Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / May 2005

Greetings and hallucinations!
I started a 29-gallon aquarium a month ago with a few zebra danios and a
couple of black tetras. I've been doing the water chemistry levels
religiously as it is going through the nitrogen cycle but the readings

Should I be extra careful or worried about my kuhli loaches in one of my
tanks when I do gravel vaccing? I realized after my latest gravel vaccing
that I might wound or accidentally cut in half (killing it/them) kuhli
loach(es) if when I gravel vac, the edge of the gravel vac's ...

I made a major change to my 55 gallon established (cycled and stocked with
15 various fish) tonight, and wonder about potential serious changes to
water chemistry that I wonder if anyone can answer. The gravel I was using
in the tank was quite large, around 1/4" in diameter and I ...

Recently purchased 2 clown loaches and introduced them to my tank.
After just a half hour they seemed to settle in happily and could be
seen swimming with a high level of energy.
Recently (as I hadn't really noticed upon purchase) I've spotted some

Of course it was bound to happen.  Elaine even warned me to brace
myself that my blue mickey mouse platy might not make it, but she had
been doing fine, eating and swimming, just a little less active than
the others.  She sure was pretty though and her fins were nice,

I've never actually TRIED to breed guppies before - it has always just
happened in community tanks.  This time I bought a pair of bicolor red
delta show guppies at my local aquarium society from a well-respected
breeder intending to breed thim.

whats the best thing to feed these critters?

I'm new to this group but looking for some help. We seem to have a very
persistant case of Ich in our tank.
Established (3years) 130 litre tank, water conditions are all as they should
be, ammonia 0, nitrite 0 and nitrate around 10. Put in 9 new neons recently

The title says it all...  I planned on layering the two substrates but now
that I've washed the flourite and threw that in, I kinda like the look of
it!  Is all flourite any more beneficial than layering it?  Will the sand
keep the flourite from clouding?

OK....
So in the Blue corner we have a 5gall tank...containing 1 Betta and a few
Platy fry. Planted. Added in to this tank are 3 otos.....
In the Red corner we have a 7 gall tank...containing 5 "very cool" Peacock

I've got four small white balloon mollies in a ten-gallon planted tank
at 79 degrees F which has been running for a few weeks now.  I used a
good percentage of water from our main tank to start this one up, which
I think may have helped me so far avoid an ammonia or nitrite spike ...

I'm hoping this is the right group to ask in, I couldn't see any other that
might be appropriate.
I'm wodnering whether anyone can give me any insight in Toad Fish. We bought
2 from our local aquarium place.

I've a blue betta since last summer and he's up and about, apparently
healthy and eating. However, I noticed a red streak on his lower fin
that I don't remember being there before. My disease flow chart talks
about red streaks on the body being a sign of internal infection, but

One of my old Tettra's developped a large black swelling in its nose.
only one has it, but I'm pretty sure its from the last few days
although I cant be 100% sure...
i've tried photographing it but its about hard without adequete

Has anyone ever heard of algae growing on a fish? I've put three pictures
on my webspace of one of my Golden Orfs with just this problem down both
sides of the fish, and the fins. Any assistance in getting rid of this or
at least controlling it would be much appreciated.