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Hey AA peeps, long time no type. I searched the forum but didn't come up with a match, so this is submitted for your feedback/curiosity/etc. My Jack Dempsey has been a little cranky, so I bought some new food for him. Cichlid flakes, by a popular manufacturer, have used their other stuff...

I'm having a bad week in my main 29G tank; cories are dying and the algae eater is about to as well. Guppies and cherry barbs are showing no symptoms, which surprises me as the barbs are the oldest fish I have. The tank could be a bit cleaner, I've been away and left the thing on auto-feeder for...

one of my rainbowfish females is swimming like she has a swim bladder problem... anything else out there that might be the cause? Or should I just mark time until she can't swim... extra bummer factor: if that one dies, I'll have 4 males, one female. I haven't seen them doing any breeding...

Seems like I haven't been on this board for awhile. Been busy. But now it's my turn to pose a question. My largest (and last) mystery snail, a big yellow one, will hibernate for up to a day or so, curled up in the shell, then start moving again like nothing had happened. How do I tell...

taking the cichlid plunge. They're in the 20G tall tank, seem ok so far. Is one 'cave' enough or should they have a couple to pick from? And net sources seem to vary on what kind of food they prefer... so far, they prefer everything. Hints there would be appreciated.

mmm, yeah, I like these results WAY better. 136 points, like it should be. Not too bad considering I lost Ryan Grant after week 1. :uzi::tie::tie::tie:

This is related to a post in the pic of the month... just serves to explain where these guys are, don't really care if the pic wins or not. I'm on vacation and have been out west (US), hiking etc. Found these guys in a sinkhole, on top of a rock formation at about 7000 altitude. El Malpais Natl...

:onfire: And let's make it a very visible external stick-on type, so I can pass by my 20-long rainbowfish tank and notice that it's up to 90 degrees in there. yeah, heater flaked. 100-watt Marineland Stealth... I thought these were pretty good, and it's not the only one I have, either...

it's almost a contradiction in terms... these fish have been very peaceful as long as I've had them. But the one remaining male (who I think attacked the other, which died) is now aggressively chasing the females to the point where they're hiding behind the tank thermometer. A third female is...

Strange doings in the cherry barb tank (20 tall, tank has been in service for a few months). Last week, found one male dead, stuck to the filter intake, with a large red bulge in its rear quarters. Wasn't sure of any persistent problem, so I did a water change and let it go. Today, I see a...

Just picked up a pair of endlers yesterday... felt like trying a new fish, and there's nothing living in the top 80% of my 10G tank. They're both barely an inch long, so I'm not sure if they're to maturity yet. Hungry little buggers though, so I expect them to grow. the question... are there...

I know the general opinion here is that pH doesn't greatly matter as long as it's somewhere between 6 and 8, and the fish get used to pH changes in a gradual manner. Here's my problem. I thought the last batch of cory eggs a month or two ago was a misfire... most were eaten, I'd tried to save...

Pardon me if it's a very silly idea. I was posting in the football thread in the lounge, and had an idle thought related to the colors of my favorite NFL team... what would make a good orange and black combo in smaller freshwater fish that wouldn't breed out of control... I know there are the...

at the Golden Nugget pool, in Las Vegas. I also have a short .mov of them, haven't uploaded it yet. I know there's a shark tank at Mandalay Bay but I didn't get down there to check it out.

Was at the local LFS and saw a bunch of dead bumblebee gobies in one tank. Looked like something bacterial... Very disappointing... started looking around the other tanks, didn't see anything obvious. If there's one really bad tank at an LFS, does that mean all will be bad eventually, either by...

These little buggers are tough to get pics of. I moved their parents out of this tank a few weeks ago, and I knew they had been laying eggs, but didn't see fry until later. First pic is fry at about 4-5 days. Second pic is today, about 3 weeks in (?) Notice the second 'bubble' on the older one...

Sitting around on-call for work tonight (zzz...), looking at my tanks. The one with the shrimp in it has some cherry barb fry, which I will post pics of in FW Breeding. But when I looked tonight to check in on them, I see my big RCS dropping some eggs in the dark! So here are pics. Needed flash...

I bought two SAE's a few weeks ago for a tank that did not have any natural scavengers in it. Despite being fairly young, they're doing a great job. But now I'm wondering whether it would cause a problem if I split them up, and put one in a tank which really needs their help. Do these fish care...

So I go off to the LFS for some food supplies at lunch today... I pick up a couple of items, one is the OSI Spirulina flakes which most everybody in my fish crew seems to like. I also pick up some 'Nutrafin MAX', with tubifex and other worm components in it. After all I've read about tubifex...

I *think* I still have 4 in the tank. This one isn't so shy. Here's looking at you!

Anyone seeing overstuffed tanks in their local ads? I surf the general for-sale category on Craigslist once in a while... there's a LOT of aqua gear for sale here. So tonight I see two ads, not sure which sounds worse: "29 gallon fish tank with 4 piranhas" or "I have a 30 gal tall aquarium...

This post relates to an earlier one about cory eggs, and also to provide an example to a question in the photography section. These guys are about 5 days out of the eggs now; moving in rare bursts of energy, mostly hiding in the darker spots of the breeding net. The 'big' mass in the second pic...

It has been a busy week in the 29G tank... the new visitor, Mark the rainbow shark (a transfer from a small classroom tank) arrived 48 hours ago, and seems to be what people said he would: shy and a little territorial. But no problems there. Now, when doing a minor water change tonight, I see a...

Wow. In 6 months I have gone from fish noob to the person who people take their unwanted fish to. :o My stepmom, a schoolteacher, keeps a small tank in her classroom and apparently she has a rainbow shark in it that can't wait for summer break to be moved. The thing's 5 inches long, and the...

Two 'unhealthy' posts in one week! I am *not* on a roll here. In the 30G tank I have 3 species, but the dozen danios are the predominant one in it. The juveniles which were hatched almost 4 months ago now look like they're in puberty... instead of just waiting for food, they're now aggressively...