Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / March 2005

Hello again!
I've heard that metho dissolves fresh and cured silicone because silicones
are metho based. Since metho is an alcohol it evaporates into the air....
The reason i ask this is because someones just pulled a tank appart (used

While cleaning my main tank today I must have knocked one of the 250W
heaters, and broke the glass without noticing it.  Later I felt a tingle
when I put my hand in the water, but thought it must be from water splashed
onto the lights.  Eventually I noticed the broken heater.  I ...

Could someone sort these by order of toxicity (to fancy goldfish)?
1ppm Ammonia
1ppm Nitrite
1ppm Nitrate

Hi all,  I'm getting ready to set up a 75 gallon tropical tank.  I like
to keep the unnatural items in my tank to a minimum.  In the past, I
always had drilled tanks with a wet/dry filter and my heater in the
sump.   I can live with the one intake pipe.  So, I'm getting ready to

My lepord danio has just started to show possible signes of disease. He
has developed a lighter band that travels around the mid of his body.
He also has several large spots on his skin that are also lightened. It
doesn't seem like ich from what I have read about it. Also, this fish

I've tried this over on uk.rec.aquaria.misc but so far no answer.....
So, I have an adult Angelfish who had fungus.
Took him out of the main tank and treated with Interpet Anti fungus for a
week as per instructions.

My son's betta seems to be very sick. I hasten to say he isn't in the same
tank as the barb in my earlier post.
He didn't turn up for tea tonight so I did a search. Found him at the bottom
of the tank but still alive. He's not swimming right and seems to be

I have four female mollies in my planted tank. Three are white, the
other is mottled black. One white molly is so buoyant at the moment that
her dorsal fin is permanently out of water. She tries to swim down but
is thwarted by the buoyancy. Another white molly seems to have the ...

does anyone have a recommendation for a reputable site?  I bet this is asked
to death, but there are a bunch out there and I hate to get burned.  I am
curious to check prices versus the couple of LFS in town.
Shannon

Hey, All,
I have a 20 gal tank with 6 lepord danios and a bristle nose plico in
it. One of the danios is bigger and is shaped a little different than
the others. It almost looks like he has something of a gut. I call him

Quick question, (I hope)
I have a 300gph powerhead, made by Aquaclear I think. It really moves a
large volume of water if I just drop it in the water. I decided to
build a canister filter underneath my tank. I bought some 1/2" flexable

Does anyone have any links they've saved of cool/unique aquarium stands?
I'm going to be building one for my 80 gallon tank (48" wide, 24" deep, 16"
thick).  I'd like to do something different with it than the standard
cabinet.  I've given thought to putting it between a shared ...

One of my son's tanks contains 3 Mollies and 2 Rosy Barbs. The male Barb is
continually hassling the female and this morning I noticed her tail is
tattered. He is nipping at her everytime she comes out of hiding.
I'm looking at options as to where to move her at the moment...but ...

I bought three Stripped bulldog catfish a few few weeks back, one of them
ended up with a bacterial infection the started eating away at it's face. At
the time it looked like it was struggling, but now all the white dead flesh
has disappeared and just looks red. For about 4 days ...

I'm curious about a variation in pH between two 50 gall tanks that I have.
Just done the tests and didn't get the result I expected so would be very
interested in your comments. Firstly I didn't expect them to be the same
necessarily but what I got was the opposite to what I was ...