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How so you get a sponge filter out of the tank to clean it without dripping a ton of filthy sludge off it? Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

My husband bought me a turntable for Christmas so day before yesterday I put a record on. It was a little loud but not house rattling. The next day my ctenopoma was belly up. Do fish prefer silence to music? Can I play my LPs softly? Thanks. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

I moved my bigger clown loach to the community tank. It was immediately adopted by the smaller ones and they are all living happily ever after with the gold gourami, 8 neons, and 4 glowfish tetra in a 28 gallon bowfront. Back in the 30 gallon which came with the angelfish, the shark has given...

My veil tail and fins angel was happy in his 30 gallon tank with a red-tail black shark, two clown loaches, and small cichlid. I got two yellow paradise South African cichlids and all heck broke loose. The shark became aggressive and was chasing the new yellows, and the clowns and red are...

About four months ago I bought a pair of clown loaches for my 30 gallon tall tank. It also has an angel, a red tailed shark, and a small cichlid with a long name. The tank is heavily planted (silk, not live) with lots of caves. But the clown loaches and the cichlid spend all their time living...

I ended up with two ten gallon cycled quarantine tanks. Put some neons in one and two gouramis in the other. All are dead. Parameters were all zero. These tanks both have sponge filters. How do I sanitize these filters? And is flushing the tanks and plants under fresh water sufficient or do I...

Free cycled gravel in northeast CT. Am changing the color of the tank. horse4797@hotmail.com

I feed as much in my community tank as the kids can eat in three minutes or so. Works to keep everyone happy, healthy, active, and colorful--except the platies which are OBESE (colorful and generally active, but occasionally need to rest--swimming around hauling all that blubber is a lot of...

Can I put small rasboras in a tank with a 3" angel or will the angel eat the rasboras? And will the rasboras eat the angelfish's fins? Long term, am hoping to add two discus, but need to get back from trip in January so I am here to change their water and tend to their needs. 30 gallon...

I would really like to put some hatchet fish in one of my tanks, but for the life of me I can't figure out how you do a PWC without having them jump out. What is the magic trick? I have several 30 gallon tanks and clean weekly with a python. I just finished--it took me two hours, and there's...

How do you find local fish breeders and shows?

I won't get any more fish until I have a quarantine tank, but they want $40 at the lfs. Nothing on craig'slist for a month now. Nothing on ebay. Any ideas?

I have a 30 gallong tank and would like to put all male drawf cichlids in it. Since there will be no females, would they still fight?

After all this time, out of nowhere, this morning a tiny black snail is crawling around the glass on my freshwater tank. Is this good or bad? Did it come in on a fish way back when? Dopid it bring the ich I blamed on the gourami? Thanks.

I originally bought one cory because I didn't know better. Recently bought two more but the two stayed together and the one disappeared to the back of the tank. yesterday when I was doing a PWC the three cories were at the front of the tank REALLY close close together and this afternoon the...

I am treating my tank for ich brought in by a Gourami that died. Using Rid-ich + and cupramine, 33% water change and vacuum gravel every day. 26 gallon fully cycled with 4 platies, 3 cories, 5 glowfish tetras, 5 neons. Params: 0, 0, 0 and pH is 7.4. Question: Do I need to remove all the...

How do I get my tank over 80 degrees? I have the heater turned all the way up, but it cuts out at 80. Do i need to get some other kind of heater?

With so many of us having trouble with new fish, I wonder whether it makes sense to put new fish into the quarantine aquarium and raise the temp and do salt right away? The LFS is good about replacing dead fish, but I'd rather not have my fish die in the first place. Lost my gourami yesterday...

How often can a platy have babies? My piggie female had a bunch a few weeks ago. Is she preg again or just overeating again? Thanks in advance

I decided to devote my ten gallon to a betta. Now I have to find the perfect betta. Meanwhile back at the ranch I got a breautiful neon blue dwarf gourami but of course at another LFS where were were talking, they said gouramis should live in pairs. Is that true? Aside from reading everything...

My platy over-ate again and I'd like to try feeding her peas. I know yu are supposed to cook them and take the skin off but then how dow you break the insides of the pea into small enough pieces for a 1" platy (and any one else who wants to grab a bite)? Thanks!

I bought a sponge filter on the internet a while ago and is is way bigger than I had thought it would be. It is 6" X 6" X 6" and it takes up a whole corner of my 26 gallon bowfront. At this point, I think it harbors way more of the BB than the little cage in the Aqueon 30, so I am reluctant to...

one of my platys has a huge belly, clamped fins, and lies at the bottom of the tank behind some plants all day, except at feeding time. Then the fish is the first one to the food and is a real pig. My thought is to put it in the quarantine tank and and not feed it for a couple of days and see...

How big a tank do I need if I want it for a few discus only?

Was doing some paperwork in the music room sitting in a chair sideways to the aquarium. After about two hours I sat up and looked at the aquarium--and all the fish except the neons were nose-to-the-glass watching me. Well, the cory was nose to the glass but she was, as always, swimming madly up...