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I will tell her. She does have a separate baby tank with nearly full grown cichilds in it. She could take a lot of water from there to settle a new tank. I think it would be worth it for her to try at least vs. lose all of her fish, they are quite beautiful and it would be so sad to see them...

Hi there, My friend has a 55 gallon Cichlid tank with about...15 Malawi peacocks. She discovered the thermometer, broken with the beads in the bottom gone. All of the fish are failing in one way or another, one with pop eye. They have done water changes and are working to change out the...

Let's see...two glass cats (one had a big bite out of it, so we euthanized). The other lost an antenna and then died, very quickly. The neons got taken out pretty quick, they were definitely the smallest in the tank, I'd say three of them once we added the red tail shark. Two rasboras. One...

Oh, and the bite didn't happen after the fish died. the glass catfish was still alive with a big nip out of it. I felt so bad. We went to bed and it was fine, then the next morning it had a big hunk out of it. The other two glass catfish sort of alientated it. So we euthanized the poor thing...

Sorry I haven't replied sooner. We moved our tank and took the opportunity to watch our fish after doing so. Before we moved them we tested and the water was fine. To move the tank we emptied and stored approx 75% of the water. The fish went in a rubber tub. We cleaned the tank, put in new...

We aren't sure who the culprit is, but we have had a few fish die off suddenly. We expect that occassionally fish die, but this is more than we've ever had at one time, and one glass catfish was definitely bitten. We have had for a good while now, nearly a year, two false SAEs (flying foxes)...

We had a minor nitrate problem that we've since remedied, but I'm worried that one of the mollies has swim bladder from the stress of it all. She is energetic and eating, but having a hard time controling her swimming/balance. From what I've read it sounds like swim bladder. After balancing our...

no, not nearly as raised...the lack of color in the spot is wha tyou notice more than the spot being raised...if that makes sense...

I have a red gourami with an area on it's side that looks like white lumps. It's definitely not fuzz or ick or velvet. The scales aren't sticking out. It just looks like the flesh is raised. Almost like a hive on people. Our gouramis love to chase each other and we do have rocks...could those...

Penguin? It's MarineLand I think.

I would love to add activated carbon. We did that with our canister filter on our 55. Every little bit helps. How did you do it? The bio wheel is new. It's about three weeks old. It spins and stops, spins and stops. The back filter is slightly dirty, but not very much at all. I believe it is set...

We are trying it now, but it doesn't always spin. Directions say that's ok, there is still biological action going on. We keep the water level high enough to help it spin, but I worry that it's not doing enough...

thank you so much for all of your thoughts! i will definitely stop using glass cleaner. White vinegar diluted is good for everything. We used it when my dog was a puppy and peed, gets rid of the ammonia smell so they do not repeatedly pee in the same spot. Tip for any puppy owners! Anyway, we...

0 Ammonia 0 ppm of nitrites 0-5 ppm of nitrates P04 2ppm+ (we are working on this) pH 7 Temp between 72-75 degrees 55 gallon tank Eheim canister filter Air stone Eco Complete plant substrate (re: phospates, ruled them out) Live plants galore (we plant heavily) CoralLife plant light Plenty of...

I can't figure out exactly why. Yes, we are fighting a phosphate issue, but it's not extremely high. We do regular water changes, the pH is great, all water chemistry (excluding phosphates) is fine. Any thoughts? We do have two SAEs, and they are rather territorial. We were thinking we had too...

We have four glass catfish that are doing very well, have had them for months. They are in a peaceful 55 gallon tank. One has suddenly gotten a lot wider and now it's stomach seems to be full of what looks like small round somethings. We think eggs? Help!

We have tested our tap water, we stopped feeding for a while, then got a low phosphate food, I spoke to the manufacturer of our plant substrate, etc. All came up without phosphates. Or phosphate in a form that is not so rapidly absorbed into the water and trace if tested. The one thing that did...

We figured out how the phosphates became high in our tanks, now we can't get it out! It was on product we used and it's usage time is now up, plus we've done many water changes and tried phosphate filters. We are still around 2ppm, which is way too high. Our tap water tested at .1 ppm, so we...

We have three otos. They are great fish. They clean our tank and are really active. One though is slowly getting fatter. The other two remain thinner. Any chance our Oto is pregnant and is there any way we can tell? I belive they are egg layers, does anyone know the habitat we need to provide...

My LFS guy has filter pads...he said they work well. His are made for marine and fresh. He said they go right into the canister filter. We are contemplating using this method for a few weeks, to get the phospate out kill off the staghorn algae we have. We believe the culprit was food. The food...

foods without phosphates? My fiance checked the food and one has phosphates up the wazoo...so that could be it.

I will definitely check the food! Thank you. We are definitely careful about overfeeding, but perhaps we need to check the food we are using. We did start using a new food. And our 20 gallon never had this problem, so I am thinking it's not the water. The 55 is the one with the problem. I am...

We have been keeping the lights low due to green algae (which is gone and which I have handled before in a newer tank, like this one). Our 20 gallon has never had a staghorn algae problem, just green when it was establishing, and we've had that taken going for nearly a year. I will test our tap...

Our tanks is great as far as water chemistry, except for phosphates, hence our new tank inhabitant--staghorn algae. HELP!

will that fish get alon gwith angels, danios, neons...clown loach?