Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / December 2006

10. Never do water changes with a sink full of dishes. (Wait for your
wife to do them).
9. Never tell your wife you're going to make her escargot but she has
to wait till the snails get bigger.

I have this red cap oranda for about three years now.  When it was very
young it had the red brains on the outside of the head look to it.  After I
had it a few months it lost this feature, and to this day it still has the
red head, but it is flat.  Every picture I see of them, ...

I have a 1 gallon tank on my desk at work, it is lighted, but not heated.  I
had a betta in it but it died (almost 4 years old).
Besides one betta or goldfish, are their any other very small fish that I
could have one (preferabloyu two of them) in the one gallon UNHEATED tank?

I posted about a female Siamese fighting fish that appeared to have dropsy a
few weeks ago. I treated her twice with maracyn. after the swelling didn't
start to go down, but she is still as swollen as she was then, but has not
got to the point were her scales have started to ...

ok so i went to petco last nihgt to buy my sir betta, tapatio a girlfriend
becaus ei thought he was depressed and needed some lovin. at first when i put
her in there with him he was being flirty and gentkleman like but then he
satrted nipping at her and i dont understand becaus ei ...

I have a 10 gallon tank with a goldfish, and I was wondering if it would
be okay to put an African Dwarf Frog in with it. According to my
research, these frogs don't use up any air because they swim up to the
top to breath, plus I have 2 air stones running, so even if it did use

I've heard/read some recomendations to add a small amount of sea salt to
freshwater aquariums to provide trace minerals and such. Has anyone tried
this?
I have a large (125G) planted tank, with fish, and keeping the trace