Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / October 2005

I found this - www.thinkfish.co.uk/community.html - seems like a
useful tool, but I don't have the experience to determine its
accuracy. Any opinions?

If anyone needs to reset a sponge to like new functionality soak the sponge
in a jungle net soak solution according to the bottle with the net soak to
water ratio for nets, over one or two nights (consecutively). I have done
this successfully for sponge prefilters which would ...

I thought Junior was becoming more sedentary lately, sleeping in his tree
(plastic plant) quite a bit. I cleaned his tank on Monday and aided the
usual dechlorinated and temperature matched water. He seemed fine, although
I was concerned that he got too close to the action at one ...

Monday night we added 6 neons to a relatively new tank (after about 90
minutes of dripping water from the tank into a small bucket we'd put
them in (with the water from the bag they came in from the LFS)).  3
Rasboras had been there for 5 full days (with no problems).  Tests

My baby (now grown up) Corys spawned yesterday, I counted 88 eggs. The
other Corys were trying to eat the eggs, which I found very suprising.
I didn't know they did that. I hadda seperate em'
My water parms were: 76 deg F, ~7dKH, ~7.5pH. I have recently let the

I moved a platy with some sort of infection in one of her gills into a
one-gallon hospital tank to treat her with Mardel's Maroxy.  Since the
infection is a white filamentous mass in her gill I assumed it
was a fungus.  She's on her 5th day of treatment with no signs of the

I always thought I had quite a green (wet) thumb - great clear water - rare
fatalities - great plant growth - hardly a drama in the 1st 4 years or so of
my tanks life...
but yes - got a bit slack in the last 12 months - not changing water as

I have a problem with my heater.  I have one that hangs off the edge of
the tank, but it keeps slipping down too low and I feel like it's gonna
eventually short out and fry my fish.  So, I'm looking for suggestions
on fully submersible heaters, as I like the idea of them better ...

Yikes - I have a problem.  I have had two blood parrots for about 18 months.
One has always been larger than the other.  For quite some time the norm was
they would swim around and occasionally the larger one would swim over and
bump the smaller one or sometimes just chase it to ...

Anyone know what this is at all?
Found it just now during a water change in my 10 gallon tank.
Currently have 2 apple snails, a live plant and 2 leopard danios, though
about to add some tetra too.

but I jumped the gun and put 8 fish in a tank 4 days old. They have been
good to go for about 5 days, then the last 3 days I have lost one a day.
Both catfish are dead as is one sword. So does the color of the fish carcass
tell anything, the catfish were already albino, but the ...

It occurred to me last night that a Galileo thermometer would look
really good in some tanks - and would provide a very easy at-a-glance
way to check the temperature. If it was firmly seated (so as not to
fall over and break), can anyone think of any reason not to use a

I think that's what it's called: water tension.
Anyway, my male betta is in a 10 gallon tank. The water filter causes
too much surface water movement, imho. I think it's too much because when
I feed him his freeze-dried bloodworms, they go everywhere. Some even

My tap water has an ammonia level of about .25ppm (and a nitrate level
of 5ppm) from what I've been reading this is enough to be toxic to
fish. So my question is what should I do about it. My aquarium is in
the middle of a fishless cycle right now when I add 2ppm ammonia its

Ok I have a small tank with 3 glowlight tetras 1 danio and 2 clown
loaches. I am wondering waht are some good plants taht will provide good
hiding for the tetras and hardy enougf that my loaches won't devour.