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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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

It's on our onion plants mostly. Looks like black hair...small plant. We did full testing on our tank, and here is what we've got" pH 7.2 KH (carbonate) 6 Nitrite 0 ppm Nitrate Low, between 5-10 ppm We were going to put in more CO2, as the carbonate hardness should be hire given this chart we...

Hello! I have written here before for myself, but this time I am writing for my friends who have a 29 gallon tank. They've had it for a few weeks now. Bit more than a month. They cycled it, added fish slowly. Did everything right. I saw the set up, it's very nice. They tested pH, ammonia...

we have a 55 gal with a temp issue...the plant light from Coralife that we have makes the temp go up a bit. Then it cools when it goes down. We have the light on about 8-10 hours a day. the plants look great, we managed to tackle our initial green algae bloom...but is there anyway to combat...

We have a 55 gallon with different types of danios, neons, etc. All are doing well, but just the other day we noticed one of the pearl long-finned danios was missing part of its tail. We added some salt as a tonic and watched for any aggressive behavior. The next day ALL of its tail was gone. We...

We have a new 55 gallon freshwater tank. It has live substrate, fresh water plants and a great light. It's pH is doing well and all of our fish are happy, eating and active. But, I noticed a sudden onset of green, string like algae yesterday. Now, I know this can happen when you have plant...

We got a lovely Ecco Classic external filter for our new 55. We have been building levels with rocks, adding the rich substrate with live bacteria--which has been great in our other two tanks...we are going to fill the tank all the way up and start the filter. Our LFS guy told us that because we...

Help! LOL We got an Eheim Classic canister filter. The out of tank type. And we can't figure out all of these tubes. The directions are so vague. Anyone know of a good site that shows you??

We got a great book on aquarium plants. We were reading about CO2 and it gave a formula. You find out your pH, which we had a kit for, it's 7.1ish, then you find out your carbonate hardness KH, which for our 20 gal was 6. Then using their handy dandy chart you find out CO2 milligrams/quart...

If we had a big group of them, say 10...hypothetically, could they be in a 40 gallon tank with other fish, like our glass catfish and neons?

We have had a Coralife, 65 watt dual spectrum light on our 20 gal for about a month now...and we have noticed a mild build up of lightish brown algae. It goes away with an algae scrub and the Pleco likes it, even the mollies nibble at it. It's not thick or anything, I can see it b/c I am always...

We have three freshwater tanks, a 20 gal and 10 hex, both with happy fish and live plants. And a 5 gal with a blue crayfish. We contemplated moving into saltwater. Problem No. 1--Room. How small can you and is it worth it to do a 29 gallon eclipse or is it really only worth it to go big? Problem...

We have a 20 gallon with live plants, mollies, platies, berry tetra, rosey barb, rummy noses and glowlights. As well as a Pleco. Initially the Pleco was very interested in clean. he still does a great job, but with th elive plants, etc., we have a bit more algae than I would like. It's not...

Could brown edges on plants be a sign of too much light, no enough light?

Hi there, I have, well, had three mollies. Two dalmations and one black lyre tail. When the male dalmation got a look at the black lyre tail female he instantly forgot all about his little dalmation girl. He totally ignored her. She sort of became isolated. she would swim with the rest of the...

We have three mollies, one black lyre tail, two dalmation lyre tails. One of the dals is male, the rest female. The dalmation female has been hanging out by herself lately...away from main group, which is a community made up of different fish, including the mollies. Do you think she needs...