Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / February 2005

Been puzzling over the best way to move the fish from my son's 10g
"overcrowded" tank over to his new 30g tank and would welcome your opinions
and advice.
The tank has been up and running for a week now with some plants (both real

I recently purchased two Bala Sharks for my 25 gallon freshwater tank.
The other day, I found one of them floating and dead at the top of the
tank. This was unusual, but not terribly unexpected -- there was a
significant algae bloom, so I would imagine that the bloom was at least ...

Is there a "standard" lenth of time that new fish should be quarantined
before they are added to the main tank?
Any info is greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

I need to know if galvanized steel with zinc in it is ok to put in
fresh water tanks with fish and plants in them? The reason why I need
to know is that I am occasionally using a vortex diatomaceous filter
(xl model) and I only have had success by using hose clamps made out of

About four or five months ago I collected four very small (less than an
inch) baby catfish from a local pond and put them in a planted ten
gallon tank I had sitting around. After researching a bit about them I
figured out they were brown bullhead cats and will get about a foot

which is better Cycle or Stress Zyme?Aqua plus or Stress Coat?

Hi.  After my old Betta died, I decided to leave the tank Betta-less
for a while.  In the interim I got some ghost shrimp, because they
looked interesting.  This morning I got another betta.  However, I've
noticed the ghost shrimp being very agressive with the Betta - grabbing

I'm new here, have been into aquaria for about 5 years now, but my question
is about apple snails. I've tried to keep them in the past, but even after
acclimatisation, they seem to die off after a week or so. I'd love to have
one now, but too scared that i'd murder it. Any clues? ...

(Oops, forgot this group)
Although it's taken me 10 years (almost to the day) I've
finally annotated my australe images page:
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Greetings all,
I posted here a few weeks ago but didn't get any replies, so I thought I
might re-post in an effort to get some sort of information.
I have a 25 gallon Eclipse freshwater tank with several types of fish --

I'm really frustrated.  I have a 90 gallon tank with about 20 Convicts (some
large, some small) and one large Texan.  The problem is that they seem to
take pleasure in uprooting and destroying anything I plant.  I really would
like to add some greenery, but these damn guys won't ...

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Can you put any plain old ordinary piece of a tree in your aquarium, or does
it need to be 'drift wood' what ever that means?  If you can, would there be
any steps to sanitize it.
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hi, im fairly new to owning an aquarium and i had a question. I have
two male bettas, (split up, of course) in a 10g tank. there are a few
rocks and crystals in the tank for hiding places and decor...but i
kinda want plants now...I dont know anything about adding plants to the

I was reading somewhere that Tiger Barbs prefer hard water. The water
from my tap, however, is really soft. Should I do anything about this?
If so, what?
I know that I could just try to let the evaporative process concentrate