Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / June 2005

Thanks to all who responded for my requests for help with Flower, the
gift discus.  Flower has finally colored up and is simply breathtaking.
 He's a high-fin red turquoise with great markings on his face, gills,
and anal fin.  He's become the boss of the tank, much as NetMax ...

Hau kolas..
I've had a problem with hair/thread algae in a 29 gallon tank for quite a while now. long story short, got some ameca splendens to eat the stuff versus poisoning it. Time and time again these got the nod from others. anyway, not only have they not touched the algae, ...

That is my goal for my new 20G tank.  So far I have the two platys
that came from the 3 gallon tank.  Since this is my first foray into
fishkeeping I also want easy and hardy guys, preferably on the smaller
side.  After a lot of reading I am considering some combination of the

Daniel Morrow Wrote:

There is this thing that the local mall is doing for kids, they are going to
give out 100 goldfish each with a 1 gallon (give or take- medium critter
keeper ) container.  This is animal cruelty.  Comet goldfish need 20 gallons
per fish.  Its like keeping a dog in the cabinet ...

I'm having problems adding new fish to my 30 gallon freshwater tank. (I
typically keep guppies and neon tetras in my tank with a pleco or two).
All the water levels are fine, temp is fine, etc. (ph is actually a little
high at 7.6, but that doesn't seem to be a problem).  My tank ...

With my cichlid tank I thought everyone was ok after the UGF problems.
I noticed after a couple hours after changing the water that one
fish was in trouble.  He seemed very pale, breathing hard, swimming
all over the tank.  He holds his fins close to his body.  He

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Sadly I lost my male guppy last night.
I found it this morning being sucked by the filter...
The only sign that I could notice on hom was that his back fin looked
like it was cracking and pieces were missing.

How much light can Bettas tolerate?
I finally finished Junior's canopy (26W) for his 10 gallon and I was
wondering if it's too much. He seems fine, but I thought I would ask. I want
to add some real plants at some point in the future, that's why I went with

I took pity on a betta at the pet food place, and bought him.
He is in a 65 litre tank with some balloon mollies, a gold pl*co, a spotted
pl*co, one large angel fish and one large kissing  gourami ( the last three
were from a friend of a friend and were in desperate need of a home).

Got a phosphate kit and Fe kit.  Phosphates were ok. Iron was not
registering even though I put in 15 ml of "Plant Zone" yesterday.  My
Swords are looking a bit worn down.
For those who have fully planted tanks, how much do you add weekly?

My beta seems to have some specs of what looks like white dust on the
side of its gill. Other than that he seems to be doing fine. His colour
on top and on the side is quite dark, and he still has long fins.
Is he sick?

Today when I was changing the water I noticed that there was a spot
on the grate for the UGF that was bare.  I know that means bad news
-- bad bacteria and other nasties grow in the other portions of the
UGF.  I have no idea how long it's been like that.

I was in one of the stores where I live a couple weeks ago and looking
at the fish. One of the tanks had Neon Tetras, quite small. In the
same tank were the Cardinal Tetras, same size as the Neons. Now, I'm
wondering if this is particularly clever of the store people. I mean,