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Yes, it is pretty new. It will have been running around 2 months before we consider buying any fish. We will have a zebra danio and *hopefully* 2 juvenile platys in it. I will definately want to put in more zebra danios. Our poor remaining zebra danio needs company. I really LOVE long fin...

Boy, the fishie gods are not happy with me or something. I went to Walmart and got a heater for the little tank (it has always stayed a constant 80.5 pretty much so we never bothered). They amazingly had Quick Cure. So got that (figured I could return it if I didn't use it) and then got some...

Ok, this may push me over the top. After all the problems and losing all but one fish in our 20 gallon from Ich, our 3 gallon with our four little fry has a fish with white spots! What should I do??? I do not think they will survive a slow increase to 86 degrees; they are just fry. I would...

Well, at least we have one very resilent (I can't spell that dangit!) zebra. He seems healthy and I have no seen any white spots on him. He is playing in and out of the bubbles from the bubble wand. Poor thing is all alone though (unless you could the ghost shrimp hiding or the zebra fry...

While 10-15 years ago I would have quickly gone to the nearest store and bought medications, I won't do that now. It may or may not make sense to some, but we try and use as much natural stuff as we can (now, I highly believe in medicine and science....many, if not most, drugs do have a basis...

With only one zebra and 2 ghost shrimp left in our "tank of horrors" (plus some zebra fry that I can't worry about because I can't see them!) and an extremely upset boy, I am looking for some ideas on where we can buy fish in the future, even via mail. We plan to let the tank run for a good...

Thank you Zagz. Yes, I did lower the level to give more splash to the tank. I also put in a bubble wand for more aeration. It was great to watch when I first put it in there. Some of the fish kept swimming into it and seemed to be having a grand ole time. Shame to think that some of them...

Thanks. Can you get these sponges at Petsmart? I have a couple of nice, live cover plants. However, my ghost shrimp have all but taken those over. I do believe from what I read that ghost shrimp are more than happy to have a little "extra" meal of fry. Naughty guys. Right now for our...

Oh my gosh! I am going to fry - no pun intended - in fishie H-E-double hockey sticks! They are zebra danio fry! I sucked a few of them up and put them down the drain with the water change water. I just now looked up the pictures (didn't think they could possibly be fry!). They are soooooo...

Yes, I did buy a few plants (and next time will look up info about "sterilizing" plants before I place them in my tank...uggghhh...snails! evil things). I wouldn't say worm like but more really small fish-like. They appeared to swim (they were "swimming" against the current of the gravel...

Thanks guys (even FishEggs for the little laugh). I have read and know what you are saying neilanh, but watching the sad demise of these poor little fish in our care has made me forget all the advice and info I have been reading the past week on these boards (oh why, oh why didn't I find this...

My "getting back into fish" saga continues. Now that we have lost most of our fish to "Petsmartitis" which happily gave us Ick, we have our tank temp up to 87 degrees. I went to do a water change and found what I can only describe as some type of "larvae" in our tank (hanging around in the...

We have slowly been raising the temperature and are now at 87 degrees - was at 86 yesterday (according to my cooking digital thermometer...I would assume this would be the most accurate correct? over the heater setting and the stick on thermometer). However, I lost 3 fish again this morning...

Thanks guys. I am slowly getting the temperature up in the aquarium. Hopefully we will hit 86-87 in the next day or so (tho we are having trouble getting a really accurate temperature...the stick-on thermometer says one thing, the heater we set says another and the cooking digital thermometer...

Thank you. When you mentioned "worse than it is currently", are you saying that baby brine shrimp are not that good for fish nutrient wise? I had read in a number of places that they were good for fry. I have been using packaged fry food, egg yolk, and crushed flakes so far (mixing it here...

I purchased some frozen baby brine shrimp at my lfs today. After the 25 minute ride home, I went to put them in the freezer. However, some of the cubes are half defrosted. The package mentions about not using refrozen bbs. Are these still ok to use? Thanks!

Sorry, I forgot to mention that it was a fishless cycle. Once the testing looked good, I added our guppies from our other small tank. Then we added the new fish from Petsmart.

While I would dearly LOVE to put all of this on Petsmart's plate, I am going to have to admit to some of the fault (tho only a bit :p) The lady at Petsmart mentioned that we happened to have bought the fish on the day they arrived. Double stress for the poor guys. As for the salt, so you...

Thanks for the articles. I will see about doing a quarantine container though as I have no plans on adding any more fish at the moment, that can probably wait a bit. I will admit I did a few newbie mistake and let my "wanting to please the kiddos" override my judgement on a few things. (I can...

We recently set up a 20 gallon tank and then when it was in good shape (tested it), transferred 4 guppies (2m and 2f) and 2 ghost shrimp that were in a small tank. We are now using the small tank for some surprise fry. The fry are doing great. We proceeded to Petsmart (which we will not do...