Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / November 2004

I bought a 10 gallon Top Fin hexagonal aquarium starter kit about a month
ago.  At the same time, I bought 10 pounds of gravel, a couple of plastic
plants and a castle-looking thing to place on the bottom of the aquarium.
When I got home, I set up the filter, lid, etc. as instructed ...

I actually got this saved in a TXT. I cut and pasted this a few years
back, it is how to set up a gallon tank using seamonkey products.
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First off, for a 1 gallon tank, you're gonna need to buy 4 packets of

I have a bunch of penguin fish (Thayeria boehlkei) and a pl*co in a
quarantine tank. The tank has proper temperature, aeration, filtering, and
decent chemistry, and the crowd seemed to be doing well.
One of the penguin fish managed to get out the tank during a water change,

I was in one of the huge pet shops earlier and they had two large angels for
$11.99 each!  These are not the "assorted" marble angels, but the "old
fashioned" striped ones whose name escapes me.  These are not fully grown,
but the bodies are about the size of a dollar bill folded in ...

Another thought on these fish:  I've noticed that my healthy angel always
had a very erect and "fanned out" top fin (dorsal fin?).  When I look at
some larger angels in the fish store, very often this top fin is closed down
and is kind of laying down rather than sticking up like a ...

I posted this to the other group as well, but there sometimes seem to be
more people here, so I will post this here as well.....
Boy, did I learn my lesson.  I bought some more fish - 5 Buenos Aires
tetras - to put in with my blue gourami, 5 pink kissing gourami, yellow

We came back from a long weekend to find a few dead fish and the output
of the canister filter barely there. I assumed it was just the usual,
the prefilter had clogged, so I cleaned it. Nope, still very little
water out. Open the stand and the filter is making a weird noise. Take ...

 I am new to this aquarium stuff. On the weekend I had my tank(10 gal)
water tested and everything was fine, the pet shop said it was okay to add
more fish. I already had 2 goldfish in the tank so I added a gourami, a
siamese fighting fish and 2 mollies. The female only lasted 24 ...

To all those who have algae problems whether it is of the red, green,
brown, black, or hairy type, consider this:
BEFORE you got out and purchase phosphase inhibitors like GREEN-X or
ROWAPHOS, get your water tested for phosphate levels.  If the

I want to start a 1 gal. aquarium of sea monkeys. I had
the starter set (12 oz) a couple of years ago but managed
to kill them all with my ignorance.
My problem is that I can only get small packets of "water

Folks;
I've had an outbreak of Ich in my tank, and am using QuickCure.  Have dosed
two treatments so far.
The newsgroup-recommended treatment that I know of is to follow the bottle

I would like to know, how to use this to desinfect a tank with no fish.
I have bought some, and have googled it, and it only has info on dips
and ponds not really tanks. When the tank is to be done the fish will be
in a aback up cycled tank. I only purchased 4 oz.

I was given two fish, and all I know about them is they are freshwater fish.
I took a few photos and posted them at
http://www.polar.icestorm.com/sfl/misc/fish.htm
Please take a look and identify them if you can. I would appreciate the

Well, I got the 10 gallon betta tank all planted (heavily), set up with
heater and filter, and two males (separated) moved in yesterday.
My question is on the filter.  I was not going to use one, as some may
remember, but it was pointed out to me that I needed something to

Hey guys-
I have a ten gallon aquarium with five cardinal tetras, java moss,
drift wood and lacey java fern.
I have noticed that I also have a fair number of "bugs" that reside in