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Hello, I have a White Spotted Puffer who has recently (within the past week) developed what look like small, round growths on its body. There are three of them and I swear they look like pimples (hence "zits"). I have never seen this before and I'm completely baffled as to what this could be...

Hello, I need your help. In my 38 gallon freshwater tank, I have some sick Clown Loaches. At first, I thought it was Ick, but now I'm not so sure. First of all, all of the Clown Loaches are covered in white spots (hence my Ick diagnosis), but they are the ONLY ones that are covered in spots...

Greetings Fellow Aquarists! I have a question regarding my Magnum 350. While doing routine maintenance, I noticed that outflow from the Magnum has dropped precipitously since it was new. I cleaned everything out, which is to day, I cleaned off the blue pre-filter, rinsed out the chamber, and...

Greetings! I am in the midst of being seriously vexed! How on earth does a fish just disappear from a tank? I have a 75 gallon marine aquarium with 1 White Spotted Puffer, 4 Blue-Green Reef Chromis, 1 Flame Red Hawkfish, 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Gramma Basslet, and 1 Percula Clown. Now between...

Greetings Fellow Aquarists, My plant tank is doing quite well. However, I have an equipment question. I've got a Magnum 350 that I've been using to polish the water. It certainly works well, but the micron filter gets full quite quickly and my water flow drops to a trickle. Now most of the...

Hello, I have a Yellow Tang that seems to be acting odd and he has some dicoloration near his tail. He seems hyper sensitive to light lately. When the light is on he swims frantically back and forth. His behavior calms down when the light is turned off. Today I noticed that he has what...

I have room in my tank for one more fish, but I'm not sure what to add, so I'm turing to me fellow aquarists for advice. Currently I have a White Spotted Puffer, 2 Percula Clowns (mated pair), 1 Gramma Basslet, 4 Blue-Green Reef Chromis, 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Coral Beauty Angelfish, and 1 Flame...

Greetings and Salutations! I am wondering if I can add a Flame Angel to my tank. I have a 75 gallon fish-only tank. I currently have 4 Blue-Green Chromis, 1 White Spotted Puffer, 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Coral Beauty Angelfish, 1 Gramma Basslet, 1 Purple Firefish, and 2 Percula Clowns (mated pair)...

Greetings, I have a 58 gallon plant tank with a variety of different fish. They include 4 German Rams, 2 Bolivian Rams, 2 Angelfish, 1 Gourami, 6 Neon Tetra, 4 Gold Barbs, 4 Danios, 1 American Flag Fish, and 2 Plecos. Today I discovered that I had three deceased Danios! I’ve also noticed...

Greetings. I have a 75 gallon fish-only tank. I have 4 Blue-Green Reef Chromis, 2 Percula Clows, 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Gramma Basslet, 1 Coral Beauty Dwarf Angel, and 1 White Spotted Puffer. My question has to do with the Puffer. Last night while watching everyone frolick in the tank, I noticed...

Hello, As some of you know, I'm using a Carbo-Plus system and I've run into a problem with a low KH level. Can anyone tell me how to boost it? Am I going to need some kind of buffer or will water changes be required? Thanks.

Greetings Fellow Aquarists, I recently acquiried a Carbo-Plus system for me 58 gallon planted tank. I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this system, whether it be good, bad, or otherwise. I'm wondering if it's as good as buying a regulator and a CO2 cylinder and a diffuser. Thanks.

Greetings, I have a 58 gallon planted tank and this morning I was measuring my CO2 level. It registered at 6 ppm of disolved CO2. I'm not sure if this is low, high, medium, etc.. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Greetings! I have a 58 gallon planted tank that includes some Cabomba and Anacharis. I have noticed over the past several weeks that these plants seem particularly adept at capturing what seems like somewhat fine debris. I have Red Sea's Flora Life as a substrate so I don't know if that is...

Micron Filtration I have a general question about using a micron filter. I have a Fluval 304 running in my planted tank and I know it's used for biological filtration, but do you think it's either a good idea or even necessary to use something like a Hot Magnum Power filter? I do use one on...

Greetings! In my 58 gallon planted tank I have noticed a faint odor to the water. It kind of smells like sulphur. Is this anything to be alarmed about? By the way, NH4 = 0 NO3 < 0.3 and O2 is very good.

Has anyone got experience ordering fish from http://www.saltwaterfish.com ? The reason I ask is that I was pricing a Flame Angel from http://www.liveaquaria.com and their price was considerably higher ($80) than http://www.saltwaterfish.com ($30). Thanks.

Greetings Fellow Aquarists and Aquatic Gardeners! I have a reasonably well planted 58 gallon tank and I've got a hair algae problem. Can anyone give me an idea on how to rid my tank of it? The other water quality factors are good: NH3 = 0, NO2 =0.3, pH = 6.75, and PO4 is negligible. I'm...

Hello, Can someone give me advice on how to set up a saltwater hospital tank? Naturally, I'd like to spend a minimal amount of money. For my freshwater tanks, I have a ten gallon tank with a Bio-Wheel running, so that was pretty reasonable. I don't imagine I could get away with something...

Greetings O' Healers of Fish! I have a 75 gallon FO tank that has one 3 Spot Damsel, 4 Chromis, and 1 Gramma Basslet (the Basslet arrived yesterday). One of the Chromis has a serious injury where his tail starts. Simply put, parts of him are missing. I first started noticing symptoms about...

Up to now I have had fish in my marine tank that are omnivores and today I added a Gramma Baslet and he/she is a carnivore. I have been using flake food, but I'm wondering what I should feed the Gramma Baslet. I've got some frozen brine shrimp that I could toss in, so any agreement with that...

Greetings fellow aquarists! Upon inspecting my freshwater planted tank at lunch time, I saw that one of my newly added Angelfish was in an awkward position. His nose pointed straight down towards the bottom of the tank and his tail pointed straight up. When I realized that he wasn't being...

Does anyone have instructions on how to build your own CO2 system ala the Hagen one?

Ok, so this is a newbie question. I have a newly establish marine tank. It is fish only and it has a 75 gallon capacity. The nitrites have just finished dropping to normal levels. For the past several weeks we have been seeing a fair amount of rust colored "stuff" on the bottom of the tank...

Greetings Fellow Aquarists! In one of my freshwater tanks I have two Amazon sword plants. Right now they are covered with this brown substance which I take to be some kind of algae. Has anyone seen this before and how do I get it off my plants? I have 6 Platies and 2 American Flagfish who...