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The situation resolved itself. The new fish was dead when I got home from work. So I'll keep with the LifeGuard treatment and wait a while. The male fish looks amazing, just like all the pictures of them -- a deep yellow/orange with iridescence all over. I should post a pic of him, he's...

Hello everybody, My golden rams and I are having a bit of a crisis. Two weeks ago my pretty pale female GR passed on quite suddenly. That day I did a complete water work-up, adjusted a few things and did a 25% water change. Everything was fine for a few days, so I called my LFS (unfortunately...

Have you considered glass catfish? I have 5 of them and they are fast carnivores. When I put bloodworms in the tank, they go bonkers. My platy recently had babies and I managed to salvage 2 fry for the baby tank. The rest got munched, I guess.

The motor came, and the filter started right up. I'm so relieved, now with both the HOB and the XP, the water is clear as glass. Thanks everyone who helped me try to figure this out.

Got the replacement outer canister on Monday. I got it all set up and plugged it in. Again, nada. :bad-words: Not enough pressure inside the canister to push the water up the output. I'm starting to think there is a leak somewhere. I've shortened my hoses, the tank is the required...

The tank has been up since early January, and it cycled in a month. Please don't kill me. ;)

The tank is above 80F, since I've been treating for ich. I'm slowly bringing it down from 86. The ich came with the guppies. I've never been good at equations because inches are always bigger than I think. My brain wants to tell me a centimeter is an inch, and there's​ about 2.5 centimeters...

My rams are about this long |----------------| Seriously, the platies are bigger than they are. My guess is the rams are pretty young. Do they start out really light colored and get a deeper gold as they age? My female ram is very very light and she really washes out when something...

Hi all, I have a standard 29 gallon tank, planted with about 10 live plants, plus two mystery snails, 1 nerite snail, and 1 ghost shrimp. Here is my fish list: Name # Length Total glass cats 5, 1.5, 7.5 Platies 4, 1.5, 6 hatchets 3, 1, 3 guppies 2, 1, 2 Rams 2, 1, 2 Cories 2...

LATEST -- It's been a few days, so I thought I'd update this with all the stuff I've tried and what's going on. I tried taking all the filter media out and running it empty. Then I tried running it empty with the cover off the impeller. Nada. I looked at it really close and realized that...

UPDATE: After letting it run all night, this morning, again, the output hose is dry. :banghead: I called API and they called back (when I was in a meeting of course) and said that I should remove the cover from the impeller. Odd thing, I'd loosened that cover already because I thought it might...

I took out the white floss, tried just Biomax on the bottom and black foam on top. I left it plugged in for 2 hours, to give it time to work. When I came back to it, the output hose has no water in it! The sound the filter is making reminds me of what the cats filtered water bowl sounds like...

I have been having a lot of issues with my tank, so I'm starting to think that perhaps it is overstocked. I got the idea to get a second filter, a much better filter, for my 29 gallon tank. I ended up getting an API Filstar XP-S. It came in the mail today from Amazon and I was so excited to...

Hi all I'm having a problem in my 29 gallon that has me completely perplexed. About three weeks ago I noticed ich on my hatchetfish. I tried Kordon Ich attack to get rid of the ich, along with raising the temperature. The ich got so bad it killed 2 hatchets and started spreading to the other...

Although I've only recently returned to the hobby, I also have a 29 gallon. So far my clean-up crew are 2 corydoras, 6 ghost shrimp, 2 mystery snails and 1 nerite snail. All are busy full-time (except the smaller cory, which sort of stops what he's doing and zones out for a few minutes every...