Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / May 2005

Hello, I have 2 blue gouramis, 3 golden gouramis, 3 tetra cardinals
and 1 tetra rummy nose. All in a 33 gallon tank with 2 live plants.
Everyone is doing great and I wonder what other hardy fish(not easily
ill) I can put with them without breaking the harmony. My water is

I setup my 15UK Gallon tank two weeks ago.  It is heavily planted and I am
cycling it with 5 leopard danios.
During week 1 I changed 25 % of the water 3 times and added some plant
fertilizer on the second change.

I am new to these news groups so sorry if posted in wrong group.
I have got 2 tanks 1 tropical and 1 coldwater.
I have got the same filter products in the two tanks and I use TetraAqua
EasyBalance, Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Stress Zyme and there Stress Coat. My

I use Windsor salt for everyday cooking.
I looked at the ingredients on the box and it says:
Salt, Calcium Silicate, Invert Sugar, Potassium Iodide.
I am just wondering, are any of those chemicals harmfull for fish or

I am now also feeding them BBS (baby brine shrimp). They are no
officially pigfish. I carefully release a ton of BBS, and the fry at
them all within a few minutes. Their feeding schedule is now microworm
in the morning, and 2-3 light feedings of BBS.

I have a recently setup planted 25g hex tank. I started with 5 neons,
week later added 5 more and 1 week after that added 5 rasboras. Eac
week I monitored the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate lvls and each wee
they came back at 0. I posted as such and decided from feedback tha

Can someone tell me the right water conditions needed for happy guppys?!

I am replacing a HOT Magnum with a Filstar XP2. Since I have the biowheel
from the HOT, I'd like to use it with the XP2. Has anyone done this before,
and if so how did you modify the filstar return tubing?
I'm thinking I may need to just build my own with PVC, so I can use a T to

We bought 4 dwarf red crabs a while back... they lived happily for about 3
days then 2 of them decided to climb up out of the tank and sit on the glass
ledge just under the hood... where they died. The other 2 crabs stayed in
the water and seemed to freeze solid and again die.

One of my ghost shrimp that I got almost a month ago died saturday.
Yes it was white.
What was weird was the timing.
The other shrimp has already moulted once and is kicking all over the

I will be setting up a 125 gal tank in the next few weeks, got a great
deal from a buddy of mine. But it is missing a filter. So, what kind of
filter would be the best? I've got a 3 Columbian Sharks, 4 Tinfoil
Barbs and several guppies that I plan on transferring into the new

We have a 6 gallon tank with one betta in it.  There are no live
plants..since we moved to a new house we have noticed a rapid growth of
algae in the tank both green  and brown furry kind. We have made sure
the tank is getting no direct sunlight.  I think the water here is just

Does anyone has suggestions on "putting down" a sick fish. My little
girls fish is sick and hasn't eaten in a long time. Its dying a slow
death and I don't want it to suffer any longer.
I know a flush would do the trick, but she's old enough to know that it

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If I run a bucket of tapwater and add dechlorinator how long before I can
add the water to my tank?
Last night I changed about 3 UK gallons of water but this morning I notice
that some of my danios gills are red.  I only let the water stand for about