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  1. Members FW Tanks

    Members FW Tanks

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  2. Cichlids

    Cichlids

  3. J

    Guppy rotting away!!! Need Help ASAP!!!

    Thank for the help. I'll drive up to Des Moines this weekend (1.5-2 hours) away, if it isn't snowing too much and hopefully one of the large pet stores will have something. It's so heartbreaking when my daughter finds another of her fishies "hidden" by a plant. (My dad keeps telling her that...
  4. J

    Guppy rotting away!!! Need Help ASAP!!!

    I am on day 8 of Maracyn, day 3 of Maroxy and day 3 of Maracyn - 2 (always treat with CopperSafe). Two more have died. My tank is getting empty. Everything that I have researched says that this is caused by poor water quality. This weekend I bought a new filter for my 55 gallong and my 10...
  5. J

    Compatibility

    Duh Julie....I currently have 8 fancy tailed guppies in QT right now and would like to add them to the mix. Will they all be peaceful?
  6. J

    Compatibility

    I recently researched and bought 2 dalmation lyretail mollies, 4 mickey mouse platys, 4 regular platys, 2 black sailfin mollies (sadly 1 died on day one and the other has a horrible case of ick) and 2 red cap oranda goldfish. According to my research all of these like water in the 75 degree...
  7. J

    WILL HE EAT ALL OF MY FISH?!?!?!

    My bettas are fine in theirs. There are vents at the top of the water level and at the bottom so that there is circulation but not a strong current (which bettas hate). I have seen pictures of betta breeders breeding bettas (say that 5 times fast) in mason jars with no circulation whatsoever...
  8. J

    netting silver dollars?

    Oh...and try using a bigger net!
  9. J

    netting silver dollars?

    I was trying to catch some convict cichlids and I called my LFS and he suggested dumping in some ice. And then he started laughing hysterically! :twisted: Honestly, I finally removed all the plants and ornaments and drained half of the water out and amazingly they were easier to...
  10. J

    WILL HE EAT ALL OF MY FISH?!?!?!

    Bettas (male bettas) LOVE to eat the fins off of any other long finned critter - especially guppies. Maybe you could find one of those hang on the side (but still in the tank) isolation tanks. I have 3 bettas in 3 of these and they're great. They're called BettaVisions. They're clear plastic...
  11. J

    convicts and powerheads

    My convicts seem happy with current. In their 55 gallon tank they enjoy hanging out by the HOB filter output. They like bubbles too! Mine enjoy swimming through the bubble strip and then at the end of the strip they shake their gills and fins and shake out the bubbles they picked up! They're...
  12. J

    Anyone here ever own a freshwater Moray Eel?

    "Elly" was labeled as a "freshwater snowflake eel". The forum and I had a quite a conversation about him and whether or not there was such a thing as a freshwater eel. Perhaps it is still in here somewhere.
  13. J

    Anyone here ever own a freshwater Moray Eel?

    Oh! Forgot to mention that it took 2 grown men to catch him and move him to a new home with only an oscar (that was too big for his mouth). He does prefer a brackish environment. The new owner and I ran into each other yesterday at the LFS and he's still growing!!!! :mrgreen:
  14. J

    Anyone here ever own a freshwater Moray Eel?

    I recently kept an eel in my freshwater tank. He started off at a cute 10 inches, but after 2 months he grew to almost 18 inches and ate everything he could catch. He started eating 4 frozen krill every other day to eating 5 cocktail shrip every day and 2 dozen goldfish every week (and clown...
  15. J

    Hole in mom's betta...

    Is it just a small pin hole? My female betta had that too and she did just fine (until my eel ate her one night). :oops:
  16. J

    Guppy rotting away!!! Need Help ASAP!!!

    I've now lost 3 more fish since my last post. Two of them were ones with fuzzy sores. Sigh. :(
  17. J

    Guppy rotting away!!! Need Help ASAP!!!

    I just got home from work and the pet store and the fish guy said that the Melafix and the Coppersafe should knock this in the butt. But...one of the other guppies now has the "saddle back" sore. I turned the temp down on my tank and I'll settle it down at 74 by tomorrow. My pet store has a...
  18. J

    Guppy rotting away!!! Need Help ASAP!!!

    I brought home 6 new fancy guppies this weekend and they're dying off one by one even with treatment!!! I am treating the ich with salt, warm temps and Coppersafe. Now one of the guppies is developing this cotton-y tufts covering its body and beneath the tufts are what looks like his meat...
  19. J

    Dumb guppies?!!!

    Sigh. I bought 3 more male and 3 more females yesterday from a different fish store and hopefully we'll see some action. I have "neutralizer" that I use in the water it takes out the chlorine and keeps the ph at 7 for one month and softens the water no matter how many water changes I do...
  20. J

    Dumb guppies?!!!

    I'm throwing a fit!! I bought 5 females and 3 male fancy guppies 2 months ago, put them in a fully cycled 20 gallon tank with some salt...cranked the temp, heavily planted the tank with fake plants and I've waited...and waited...and waited!!!! In the past 2 months we've only had 1 guppy...
  21. J

    Dec-Jan: Lets hear about those bargains!

    Have you guys been to "glass cages.com"? I think that my hubby is ordering me a 75 gallon tank and stand for around $300 that we'll pick up in St. Louis, MO in March for our anniversary. What a sweetie. Have you heard anything bad about them? I'd hate for it to break - but they come with a...
  22. J

    Wooky Snail Behavior.

    My two snails attach to the tank for about 3 hours once a week and then spend the rest of the time swimming through the HOB filter current. ...Then they die. Is this odd? :?
  23. J

    Eels and goldfish?

    I love my eel...however he loves my fish...really, really, really loves to EAT them! I started off with a nice full tank of clown loaches, cichlids and gouramis. Now I have 2 cichlids and 1 gourami. I now have to buy my eel 2 dozen feeder goldfish each week to suppliment his daily diet of...
  24. J

    Those who have the Wal-Mart 46 gallon bowfront...

    Hope you like your new tank FishGirl!!! I called WalMart for FishGirl and gave her the SKU# ...if you give the # to any WalMart they'll order the tank for you. My aunt didn't want to drive to a big SuperWalMart so she just ordered it at the Customer Service counter at her local MiniWalMart...
  25. J

    Male Convicts??

    My female and male started breeding at about 1" each---so babies could be coming any time!!!! 8)
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