Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / February 2005

Has anyone had any experience with small fish swimming over, or being
swept over, weirs?  Do they generally tend to stay away from
unexpected fast-moving currents "into the unknown abyss", or do they
instead tend to like to play with "weir roulette"?  I am specifically

Hello everyone.  One of my clown loaches is ill, and it appears to be
Ich, since the other loaches in the tank all have a dot or two.  The
infirmary tank is already setup and the temperature is stabilizing.
A while back, there was a suggestion that Aquarisol + MelaFix helps with

I had originally posted this as a follow up to another disease question
however I thought I would post it separate since it now appears to be
completely different.
I had originally posted about a white circle that I noticed on one of

I have built myself a 1000G tank (8'x6'x3'), it now has 4 full grown fish
that each is a foot long, and a dozen of juvenile cichlids from 2" to 4", it
has been in service for 6 weeks till now, I have a 70 Gallon home made
Wet/dry filter which is driven by a 2200 GPH pump, it has ...

Hi Gill - I was interested to see that you live in Reading! A few years ago,
I stumbled across a fantastic LFS (it was part of  garden centre) which I
believe was off of the M4 nr Reading. Any ideas where it could be?
TIA - Dave

All:
I'll be away for 4 days and unable to feed my son's beta fish.  Will it
survive?
Thanks in advance,

I have an empty 6-gallon "mini-bow" tank that is just crying out to be
used.  We already have a 50-gal. community tank (dwarf gouramis, corys,
eventually paradise fish and etc.).
We also have a 10-gallon with 2 divided bettas - so I don't want to go

We bought a tank a few weeks ago and have since had an ammonia problem. I
never really knew much about it so I didn't know over feeding fish or
feeding once a day was bad for a new tank set up. Anyways, we got the water
tested as the pet store owner directed (We took in a water ...

Without realizing it, I now have a black and white fish tank!  In my
50-gallon bowfront, I now have: 6 cory cats (not sure of the variety,
but they are quite small, with black and white zebra stripes), 2 tiny
angels (blank and white/silver striped) - they will get bigger, and 3

I have a very, very pregnant Zebra Danio, and I was just wondering
something. I have a seperate 13 gallon tank that is currently set up for
pregnant Fancy Guppys and Platys, with Dr. Wellfish's aquarium salt
added.  If I place the pregnant Zebra Danio into that tank, will the

I purchased a battery-operated gravel vacuum/water siphon that does a
decent job of removing water but doesn't really pull up the gravel
enough to suck out the gunk.  (I have a 50-gallon wide horizontal tank
on a stand - I attached about 30 feet of silicon tubing to the pump, so

I need a suggestion on some Cichlids that are easy to care for, may produce
fry, and who thrive in my soft water.  I taking all 76 3 month old platy fry
to the LFS for a credit.  I have 4 community tanks, so I thought perhaps I
would try some Cichlids.  They will start off in a 10 ...

A few days ago I noticed my fish darting around whenever i went near the
tank...
Then  i noticed that the fishs' abdomens are swollen ...they are still
eating...but occasionally hide together. I tested the water and all params

What  dwarf cichlids could I add to my 26g tank?  I have two keyholes,
a yellow lab(getting along just fine) a few serpae tetras, rasporas
and cory's.
I have tried blue rams(they're gorgeous) but they are way out of my

Does flake food freeze well?  Some one gave me a really lot of it and I want
to know if it will get all gross in the freezer.  Thanks.
Sarah