Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / September 2005

Any advice on keeping my Dwarf Gourami babies if they ever hatch????
Mr Gourami is guarding the nest and the female has been seen off - plenty of
hiding places for her....the bubble nest is close to some Java Moss....any
suggestions as I've never bred Gourami's before....the male is ...

One of my rummy nose tetras is showing some discoloration on the back. It
looks like a white patch, with no visible texture to it (eg no bumps or
"cotton" growth). This has appeared overnight, after a large water change
(1/3 of the water). For pictures of the sick fish, go to:

Good day to all!
I'm going to start stocking my aquarium this weekend.  I want to create
a nice community environment.  I'd kind of like to go with fish that
are indigenous to one area and I really like Cory's so I'm thinking

My LFS will perform free water testing for me, so I don't feel inclined
to go out and spend up on a heap of test kits.
I know most people feel that the 5-in-1 test strips are not
particularly accurate, but if I'm only going to use them occasionally,

On the weekend, I went looking for zebra loaches (on the suggestion of
someone in another thread), only to find that they are not legal in
Australia.
Apparently, many of my LFS's are under investigation at the moment,

I apologize for the newbie question, but I'm having trouble finding
sites that will give me the information I want. I'm a college student
who's always been fascinated by aquriums. In fact, I find myself making
trips to our science facility so I can spend a few minutes making faces

hau kolas..quick question and perhaps OT; can anybody recommend to me a good site for turtles in aquaria, specifically painted turtles? and also, any info on what effect the parameters we manage for fish have on reptiles? thanks. search engine pulls up an overwhelming amount, ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4192566.stm
Boy struck by giant tropical fish
Sunfish pictured off Pembrokeshire by photographer Janet Baxter
A four-year-old boy fishing off the west Wales coast with his parents was

Does anyone know where I can get an aquarium divider to fit a 20 gal H
tank?  There is only one supplier on ebay, but they have expensive
shipping.
I live in Australia, so if anyone knows of a place in Australia, or

I was thinking of picking up a bio-wheel pro 60 today to run to the
output of my eheim canister, to add some biological filtration to my
tank.  Trouble is, I have a hydor 300w inline heater in the mail (that
I'm pretty excited about).  Will the output water from the heater be

Here are my tank parameters:
90 gal heavily planted
Aquaclear 110 filter
256 watts fluorescent lighting

I'm thinking of getting an Eclipse Orca 2 or Eclipse 3 gallon tank for
my desk.  I've read that the filter motor warms the water.  How much
warmer than the room temperature does the water get?
How many power cords does it have?  Is it possible to put the light on a

Many thanks for all your replies & for the link to that snail site.
believe the coin shaped snails I have are a type of Planorbidae & the
dont seem to be the ones trashing all my plants to smithereens. Th
conical shaped ones are the ones I believe are doing all the damage bu

After about a year of trying to get my LFS to get in female Bettas, I
finally went to a different shop, one that is far from my home when
you're riding on a scooter [15? miles], and having to deal with Kamikaze
cab drivers, et cetera, but one very close to my brother's home.

Over the last couple of days I have noticed that my Snowball Plec in my
Malawi tank is getting picked on by his Mbuna companions. By picked on, I
mean they are going in there and trying to take a nibble. At the moment he
is getting a bit cross and scurrying off to hide but I am ...