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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!

mkay thanks, i already have the gouramis though, there only small what is the actual reason to do a water change apart from nitrates?

ok thanks for the replies im using a hagen natural co2 kit, and ive made me own 2 litre bottle one but that hasnt started bubbling yet so im excpecting more co2 soon also i was told to multiply wpg by 1.5 for NO flourescents, as watt efficiency differs, i dont know, oh well its almost...

Hey guys, the large anubias type plant (starts with s (anyone?) at the back right of the tank is curling up really badly, i think i know why can anyone confirm this? I bought it, went shopping, then came home to find that the idiot at the fish store didnt close the bag, so the leaves must have...

Ok thanks guys. i got them, they dont school but they still look awesome and there deffinately not dyed, they have a natural parasite in them that makes them gold, thats probably what your thinking of, if there not from the wild they end up being silver.

What u think? it now has 12 gold tetras and 2 dwarf gouramis. soon gonna add a pleco, and a red tailed shark if its not too aggressive

im going to put in 10 - 13 gold tetras, at once, should be ok right now if i put in 4ppm or ammonia it will be gone in about 8 hours and nitrates might jump to like 1 or something and then go within a day thanks man! actually u dont know the formula for how much baking soda to add to raise a...

thank you heaps, since your being so awesomely helpful and active any chance u could check out my 'finished cycle' thread in the getting started forum? sorry im just really excited :S

i just need to know right. . . i have added DIY co2, im about to do an 80% water change, then raise the KH from 3 (tap water) to 6, then ive been told i can get an accurate test of kh in about an hour or two so heres my question, If the kh is at 6 in an hour or two, i have temp right, and my...

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Hey there i want about 12 gold tetras in my tank, one fish shop has 5 and another has 7... are these fish less likely to stick together because they are potentially from different places? or even just different fish shops? also, will they still school if i dont have any even remotely agressive...