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    Transporting Fish

    Thank you for this thread! I am moving an hour away tomorrow and was just checking to see how to transport them and knew I would find the answer here. where can I get some bags? What kind would be good?
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    I always find ich/white spotted fishes in lfs

    well, if the tanks all share nets and collection containers, then they most likely do, but I believe they can have ich but not show symptoms, I guess carriers? That's why we need to quarantine new fish to see if they start showing anything. I can imagine how hard it is, with all of the different...
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    Walmart Rescue

    I read this tread yesterday and then went to my wal-mart looking for some loaches and there were 2 poor little guys sitting on the floor of the tank losing color, almost no fins and covered in ich with about 15 pacu and 2 glass catfish. I felt so bad but they were almost goners. I would have...
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    can you help me ID this fish?

    looks alot like the Losielle's, but I am wondering if it's the pacu you talk about. That's what I initially thought but didn't have the coloring of wht pacu's are online. thanks!
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    can you help me ID this fish?

    Nope, thanks for helping though. It's got thin long fins and bigger body like a pirannah, sorry I should have described it better. more like this but silver with one black stripe horizontally along sides http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/dat_pulcher.htm
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    can you help me ID this fish?

    I am trying to find out the name of this fish for a friend because he needs to know what is compatible, nothing has been so far and they met their fate sadly. I don't have a picture of it but here's a description: it's a silver, oval fish, about 5-6" and it has a black horizontal strip down...
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    OPTIONS TO GET RID OF GREEN WATER?

    I have 2 bunches of hornwart, 2 of some kind of big, dark green leaf plnt with brown twiggy roots, and 2 of a whispy stem plant, light in color and similar to the hornwart but not as dense. I did a huge water change today, 50-75% and covered it with black trash bags as we re leving for the...
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    how much time to you spend watching your tank??

    hard to say. I clean or arrange it almost an hour a day, if not, I stare at it, lol. It is a 55 gal at the end of my couch, so I lay there and glance back and forth from the t.v. to the tank. They are next to each other. Kinda convienient;)
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    OPTIONS TO GET RID OF GREEN WATER?

    sorry! it was from my phone camera, lol. didn't rexcieve the email of my pic in time. here it is: oh, i had to move my snail, my kribbies were going after it, lol.
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    OPTIONS TO GET RID OF GREEN WATER?

    I wish! I have been doing water changes constantly. Is yours a small tank? I started with a 20 gal adn a 10 gal and they are perfect, this 55 gal is kicking my a$$, lol.
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    OPTIONS TO GET RID OF GREEN WATER?

    Oh, ok. I wanted a ramshorn but they only had mystery snail, kinda like, will it eat my plants? It's a mystery, lol. oh, I forgot to tell you that I put tin foil covering the side of my tank facing the window. Do I need it on the other end? Here are 2 pictures, one fo the tank to show how green...
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    OPTIONS TO GET RID OF GREEN WATER?

    WOULD I NEED A FULL SIZE FILTER LIKE FOR UP TO 60 GALLONS OR SOMETHING OR WOULD IT BE OK TO GET A 20 GAL SIZE FILTER SINCE IT'S NOT MY ONLY FILTER AND IT WILL ONLY E USED TEMPORARILY? I JUST PICKED UP A BUNCH OF HORNWART ADN BLACK MYSTERY SNAIL AND A BIG DOUGHNUT AIR STONE. I HAD BEEN LOOKING...
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    OPTIONS TO GET RID OF GREEN WATER?

    wow, I read I can rent these diatom filters, is that correct? my tand has been running for 3-4 months and has had gw almost the whole time. I don't know what I did in the begining to get it, but I have been fighting since. It does look like it's getting better today. I have been doing 20-50% pwc...
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    HELP! Something is wrong with my tank!

    SORRY TO HIJACK, I'M HAVING SIMILAR PROBLEMS. ARE YOU SAYING DEAD SPOTS CAN CAUSE A BLOOM? I'[VE BEEN HAVING A BLOOM FOR MONTHS ALSO ADN I HAVE A 55 GAL WITH A SUPPORT ACROSS THE TOP MIDDLE OF THE TANK. THERE IS NO CIRCULATION. SHOULD I ADD A POWER HEAD AND BUBBLE STONE TO THE CENTER AND IT WILL...
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    OPTIONS TO GET RID OF GREEN WATER?

    WOW, THANKS!!! AFTER THINKING OF IT, I HAVE A MISSING BUMBLE BEE GOBY:( I HAVE CLEAN THE TANK TOP TO BOTTOM VERY WELL AND IT DIDN'T TURN UP BUT IT COULD HAVE GOTTEN EATEN BY ONE OF MY CICHLIDS DURING ON OF MY BO. I GUESS I'LL GIVE IT ONE MORE VERY GOOD CLEANING AND THE ONE FILTER THAT I...
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    What can I put in a 5 or 10 gal?

    If had a 10 gal, I'd put 3 skirt tetras and 1 or 2 ottos.
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    OPTIONS TO GET RID OF GREEN WATER?

    yeah, I don't think my mom would like that, lol. My family is living with her, once we move out, I won't have a gw problem because I'l have a place to put the tank away from a window. I am thinking of a way to move furniture to fit it in the diningroom where the window gets no sunlight because...
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    OPTIONS TO GET RID OF GREEN WATER?

    I have had gw from the start, no wonder since my tank is next to a window :x It is a 55 gal and I have no where else to put it. I have been reading up and found they say to use uv filters. Would a filter with bio wheel remove the algae bloom? I think a uv filter is to complicated and expensive...
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    brown water problem for months...

    I know I'd fare better with a nice cannister filter, but that's not in my budget. I just found this: http://www.aquariumfish.net/information/cloudy_water.htm I'll follow it's recommendations and see what happens. Thank you for your post;) I'm feeling like it is a bacterial type bloom because...
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    brown water problem for months...

    I did have a wood decoration but took it out last month as one of my ways of getting the water clear. I was thinking algea, could it be brown algae? It would make sense because algae worsens with water changes. I have tried blackouts also, they didn't work. It is a cloudy brown, never has been...
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    brown water problem for months...

    I have a 55 gallon tank water is: 78 degrees no ammonia no nitrites nitarates at 5 (did almosT FULL TANK WATER CHANGE YESTERDAY) ABOUT 15 fish, groups of gouramis, danios, rosy barbs and kribensis, 1 candystripe pleco adn 1 otto My tank has been running since august, cycled within 2 weeks...
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    What kind of parasite??

    sounds like roundworm. This site show pistures and gives what meds to use :wink: http://www.fishpalace.org/Disease.html
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