwater tanks.  Will this hurt my fish?
Is it just the saltiness or what?  Because I know that some ...

I think my fishes are little geniuses, probably tiny Einsteins and I
will teach them math and physics now.
They like Mozart and this is a sign of intelligence.
I think fishes are highly intelligent and could work for NASA.

I was changing the water in the tank tonight and noticed a long-fin zebra
danio with Pop-eye. How can I treat this?  Its a 50 gallon, 25 fish
community tank.  Or should I remove the fish and put him out of his misery?
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I have been  using test strips which have the 5 tabs per strip just stick
it in the water and wait for the results.  Lately I've been thinking about
changing to the system where you use the drops of chemicals in water
acquired from the tank in little test tubes.

OK, I finally got round to trying to kill off some of the everspreading tuft
algae. I bleached my ornaments, and the algae, went from very dark green to
very pale green. Hence I can conclude it's dead! now the problem is how to
remove it. I started to scrub it with a wire brush but ...

I'm a relative newbie and just bought a used D1 Vortex filter.  No
instructions.   Using some instructions I found at
www.carolinagal.com/diatom.htm,   I was able to clear out a nasty algae
bloom in approx 20 minutes.  I love the results!

I can't find anyone on the web who sells Jumbo Living Plasma
for sea monkeys.
Does anyone have a source in the USA?

We have two Leopard Danios in our 30 gallon tank.   One chases the  other incessantly.
We're considering adding a few Zebra Danios as a means of breaking this annoying (and harrassing) behavior up.  
Question is will Leopard Danios school with  Zebra Danios?
Thanks

One of my amano shrimp is pregnant.  I'd like to try to raise the fry and I
have heard that they need salt water in order to survive until they reach
the post larval stage.  Can I use regular aquarium salt (Doc Wellfish's) to
make the salt water?  I've done so before when I hatched ...

We have two Leopard Danios in our 30 gallon tank.   One chases the  other
incessantly.
We're considering adding a few Zebra Danios as a means of breaking this
annoying (and harrassing) behavior up.

I've googled this subject and found some things about bacteria being a
possible cause.  Here's my situation:
- Did a 25% water change with relatively high pH tap water (over 7.4).
Water was clear before the change, but has gotten more cloudy over the