Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / April 2006

http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/health/salt.shtml
what do you think
Nik

I have an established 40 gal aquarium that contained three small angels,
three cory's, 6 black skirt tetras and a three inch Pl*co. The tank had been
running with this load for around three months. I added three Zebra Danios
to the tank, and now I lose a fish every day. All fish ...

I've got beard algae in my 10G tank. I was curious if someone could
reccomend a good fish or product that would take care of the algae?
The tank is about two years old, and fully cycled. The only inhabitants
are a group of 7 neon tetra. The tank gets water changes of 20% every

Hi.  Maybe you folks can help with this baffling problem.  I set up a
new 10 gal. tank and ran it for 3 days.  I added stress coat to the
water (well water - no chlorine) and the temp was stable at 76.5
degrees.  I bought 4 white cloud minnorws (supposed to be hardy),

I am planning on creating a few caves w/ rocks for my new tank. I read
the stuff re Rocks etc on Netmax site and went collecting....just have
a few questions though:
1) one of the rocks i found is slightly green, is there a way to test

I have recently aquired a 3 inch "Synodontis Nigriventris" (Upside Down
Catfish). Although this fish does swim entirely upside down, it to does
not exhibit many of the other identification marks of a true
Nigriventris. The fish is entirely black with long wiskers and

I want to take the time and thank all of those that helped me make my
decisions in starting up the hobby again.
Some of those include:
Mr. Gardener

It's been 20 days since I first setup my 55 gal tank with the betta pair.
It's starting to clear now..yippeee!!
I'm considering the purchase of two Penguin 350-B Power Filters.  Would this
be overkill regarding the bio-wheels and their role in growing

I have a pair of anglefish and they both have some stringy white fuzz
coming out of one of their "nostril-like" holes and one of the fish is
rubbing its nose against the glass. In another, probably unrelated
problem I noticed that the breeding tube of the male instead of being

I have finally decided to tackle my aquarium's algae problem.  For many
months now I have simply bit the bullet and scrubbed my tank with a algae
scrubber, but over time the situation grew out of control because I couldn't
reach all the little nooks and crannies and the tank was ...

I am starting a new 10 gal tank (it's almost 2 weeks old).  Just wondering
if it advisable to clean the filter at all during cycling or just leave it
be?  Thus far it is showing now signs of clogging so I'm thinking I should
just leave it. Any thoughts?  Will it need at least a ...

My usually healthy, happy betta seems to have something wrong.  I am not
sure what the problem is, but his back-side seems to be (what I can only
describe as) "rotting away".  A little of his tail is missing from around
there and he has what seems to be an injury or chunk taken ...

What to do, what to do ?
Tank is a juwel Rio 400l, with it's own bio-filter (I'm not using the carbon
sponge), a Rena XP3 cannister filter which is normally running one of their
biochem-zorb sachets, and a Vorton15 UV.

I have decided w/ 36g Hex is going to be a african tank. I am going to
get the tank tomorrow and am getting filter/gravel etc for it on
monday.
Question is what kinds should i get? Because of the shape of the tank

I returned to the original scene of my ill fated angel fish yesterday
morning, I'm still convinced that they were good fish and I killed
them by messing around with too many ferts and not watching my pH and
other water parameters. There were 4 left in the tank from which I had