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Hi all! As I just posted in another forum, I'm back after a few years away from the AA.com but not from my fish! During the last few years I moved to another house, I've been travelling a lot for work and I have a granddaugther! The cutest little thing! :B-fly: But I don't have as much time...

Hi, I'm back after a few years away from the forum, but not away from the hobby! Mind you, several changes in my life, all good, are taking a lot of the time I used to dedicate to my fish. I've updated my profile, so you should be able to see the tanks description. Now to the issue: I...

Hi folks, It's been a while! I have been too busy travelling (for work!) and have been kind of neglecting my hobby. Although I have been keeping up with PWC, I have not done anything new with my tanks. Last week I found one of my brilliant rasboras, with a white spot on the head. It looks...

Hi All, I just posted in the general forum asking for advice on what I think may be cyanobac. and I just wanted to post here about the unusual dead of a few fish in the last weeks. :puppydogeyes: The big tank had 4 casualties, a dwarf gourami who may have been harassed to death by the twice...

Hi all, I've been working to hard ad traveling a lot in the last few months, yet always managed to keep up with my tanks cleaning and maintenance. Even in the last two weeks, when I was away for the whole time, I trained my hubby to do a pwc for me. For a few months now I've noticed some...

The poor thing is dying so slowly! He's been laying on the bottom of the tank or on a plant leaf for the last 3 days. I thought he was dead twice! And when I touch it he moves away from the net. He is quite pale, doesn't eat and doens't move. And to make things worse, I cannot take him...

Hi guys, I have a 5 gal fresh water tank with a few minnows (no heater). Is it big enough for goldfish? one or two? Will the minnows be OK with the GF or will they become snacks? Other suggestions? Thank you. :D

I found a nice piece of drift wood in a lake last week when I was camping in Northern Ontario. It is too long to boil it... how can I treat it to make sure it is safe to put in my tank? Thank you!

...rummy nose tetras... I bought 6 of the little guys (they were sold in pairs) to add to the existing 5. They were QT'd for 2 weeks and all looked nice and healthy two days ago when I moved to the big tank. A few minutes after the move I go to watch them and see the distinctive black and...

Hi folks, I have a beautiful GN that doesn't want to grow. He seems just fine, he eats cucumber and zuchini to no end, he does a little glass cleaning every day (I read that this is to meet some protein needs), and he goes about doing his GN thing oblivious of the rest of the fishy...

Hi Guys, I have TWO GERMAN BLUE RAMS and one small clown loach in the QT tank. They have been there since Jun 29 (almost two weeks). They look happy and healthy. :P :P :P I'm tempted to move them to their permanent residence (75g) today. Wadya think? Any special advice for the GBR...

Hi folks, I found a really beautiful batch of apistos in the lfs that will be ready for sale next week. I asked tho put a couple on hold for me. Will they be happy in my tank? How long should I QT them? Is two enough or should I get 4-5? Male/female ratio? Thank you. I'm really...

I'm sad to tell you that "Snuggles" the Cray Fish has passed after a long, and hopefully happy, life -over 3 years! He was getting slower and white all over and we had not seen him outside of his cave for quite some time. He was still moving when we checked on Monday, but yesterday he didn't...

Just out of curiosity: Are German Blue rams and Blue rams the same kind of fish?

I mean the inside of the glass lid. There are a couple of spots where the water from the filters spalshes a little, right under the lights, that are getting really cloudy. The same spots that collect green algae, but this comes out easily. The carbonate deposits are much harder to clean...

I got three clown loaches several months ago (may be 6 months). One of them died within a couple of weeks. The other two are still alive... one is getting nice and fat, the other one is getting thinner and thinner. Both of them are avid eaters, they love all kinds of veggies (as complement...

Hi Folks, I have a 5g tank with one blue crayfish and a school of minnows. They have been pretty easy to keep, feed them once a day change water once a week and that's it. Now the cray fish is showing some withe spots on its blue shell, mainly on the front "paws". Because it is only active...

Tiger barbs I mean. I did my research and listen to your advise and decided to add 3 more tiger barbs and one more aurulious to my "barb tank" 30 g, to total 6 tiger (3 green + 3) and 3 aurulious. While in QT the 3 tiger barbs were really going at each other. One of them was so badly beaten...

Hi guys, I finally took some pix from my tanks to share with you all, but they are too big and i cannot upload them. :roll: Anybody can tell me how to shrink them? Thanks.

After 18 days I decided that it was the end of the QT time for my new tiger and aurulious barbs and that it was time to move them to the 20 g with the green tigers ant the ol' lone aurulious. When I got there with my net I noticed that one of the tigers had half of the tail and almost no...

Hi Guys, Quick question. What can i add to a 30 g tank with 3 tiger barbs, 3 green tiger barbs and 3 arulious barbs? Thank you!

Hi all and happy New Year!!!! Over the holidays I finished re sealing my 30 g. I added some eco complete gravel under the old gravel that I had kept with the filter running in a bucket to keep the bugs alive and avoid cycling the tank again. With this and a few trimmings from the plants in...

OK. Now I got all the solutions to test the water. Here are the parameters: NO3= 10 ppm (a little under that) NO2= 0 NH3= 0 P04=0.5 pH= 7.2 KH= 5 (88.9ppm) GH= 9 (161.1 ppm) The substrate is a blend of Eco complete and Fluorite, the lights 1.6 wpg. No CO2 injection. Why is that my...

I moved my three coris from the 30 g to the new, cycled 75 g almost a month ago. They never seemed to adapt 100%. In the smaller tank they were always together in the new tank they each found a spot to hide. They were coming out to eat but always on their own. They didn't play much either...

Hi all, I came back from my trip on Friday and the fist thing I did was a pwc in all the tanks and they I proceeded to move the rummy nose, the brilliant rasboras and the phantom tetras to the 75 g. Most of the fish in the big tank seem happy, except the SAE, who I moved 2-3 weeks ago and...