Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / April 2005

Many people really like feeding live food to Oscars and other preaditor
fish. But they have a problem since many feeder goldfish are sickly or
full of parasites. So I was wondering, what do you guys think of
raising a fast-reproducing speacies of fish only for the purpose of use

Still on my quest to provide more light to my tank.
I bought a glass top that fits *all* 29 gallon aquariums. Sadly, it won't
fit mine.
Has anybody made their own? What did you use for  the middle "hinge" part,

I've been noticing a rather unusual behavior among my silver tip tetra.
Seem that several of them are consistantly chasing one particular one.
specifically, there are three that are similar in color and them appear to
fight over who gets to chase a smaller less colorfully bold ...

is there any reason that one rasbora out of a group of seven has
remained the same size as when I bought it around six or seven weeks
ago? The rest have grown, developed nice deep bodies and have fantastic,
glowing red colours. This one has stayed tiny, and recently has taken to

How do you tell if a white fish has ick or not?  On the other ones it's
easy, but the white ones I can't tell?  Also, is rid ich medicine safe to
use in a tank with dwarf african frogs or not?  Thanks,  Sarah