Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / January 2006

Is it possible to filter out bacterial blooms with a diatomaceous earth
filter or are the bacteria too small (smaller than approximately 1 micron?),
I used my vortex and 10-12 inches into the water there is a hint of
cloudiness (I used that filter for 1 and 1/2 hours)? Should the ...

I was doing some reserch on my new fish, I got 5 Rasbora heteromorpha as
dither fish for my CL loaches. While doing the reserch I came across
somthing odd I read that they like slow gentle water.  Well since
yesterday they like to play swim through the air bubbles in witch tosses ...

I was just sitting here and turned out the lights in the tank with only
minimal light from another room but still enough to see the fish. I notice
the following:
1. The tetras really get close. When the light is on, they school but not

I'm wondering how you all go about filling a large, new aquarium. Do you
use some sort of treated tap water, or do you buy bottled water, or what?
Forgive my ignorance. I'm new at this. (And I'm thinking of getting a
29 gallon tank.)

Here's what I did:
I was concerned about my betta's fins, thinking he had fin-rot.  His
fins were tearing a bit, and when the dorsal fin started with a small
pin hole, then a few days later that elongated (about 1/4 inch) and

Question, in the last week or so my Mickey Mouse platy's belly has
grown/swelled to twice the normal size.  Is it possible she is pregnant?
Now this may sound weird because she is the only platy in the tank, however
she and one of my guppies have been inseparable ever since I ...

For Christmas I bought my 3 year old a 3.5 gallon tank and a crayfish and
boy does he LOVE it.  He gets so excited when he wakes up from his nap and
it's time to feed Jack the crayfish.  Jack also happens to be my son's name.
He is not very orginal when naming things.

New here, been lurking for about a month. Great resource this is. Now I
have a question.
I have a 10 gal. with six Serpae Tetras and three Green Cories. It is
just a cheap outfit I picked up at Wal-Mart with a 10/15 Whisper filter.

I have a very lethargic Molly, which is spending virtually all
its time sitting on the bottom.  No sign of spots, redness,
bulging eyes, and it does it if food is available (I just isolated
it to the quarantine tank.)

I'm fairly certain that my male Betta has "fungus." At least
he looks very much like the picture on the box of "medicine"
that I got to treat him. He has the white fuzzy-looking stuff
on his "chin" and his fins have split into strips instead of

I have a yellow cichlid which was labelled as ps. acci yellow.
I googled. I presume they meant acei but I can't find any yellow
morph. Moreover this has a horizontal stripe and is a bit slimmer
than I'd expect.

After making my friends suffer much fish talk and fish gazing two of
them are going to get aquariums of their own. I was wondering what
would be the fastest way for them to mature their tanks? I was thinking
of giving or lending them a cup full of gravel..and maybe the ceramic

I mentioned in an earlier post that I have a 100 gallon tank.  For filtering
I have to powerheads, one reverse flow, and two filters an Emperor 400 and a
smaller single bio-wheel Emperor.  Question, would a freshwater tank get any
filtering benefit from a protein skimmer??

I have a simple and somewhat well known to every seasoned aquarist method
(sorry - I don't mean to say I invent all of this stuff - this particular
method  I originally saw in an issue of tfh) of keeping an aquarium's water
level up and stable over a period of weeks) You need to ...

I have a 100 gallon tank which I am getting serious about again.  The tank
is in great shape and has around 15 fish in it right now.  All good
community fish no aggressive types.
But I have been thinking about varying the kinds of critters in it.  I found