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I bought three SAE’s about 2 years ago. They were all doing well. Last year one pulled ahead in growth. One stayed smaller and the third was in the middle. Now I have one large healthy one and 2 tiny stressed ones that ALWAYS, 24/7 fight with each other. Plenty of hiding space. They seek each...

I'll take another video. Generally after water changes and sometimes around feeding time they really "fight" strangely. They swim up against eachother in opposite directions and kind of wiggle and vibrate. Not sure what the heck they're doing but I just LOVE watching them interact. I can't think...

Little update: All fish doing well. I did have a loss about 3 weeks ago - My last Molly. Probably about 4 years old and was sadly very slow. She was just well enough to escape my net, and never floated... but just gradually got less and less energy as time went on. I think the rams eventually...

OK, so I started the hobby with Aquaclears HOB Filters. Great. never had a complaint. Then I found Canister filters. I had a Fluval 304 I got on a boxing day sale. I had that for a number of years (7) and then t he motor just stopped working. (sad, as I poured 50 bucks in parts when I broke...

Ugh! I had a big long post written but it timed out and logged me off. Slightly condensed: 6 Rams down to 5. The sick one perished about 2 weeks after my last post. His appetitie and "spunk" was not up to keeping the other GBR's at bay. Wife is still pregnant! 19 weeks. ANOTHER GIRL! Due...

take some bio media from your other tank to seed your crashed one. Jump starts things going.

In my city... There's Ammonia in the tap water! Check your tap water. Also check chlorine levels in your water. If your on a sisters or well or ground water, they may be putting bleach in there as well, killing your filters ( it surprisingly not your fish? ).

Big als here has a policy of not buying fish back. I think what I'll do is split my Val's and make a few more hiding spots for them. If I thin out the sag and make more swimmable passages it'll provide more hiding spaces right now. If it continues to be a problem I'll sell them. Would you be...

I tried getting pictures of them all - it was a futile attempt. here's a video. Note the white balance kept messing up. My entire tank isn't green, lol. https://youtu.be/ElAzxM0BbNs Here's pictures. (Not very good) Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet Let me know what you...

I can't imagine he's too happy about his current housing situation. He's literally in a juice pitcher which I'm hanging on the inside of the tank. All I could come up with on short notice. This is also right after he was transferred to a cup and back because I wanted to clean up all the poop at...

He's on the rebound. Salt water treatment ftw

He's on the rebound! No more pinecone scales. Forgive my QT tank...it's a juice pitcher hung on the inside of the tank. Going to continue treatment for 24 more hours then lower salinity. Over a day and reintroduce. Also been doing twice as many water changes on main tank... But I think my tap...

It seems like his swelling has subsided a bit. I went to 3 LFS and all of them didn't have the medication. One had just ran out and it appears that they won't get any back, ever. This leads me to believe its been regulated. The drug I was looking for was: Kanaplex. So, I'll keep up with the...

all they had was males - I've got 6 of them. Although I think 1 or 2 might actually be female. We'll see with time.

81*f. ~10ppm Nitrate, 0ppm Nitrite and Ammonia. PH at morning before light/CO2 is 7.7, During CO2, 7.1. LFS (Big als ) had them. Came from a local highly regarded breeder. They only ever get males, he won't sell his females as he wants to protect his line (and they are beautiful...) Guessing...