Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / March 2006

Hi Group,
I have heard that someone found a new sort of a cute blond furry
crab/lobster thing... Scientists even had to create a new "family" for
it... It was 900 miles South of "Easter Island" in the of south pacific

Hello, recently read about somebody's goldfish having red streaks in
it's tail.  I have a small case of fungus going on in my tank at the
moment, which I seem to be on top of (fingers crossed)  Have noticed
that my Pearlscale has some small red streaks in the end of his tail.

I usually post on alt.aquaria.tropical.fish.hobbist, I had posted a problem
I was having and netmax said to post it here, and maybe someone could help.
I have had a lot going on in my tanks so I will try and make it short
Had guppy tank set up for a year, had only 2 African dwarf ...

I have a Black Tetra with pop eye. I removed the carbon and tried a
seven day treatment with Melafix without any results. It's been a
month, would further treatment help or should I consider sending him to
fish heaven? Behavior and eating is normal but it sure looks like it's

quick question please
i have read i should put salt in with my betta's and as long as it is non
iodide that it is fine, so went to the store and got some. morton salt
non-iodide ingredients: salt / calcium silicate

just some info:
http://biol1.bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp:8000/sexuality.html

Should a freshwater aquarium have a smell?
Sometimes I get a "stale" smell coming from my 2.5-gallon betta aquariums.
And I sometimes get a foul smell from my 10-gallon aquarium (a dozen glo-light
and neon tetras, a pleco, a SAE, and about four ghost shrimp).

Do people find that the manufacture recommendations for their filters
(ex: for up to a 30 gallon tank) are accurate, or do they stretch that?
Specifically, I'm interested in the Penguins.
I'd appreciate your thoughts!

Hi..
Last weekend we had 15-20cm snow and I was able to collect

fishes seem to love it. :-)

The black-red sooty, fuzzy algae has stopped growing and spreading.  The
pleco and ottos have cleaned much of the surfaces of the plants and rocks of
this gross stuff.  All new algae growth is a nice green color.  I've also
been using more of the other Flourish fertilizers along ...

It seem South Dakota population is wanning, why else make abortion
illegal?

Just interested in getting some ideas....
I have a 15 gall tank in my kitchen. It's "normal" occupants are 2
Powder Blue Dwarf Gouramis, 4 Rummy Nose tetras, 4 Julli cories and a
Dutch Ram....everything was fine - a little bit of posturing between the

I am about to buy 1 angelfish to control my fancy guppy population in my
silver dollar tank - will it work? The family run nearest pet shop only
tells me I can try it - they don't know nearly as much as the cumulative
knowledge of all of you here. I have been lurking her for a while ...

Hi all, I need some recomandations on some plants for my clown loaches I
have 1 juvi and 2 I guess teens. I have some plants in there tank and
well out of 8 or so bunches of spiral vails I now have 4 and a clump of
root. what are some good plants to keep with them I don't mind ...

My guppy had her fourth set of babies tonight, they dont look as good
(healthy as normal) anyway she has some black/cloudy white stuff i dont
think its poop i think its probably from having the babies, is this bad is
something wrong with her?