Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / January 2005

My LFS has a very nice looking 70 gal Oceanic system
(stand/tank/cover/light) at a reasonable price.
Does anyone have any opinion on this brand (good or bad)?
Thanks!

My new Boseman Rainbows were making my Peacock Gudgeons edgy, so I
moved some of the peacocks to my three gallon Eclipse, which I'd just
redesigned with a bunch of small Java Fern plants attached to a neat
piece of driftwood.

What is your favorite aquarium plant? How is the selection of aquarium
plants for sale at your LFS?

Hey everyone,
Just want to think that this group here is awesome, tell your friends
so we can get as many people as possible here. Anyway bak to my
questions. I am just about to set up a 180L gourami tank, I just need

Just a heads up: my blog has been updated with pics of the styro-foam
painted, new plants and fish.
Regards,
Oz

Well, MTS is now is full swing.  My son now has a 10-gallon glass tank
in his room - he wants to have a divided tank for 2 Bettas (probably
both male - separate of course).  Right now, though, the divider itself
is on back-order.  So, yesterday we bought ONE beautiful deep-red Betta

What to use and where to find it?
JOhn ><>

Im about to start a tropical fresh tank.
Can someone give me a list of compatibles that can be with barbs, tetras,
platies, danios and gobys? How many or each? Its a 200L tank
and also....what are good decos for these fish and what type of filters...

Okay, I came to terms with the reality that I cannot buy a retrofit for
my Eclipse 3 to get more wattage.  No one makes them.
So I ordered low light plants and went out and bought the best bulbs I
could for what I've got.  Needed at least one new bulb anyway because

I've noticed a lot of dark spots growing along the inside of my green
filter in/out take tubes.  Is this the bacteria that I'm supposed to
be waiting to grow to take care of my ammonia?  
TIA,

I've got 3 female platys and 1 male platy.  The make chased the females
incessantly until recently.  Now one of the females looks very pregnant
and the male spends all his time sheperding her around.  He even chases
off the other 2 females at feeding time.  I even saw him chase ...

I just ordered a Pentair Aquatics Lifegard Quiet One- 6000 from Big Al's.
Says that it will pump 1506 gph and a head pressure up to 12.2'  It seems to
good to be true at $87.49US
I am not sure I should be trusting my tank to an $87 pump?  Should I really

Have googled for aquarium cycling and there seems
to be 301,000 different opinions on how to do it.
A straw poll, how many believe in the chemical
approach and how many in hardy fish and does

Ideas and thoughts required.
I currently have a Rena Filstar XP3 on my 600l 170gal tank
http://www.aquarian.com/cgi-bin/trans.pl/en/products/rena_range/rena_filstar_xp.shtml
My tank is at the maximum range of it's scale, I have 0 nitrogens across the

One of my discus has become a recluse over the last month or so, and I saw
him out last night when I got up at about two in the morning, and he's
becoming very thin. Any ideas?
160gals