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I am trying to find out the name of this fish for a friend because he needs to know what is compatible, nothing has been so far and they met their fate sadly. I don't have a picture of it but here's a description: it's a silver, oval fish, about 5-6" and it has a black horizontal strip down...

I have had gw from the start, no wonder since my tank is next to a window :x It is a 55 gal and I have no where else to put it. I have been reading up and found they say to use uv filters. Would a filter with bio wheel remove the algae bloom? I think a uv filter is to complicated and expensive...

I have a 55 gallon tank water is: 78 degrees no ammonia no nitrites nitarates at 5 (did almosT FULL TANK WATER CHANGE YESTERDAY) ABOUT 15 fish, groups of gouramis, danios, rosy barbs and kribensis, 1 candystripe pleco adn 1 otto My tank has been running since august, cycled within 2 weeks...

I have 3 rosy bars flashing, nothing visibly wrong. 2 GBR's flashing and getting thin, 1 skirt tetra with tail rot and going turnign horisontal and shaking and 1 krib that looks like it has a samll white speck of ich. How do you treat everything? I bought tetracycline gel food and the temp is...

I don't have alot of extra cash to buy the expensive equiptment, but my water is straight, my fish are healthy and happy and so am I. :D my 55 gallon, housing: 3 long finned zebra danios 3 rosy barbs 2 blue gauramis 2 ottos 1 candystripe pleco 1 bumblebee goby 2 GBR's 5 kribs

Do you think it's a yellow krib or are these normal color changes for a female krib in spawning mode? I just noticed that over the past week, my 3 females have really came into some serious color. They are all gold with almost purple plump bellies now. I couldn't tell them apart from the males...

I think it's algae, but it could be from the substrate also. This is with all lights off, black background it looks green, but in a white bucket, it looks yellow. Thanks!

could this be a diatom algae bloom? I have quite a bit of brown on my ornaments and gravel. I feel like I have been cleaning bits of it daily. Is it floating in the water now from me trying to clean it? What do I do, just PWC until it's gone? My gravel is also neutral color and the same color...

I have now discovered that one of my kribs is hanging out behind my filter and almost guarding it. The other is busy chasing away the rest of the fish in the tank. I realised I don't have any caves that a krib would really like, would they lay eggs on the back of my filter? I just made a little...

They are both about 2" and one has no "extra" colors but black and white, rounded fins, no eye spot. The other has very vibrant color, exspecially since adding the new one, very pointed long fins, and a very obvious eye spot. Did I get lucky and make a pair? here they are: *edited-the...

I had asked about stocking for my 55 gal. before I even got it and it's been about 7 weeks and it's done cycling thanks to the help of my already cycled tanks that I used my olod filter and 2 big filter pads and floated them for about 3-4 weeks and my tank cycled easily and in 1 week with the...

Is the all purpose sand you buy at Lowe's the right stuff, or should it say "pool sand" or "pool filter sand"?

I got my 55 gallon tonight and am wondering, after it's all cycled and ready for living, what order do I introduce my fish? I would like 4 GBR's, a couple angels and a trio of kribs but how do I add them so they don't fight? I would like to get a few at a time and give them some time to claim...

I am getting a tank (hopefully) and it's a 60 gal octogonal tank and would like some ideas for stocking it. My fave cichlids to look at are angels, GBRs and kribs, but I need some info on them please. What would you do with my new cichlid tank? Thanks!

OKAY, I am so excited! I am getting a big tank soon, well maybe 60 gal. and I want to move up from my nice livebearer collection onto some GBR's!!! They willhave the tank to themselves, but if I put a pair in, what do you suggest goes in with them? Is there room for 2 males and 2 females? Will...

I have 2 black skirt tetras and one golden skirt tetra among other fish in my 20 gal but I must have adjusted the temp just right and removed my 2 ottos and viola, they spawned! I never knew the sexes and I had 2 females originally adn then added a male weeks later. He is a small black skirt and...

After my husband saw the 55 gal. tank in wal-mart and said we WILL be getting it, I started thinking of what I want in it. I know our kids would love to get some clown fish! I was think though, I have a 20 and a 10 gal right now. The 20 gal. is my community tak with platys and tetras and danios...

I have fry that are about 5-6 weeks old and was try to guess if they are safe to move into the big fish tank now. The're about half an inch or so. I'd be very upset if they got eaten though. What'cha think?

I saw someones fry/breeding tank on here and read their article on how they did it and did one myself :wink: I put in a corner carbon filter (triangle shaped with the cotton and black and white rock mixture) I never saw these things before but did it for my fry so I don't have to worry about...

I have a 20 gal. tank that has been up since March and it seems like it keeps cycling over and over. I have been keeping the heat up to 88 to kill off ich for a week or so. Can that kill the good bacteria and make it cycle or is it from me vac'ing the gravel everyday to keep the tank clean? I...

I caught her less than 12 hours before she dropped her fry! Here's some tips that I took note of and maybe they will come to use for you livebearers :D 1. her shape: she looked the same size while carrying but her anal area definitly fell down to a point (it dropped downhanging like her...

I actually witnessed that my gold skirt tetra has diarreah. I thought it was holding eggs because it's belly has been big for a few weeks. I am also having a problem with my ph staying low. Is the tetra's illness causing my ph problem? I couldn't figure out why my ph was always so low, even a...

I've been waiting on my red wag platy and decided yesterday that she looked about to drop so I put her in the breeder net and woke up to about 30 fry this morning! She looks great, didn't eat her babies and they are so cute!

I have almost 2 week old fry and I swear they were already mating! I noticed yesterday, it looked just like grow up fish. It was really funny to watch. The one was chasing the other and then it looked like they were standing next to each other with one's tail curved around pointing at the other...

I have a black skirt tetra that is loosIng color, a shark that is flashing on everything and chasing the other fish now, a pregnant Platy that has stringy white feces and a platy the dropped fry last week dying with dropsy. Ummmm, HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPP? I don't see white spots but...