Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / March 2006

I wanted to see if my male betta could get along with an albino
cory...didn't know if it was a male or female, I did get one of the
kind of plump ones from the store.  Well, all seemed well for the first
night, next day okay, but yesterday Rudolph started going after the

Does anybody know---will chemical filtering - i.e., activated charcoal -
remove Excel from the water?
R. Hill

Have read several posts about value of floating plants re water
quality and making fish real more comfortable.
I think I'd like to try but wouldn't that have an effect on all the
plants at the bottom(stunted growth and all other sorts of problems)??

I'm sorry to bother you guys, but I'm at my witts end. We were given a
bunch of fish in a small tank that was filthy and poorly maintained. :-(
I cleaned it out and put in a filter from our tank (a small one), Now
the fish are happy, but we needed a bigger tank to combine the two. I ...

Got the structure siliconed down and the driftwood dry fitted.
http://www.2cah.com/netmax/diy_projects/sculpture2/Figure14.jpg
It'll look better with algae and plants growing up the sides, but it'll
never look real.  That's ok.  It was designed to the fish's

Hi yet again fair group,
My old 55 is lookin' pretty nice for a $50 (+$100 for more stuff) find
and my reseal is not leaking as of 2 hours now...Yeehaa!!  Few
questions please:

Hi there fishy folks.
Who was it that mentioned wanting to read about fish aging in Tropical
Fish Hobbyist magazine?
I have it right here and I wasn't overly impressed, but I can go over

ok I mainly have nocturnal fish, I have now 3 Clown Loaches 2 about 3.5"
and 1 about 1.5" 2 yoyo loaches about 4.25", and 3 upsidedown cats about
0.75". My question is what kind of light could I use @ night to see them
without it bothering them.

I've got 6 H Rasboras in a 7 gallon tank. I'd really like to get some
sort of bottom feeder that could clean up any food that sinks to the
bottom. I've tried ghost shrimp, but I had a couple die on me so I don't
want to kill any more. Obviously it would have to be something small ...

It seems (in my admittedly limited experience) that every time we
treat ich in the aquarium, we then get fungal infections. There are
no signs of ich now (treated with King British - seemed to work
faster than Protozin) but a couple of the fish now have white

I on the weekend bought three upsidedown catfish, and one Clown loach, I
put them in a cycled unused tank as a home for the cats and quarinteen
for the CL. Where I got my fish I trust as they themseves quarinteen
their new arivals, but I thought it would not hurt.  My question is ...

I've read about them, never used them.
do I just get yarn from the fabric store?  I wonder if there are
chemicals used in the yarn preparation that would be harmful to the
fish.

No doubt we are living in a world with too many problems and far too
few answers. Many millions regularly go hungry. Increasing numbers are
addicted to drugs. More and more families are breaking up. Incest and
family violence are constantly in the news. The air we breathe and the

I'm a bit of a beginner at all this.  I have a small 6 gallon tank with
a good filter and an airstone.  It's planted up and has 3 x 1 inch
pentazona barbs and 2 x 1/2 inch tiny little cat fish which I though
were bagrus ornatus but I've since discovered are pigmy corys(!)  I

Hi..
Just try to cultivate bog plants in tiny acrylic green
houses on a window sill in our conservatory.
Gave each a 4W Lumilux fluorescent tube instead of a heater,