Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / November 2005

I've been lurking around here for the past several months and learning
quite a bit. We recently bought a new house about 8 miles from our
current location. Yesterday I began moving our/my freshwater aquariums
to the new house.

I bought 4 clown loaches 3 weeks ago and they developed Ich 2 weeks ago.
Upon seeing the spots, I immediately began treating with Rid Ich (formalin,
malachite green).  I have been treating every other day at slightly less
than the recommended 1 tsp/10gal dosage.  The loaches do ...

I have breaking news about one of my tanks and some business to take care of
about it. I am a regular on this newsgroup for those of you who don't know
me. In my opinion I take very good care of my pet fish and keep their
homes/home clean in my opinion. I have been running into a ...

   I am doing a little research to see how it would be to care for a fw
stingray... I would like to get one, Ive got an empty 125 gallon tank
setting in my aquarium room and still dont know what to get... Can anyone
give me some good info on Freshwater Stingrays, like what is the ...

I set up my 70 gallon tank in May of this year.
Previous to that I've had a few smaller tanks, and have been
taking care of exotic fish for about 4 years now.
The 70 gallon is a freshwater community tank with

I lost poor little Flower the discus.  He never did start eating again
and the metronidazole everyone recommended must have been too little too
late.  He died on the fifth day of treatment.  Ah, well.  It's not like
I had an adequate tank for him anyway.

That's okay. I'm new at this and don't mind asking the dumb question
now and then.
I have three female bettas (in three separate tanks). They're all looking
kinda fat! Fatter than they were when I bought them a couple of months

hey, its me again. i have a question which i am really concern.
i have 2 red ear sliders, and one walks normally in the underwater but
the other one walks sideways, like tilting(45 degree angle).  It had
never done this till now, i don't know what might have cause this. Was

I've got an outbreak of dark green slime, which I assume is BGA. I think
this is what has been killing my Sword. I didn't realize how bad it was
until I pruned the Ludwiga today, the leaves are covered. Hopefully it will
recover OK, the coated leaves look a little sick.

I recently set up several tanks, getting my house back to order.
In four of them I used "Flourite" for substrate, about the same fish
load, similar plants, anubias, vallisnaria and a handfull of egeria in
each.  similar lighting in all.

Ok,,Yippee....it's a done deal that I can upgrade my 47.5 community tank
in the conservatory...as long as I sell my car which I have to do anyway
as we seem to have a surplus of vehicles at the moment....so the budget
will be around £1000 all told (but less if I can get away with ...

Has anyone heard of controlling the water's pH/CO2 level by controlling
the CO2 concentration *above* the water surface rather than by pumping it
through the tank's water in little bubbles?
Aeration and turbulence causes the dissolved gases in the water to

Hello all. New to Aquariums (Had one as a kid 35 years ago) and new to this
group of course. I was wondering if someone might answer a couple of
questions. I just purchased a used tank, 20 gallon. It came with tank, pump,
stand etc. I have set it up and it doesnt leak or anything, ...

We are a bit confused and need some advice as to how to proceed.  Our
tank contains:
2 dwarf neon rainbow
2 bosmani rainbows

Hi.  My new betta, which is in a tank alone, is missing a chunk out of his
tail fin.  I wouldn't think he could bite his own fin, but is this likely
the cause?
thanks,