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We have an Eclipse System 6, 6 gallon aquarium and have had it for about 5 years. The pump often goes off with power outages and usually I can get it going again by rapping on the top of the housing, but not today - it seems to be dead. Local places do not have the part so I will order it...

After one year of fishkeeping in our Eclipse 6-gallon, we have five fish...a silver tipped tetra, and four marble mollies. I'm going to place an order online (probably BigAls) because I need filter inserts and dechlorinator. We have been using Stress Coat which was recommended by...

I've noticed lately that the photographs on tank packaging show what I've now learned are way overstocked tanks. For instance, our 6 gallon tank shows about 5 goldfish or 20 smaller fish in the photographs on the box. Yesterday I saw an ad for an 8 gallon tank with three goldfish. It seems to...

We have had our Eclipse 6 set up since January this year, and, after losing our first two fish in the first few days, now have a platy, a silver tipped tetra, and 5 mollies that were born right at the start. Some things that have happened recently seem to be related to the mollies getting...

We have a 6 gallon Eclipse aquarium which has been set up since Christmas. After losing our first two fish, one of which had had babies, I found this site and got help to get cycled. Since then, everything's been fine until this morning when I noticed a white spot on our platy's tail. It...

We have a 6 gallon eclipse tank with a platy, a tetra and 8 young mollies. For the second time, the platy has a split dorsal fin. The first time, I used the Melafix and it worked great. At the time, we were cycling and I added it with the daily water changes. Now I am doing weekly water...

We have a 6 gal tank that has been set up since last Christmas, with a platy, a tetra, and 8 young mollies. The latter were born to one of our original fish that died. We have the tank in the kitchen on the counter between the fridge and the range. I'm going to run the self-cleaning cycle on...

We've had our Eclipse 6 gal tank for almost 2 months now. We have a platy and a tetra and 8 baby mollies. It's cycled and overall doing well. We are doing 35% PWC's weekly. The heater is a basic 50 W submersible with a dial on top. We went away for the weekend, turned the house temp from the...

We have a 6 gal tank started up a month ago. We have a platy and a tetra plus 8 baby mollies which are in a hanging plastic frame/mesh enclosure. There is starting to be filmy stuff growing on the rubber parts of the heater and the thermometer. The platy eats this stuff. Is this OK or should...

Just started up a 6 gallon tank a month ago. It's going well now after a few rounds of advice from AA. Just remembered tho, that I followed the advice of the lfs, and used one bag of gravel (5-6 lbs I think), although I believe the guideline on the bag of gravel said 1.5 lbs per gallon tank...

We have a 6 gallon tank with a platy a tetra and 8 baby mollies (in an enclosure). It has been set up for about a month and is not yet cycled, but we are keeping the water quality OK with daily 35% water changes. I have been watching the fish closely, as we lost our first two, and over the...

We are brand new to fishkeeping...started up a 6 gal aquarium on Christmas day, two days later added a platy and a molly. Three days later the molly had babies, then both the molly and the platy died. A few of the babies have died but we still have 8 in a hanging playpen. They are about 1/2"...

We set up our Eclipse 6 on Christmas day, added decorations, plastic plants and a platy and a molly 2 days later. Three days later the molly had babies, at least 8 of which are still alive and growing. Three days later, the molly looked bad. It had one swelled eye and white under the mouth...

The kids wanted pets, and my husband and I figured we could handle a small fish tank. We have been getting along for two weeks with advice from the pet store, but have had a few problems I'll post in a forum. After browsing this site, it sure seems we can get better answers here! TIA