Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / January 2005

Well I did it.  Purchased a used 955g on eBay, I will be driving to St.
Louis this weekend to pick it up.
Size: Tank 10'3" long 3'10" wide 3'3" tall Fluidized Bed 6' tall 6" wide
(cylinder) Reservoir Bed 7' long 2' wide 2' tall.

I'm just wondering whether my fish tank should be giving off strange
odors. (I don't know how to describe it. It smells sort of tepid?)
All of the other parameters seem ok. (Zero ammonia, zero nitrites,
minimal nitrates, water temp 80.) (Ten gallon tank, 5 small tiger

Last week I got a batch of Molly fry to be used as both feeders and to raise
several up (they're Yucatans, and I like this type better than the Shenops).
I culled the week or the ones without the cirrect body shape, etc and dropped
one into each male Betta tank and the rest of the ...

Hi, All.  I'm new here (or actually very, very old depending on how you
look at it).  I hope I'm not asking something that's already been
answered recently.  Today at the LFS, I saw some charming gold-colored
harlequin rasboras.  These weren't Rasbora vaterifloris - the black

I have a male sailfin molly (poecilia velifera) along with a couple of
swordtails (two females, one male). The male swordtail is a very
beautiful, spotted red, long tailed specimen, and has a nice and lengthy
gonopodium.

So the next question would be...
How do I De-Chlorinate 850g of water.  Chemical treatment would cost big $$$
How long would it take to evaporate the chlorine from 850 gallons of city
water with three 2' X 2' hatches?

Hello, after watching my empty tank for a few days now, I am getting
itchy to start building my fish!  (I know I have to add gradually and
slowly - probably no real fish for 2 weeks, and can't have the total
number for 2 months or more.)

Today I found the first LFS in the area that I've ever seen to carry
SAEs and Amano shrimp.  They had seven lively SAEs in a tank - I took
them all home.  They had a planted tank (that looked horrible) with some
Amano shrimp - I spotted four.

Hi - I have been wanting to add a few gouramis or build a new tank with
them, but I have read some discouraging info as far as tank mates.
2 sites say Regular size gouramis are not compatible with tetras, yes to
cherry barbs no to cories or pl*co, yes to ottos.  Dwarfs are ...

I have a tiger barb in a 5g all by it's lonesome.  Can I add it to my
26g (keyholes, gold ram and electric yellows)?
TIA

Hi all I need some advise.  Today my Clown Loaches and a few others began
flashing like crazy.  I have had them for a year and they have been very
healthy once I got them past the ich. I checked the water, NH3/NO2 is at
zero pH is stable at 7.6 and temperature is also stable at ...

Greetings again...
Okay, so I am in the process of fishless cycling my 37 gallon eclipse
fresh water tank.
Started on Dec. 23 - water was conditioned with Amquel.  Added 16 oz of

Have you guys seen amano japonica shrimp anywhere in Chicagoland LFS?
I have seen glass shrimp (feeders) in many stores but cannot find amano.

In my endless research on the net these past few days I've read all
sorts of DIY Co2 methods - from the very expensive and / or complicated
(needles, gages, tanks, etc.) to the very simple
http://www.fishforums.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=17651

Hi, i'm wondering if anybody could give any insight into the deaths of a
couple of corys.
I had a 20gal with 6 cardinals and 2 small corys, all added over the last 6
weeks or so.  I recently added a pakistani/yoyo loach to help with some of