Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / May 2006

Hello I hope you all are doing well. I have been lurking here for a bit
and just wanted to ask what would be a good startup system for a small
apartment / house? Thanks for any info, have a nice day.

hau kolas..got a bit of a quandary here..I've acquired a small painted
turtle who has been living in a 20G L
tank with about 5 gallons of water and "land" areas at either end of the
tank. Anyway, being as the water area

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So I put my new aquarium together and filled it with water last night.
(I work nights and have Sunday and Monday nights off.) It's looking
pretty bleak with no plants. They should arrive Wednesday, according
to the shipping info on the website where I ordered them (The Pet/

I've seen some sea shells for sale in the crafts department at
Wal-Mart. Do you think it would be safe to put one or two in my
aquarium? Or do they do something to them that would make them
unsafe? (I'm only thinking of them as decorations.)

  Some one threw out a whole bunch of pieces of a very large orange
clay pot,...or two,...How do I prepare the pieces for safe use in my
aquariums?
  By the way folks, I want to take a moment to thank you all for all of

I just added a RT black shark to my tank this week and I wanted to post a
question about his coloring....The fish appears grey with black fins, save
the red tail fin.  The body lenght is close to 1.5 inches...I was curious to
find out if it will develope into the 'jet' black body ...

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coming to??...-ED

Hi all,
I'm still not feeling brave enough to look at rec.ponds, hope you
guys can help me out!
My half-barrel pond has been going for about a month now, plants

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My boyfriend and I pulled out a baby fish from last year as it was
swimming around the top of the pond.  Upon looking at it, it has a pine
cone effect (second fish to get dropsy now) and on its sides it has
what looks like round blister type lumps...  Any idea what this is, I

I've got two snails on the bottom of the tank that lost most of the colour
in their shells. I don't know if they were sucked out of their shells by
someone or if they died from a lack of minerals? Is the loss of colour an
indication of a mineral problem or would they lose their ...

I have a custom tank built into an old cabinet TV... Not sure how many
gallons it is, but it's a fair size, and it has a leak (I was told) but
where the leak is exactly is unknown... I don't really care to fill it up
with the hopes of maybe finding where the leak could be, as the ...

I heard not long ago that the black angels were dying off in the petshops
due to some disease.  Not sure if they were imported or what.  Is this true
and if so, is the issue still current?

Can anyone recommend an authorative Betta book?..I've looked at amazon and I
get mixed reviews on their listings.
Thanx in advance...-ED