Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / June 2005

I replaced my airstone (12" coarse, blue, pyramid-shaped) that was along the
rear of the tank with a 10" bubble curtain.
What a difference!
Placing the bubble curtain along the width of the right side of the tank

I just went to feed the fishies and noticed that the glass thermometer in
the tank was broken.  Will this cause any damage to the fish?  I got all the
glass out, but I don't know if the red stuff that tells the temp will harm
them?  Any ideas?  Thanks,  Sarah

I have been having a problem with my endler guppies for aropund 6
months now, its driving me mad.
All the adult females keep getting a whitish patch/patches on thier
body and then dying. Here is the really starnge thing though, it is

I am using an Emperor filter with Emperor Ready-To-Use filter cartridges.
According to the directions you should change them every two to four weeks.
Does anyone just rinse them out and us them for a longer period of time?

After having got over a problem in which all of my white mollies were
too buoyant, I now have the complete opposite problem with one of those
mollies. This particular molly has no buoyancy whatsoever and has to
battle gravity to reach the water surface. She has lost her well ...

I finally got all the pond plants out of my "community tank" this week, so I
paid a visit to the LFS today.
Came home with 4 "Golden Rosy Barbs", 3 Tiger Barbs, a Yoyo Loach, 4
Cardinal Tetras and 4 Caboomba (sp?). I probably shouldn't have bought

this is a query in the aftermath of a sad story - a month or so ago I
bought five baby (very baby) botia striatas and two female dwarf
gouramis. They'd come from a shop with a common filter system (and I
only have one spare tank) so I kept all seven fish in the same tank to

Okay, the SpongeBob tank is about 4 weeks old and the Danios are doing
fine. I feed the fish once a day and change the water about every 5
days (50%).
Testing the water the pH is fine, the amonia is very low (almost at 0)

I'm just getting back into aquaria after about an 8 year absence due
to work, and am wondering if there are any Canadian or New Englander
Killfish enthusiasts here?
I'm setting up several small tanks in the hopes of finding someone who can

I just wanted to document that I killed a bunch of brakish shrimp
trying to acclimate them to freshwater. I feel bad.
I setup a drip line from an established tank, to slowly adjust the
salinity and pH. After letting this run for 16 hours and reducing the

I have a 26g planted tank.  Short blackish algae has started to grow
on both the rocks and plants.  I have 3or 4 ottos and a clown pleco
but they don't seem to be doing the job (on the glass maybe).
SAEs I've had in the past turned into bullys but think it's time to

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         I have two orfe who have become problematic in my tank and
need a pond to go to. Can anyone help? One is a blue orfe, male, about
four years old and six inches long; the other is a golden orfe, female,
about two and a half years old and four inches long. They're closely ...

I have removed since long carbon filter, and last night when I was
adding a couple more ghost shrimps (love those guys) I noticed that the
water smells quite bad.
Is this normal?

Death toll in last two weeks:-
Matt's 15 gall tank 2 Mollies and 2 Rosy Barbs - inexplicable
Mbuna Tank 1 Yellow Lab and 1 Rusty - pretty much accountable
5 gall Kitchen tank - just found a dead oto - don't know why