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Well, I got home last night and poor Jake the Betta was history. No apparent reason. He had seemed a little listless for the past day or so, and yesterday, just to be safe, I checked the water levels. All were fine. When I scooped him out of the water, his belly seemed a little puffy, so I...

So, I finally get the cycle straight in all the tanks (still battling the 5 gallon for some reason...it's okay, then I get a nitrite spike for no apparent reason), but that's not my question.... I have now developed a nasty case of brown algae in the 20 gallon tank, and a little bit in the 5...

Okay, once again I feel like I have NO IDEA what I'm doing.... Friday, I decided to look into buying a more powerful filter for the 10 gallon. The one that came with the tank (a Whisper HOB) is just not circulating the water with the betta divider in it. The side without the filter is really...

Okay, I hope I did this right...I followed what I THINK were the directions in another thread about my filters. This morning, I took the filter media (or is it medium) out of both the 5 and 10 gallon tanks. I dumped out the carbon and tossed it. I took the new floss stuff and put it on the...

Oh..this aquarium stuff just gets better and better.... We set up the 20 gallon on Sunday. Water params are just about perfect already..0 ammonia; .25 nitrites. The zebras are happy as can be, swimming all over the tanks, as are the corys and the neons. However, Fred, Scooby and Goldeen...

I posted this under another thread, but I think it got lost.... We are heading to Petsmart tomorrow with the intention of coming home with a 29/30 gallon tank. I was originally planning on a rectangular because I understood they were the best choice...but.... We have a hexagon fish stand...

Okay, I just made up my mind to get a 29 gallon tank this weekend. My husband is unaware that I've made this decision, but he'll learn tonight. My plan is to move the babies from the 10 gallon to the 29. Currently, the 10 gallon residents are: Swimmy the Guppy (about 3/4" long); Moon and...

Well, now I have more questions....you all are going to be so sick of me and my questions... We now have the up and running 10 gallon with healthy, happy fish. One new guppy seems to be surface hovering, but so did his recently deceased predecessor, so I figure it's a guppy thing, I just don't...

I was just going to add this under my lesson learned topic, but thought it might get lost, so I'll post it here.... After our frigid tank episode this weekend, I've really been watching the survivors. The blackfin tetras seem to have come through unscathed...they are eating and swimming...

Ugh...after everything else with these fish...another lesson has been learned. We went away on Friday. The 7-year old was a little worried because no one was going to feed her fish while we were gone, but we were going to be back on Sunday, so I knew one day without food wouldn't hurt the pigs...

We had two albino catfish in our 10 gallon tank. They seemed to be doing fine, when suddenly, one day about two weeks ago, one of them just died. No sign of illness or anything. Poor little guy...didn't even realize it til I sucked his stiff little body up with the gravel vac. Anyway, the...

Okay, after all the stuff I've been through with our little 10 gallon freshwater setup (remember...started with 2 "free" goldfish, switched to tropical)...and just YESTERDAY getting a 0 ammonia and 0 nitrite level (WOOHOO...two days of NO water changes!!), we visited a different live fish store...

Looks like we may be getting nitrates for Christmas. After the battle I've had with our 10 gallon tank, our ammonia levels are staying steady at "0", and the nitrites, which have been at 2.0 for about two weeks seem to have dropped slightly today. I am still doing daily water changes (25%)...

Thank you so much for all your advice in my other thread with getting my 10 gallon tank up and running. I am still doing daily water changes, but today my nitrites dropped (even though ammonia is STILL holding at 2.0) so I think I might be getting somewhere. Now I have a problem with Bill the...

Okay, this will be a bit long, but I have tons of questions. We entered this venture the way lots of people did...7 year old daughter won two gold fish at a carnival. The next day, I went and bought a 1 gallon aquarium with a small filter, some gravel and goldfish food (already down $30 for...