Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / August 2005

O.K. this may not be proper etiquette for the newsgroup, but I put a
recent pic of my tank up! well, I'm excited about it.....
And my Swords reporoduced AGAIN! Now I know why my only male died...
This is the FOURTH batch from three different females! Whoa!

Ok - so I successfully cycled my tank, and got new fish. This was 11 days
ago. Well - I got home from work yesterday, and all but one of my fish were
dead. They were all fine before I went to work (my angel is the only one
left alive). They have been seemingly ok for the last 11 ...

Saw this amazingly pretty Clown Loach at the LFS today....instead of a
stripe or saddleback he had 3 distinctive spots - I watched him for a good
10 mins.....My previous :-( Alpha was a saddleback with a spot underneath
and I also now have another saddleback with my new three but I ...

I'm having a hard time getting a sufficient answer to: Can/should I run
a single filter for three 10gal tanks vertically? Can anyone make
suggestions or suggest a link to the info? I'm kinda scared to run
three siphons. That's tempting fate.

i have been having problems with my tank from the beginning
fish dying e.t.c.
but now i know why
my tank has been attempting to cycle for well over 30 days

As per my last post, I am about to introduce living stuff to my tank,
starting with plants. At the moment, I only have a single 40W tube over
my 200L tank, so I'm really in the low-end of lighting as far as plants
go.

I currently have a 120 litre tank, stocked with six goldfish (all under 4cm
long) & four catties (all under 6cm long). Any recommendations for how many
others I can add & what species to balance the tank ?
The tank is heavily planted & filtration is supplied by a canister filter

That's upsetting. My black (wobbly) angelfish is slowly become
completely incapacitated by paralysis, starting from the tail fin. He's
now locked in a body that he can no longer control. He can move his
pectoral fins, but barely twitch his tail fins. He can maintain a

Hi evreryone, my first post to the group.
I have a 65 litre coldwater tank with a couple of goldfish and a mollie in
it.
I was wondering if there is any other interesting creature I could add other

I have a few corys in my planted 75L tank. For over 3 months they were
highly entertaining as a group. About a month ago I noticed that a
female had plumped up and tried to catch it to isolate and save any
eggs. I was not successful in catching them because the tank being

What is your experience with fertilizers and CO2? I am currently
experiencing algae on the glass of my tank and leaves.
I think is because water my dosing of fertilizers and CO2 is not the
correct, it is over what it should be. I use liquid CO2 and Tropical Master

I'm reposting this from the plants forum, since I haven't gotten
responses.  Thanks for any help!  (maybe I'm just impatient...)
I have a type of algae I'm unfamiliar with.  It's growing on glass and
the leaves of plants.  I've seen very little on driftwood.  Can someone

I'm looking at redoing my 500l tank. I saw some really nice minimalistic
root setups (South American with Angels) i would like to try.
Since that would mean increasing the number of angels in the tank (i
would be taking out some fish too), i would like to increase the

Last November I purchased 4 Clown Loaches for my planted 55g tank which also
had 2 Bronze, 1 Albino, and 4 Elegans Corys, 6 Danios, 4 Adult and 3
juvenile Angels, a few Platies, and 2 SAE.
At first the CL's were pretty invisible then started to come out.

when changing water do you treat the water with treatments in the whole
tank or just the water you are putting in e.g.10% water change