Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / February 2006

i've been trying to clean my glass fish tank.
it gets those hard green algae growing on the glass.. so I've been
scraping them off periodically using either the mag-float or a plastic
scraper, and lots of scrubbing.  However, even when all the green stuff

Looking for Apistogramma Agassizii.  Saw in DC area shop recently for
20$ EACH!!  I think not.  There HAS to be better than that!  (Still in
the DC area)
Any ideas folks?

Now that my 10G tank is nice and healthy (no losses for 6 months!), I'm
finally getting back to my 55G.
For a few years, I've had a Penguin hang-on-the-back filter, but the
filters never seemed to fit it quite right and I wasn't really sure

Hi , i do hope somebody can help , one of my parrot fish is looking
incredibley short of breath , he kept heading for the top of the tank to
talk a gulp of air , both my air pumps are working fine , but he seems to of
lost all his energy and is now struggling and is just sat near ...

I've been cycling a 15 gallon tank for about two weeks, and I seem to
be stuck in mid cycle. I've never cycled without fish before, and I
was in no hurry to get this tank going, so I just moved a handful of
ripe gravel from an old tank into it and added a couple of big bushes

Since the background is still in place, the levels of everything in
the water are perfect, and the fish are looking good, what's a fish-
keeper to do? Well, plan what to do next, of course! :-)
And since I didn't buy that marine set-up last night, here I am

I just got some S. nigriventris (upsidedown catfish) today as well as a
wee clown loach. don't worry I have 2 other Cl loaches to make a tro
after he is finished quarienteen. My question is any spetcial notes on
thies guys. I did some googling on them but basicly get just water

To whomever was asking me about building my own Python-like water
changer, there are one or two things I forgot to add. The Real Python
has a water shut off near the aquarium, which appears to be very
conveniently placed. In my first prototype, I added a similar shutoff,

the water in my pond has turned brown due to over feeding. In the past
couple of weeks I've been cleaning out the filter on a daily basis in a
bucket of pond water. When this is done the water turns black & I use a
couple of buckets of water before the water remains reasonably ...

Hi everyone - I'm still here, reading and learning (though often
waaaay behind!)
My Rio 125 has been running for about three months. The current
inhabitants are six mollies, four danios and two neon tetras. Have

I have a small tank at home with, among other species, some guppies. My
problem is that the enviroment seems way too well suited for guppies.
They seem to reproduce at an incredible rate. I got 3 females and 2
males 3 months ago and each month I have to give away 30 young ones.

Hi..
Also known as Badis badis bengalensis or Badis spec.
"scarlet". Other common names?
Would like to keep some of them (how much is okay?) in a

Hi , My parrot fish seems to be doing much better , But it appears he has
fungus growing on him , i have the correct medicine , but it says in the
instructions , to remove the ammonia filter ? , which is this most likely to
be as i've looked up the filter spares for my tank ...

I'm new to fish keeping. I have 5 inches of tropical fish in a 6 gallon
tank and have been given widely differing advice on feeding from my two
local fish shops.  On said a whole 1cm cube of brine shrimp every two
days, another said five flakes of regular fishfood twice a day

This is twisted beyond belief.  Not only are companies dying fish, but
according to PFK, you can now have the name, logo, or symbol of your
choice tattoed onto a fish by a company in Taiwan.
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=850