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I do. the corries love it and swim towards it when I add it. should I not be adding this?

I have a fish, the name escapes me right now of the breed. nothing exotic. he has been swimming upside down and sideways for 1 day now. I saw him last night upside down and checked all the water levels, everything is ok. I did a 30% pwc and added salt, like I usually do. He is still there...

I have had the same problem with my corries. they will do fine for a couple days to a couple weeks then go completely pale and die. I have had 2 in there for about 6 months and they are the only ones to make it out of 2 batches of 6. Never could figure it out and I'm not adding any more...

well it might be my imagination but he looks like he has more color. its been about 6 hrs since I dosed the anti parasite. he is still just sitting on his side or even upside down but as soon as you nudge him he swims away and then ends up on his side again. we'll see what he does through the...

I picked up an albino cory that looked like it had been beaten up in the tank at petsmart and had most of its tail missing. It has been doing fine for almost a year and now recently it has been getting more and more pale. I came downstairs this morning and it as just laying on its side so i...

ok cool, just wasn't sure what to think about the webpage. I just did a quick google search for it cuase i couldn't find it on here. No big deal if my mom can't swing past then. thanks.

Just curious what the best thing to do to feed them while I'm away on vacation for 4 days. One site said that I can go without feeding them for a few days. I can get my mother to come feed them once maybe twice while I'm gone. I was thinkin to maybe put a bunch of algae wafers in for the...

I scored a 55 gallon with stand and a box full of plants, and several aquaclear filters for 50 bucks. just had to chill out for a few months to find the right deal.

so I have kelp and algae flakes and these rasboros dont seem to be touching them, they only nip at the shrimp pellets while they are floating down to the cories.

well i told the old lady to go to petsmart when she got up this morning to get some sinking food but she overslept and couldn't get there before she had to go to work. I stopped on the way home and got algae wafers and shrimp pellets, one more of the cories was dead when I finally made it home...

well i got everything situated and finally got some fish in there. started out with 5 albino cory cat's. unfortunately I did not put a sponge filter on the pickup tube and lost 2 of them in the first 2 days. no on locally has the right filter so I have the net rigged over top of it now. the...

my dad used to raise african cichleds in the basements when I was younger and I saw this tank on craigslist for a good deal and decided to pick it up. I will use this thread to hopefully show other newbies the process of setting up a tank and getting everything going. 55 gal tank, with stand...

I am just setting up an aquaclear 500 for my 55 gallon tank and the box says to use the biological media ontop and the filter underneath it but you have it backwards, does it make any difference?