Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / March 2005

I was wondering if all epoxy paints are safe after curing for freshwater
fish?
Im thinking about painting the bottom of my tank dark grey with epoxy paint.
Let me know if it isnt ok!

I am still in the conceptual design stage of the tropical water
garden/pond/aquarium, mentioned in a couple of earlier posts.  I have
been fixated on the idea that the deepest pool should be around 5-6'
deep, but have recently started thinking -- is there any practical

I just noticed that one of my Ancistrus seems to have a wound similar to
a burn on one side. A layer of skin containing the colouration seems to
have been grazed or cut away. What could have caused it? The tank has an
external heater so that's eliminated. Did it have a scrap with ...

I've got a 7 gallon Eclipse Hex tank (my first tank) with 6 Harlequin
Rasboras and 2 ghost shrimp, no plants. I figured that would be about
the limit for this tank, going by the 1"/gallon rule, but then I read
Netmax's page on species limiting which mentions that rasboras can ...

We just picked up our two gold sailfin mollies from a friend who was fish
sitting for us while our new tank cycled.  We had only had them for a short
while before our ammonia spiked and started killing some of our other fish.
That's when we decided to let  a friend fish sit the ...

My 29 gallon is probably 20 years old.  Today, I was scraping a little algae
off with a magnet, and I saw a small flap of loose silicone.  So, what is
the lifespan of a siliconed tank - anybody know?
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After 3 weeks from a fresh start,  I have ammonia of 2.0, nitrite of 0.0.
The nitrite has always been 0.0.  I've been adding AmmoLock to remove the
toxicity of the ammonia as I have 4 fish in my 20g tank, but I'm still
getting this reading of 2.0.  The AmmoLock label says that ...

Well, I seem to have the BGA under control in the Betta's tank for the
time being.  I did a few things Saturday.
1. Blocked off the sunlight so the tank is now running completely on the
14 watt fluorescent light.  I don't think this alone would make much

Hi.  I put 3 nickel-ish sized angels in a 55g tank a couple of months ago,
and now they are about quarter sized.  Just the other day I noticed that one
of the angels had a large eye, almost like popeye, and it was red on one
side.  The fish also had some red markings around the ...

I saw these fish at my LFS but there was no lable on the tank, anyone know what the long brown fish on the gravel is?
Photo 1
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/matthew11433/detail?.dir=10bd&.dnm=18af.jpg
Photo 2

The ph on my water is on the high side and I got ph adjust down to
bring it down to more acceptable levels.
I was told that removing the charcoal filter helps alot because I would
need to use less chemical.

I saw these fish at my LFS but there was no lable on the tank, anyone know what the long brown fish on the gravel is?
Photo 1
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/matthew11433/detail?.dir=10bd&.dnm=18af.jpg
Photo 2

I have 4 SAE's in the tank.  they're all very active and healthy, but they
are such hogs, they're starting to look like they're carrying small balloons
in their belly (meaning, very fat.. sort of a fish-version of waddling).
I've tried reducing food..  then they're so fast ,they'll ...

I got ahold of one of those master ater tests and here are the results:
Ammonia - 0
general Hardness - 180 (moderatly hard, very hard)
Carbonate hardness - 110

Ok since it looks like it's a crayfish, can I at least move it into my 5
gallon tank?  It keeps eating my poor plants.