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WAAAAAHHH!!!! :cry: okay i have moliwes, one pair in a 10 gallon by themselves... the female who was doing just fine 2 days ago now has some big white lump and a string of something coming out of her 'no zone' she is not swimming normally and drifts to her side sometimes, and is gasping...

i broke down and decided to start a cichlid tank... my lfs stocks/breeds a huge variety of cichlids and i decided on these! Pelvicachromis taeniatus moliwe ill get pics once they have been acclimated :D

hey everyone, i have one cory, i had 2 but one had a accident a couple months back...yet for some reason my one cory left is heavy with eggs and has planted her eggs all over the tank glass. i have no idea how to raise the eggs, or encourage them to hatch, or anything. anyone have any...

My guppies are acting really strange...everytime the lights turn out they start to swim eratically and try to actually jump out of the tank. i leave the room lights on when their lights go off so its not a drastic transition into night... can anyone tell me why they are doing this?? its...

i bought another killifish couple today... this is my original couple living in a 5 gal the new couple...they want out of the bag... this is them coupling, sorry for the blurry pic but you can see the males fin over the females body... i also got one of these guys....dont know if he...

my fancy guppis had babies! so instead of letting nature take its course i created a new home for them... dutch style! its only a 5 gallon and yes i know its jam packed full of plants :) and they LOVE it in there!

eep! i just had a population explosion in my tank. i came home and started to plant my narrowleaf java fern and while doing so, i finally looked under the makeshift plastic piece i put to dissipate the filters water smoother....and behold! there are about 40 some fry. some are my chocolate...

so i sold my 40gal this past weekend and went to the lfs afterwards and spent almost all the money i made. My bf ended up buying 2 smallest betta?? i dont know what they are called exactly...for his 5gal. and a couple of lampeyes i ended up buying a 8 gal and stole some water form the...

So i got my boyfriend into the hobby and he came home with some lampeyes and a couple of these little guys... betta something?? Are they betta picta??? I was just wondering if anyone knew before i went back to the store to find out what they really are... one more thing, anyone know the...

i caught my bf's red tailed shark attacking and eating one of my precious albino neonsand gobbling it up. are they known to do this? and somehow im missing a cardinal tetra also... i always thought they were okay as long as only one was in the tank. grrrrrr will the shark do okay in a 5...

my friend sent me this pic, i love it and thought i'd share it!

I found these little gems in a store near my bf's work. "Wet Pets" I love finding a new store, this place was huge and had the widest selection of fresh and marine fish, coral, etc I have ever seen. Albino Neons! They are so damn cyoot! little and pink with a stripe of baby blue. They also...

I was just wondering.....do cardinals lose their red stripe at night???? when they sleep ??? My cardinals are all beautifully colored during the day but when the lights are off and i turn em back on real quick just to peek they have no red in them...Is this normal for this fish??? This is my...

Since his bad motorcycle accident 2 months ago he hasnt had anything to do but learn to walk again. and our lawyer is taking a long ass time getting it settled...so......dum dum dum! i bought him a 5 gallon! he even stole my precious riccia to put in his....i have never been a happier...

i scored! after my tank disaster i decided to restart and rescape. i went to my favorite LFS and i scored 5 riccia mats ready made for $5 each. one lady b4 me bought 20 of them. check it out.. http://www.yv-1.com/tank/riccia1.jpg

okay here goes, i left for july 4th hoping the tank would be okay, i even put in the 4 day feeder pyramids to sustain the fish while i was away. well i was wrong, unfortunately i came back to a disaster zone. about 9 fish had perished and 20 or so snails (which im sort of glad happened since...

hi again! i have a simple yet sort of odd question........ i have a heavily planted tank, and when i vacuum the substrate i can not seem to get into some of the areas where the fish poop and stuff are. what do i do? is it okay to just leave that stuff there??? i stirred up the water with...

i have never in a million years thought this would happen...but its happening as i type. what do i do? do i leave them to lay their eggs and let the fish eat them? or do i quarantine them or what? anyone have experience with this?

:P not necessarily dump...but my anubias nana is the only plant that has that dreaded black beard algae growing on it. I tried cutting the afflicted leaves off but it wont go away. I even brought the top of the leaves to the surface out in open air to try to dry the algae up...but it still...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew about Mollies eating riccia? Should I be worried? I catch my fish nippig at the plant but then after some research the internet has said they wont nip to the point of killing off the plant. Is this true? I have 2 adult mollies and about 15 babies. Im...

anyone have suggestions as to what i can purchase? i have a 40 gallon tank with live plants and about 30 fish. my current filter is really REALLY old and they dont sell the filter cartridges for it anymore. thanks!

IS THIS NORMAL?????!? i hope not... i was watching one of my fancy male guppies chase around a young female black molly...and then i saw the unthinkable. he quickly attached himself to her underside and kept doing it on and off. what is happening here? oh one more thing, why are my...

Hey, if there is anyone in the Bay Area that needs a few fishies for their tank please let me know. Currently i have 4 whitecloud minnows I would like to get rid of to make room for my guppy babies...i also have a abundance of guppy babies Id like to see go to a good home...they retailed me...

hey everyone i have had my fancy guppies for awhile now, 2 of them are swimming really oddly. they just chill at the top of the tank at the water line..it seems like they are dying? all the other fish seem fine, another fancy guppy is fine too, just those 2 have slowed down tremendously...

8O help me my nitrite levels are higher than the chart shows.....above plus 5 i did a 40% water change recently and added a bunch of new plants... it IS a new tank but i have been running it for over 2 weeks. i expected a peak but not this severe... is there anything i can do to lower the...