Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / April 2005

A friend and I were talking about tatoos the other night - a topic that
comes up every now and again.  She was saying how she might like to get
fish tatooed - more of an astrological thing for her.
But it perked my mind!  Somehow I like the idea.  I was thinking

have a tank (70 litre) with koi, doing fine for the past six months -
no problems at all.  About two weeks ago, the water became really
cloudy / opaque.  Only change is fish food was changed - started using
colour enhancing fish food.

I've got two questions, first off - I've went to buy a razor blade to
finally clean the aquarium's glass since its disgusting how I neglected
it.
When I started to clean with the plastic blade (no effects on the algea

This 25-gallon tank of ours, with almost forty fish added to it on April 5
(a week after setting it up and filling it,) still has high nitrite levels
between 0.3 and 0.8 despite daily water changes.  I've done DAILY water
changes- a few 20% changes and a number of 40% changes, ...

I went with my friend to some LFS that we'd never been to the other
day because he wanted to get some stuff for his tank, and I ended up
stumbling across a tank full of VERY colorfull german blue rams that
were about 1.25 inches long. It was written on the tank that they were

Since the false imprisonment of one of my bigger Clowns by the Pl*co
(earlier post) I have had a persistent Ich infection of my four smaller
Clowns - the other two big ones, including the prisoner, are fine. All of
the other fish are still OK for the moment including the SAE's where ...

I have a friend who claims he now has "small worms" in his tank.  What he
initially had was a convict and texas cichlid, who mated and laid eggs.  
The fry hatched, but due to neglect, most of the fry were eaten within a
couple of weeks.

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This post is a bit off topic but I have a ten gallon tank sitting
around doing nothing at the moment and I've been thinking about what I
want to do with it. Whenever I start up a new tank (or as in this case
restart an old one) I always plan for a while ahead of time to come up

Just checked on one of my tanks before going to bed. Freaky goings on,
that's all I can say. I can just barely make out stuff at one side of
the tank using a permanent led fixture I have there. Sort of a moonlight
glow. All other lights are off. Eeeeeeeeeeeek! What is that!?

Okay, www usenet readers are not your friend.  So I will attempt this
message once again.  However, it may be a little more brief. <smiles>
55gallon tank. 5 platties (female) 3 swordtails (female) introduced in
small quantities over 2 months approximately.

Don't forget to call and change Jose's doc appt. and send some sample memos
for steven

Of course the pet store bills them as lobsters and sticks them with price
tag to match, but I believe they're Crayfish.  Here is the question.
I have two of these.  They came from the same store, same tank, same time.
They live in a 150 gal. fresh water tank with a 2'x4' natural ...

So evidently, when you're working in your tank, and you forget to unplug
the electric heater, it makes a noise very much like coffee brewing on
one of those cheap electric hot plate coffeemakers.
I was thinking to myself, gee, coffee seems like a good idea.

Are fungus meds safe for dwarf frogs?  Some of my swordtails in the tank
have fungus and I want to medicate them.  Also, is there a web site that
discusses diseases of dwarf frogs?  None are sick right now, but I want to
read about the subject before it happens.  Thanks.