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hey guys. i just started my first saltwater tank. i got my live rock and live sand in there already, with a maroon clownfish i mistakenly picked up the maroon clownfish from my work without researching it first. but now that i've read about them, i've found out that there are practically no...

well, last night i noticed something funny with my OB peacock. first i noticed it was not eating, then i noticed that its lower jaw was cocked up slightly, making its mouth look unusual. as i observed it more, it appears to have a large lump on it's throat. i'm afraid it might have swallowed...

you can laugh at me, but it seems that i can not successfully clean the outside glass of the saltwater tanks at my work, only because the saltwater that drips on the glass does not seem to come off how do you guys solve that problem?

have any of you ever used the parasite/nematoid medicine called "prazi-pro" by aquarium solutions? it's supposed to be safe to use and good for a preventive maintenence measure. any input on this?

i am considering adding 4-6 apistogrammas cacatuoides to my 92 gal C02 tank. tank members include: cardinal tetras rummy nose tetras zebra botias yo yo loaches bristlenose plecos otocinclus cory cats i am sure there would be no compatibility problems on most of these, except for the cory cats...

alright here's the scoop. i put this in the general discussion category because it's about being skeptical as to whether your fish are sick or not, and i wanted to see if any of you have been in the same situation for the past long while, it seems i have been dealing with internal parasites (or...

welp, about 2 months ago my male ram became very sick. he could no longer swim properly and mainly stayed at the bottom. it seemed as if it could not elevate itself more than 8 inches off the substrate before going back down to lay on the bottom. due to the fact that i could not catch him...

welp, i know i haven't been around as much lately but i will be more often so i can broaden my knowledge of fish. i just got a job at my favorite LFS, AquaWorld. Hopefully i can learn some new things from there and on here

last week i purchased my final 2 african cichlids at my LFS, thus completing the stocking of my 55 gallon. i tried to examine them at the store and pick out the healthiest looking ones. but unfortunately, i failed to realize that they had sunken bellies when i bought them, and when i got home, i...

i have recently been combating major algae problems, but we have taken care of them by using RO water to get rid of phosphates. it's a slow process but we're making progress. but at the same time, in my 92 gallon planted tank, my rams keep getting sunken bellies and i simply can NOT catch them...

I am still considering RO water. I am just wondering, for those of you who keep this, where and how do you store it, and do you have to keep it at a certain temperature? does it have to be refrigerated? etc....

if i am getting a Reverse osmosis/deionizer, does that mean i'm going to have to add minerals back to the water?

hello all. i have an overwhelming amount of algae in my 92 gallon aquarium. i have been doing 50% water changes every week as well as underfeeding to try to bring down the levels. i have had this problem before and the guy at my LFS had me bring a sample from my aquarium in for him to test for...

last wednesday i got an OB peacock and a goldhead comprecisseps from my LFS, and they told me both of them were from lake malawi. both were juveniles about 1.25" long each. i put them in my 55 gallon with clown loaches and synodntis cats both were doing fine, except i came home around midnight...

i have a 92 gallon planted aquarium with CO2. i have had rams for awhile but i have been running out of luck with them. i only have 3 rams left and i was considering trying out some sort of apistogrammas species instead. but all i'm really wondering is how aggressive are they? i have read...

well, i'm having different problems with 2 of my rams. one of them has just been sitting at the bottom of the substrate for the past week, not getting any better. it looks like premature demise, as i have gone through this with rams before. but the only thing about it is the ram hasn't died yet...

i am wondering, is there anything else i should feed my bristlenose plecos besides zuchinni? also, how fast do they grow? i have a baby one that's about 1.25" or so. it keeps getting into my filter in my big tank, so i have it in QT for now...i'm hoping i don't have to keep it there forever

i'm planning on changing my substrate in my 55 gallon. in there i have 3 clown loaches, 2 synodontis cats, and 4 otocinclus. i plan on catching the otos and moving them up to my amazon tank during this process is well. considering that i'm going to have to move all of my decorations out among...

alright, in my 10 gallon right now i have a baby bristlenose pleco (about 1.5" at the most). he has tail rot right now, so i've been treating with melafix and pimafix. his tail looks like it's getting better, but the fish looks like it's really stressed. it's been doing practically nothing but...

i am considering getting african cichlids, but i have no idea on which kinds clash with eachother and which ones work well together. here are some that i have looked at and am interested in: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1840...

well i pulled about 4 rocks out of this river i was swimming in today. i have no idea what kind of rock they are, but i figured i'd throw them in my 55 gallon with my clown loaches, synodontis cats, and otos. i currently have a lot of driftwood in this aquarium as well i've re-soaked them in...

they're probably leeches. the one thing i didn't tell you guys when i described the worms i had is that they they stuck to bottom of the bucket very well and they moved by squishing themselves together and then becoming long again (sort of like an accordian). they just looked like worms i...

ah, i remember a time when most of my plants were full and leafy now it's nothing but some stems poking out of the gravel with some leaves at the top i'm thinking either the plants are dying or some of my loaches are eating them. i often have to pick plant debris off of the back of my...

well, one of my black mollies died recently, and all of my other fish are fine except one of my clown loaches has a sunken belly (always has, though) and my fishes' poop looks weird and stringy and i just noticed last night that that one of my mollies has some sort of white string of something...

alright, my heater is acting weird. it is an externaly controlled one it was acting fine for awhile, but now it seems like it won't maintain a temperature below 84 everytime i try to turn it below 84, i come back later to discover the heater is off and the temp is at room temp so i'm thinking...