Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / April 2006

I had a nice stable 10 gallon tank with 10 fish- 5 tetras, a couple
barbs, zebra danios.  The fish had live several years and the tank
looked good with regular siphoning of the bottom and water changes.
The trouble started when I bought a new tank.   I started it up and a

Hello to everybody.  Just a quick question to ask about 'floating
pellets' for goldfish.  Does this not go against everything I have ever
read about feeding goldfish?  Would this not encourage swim bladder
problems?  I went to my local Petco and they were the only pellets I

I was looking for something to keep one of my males in and by chance came
across this container I have, I don't know if everyone has *family dollar*
stores in their states, they are just dollar stores, I get my son cheese
balls, they come in this big round container, I was ...

Grumble.  Supposedly Nerites don't eat plants.  *looks over at Richard*
 I added three "tiger nerites" to my planted tank and the older leaves
on my Hygrophila difformis are now lace.  They look almost like these:
http://images.aquaria.net/invertebrates/gastropods/snails/nerite/

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Sara Goudarzi
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com

Hey Max.
Did you see the ad on the Aqurain Fish Mag? It has a light system with
filters and 3 bio-wheels. I thought that was your idea.
Just in case you are still trying to build the one you talked about

I have a couple of questions regarding the purchase of a wall aquarium.
I am looking for a fish tank (preferably for salt water fish) that is about
5' in length and 4" in depth.  I have checked online and have seen various
tanks vary from $200 (click link

I can't decide whether one of my bettas is sick or just lazy.  He spends
most of his time either sitting plants near the surface of his tank or
nose-down in the plants at the bottom.  He looks fine and eats eagerly.
 I've had him since January and his fins have grown nicely and ...

I live in Cincinnati.  Local Water 8.4ph 14gh 4kh aged  from the tap.
I have two tanks that seem to be doing fine.  ]
Tank 1 is 38 gal 7.3ph 3kh.  It is planted, contains aged drift wood.
Filtered with two whisper power filters and a UGF powered by two

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 17:24:56 -0500, Koi-Lo wrote in another thread:

That reminded me...

I'm a neophyte aquarist.  I have been reading this group for a while now
and really glean excellent info from it.  I read a lot of Usenet and this
group is fantastic.
I have a new tank, 10 gallons, white gravel substrate, 4 plastic plants,

I was planning on using plain aquarium gravel as the substrate in my
soon-to-be-developed 55-gallon planted tank. I'm seeing other types
of substrates, though, for planted tanks. Is aquarium gravel enough?
Seems to be fine in my 10-gallon tank.

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What happens when there is no surface area exposed to the open air?

I have a question betta people.....
I usually see chain store female betta's in tanks together, however the ones
I got have been kept by them selves, will this pose a problem with putting
them together? I have not taken them out of their neat little custom bowls

Hello, I have a Fluval 404 which is about 4 months old.  I've read that
eventually the output becomes less and less and the pipes need
cleaning.  A few weeks ago I rinsed my pads from the filter and
reconnected it all up. When it started it spat out a small amount of