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thanks heaps! Do those meds kill benefitial bacteria?

Hi guys ive been hoping the problem wil just go away but its not. The disease is affecting my gold tetras, so far none of the other fish have been affected and my guppies are having babies and the babies are growing up fine. The gold tetras loose their scales, then stop eating, go really...

thanks heaps guys

clown loaches work wonders with snails and there really fun to watch

Im having a couple of issues i would love some advice please: 1 - My LFS today told be that i shouldnt be using bi-carb soda to raise my KH because plants dont like sodium ions, and i should be using calcium carbonate instead, but ive read numerous times to use baking soda, and on top of that...

Do i have to lift up my driftwood and vacum under that? also how deep should i push the vacuum down into the gravel? (it is gravel not sand, and no UGF) the tank is planted, im worried about damaging plant roots and my dissolved undergravel root tabs. can i possibly hear some of your guy's...

nope everything looks fine he doesnt even have that much color loss.

I have looked over the desiese sites in the sticky threat and its showing none of those symptoms, here are some photos I think i will quarantine him then, but i havnt put the QT tank sponges back in the filter for colonisation do u know how long it would take for the bacteria to occupy the...

Well im pretty sure i have the water chemistry sorted out, but i have a gold tetra who is not looking healthy at all, there are no spots but its extremely skinny, it was hiding for a long time so i couldnt see how bad it was but it came out today and looks like a starving fish. i feed my fish a...

Hey guys i have a couple of questions would love some advice... i get my kh right by adding bi carb soda to the water im going to add to the tank. my tap water is 6.8ph and the tank is about 7.4. i keep the tank at 4.2 kh and my tap water has a kh of 1. my question is, how long does it take...

thanks for your replies the problem is fixed, but in a very sad way. :( i put the aggresive one in my qt tank, water all good, but i put the filter too close to the wall and somehow he got stuck in between it and the wall and i got home today and he was dead! poor thing i feel really bad. i...

Hey all, tank details: 29 gallon planted plenty of places to hide 12 gold tetras 2 male neon dwarf gouramis water quality all fine, (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phos, gh, kh, ph, ect) the problem is that one gourami is picking on the other, at first the other one was fighting back so i thought...

wow ok thank you i guess ill be researching the plantgs i buy from now on! thank you guys

Yeh i read this thread, it seemed to have a fair bit of maths behind it, so i went with that http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=72491 i have 54 watts (3x18) so thats 1.8 by normal straight method, or 3wpg if i follow that thread anyway doesnt matter, 3 NO flourescents over a 29...

ta muchly!