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    deformed danios

    Read the links you provided but still not sure what I have here. These danios are so crazy! One day they look so strange, either bloated or all bent up and the next day they're perfectly normal..
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    What Happened?

    Why do you keep the temp so high? I keep mine between 76 and 80 and my fish are pretty healthy. I've had my tanks for about 7 months now and never had ich. I would recommend keeping the hospital tank up and running at all times so you don't have to start over every time an illness pops up. Mine...
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    deformed danios

    I have two separate tanks with zebra danios (one of many breeds) and a couple in both tanks are a little deformed looking. It seems to come and go and they don't seem to be affected by it. The head looks normal and then their middle region dips way down and then the tail is in the normal...
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    Unexpected Squabbles

    I've never had mollies just because I don't care for live breeders but I've had a lot of agression problems with both of my gourami's. It's only been towards individual fish though. I think they feel less powerful against schools. Maybe the gourami had threatened the molly before when you...
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    tetra died

    Well, my poor little tetra runt died. Found him laying in the gravel. I looked at him when I took him out and he was literally just scales and bones because he couldn't eat right. It's strange because he was part of the first batch of fish I got about 4 months ago and i never really noticed a...
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    breeding

    What's the procedure for breeding gourami's or fish in general?
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    what to do with babies?

    I was just wondering what everybody does with all the little babies when they start getting bigger? I have a 10 and 20 gal and would like to breed my male gourami in the 10 but what could I do with any babies? I think my 20 is stocked to the limit or pretty close.
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    Dec: Let's hear about the bargains you've found.

    Petco has advertised a 26 gallon bowfront with wooden stand w/door, filtration and heater for 199...sounded pretty good to me
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    Dirty ?? Gourami ?

    I put up a post asking this same question a while back. Mine's orange and sometimes he just looks dirty;black in some places. In some light he'll look really orange but at other times he looks grayish. It doesn't seem to bother him at all. I noticed my tetra runt has the same thing running along...
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    tetra runt

    I thought so...hopefully he'll hang in there. I wish you could hand feed them like baby birds...lol
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    tetra runt

    I forgot to mention that he doesn't school with the others. He just kinda hangs out by himself while they play around.
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    tetra runt

    I have 4 neon tetras and have just recently noticed that one of them is a runt. He isn't able to close his mouth at all because he doesn't have "fish lips". When he eats, he doesn't even chase after a piece of food, he basically has to float into a piece just right for it to enter his mouth...
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    feeding frogs

    I have a question for those of you with dwarf African frogs...How do you feed them and what do you feed them? Mine rarely comes to the surface and if he does it's just for a split second and then back to the bottom. I've had him for a few months now and he's doing fine I guess. I feed him...
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    20 high or 20 long

    I chose a 20 high and kinda regret it in the end. I think it's a lot prettier than a long tank but obviously the surface area outweighs everything else. Plus, you could keep a lot more fish in a long than a high. The only benefit I could see is you can fit a high into a smaller space than the...
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    Dwarf Gourami - Strange Behavior

    I have 2 male gourami's, a thick-lipped and a giant, and they both build nests but have never been in a tank with a female. They just do it occasionally which is kinda perplexing. My family had lots of birds growing up and female birds lay eggs every so often even if they don't have a male...
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