Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / June 2005

Hey fishy folks.
On another newsgroup I belong to that is strictly Bettas, there's a
member there who tells me that he has seen male Bettas show *vertical*
barring for submission.

I've got another question from the discus thread.  After filtering over
coconut fiber (much like peat but without the phosphates), adding
blackwater extract, and removing the carbon from my filter to allow the
mopani wood to stain the water, my water is definately brown tinted.

The female Cherry barb died today....the symptoms were different from before
(my news server has deleted the post so I couldn't follow up on that one).
For new readers we have now lost 8 out of the 9 fish in the 15gall tank for
no determinable reason. I thought that it was a stuck ...

I got 4 ramshorn snails from someone and put them in my 15 gallon
tank (2 neon tetras, 2 zebra danios, 2 pygmy cory catfish). They are
happily slurpping up all the algae.  I think they look kind of cool
and they are fun to watch. I've been reading about them on the 'net.

I'm in an odd situation.  I have a heavily planted 15 gallon tank and
had room for a couple more fish - I broke my canopy and had two jumpers
before I got it fixed.  It was my birthday and BF wanted to buy me fish
so I asked for a few cardinals.  He came home with a few cardinals ...

I came home with a bag of Von Rio Tetras today and this little guy
somehow snuck in the bag.
http://origamiopossum.com/tetra.jpg
The picture is not great but what is it and will it do okay schooling

I want to buy a large tank and stand and am wondering what places have
good prices and selection in the SF bay area.  Is there any site people
put used stuff up for sale other than craigslist?

My 3 gallon tank with two platys finally shows no ammonia after about
9 weeks.  So of course today I bought a new 20 gallon that I want to
set up in the next couple of weeks.  So, a couple of questions:
Can these fish stand going thru an uncycled tank again so soon, or do

I had a similar problem with a discus. (S)he would chase the other
discus in to a corner wouldn't even let it out to eat. I put it in with
two large angels. He gets along fine with them. I got a couple more
discus, one of them is a bit of a bully but no serious problems.

I caught a bit on the news last night that some cities (Washington D.C.
was mentioned) are changing the chemicals they use for sanitizing water.
The reasoning was that chlorine may be dangerous in case of a terrorist
attack. As 90+% of the population aren't aquarists, they didn't ...

I was so worried about my new tank with 10 cichlids.  I was sure
someone would die, but I was going to try as hard as possible to not
let that happen. My water parameters are:
    ammonia = 0

Will Ottos cohabitate with Tiger Barbs or are they a bit too aggressive for
the Otto? Also will the Ottos get along with my Yoyo Loach? If not, can I
move the Loach in with my Betta?

In a previous post I mentioned moving all my small fish to another
tank as the tinfoil's had destroyed all the plants (even the Java
fern)  and a few fish as well. (my fault - uninformed buy - didn't ask
enough questions - anyway too late now)

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I put three small otto cats into our main tank about a month ago and
they immediately went about the business of cleaning the algae from all
surfaces.  Last week I found one dead, way in the back behind a
decoration.  It's such a hard-to-see spot and these guys are so small