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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...

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...

What's the procedure for breeding gourami's or fish in general?

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.

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...

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...

I just bought a spotted cory catfish lastnight and I found him dead under a plant this afternoon. I noticed my gourami picking on him a little when I first put him in but I didn't see any wounds or anything. Could he have died from being lonely? I didn't have any other catfish for him to school...

Can somebody give me just some general/basic info on starting up a planted tank. I have a 5 1/2 gal just sitting around and would like to do something with it. General answers to the following would be helpful: - Are the necessary water perameters the same as for fish? Can you just throw some...

I just wanted to take this moment to profess my love for my orange gourami. He has to be the sweetest fish ever! He's not timid at all and I'm sure that's because i have a 2 year old that never stops screaming at the top of his lungs. Every time I walk up to the tank, he swims right up and...

Talk about getting ripped - I haven't had my new giant gourami for 2 days and he has tail rot...pretty bad too. He's very skittish so I haven't been able to get a good look at him until this morning and noticed he has a red sore-like patch at the base of the side of his tail. The rest of the...

I just bought a giant gourami yesterday and put him in my 20 high with a thick lipped gourami, 4 neon tetras, a frog and an otocinclus. Good idea? Will he outgrow the tank? Does anybody have giants?

Well I gave in and moved all the fish from my 10 gal into my 20 high cause I got anxious...lol...so now I have a 10 that's ready for fish. Could I put a couple of cichlids in there or would that be torture? Are there dwarfs that don't grow so big? I just love their colors! I was also thinking of...

I was at Petsmart the other day and found a 55 gallon wooden black laquered stand on clearance for $56...guess somebody returned it or something cause it was open but all the pieces were there. I thought about buying it for my 20 high but thought it could leak because it wouldn't have the...

Listen to this idiotic mistake. I just bought a 20 gallon high tank and set it up to prepare the cycling process. Even went ahead and added a bubble wand. Got the pump at Wal-Mart but didn't get a check valve. Hooked it up and it worked fine but the bubbles were splashing against the filter and...

I read in an answer to another post that you can use gravel from an established tank to cycle a new one. Here's my deal....I had a 5 1/2 gal with a sunset gourami, 4 neon tetras, an algae eater and a dwarf frog and moved them into a 10 gal a few weeks ago. I left the old tank sitting half empty...

This story is proof that you must research a fish before you buy it just because it's cute. I have a 10 gallon that's not quite to it's capacity yet so I decided to add another fish or two. Kinda like money burning a hole in your pocket, having a little extra space for more fish burns me. So I...

I have a dwarf African frog that I got a couple weeks ago. I recently bought a cave-like decoration which he quickly took to and stays in all the time. In a beginner's fish book I got, it says they eat flake food but I've never seen him eat anything. Do they normally come out to eat as fish do...

For the past few hours I've walked by and glanced at my aquarium and there are lots of tiny bubbles floating on the surface around the edges of the tank. There's a large grouping in one area. I have one gourami. Could it possibly be making a nest or what? What should I do??

I'm kind of embarrassed to admit that the only tank I currently have is a 5 1/2 gallon but I was pleased to see lots of people bought their tanks at Wal-Mart which is where i got my kit. I've had it for a few weeks now and everything is going pretty good. My birthday is in a couple of weeks and...

I have a 5 1/2 gallon tank containing 4 neon tetras, a dwarf African frog, an otocinclus and an "orange" gourami (sunburst maybe?). The gourami acts fine and is very active but it looks dirty. It doesn't have big patches, just slightly grayish-black areas on its body and fins mainly. Is this...