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A couple days ago I noticed that my Chinese algae eater's dorsal fin was missing. I thought one of my cichlids had nibbled it off. The CAE was in a 55 gallon tank with some adult yellow labs, adult aceis, and a couple of 2" mbambas. I moved the CAE to my fry tank in hopes that he'd start...

Does anyone know of any cheap sources of bulk zeolite? It seems like there should be somewhere out there that sells it for less than the online fish stores. Zeolite is used in things like cat litter and other deodorizers as well as some health food supplements. All that zeolite has to come...

I have a fluorescent strip light that recently started buzzing. It's my understanding that's a problem with the ballast. Is there any way to replace the ballast in fluorescent strip lights? Thanks. Edit -- Would something like this fix the problem? http://tinyurl.com/g7oor What I've tried...

I have a platty that seems to no longer be neutrally buoyant. Whenever she swims, it looks like she has to keep moving her fins to stay in place. (The other platy doesn't do that.) Consequently, she has been staying on the bottom of the tank the last few days only to come up to feed. She...

My labidochromis caeruleus love lettuce and cucumber. Is it ok if they eat the cucumber seeds? They don't seem to mind eating them.

I've had 3 pregnant platties die in the last week or so. Before they died, they became listless and mostly hung out at the bottom of the tank. I didn't notice any unusual external changes. No ich. No scales popping out. Nothing like that. Nitrate: 10 to 15 ppm (it comes out of the tap at...

Two of my Von Rio tetras seem rather tubby these days and they're having a hard time swimming. What would cause that?

If you had $500 to spend on your dream tank (or at least the best that will get you), what would you get? (Rules: You can't use stuff you already have other than a stand and any tools you might need. You have to buy everything; you can't get donations. You don't need stuff like fish nets and...

What shape is the Nitra-Zorb pouch ( http://www.bigalsonline.com/catalog/product.xml?product_id=24499;category_id=2267;pcid1=;pcid2= )? Will it fit in an Aquaclear 300 filter? How much different is is from normal zeolite? Thanks.

I've heard it said many times here that one can't overfilter their tank. However, at least from a biological filtration perspective, it seems that as long as the tank has 0 ammonia and 0 nitrite, there is no biological filtration beyond that for the filter to do. The only thing to be done from...

Measuring a filter's flow in terms of gallons per hour gives a rough understanding of how much filtration it's capable of. However, a simple thought experiment shows that it has its deficiences. Imagine two nearly identical filters. One uses only a single thickness of cheesecloth as its...

How well would you expect 1 Convict Cichlid to do by itself in a 10 gallon tank?

In this thread (http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?p=371274) I mentioned how my 29 gallon tank looked like it was about to spring a leak. Well, I returned my tank to Wal-Mart and got a replacement tank. Unfortunately, the new tank has a nasty pinking looking 17 watt light (along with...

Today I noticed that one of my tanks that's barely a month old is gathering what appears to be condensation inside a joint between the front face of the tank and the side wall. (Maybe it's Wal-Mart's way of getting revenge for my returning of the POS noisy filter that came with the tank.)...

Pacus seems to be sold almost everywhere, but there can't be that many massive tanks hanging out in houses all over the country.

I got a heater from a friend who bought a 29 gallon tank at Wal-Mart. It came with the heater in the picture. Anyone know whether it's submersible or not? It has a water line on the back, but it doesn't say whether it's a maximum or a minimum line. Link to possibly helpful picture...

I recently got a Bolivian Ram and some geophagus ( it looks a lot like this http://www.akvarium.se/images/03/Geophagus%20altifrons_1024.jpg ). They don't seem to be eating much. They'll pick at flakes every now and then, but they don't seem to even notice the sinking cichlid pellets I'm using...

If you were getting a new power filter for a 29 gallon tank, what would you get considering price, noise levels, and effectiveness? I'm currently considering these 3 (but other suggestions would be helpful, too): --Aquaclear 300 Power Filter. $21.49 @ Big Al's. --Penguin Bio-Wheel Power...

I recently got a Whisper 30-60 for my gallon tank. It doesn't exactly resemble any whisper I'm familiar with. It's significantly louder than the Top Fin 20 I have, which is virtually silent. Is there a problem with my Whisper 30-60, or are they known to be noisy? If they tend to be noisy...

One of my Tiger Barbs is particularly vicious. It's always taking big chunks out of the tail fins of the other Tiger Barbs. They others usually die within a few days thanks to the aggressive one. Is there any way to cub that behavior?

How does the LFS keep so many fish in one tank? Heavy duty filtration? What about oxygen levels?

Three days ago I bought a new green Tiger Barb. It looked healthy at the store, but since I've brought it home, it just hides nose-down (almost completely vertical) in the back corner of my tank. It comes up to the surface to eat, but then goes back to its corner. Any ideas about what might be...