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Hello All - I've agreed to take care of an acquaintance's 9 month old kitten while she has some repairs done on her condo. I live in an itty bitty teeny weenie efficiency apartment, and have resigned myself to the fact that the cat will pretty much be into everything. I know the aquarium is...

I haven't been particularly satisfied with my Whisper filter, and with the amount of waste in my shamefully overstocked tank, a bio-wheel was looking better and better with the amount of gravel-vacs I do. But because my acrylic tank came as a kit with a couple inch strip of plastic molded...

For anyone out there who owns a Penguin 125, I have a favor to ask. I'd like to make the switch from my Whisper 10, but the hood of my tank is partially molded onto my tank (it was sold as a kit with the whisper, so there's a cut-out that fits it perfectly), and I'm not sure if it will fit...

Hey guys... Time for more learning! I have never used a tank heater before (well, until yesterday). My apartment(s) have always been warm enough, and the tanks small enough (prior to getting the goldies, i've only ever kept bettas), that it wasn't necessary. But for the first time...

I know next to nothing about fishy breeding habits. Earlier today, my mature male ryukin seemed to be making a bubble nest. At first I couldn't figured out what he was doing, bobbing his head in and out of the water, blowing bubbles into the corner...got about an inch worth of bubbles before...

Hey y'all - I've been having some concerns about my red cap oranda. Firstly, he lost a number of scales being overly-rambunctious in the gravel...I changed the aquarium set-up a bit (there's a swim-through cave he really likes...but he's getting too big for it..so I set it up so there's a...

Hey y'all... I'm wondering if it's at all feasible to change the substrate in a cycled 10gallon tank. My goldfish keeps losing scales...I thought maybe he was sick (got a salt dip), but I've now actually seen him losing them while rooting around in the gravel (hes a rambunctious thing)...I...

hey y'all - Hoping someone out there can offer some advice on goldfish breeding. I read that goldfish usually reach maturity between 1 and 3 years. I've had my guys 6 or 7 months...and given that in the past week, they went from buddies, to nipping and chasing each other pretty incessantly, I...

Well, I decided I'd neglected my poor pleco long enough, in my attempts to find him a new home (what do you do with a "gift" fish...sigh). So i decided I'd finally make him welcome in my little tank, and get him some driftwood. It was rainy (in seattle..go figure), so I decided to go to the...

Today while spending some quality time with my goldfishies (and the pleco, too i suppose, although he's much less social, unless there are algae wafers involved)...I noticed my larger one, a nearly 3 inch (!!! they grow like weeds!) red cap oranda is missing a scale on his body. I kept a...

Hey guys... Some of you may remember, I set up a 10gallon for my 2 goldfish in June. The tank cycled fairly easily, but with the addition of a "gift" pleco, and with my goldfish growing like weeds, my tank is walking the line of being overstocked. To compensate, I clean, clean clean...which...

So my 10gallon has been cycled for a couple weeks now (still gravel vac + water change 2-3 times a week, rinsing the filter as needed, usually just once a week), and it looks as though the side of the tank that gets a lot of sunlight has some algae growth...below the gravel line though. Any...

I have a novelty 2 gallon tank (water surface is less than ideal for the volume), and I'm wondering if it would be large enough to house a betta. It was part of a kit that had an undergravel filter, and bubble wall...which was a real mess, imo...any thoughts on how a betta would do with this...

Ok. I'm running a Tetra whisper overhead/on the back filter (for 5-15 gall) on my 10 gallon tank, which houses (for the moment...) 2 small goldfish (total of 4 inches) and a pleco (about 1.5''). [i know this is a dirty situation...just can't be remedied until I find a new home for mister...

Hey all, About 3 weeks ago I started a 10 gallon tank for my 2 goldfish (and posted about my new tank syndrome...). Once the tank had cycled, my brother, who's kept Oscars for several years, gave me the "gift" of what i believe is a common pleco...he said it'd keep the tank clean (I had a bit...

hey all! As some of you maybe read already, I recently moved my goldfish out of their tiny novelty tank to a lovely 10 gallon home. i've had the fish since march, and they seem to be growing like crazy. I am wondering about my red cap oranda, though. It appears that he (she?) is starting to...

Hi there! I just "upgraded" my 1.5 gallon to a 10 gallon home for my 2 goldfish (they are both about 2 inches). The tank came with a tetra whisper power filter (for 5-15 gallon tanks). Everything is running well, the fish are very happy in their new home, but I'm suffering from what I've...