Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / May 2005

To ensure that I have sufficient minerals in the soft tap water that I add
to my aquarium, I've decided to start using Tropic Marin. My question is:
Should I dose the aquarium or only the water that I add with water changes?
Thanks - Dave

I recently purchased and albino apple snail from my LFS to put in my 90 gal
planted tank.  I have seen the snail 'dig' in my substrate after something
however today when I got home I couldn't find him so after about 10 min
of searching I could see a little patch of his shell behind ...

Hi just want some suggestions I have 3 tank set ups at the moment 1
coldwater with goldfish and 2 2 ft x 1ft x 1 ft tropical tanks.  I tank has
3 clown loaches and a red-tailed shark with 4 tetras.  The other has about a
million baby guppies and 3 corys.

A few weeks ago got 2 Japanese shrimp for my 20 gallon tank  (also have
3 golden barbs and 2 leopard danios - this was the tank I took over
from a neighbor).
They have done a lovely job of cleaning off the algae on the big piece

Why are there no messages from before April 29 showing in the
rec.aquaria groups? Some other groups I checked (such as alt.aquaria)
go back farther. I even joined this group (whatever that means) because
I thought that perhaps only members could see all the way back, but it

I have six phantom tetras in my community tank.  I noticed yesterday that
two of them have injuries to their tails.  One is missing the complete black
tip of the tail.  We recently returned an agressive platy to our LFS ...
could he have caused the injury?  Will the tetras recover?

Ok so the first one I put down to a very small nitrite spike caused by the
amount of dead plant debris after the Ich treatment.....the second one I'm
bewildered. Water quality is now good - 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, around 5
nitrate and back to it's normal pH of 7.5

This isn't a cry for help although anybody's comments are welcome as ever

happen after a very heavy treatment cycle in their community tank....
Ich is now gone so I've started the big clean up. First step was to ...

I was perusing the LFS freshwater section while I waited for the
marine guy to help me. One of the girls was netting a Pangasius cat
from one of the tanks. A Dempsey had gotten through a partition and
tore him up pretty bad. Missing one eye, most fins as well. They were

I've tried searching through the Internet and newsgroups and found some
topics on this, but I'd rather post to make sure I haven't missed something.
Our betta just stopped eating, its been quite awhile now. It still swims
around abit but the lack of food is starting to catch up ...

120litre tank with moderately planted.  angels, silver sharks, gourami and
tetras.
ammonia 0; nitrite immeasurably, nitrate same as tap water at about 10/15.
hard water. ph 8.

Check this out...never forget google. Just FYI
http://www.ktu.edu.tr/fakulte/deniz/ACAPERSO/HOGUT.HTM
Gill

I've posted recently(*) about a female beta my daughter got as a gift
from a friend last month;
just FYI, she was in a very small jar but I've got her a 3.5 galon hex
tank with a heater, some plants and no filter (but I'm doing 20% water

I stuck an LCD thermometer on my Betta tank, but it was a dud. I should have
realized when it did not "light up" that it was a dud, but I've never had
one of these on a an aquarium before. So I purchased a replacement and tried
to remove the old one. Well the outside layer peeled ...

I just found out that my local LFS has ghost shrimps and Newts.
They are cute the newts. :)
Anyway I am interested in the shrimp. I always wanted to have some kind
of "lobster" in my tank. :)