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Well I cobbled together my father's old air bubbly gravel vac, took out all the plants and went after the gravel until I thought my back was gonna give out from the awkward way I had to hold it... Does anyone know of a safe adhsive one can use to glue a gravel vack back together? Cause the ones...

Menagerie: Latest Readings: Nitrates = 0 Nitrites = 0 Amonia = 4.0-5.0 pH = 7.6+ (off the chart toward the Alkaline) There's a bunch of crud down there and I haven't a clue what it is, cause it's certainly not hikari betta bites, or bettamin (I alternate.) Looks like dust. I used to change...

After nearly a week of daily water changes, I still haven't got any nitrites or nitrates, and I still have way to much amonia. I'm pretty sure my shrimp is dead as When I took the plants out to clean today, he was no place to be found in the tank. (I checked each plant as I removed t to make...

No, can't get a bigger tank. I won't have room for it at College. It's hard enough transporting the two gallon. 8^(

I don't own a gravel vac, but I syphon out the water with some thick tubing that I think used to be bubble tubing. All the Gravel Vacs in the store are way to big for my tank, which is only a 2 gallon hex tank. My tank isn't planted at all... all the plants are plastic. I'll cut back on the...

Ok, I get that... pH is fine... leave it alone... got it.... What about my Amonia Problem? 8^S

No, I haven't got the recepts, but I didn't buy them, they're in the basement left over from my father's fish tanks years ago. 8^)

Ok, I have No Nitrates and No Nitrites... I also Have No Alge... (So While I was at the store I picked up sinking alge tabs for my shrimp.) My pH is something higher than 7.6, that's as far as the chart goes but the liquid is darker than that. I've got pH up and pH down. Is the pH the problem...

I AM using a liquid test... and there's a card in the box to compare it so shades of yellow. I wasn't sure all tests used the same color so I didn't say what color it was. I have the "Aquarium Pharmaceuticals" one, with the blue fish on the box in the lower right, that's dressed up as a doctor...

I got an amonia test kit over the week end, to test the amonia in my two gallon that I've had for 6 weeks, which contains a Male Betta, and the Amano Shrimp I got at the same time as the amonia test. Anyhow, the test came back positive for bunches more amona than should be in there. That was...

Well we went out to dinner... and now 2 hours later I still have a shrimp. I was prepared for the possibility that he might not be ok, and wasn't even gonna name him, but my brother got attatched pretty quick. Speaking of my brother, Hypostomus, he says thank you for your complment on the name...

Ok, so earlier today I set out to get a ghost shrimp as a tank mate for the Betta I've had for a little over a month. They didn't have any left at the shop, but recomended a shrimp they called Caridina japonica (Which I didn't know at the time was just another name for an Amano Shrimp.) Anyhow...

Thanks!!! He s a fast eater, and he was flaring his gills at the time... so it does seem like that's a verry viable possiblity. 8^)

Ok... Moving Today. One Last Question... Morning Feeding is an hour and a half away. When you plan to move fish do you feed them that day? Is it better for them to move on a full or an empty stomach? I don't want the poor dear to get Seasick or sommat... Thank you!!! 8^)

No. I have Gravel in the bottom of the tank... and I was looking below him... that's why I didn't see where it came from. He's acting all normaly... so I dunno what's going on... I'm not sure if I should feed him tonight if he's got a stomach upset though... 8^S

I was holding a mirror up to my betta... it was recomended by a member here as a way to aleviate bordome... and he did hs little flare thing... but... then he darted to the other side of the tank, and I wasn't watching so I asume it came out of his mouth, as I don't see any hole on him ayplace...

Next week I have to move home from College. It's only 20 minutes away, and my tank is only 2 gallons, so I'm thinking of just taking out half the water and transporting the fish in the tank, on the floor between my legs with the lid on. We'll be making a special trip for the fish a few days...

In the Botonay lab at high school (which wound up more a Zoology lab than Botony by the time the Bio Club was done with it,) we had a Jack Dempsy in a BIG tank (at least 3 feet by 2 by 2, same size as the saltwater tank,) all alone except for one big Catfish of some sort, which he never...

Well tomorow is my last day of classes... and I have work on wends... but I've been planning to just get on a buss Thursday and go to the mall, alone and not care. Cuz I'm pretty sick of being cooped up and told I can't go anyplace without friends cause I might get mugged. Screw that. It's the...

I don't think I have an Amonia or Nitrate testing kit... I have a pH testing kit though... is there any way to tell from that? Will the mirror Betta thing really make him unbored? Or will it just make him pissed off and stressed out... can fish even BE happy? Or just... not stressed, and not...

I know... I'm like some sort of fishtank Hypochondriac... but I want to make sure I'm doing everything I can for my Betta... I mean he's already at a disadvantage only having a 2 Gallon Tank. I'm worried that he might get bored just swimming around the same 2 gallon tank with the same 3 plants...

Hey there!!! I'm not quite sure where Hempsted is, but I'm in Troy NY (That's part of the Tri-city area, along with Albany and Schenectedy.) I'm pretty new hear too but, Welcome anyhow!!! 8^)

Peculiar thing... when I droped in a little of the flake food I alternate with the pelets... the surface of the water imidiatly cleared... it reminded me of that science experiment everyone does in the 6th grade with the milk and the dish soap and, I think it was vineger... anyhow... the problem...

It's a new airstone... I'm new to this so yeah... it was never dirty. I dind't clean it. I dunno if they are staying longer or comming out more... all I know is the bubbles are taking over. The only stuff in the water is "AquaSafe" water conditioner, I put it in the freshwater before I put the...

I'm posting this in a new thread instead of in the thread I've had going since I got here cuz it would be all hidden there in case anyone else had the same problem. I've got a small tank with an Undergravel Filter, and when I first set ut up the bubbbles comming back up the tube thing covered...