Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / October 2005

I've now pulled two dragonfly larvae out of my 10 gallon guppy tank!
One a few months ago, and one this morning.  I'm not pleased since I'm
trying to breed the guppies for local shows and cash.  For those that
don't know, dragonfly larvae are predatory and eat small fish like ...

I have 2 clown loaches, 3 glowlight tetra, 1 zebra diano in a 10 gal
tank will be building a 50 gal soon. Any way I just go ove a ICH
problem, but today after I turned the lights on I noticed the one loach
was attacking the other. anytime he entered their cave one would chase

I went into a LFS the other day looking for Amquel+. The guy (kid) tells me
that they don't carry Amquel+ becuase they don't like it (no explanation),
but they do have and like Amquel.  ????  So I scratched my head and left.
I'm not sure, but I thought the difference was that + ...

Hello all.  I'm new to this group and relatively new to aquaria (well,
I had some 10 gallons as a teenager but never understood why all the
fish died.  Except one really weird swordtail.)
I'm slowly purchasing supplies for setting up a 55 gallon aquarium, and

I'm sure this has been covered again and again, but maybe someone wouldn't
mind giving me a quick answer on this one.  We're considering to move a
betta into a 1 or 2 gallon bowl.  Do I have to supply a heater, or can
betta's tolerate temp swings?  I live in NJ, and the room can get ...

(waves at those I know from the goldfish group)
I have two tanks, a 30 gall with one 4" (2" of which is tail!) fantail
goldfish. It's healthy, still not cycled but I'm working on that with
Stability and hope that it'll get there. Sooner or later.

I'm not one to tempt fate toooo much, but can't refuse a perfect
opportunity to change things.
Due to impending arrival (in 8 months) of our second child, we are
moving from our too small town house to a larger single family about a

I could use some advice...
Early this spring I installed a 4 lamp high output T5 fixture over my
simple 55gal fish and plant (anacharis) freshwater aquarium. Before
this, plant growth had been mediocre at best. After hanging the lamp,

I was in one of the large fish stores yesterday, watching a video of the
python system.  I was curious about the fact that this requires you to
add dechlorinator to the tank, rather than the water you're adding
before it goes in.

this 220gal tank is 7' long, 2' deep.
After reading NetMax's web page some I found this:
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Having 2 smaller heaters (ie: 2 x 150W instead of one 300W) will limit

Allright,  As I stated in another thread we have made the move to a 75
gallon tank.  We have the tank, stand, and all the accessories.  Now
comes the joy of putting it all together.  In the final analysis the
sale wasn't as good as we had been told, some Jr. fish sales person had

Just done the maintenance/water change on my 200L community tank
including cleaning the inlet valve for my Fluval 404. Put it back in the
tank and turned the pump on but it suddenly stopped working...turned it
off and started manually priming it. I was sitting on a little stool

Ok I know it was quick but I've had a fishy day. Maintenance on the
Community tank and finishing off the QT tank which this time didn't find
it's way back to the box.....plant friendly substrate and loads of
cuttings....in fact I still had to throw over quarter of a bucket full ...

Well after waiting the recomended period, getting all the levels to where
they are supposed to be, buying a new heater and getting the water temp to
where it needs to be and running a test with some Molly's, after 1 1/2 weeks
this is where I am.

I was wondering, has anybody used any of the Gel-tek products?  I'm
looking now at the Ultra Cure BX and PX products from Drs Foster Smith.
Does anybody have any experience using these to treat bacteria and
parasite illnesses, respectively?  I'm especially wondering about using