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Hi - I joined this forum in 2005 when I first got my aquarium but haven't posted in years (since the tank sort of went on "auto-pilot" - didn't have too many problems all these years). Sadly today I had to euthanize my beautiful angelfish. She was almost 6 years old - I got her when she was...

Long LONG time- no post! But here I am back again with a totally new problem that has thrown me for a loop! I have a silver angelfish with stripes that I thought was a Male. And a gold angelfish that I thought was a Female. They always "pick" at each other but also spend a lot of time...

I just entered into this marvelous world of LIVE PLANTS in my tank about a month ago. I didn't go crazy- I've got just 4 really simple and hardy plants - Brazilian swords, Java Fern, a Sandy, and.... this other plant that has reddish leaves- the name escapes me at the moment. BUT ANYWAY-...

I bought 2 otos a month ago. One died shortly after. The remaining oto has been very timid... and unfortunately also a toy for my angelfish. He has been hiding in the upper back corner of the tank on the heater where she can't find him. He stays there all day. I assume he does prowl at...

*SIGH* I walk into the LFS today to quickly grab a cheap little air pump for my 10 gallon and walk out 35 minutes later with a big bag and a receipt totalling $62. :uhoh: Its hopeless. I think this hobby has officially taken over. :lol:

I've been struggling with my fish pictures for a while - my dad is a fabulous photographer and let me borrow one of his $1200 digital SLR's - amazing what the right equipment can do! here's the technical info: Olympus E10 F/2.4 1/125 ISO 80 Flash-yes!

I am having a REALLY hard time only scooping out enough "First Bites" for ONE fry and I've got quite a pile of food in the bottom of the breeder box. I assume I need to get it out of there or it will rot. How on earth do I go about doing that? I'm scared to try to "vac" it out - I'm likely to...

I have unexpectedly become a proud fishy grandma (my platys had babies - and I've got one survivor). Right now the fry is in a plastic breeding box in my 10gal tank with his parents and 2 panda corys. Unfortunately, mom and dad keep ramming the breeding box trying to get at the poor fry -...

well I never ever imagined I'd be posting on THIS forum but here I am. Heres the deal - I have a 10 gallon tank with 2 platys and 2 panda corys. One of the platys is a red-wag and the other is yellow/orange with some black - I think they called it "Calico" in the LFS. I haven't had them that...

I know this is perfectly "normal" behavior for a clown loach - but it still scares me every time! LOL

This morning I noticed that my angel fish has a very small tuft of what looks like cotton on one of her long feelers (I hope you know what I mean- not her fins or tail- those long feeler things that hang down LOL). None of my other fish appear to have it... although I did notice a little bit...

I'm still plagued with brown algae - its been quite a while now. So I went and bought 2 Oto's on Wednesday night. And I hope I'm not being impatient but... they really haven't done much of anything. I never see them eating or swimming around. One has pretty much plastered himself into the...

I bought a 10 gallon "kit" from PetSmart - the lighting is 2 incandescent bulbs. I never noticed a problem when I was using the tank as a QT tank cuz I didn't use the lights much when I had sick fish in there - but now keeping the lights on all day (because its now a second tank - hooray for...

I had a red gourami with dropsy isolated in a 10gal QT tank. He has passed away and now I acquired a free 5 gal acrylic tank to use as a QT in the future. SOOOO - in the interest of MTS - I'd like to develop this 10gal into a new community tank. I'm not sure what the gourami had so I'm...

I have read several places that recommended a "salt bath" or "dip" for fishes with dropsy. However, I'm having a really hard time finding an exact recipe... or at least any 2 that agree. I've looked all over the Internet and seen everything from 1/8tsp to a gallon to 2tsps to 1Tablespoon...

Well, I've had this 26 gallon tank set up since 11/30. SLowly over the first 2 months or so I lost countless Neons and 2 German Blue Rams. Most likely victims of the cycle and an ich epidemic that I had. Over the weekend, a red dwarf gourami that had a few battle wounds suddenly died. Two days...

As you may have read in another thread, one of my red dwarf gourami's passed away on Sunday unexpectedly from what I assume were infected battle wounds. Now suddenly this morning I wake up, and my OTHER gourami is all swollen/bloated! I just tested the water last night - ammonia was 0.25...

Last night I made the neatest purchase... Well, I really wanted to get a pleco but just couldn't find a small one that would suit my tank. Both of my lfs in my area only had HUGE ones (full grown - 12" long or so). (sorry jchillin! LOL) So I was going to leave empty-handed - when I saw...

WOW what a difference a tripod makes - finally I'm getting some great pics that aren't nearly as blurry - heres a good one of my Angelfish. But I'll keep practicing....

One of my gouramis has an interesting hole in his dorsal fin. About the size of a pin hole. Has not gotten worse or better over the past 3 days, no behavior changes, no dark or white areas around it so I don't think its rot or any kind of fungus/parasite... my 2 gouramis pick at each other A...

I've had my 26 gal tank up and running for over a month now. Lately I've noticed some dark brown/rust colored brown spots on a couple of my plants - they are starting to multiply and spread. The reason I didn't put this on the PLANTED TANK forum is because... well... all my plants are FAKE...

OK most importantly - I am begging all you experts to be patient with me and be nice. I know I've probably done some things wrong - but obviously I want to fix it or I wouldn't be here.... so here it goes: We set up a 26-gallon aquarium 2 weeks ago with 2 red guramis, a cory catfish, a german...