Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / May 2007

Disclaimer - I am posting this question for my wife who is fish tank smart
and computer stupid. I am fairly clueless when it comes to fish tanks. Also,
while my question is regarding both fresh and salt and this group is aimed
primarily at only fresh, I felt that the question was ...

The plants in my aquaria seem to last equally long whether thyey are true
aquatic plants, or simply those sold by the LFS that seem to last OK
submerged but are really not aquatic - some house plants EG Aluminium Plant
illustrate this.

One of two dojo loaches that I've had for nearly a year has become
sick.  He lives in a 72 gallon tank with a school of black skirt
tetras, a school of Danios, some White Clouds and a largish
plecostomus (8").

Assuming a planted tank with a low bioload, would leaving a dead fish
in there be all that bad? wouldn't the plants use the decomposing fish
as fertilizer?
I noticed a dead oto in my tank yesterday. I didn't fish it out right

1. Their amazing good looks. Everyone's amazed by the rich colors of
my bettas and their dramatic fins. They're stunning little creatures.
In my large collection of bettas I've got everything you can imagine.
There's Rusty, who's red with shiny green fins. Kermit, who's green.

I have a 29-gal (110-l) heavily planted low-tech tank with 18 fathead
minnows (rosy reds, actually), a couple of Ottociclus affinis, and a
pair of crayfish.  Some of the minnows have taken up the habit of
swimming in fast circles along the face of the aquarium glass.  Some

My Angelfish have just laid eggs on a amazon sword left!! The question
is what shall I do now. I want to leave the eggs in there but maxamise
the chance of hatching. I have read several things on the internet
darkness reduces fungus

I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a good site where I can
learn about the care, breeding and feeding of these creatures?
I don't want to buy one of the scam $20 gift sets and my son i
sinterested in them as pets.

I hve had about 5 different oscars in my tank. Initially there were 3
oscars and 3 jack dempseys and 1 pleco. All of the oscars have died,
incuding the replacement 2 I bought to equal 5. I pleco has died but I
replaced it. The dempseys have lived. Do you think that the dempseys

I have been adding seachem nitrogen plant food to my a quarium at double the
beginner dose for a month or so. As my the plants stopped growing due the
nitrate level being only about 1ppm. When I first started using it I found
that The plants wouldn't carry on growing on the ...

Inquiring minds want to know..........its inevitable that there is yet
more out there and I will post at least the url to 2 more by the
beginnig of May........so much for integrity of thes so called
moderators..........Its the in thing to create behind the scene groups

How appalling that the using BC and HRT as an example is twisted into
something this sick by people so filled with HATE they need a secret group
to tear someone apart.  This is beyond belief.  The original messages about
research, HRT and BC were to Jan, not Gill.  This is how ...

Has anyone tried to keep two of these little plecos in the same tank?  The
tank is a well planted 55g with a few fancy goldfish at the moment.

I uncovered the pond today and it was a bit murky (Three dead fish), so I
decided to get out the Vortex Diatom filter. But I had real trouble getting
the Vortex to stay primed or pump. It kept pissing the contents of the jar
back out into the pond. I greased the seal, changed the ...

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