Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / April 2006

I bought a new betta a few weeks ago and noticed some spots on him as
soon as I got him home.  (I bought from a lsf I have never used before
and will never use again now - I found out later that they had a bad
whitespot problem and were still selling the fish regardless.)  At the

Well i moved the tanks last night, using 5 gl buckets, when i finished
setting up 29 gl i went to put fish back in and noticed one of the kissing
gouramis was gone, i went back to where i had the bucket, he was not there,
my husband said eddie was in their, (our big dog) after ...

Black Marble. Between nickel and quarter size. Added to 55 three weeks
ago with 5 others, purchased at the same time but from two different
"groups". The second group is also marble, less black, with orange
features, just enough orange to tell it's in their genes somewhere.

Not sure if anyone here is from Carolina area. This forum was just created
couple weeks ago. It is a place for people to discuss their
freshwater,brackish,saltwater fish, reef, coral, aquatic plants and any
other aquarium related topics.

Some-one gave me a 10 gallon tank with heater, filter and pump, my
problem is with the heater, it never turns off, it just keeps on making
the water hotter and hotter. It has a red dial to adjust the heat I
have it turned to the lowest position, but it still stays on. I am

I have an Eclipse System 3 (3 gallons) that was a home for a betta.
Sadly, he died today. I'm not sure that I want another betta at this
time. I think I want to have the tank unheated and have something new in
it. However, I can't think of what I could put in a little tank. Any

In a 55G tank I used RUGF and also added a couple airstones while I
had a couple goldfish in there.  Plants were doing poorly, a sword
plant growing smaller and smaller, anubius covered with algae, java
fern slowly dying.

I had a recent algae outbreak in my aquarium. I cleaned most of it up
but I had a rock in the aquarium that was covered with algae. I
thought the rock looked better this way so I left it.
I was wondering is algae a bad thing to have in an aquarium can it

I have to move my 29 gl & 10 gl, I am giving my mom one of my 55 gl tanks
and its on a rod iron stand, it has a place for another tank below which is
where I have my 29 & 10, I am moving them so I can give her the tank and
stand, sucks because I have another 55 down stairs not ...

I've noticed my silver gilled black mollie swimming mostly face down the
past 3 days.  Anybody have a clue for me?
Have a great day!
'nuther Bob

My fancy guppy tank has been pretty stable, the last problem i had was when
i added a few guppies from the lfs and ended up with a disease in the tank
that was a few months ago, it got resolved back then and since been fine, a
months ago i added a underground filter to work with ...

Hi all, It is now spring time and bug are starting to show there signs.
I live in northern canada. Edmonton to be exact. and I am wondering what
bug are good for my fish? an also how to cultivate said bug so I can use
them in the winter as well as not having to forage for them ...

Would love some help.... Am in the midst of setting up a 10 Gallon tank
which is going to be planted/low-maintenance acquarium. Plan for
substrate was as follows 1in kitty litter (walmart special kitty)
terraced up to 1.5 inches towards the rear of the tank. Litter would

Having some serious problems with fish deaths at the moment, and really  
running out of ideas on how to stop the deaths.
Problems started a couple of weeks ago, when I had a couple of golden  
mollys die the same day.  My immediate reaction was to do a partial water  

ugh!
I've been running a 5G quarantine tank..  and been doing lots of water
changes both due to medication and persistant ammonia level (and zero
nitrite/nitrate, so the tank is no where near being cycled).