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After almost exactly a year of hiding under a log, our peppermint pleco has decided to explore the tank. We thought this fish was going to stay under that log for her entire life. The only time she would peek out even a tiny bit was when the lights were off and her algae wafer didn't fall...

I've lost two of my cichlids this week due to what now appears to be columnaris. I came home tonight, and one of my danios is near death. My adorable polit has mouth fungus... :( At this point, I feel I need to treat the entire tank. I already treated the tank with Kanacyn a couple of weeks...

I ordered a bunch of plants from azgardens.com this past week. I got a false sense of security and instead of disinfecting the plants in potassium permanganate (which I have in the house, by the way), I rinsed them off in tap water and put them in a bucket overnight. Well, I was planting them...

We recently found a young male pseudotropheus polit to replace the one our brichardis killed in our cichlid tank. The brichardis have been removed, and the polit was my husband's favorite fish so he had to have him. We added him to the tank on Sunday, along with four giant danios which we...

Hi, all... I've been too busy with school to post for quite a while and all has been well in my tanks--until... I think I have a case of columnaris in my 30 gallon cube. I lost a marble hatchet who had a fluffy substance on his tail. I mistook it for a fungus, but now I've found one of my...

I've had my 55 gallon tank since early December. The cichlids I have in the tank are very skittish and hide any time you walk by. I originally attributed this to stress from their new environment but after six months, I would think they would be fine by now. I think what is happening is my...

My flagfish started eating algae almost immediately after going into my 29 gallon tank, but they soon discovered something they liked better--ghost shrimp. It started by their taking my puffer's krill, and escalated from there. They got a hold of a ghost shrimp that was either dying or...

I lost one of my platies to dropsy about a month ago. Now one of the other platies appears to have it as well (no pineconed scales yet but she's pretty bloated). The tank is well established (almost a year) and water parameters appear fine (0/0/10-20). It gets weekly water changes of 40-50%...

I added two female Florida Flagfish to my 29 gallon tank to help combat recurring algae outbreaks in the tank. They immediately went to work and I think they're going to be a big help--but my little South American puffer isn't fond of them. He has never bothered the danios or shown any...

Just had an experience I thought I should share as there seems to be mixed information on the subject of whether or not blue-green algae (or cyanobacteria) is toxic to fish. I noticed a small patch of cyano on the top of my bubble ladder Saturday night. Since I use RO water in the tank and...

I've been thinking that my female Mickey Mouse platy has been getting bigger the past week or so, and I suspected she was pregnant. Tonight, I looked at her and she's enormous. She looks like she's about to explode. Could she just be pregnant? Or does it sound more like dropsy? She has the...

I went to my favorite fish store yesterday to sell some baby ozelot swords (I hate to just throw them away). They had five Bolivian Rams left out of a tank they'd had for a couple of months. Having just lost my favorite ram, it really struck a nerve to have those little suckers swim up to the...

My favorite Bolivian Ram died today, and I have no clue what happened. :( My husband called me when I was leaving for work and told me he had to euthanize him. I kind of wish he hadn't done it without letting me see what was up first, but I know he only did it because I would have been...

I almost lost my pitbull pleco, Kirby tonight. Its only a 12 gallon tank and he's usually always out and about, moving around. He's not a shy pleco at all. When I fed the fish, I noticed he was nowhere to be found. After an hour or so, I still couldn't find him so I started picking up...

How long can a fish live without their swim bladder? Both of my female platies have been hiding, trying to keep the male away from them. Obviously my black platy's hiding spot isn't as good, as she has had two litters in the past couple of months. About a week ago, I noticed her lying on the...

My yellow lab is doing what appears to be a mating dance with my little female polit! He flares up his fins and bends himself sideways, then he pecks at her a little, and then they start dancing round and round in circles. Sometimes the male polit will get jealous and break things up. So...

We needed a pleco in our 55 gallon tank, and since I knew my clown would soon outgrow the 12 gallon tank he was housed in, we decided to move him and find a small pleco for the Eclipse. I decided on a pitbull pleco, since they get no bigger than 2 inches. Trouble was, nobody had one. Well...

Tonight during a water change, I noticed two of the ghost shrimp in my 29 gallon tank are carrying eggs! I watched one fanning them for several minutes--it was fascinating! Has anyone ever successfully raised ghost shrimp? I don't think I want to go to the trouble of putting them in their own...

We're FINALLY getting around to starting that 55 gallon tank (it has been sitting in my kitchen empty for nearly three weeks). We plan to keep Lake Tanzanyikan cichlids in it. In searching for an interesting substrate, we came across "Lava Sand" at Lowe's. Its basically finely ground lava...

You guys convinced me. My bristlenose pleco was doing a good job keeping the glass and large-leaf plants clean but my stem plants always look grungy. At the LFS last week, I noticed an oto going to town on a piece of cabomba. So I added four otos to my planted 30 gallon tank. They...

I noticed last night that my puffer has developed cloudy eyes. His behavior is completely normal. He's active and eating, but he has been under some stress lately due to being picked on by the brichardis. I'm moving them into my 10 gallon QT tank this morning until their new home is ready...

One of my marble hatchets bailed outta the tank today. :cry: I don't have a hinge on my cube and I guess I left a tiny 1/4 inch crack between the two pieces of glass last night after I fed them. That was all it took. Hubby found him on the tile when he got home. I checked all my water...

Can you help me out? The Wal-Marts here in Arizona don't seem to carry this deal (or the tank at all, for that matter). I was going to see if I could have them look it up for me, but knowing the people at Wal-Mart I'm going to need very specific information. Does anyone still have the box...

I recently had a fairly bad outbreak of hair algae (it got really bad almost immediately when my Hagen CO2 unit stopped producing bubbles overnight). I've been doing almost daily water changes to try to get my nutrients back in balance and removing as much of the stuff as I possibly can, but it...

My 12 gallon Eclipse is becoming a bit crowded as my four platy fry grow, so I've decided to move my two little synodontis nigriventris into my 30 gallon tank. I think they'll love it in there with all the plants to hide in! :) Can anyone give me some pointers on how to net them without...