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We're currently doing hypo in a 20 gallon QT tank to treat ich, everyone was doing fine until today. The tang is breathing hard and he's developed a white splotch on his side. He's barely using his fin on that side either. He hasn't touched the nori I put in today and usually he loves his...

We bought an ammonia test kit at one of the local chain stores last week - got it home, opened it up, the kit was very obviously used and not just used once and returned, noooo it was totally used. The bottles had the number of drops written on them, and they were crusty and half empty. This...

Like you haven't already answered enough ich questions. :lol: I spent a couple hours last night reading through quite a few of them but I do have yet another question or two for you. First.. Say a tang were to break out with ich. Obviously it's stressed or ill. But say that sometime...

Well, our MTS got the better of us... We no longer have the time or energy to take care of three tanks so we're going to get rid of one. So free to a good home... And by good home I mean an established, heated, plenty big enough tank. I may be getting rid of my babies but that doesn't mean I...

I'm wondering if anyone can ID this spot for me. It showed up about 2 weeks ago, it doesn't look raised or like anything is hanging from it. Then just a couple days ago another one popped up on his other side in almost the same location as the first. A little info on the clown - we've had...

We're just starting to setup a saltwater tank. We got our live rock from a local store and we're curious about a couple of the critters we've found. This thing retracts at night into a crevice in the rock. Some kind of coral? Is this one of the 'bad' anemones? We also got a bumble bee...

Maybe someone can shed some light on this for me... Is this fungus? http://openprojects.rarcoa.com/~tracy/dudley.jpg It started out as a small white patch in the middle of his tail and now it's starting to move up onto his body. Sometimes the darker patch in the middle will sort of flake but...

We have horrible tap water so we've been using straight distilled water in our tanks which has worked great so far (mixing tap with distilled never gave us any decent results). We add Seachem's Neutral Regulator, Equilibrium and FreshTrace to the water to make it more suitable for the fish...

This has been a horrible week for fish in this house. First the Betta's and now one of our Angelfish. We bought two Angels for our 46 gallon tank, we've had them over a month now and one of them isn't growing. The other one is nearly twice the size already. I watched them eat yesterday and...

Hi all... Got yet another Betta question for ya, this time involving parasites. Well we assume they were parasites anyway but we have no idea what type so here's the info. Last week we noticed that our male Betta had little white dots on his head, just maybe 2 or 3 of them. Of course we...

Hi all! You may remember awhile back I mentioned my dad had a betta, red tail shark and an angelfish all stuffed into a 2.5 gallon tank? Well he had been trying to save up the money to upgrade those poor fish to a 29 gallon. (I had to talk him into the 29 gallon because he was about to just...

My dad and aunt came out for a visit earlier this week. They sat in the kitchen were we keep all our tanks and while they both love our setup they kept asking why we didn't have this fish or that fish. I told them we were pretty much done. But is looks sooooo empty! It's not even close to...

I have two questing regarding cycling a new tank, I've been catching up with my reading here and am running into a lot of conflicting information so I thought I'd ask for my own curiousity and maybe it will clear things up for others as well as myself. First, in an effort to introduce the good...

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/ Very funny read!! Scroll down to the "recent columns" section and read "Take a Walk on the Wild Side". Sometimes I get asked to sign up before it lets me read his columns but if you don't want to, clearing your browser cache...

Really quick question... I know that driftwood will generally lower your PH.. but will it continue to lower the PH forever or will it sooner or later lose it's effectiveness in this area?

I have a male betta in a 2.5 gallon tank. He used to be in a 10 gallon with 4 danios but we moved him just last week. He has his own filter, a heater set to 78 degrees - don't know what else would be necessary info other than his ph is 7.8 and there is no ammonia present.. Rather than try to...

I'm a total newbie when it comes to aquariums. I've spent hours online with google trying to come up with a solution for my aquarium but I'm not having much luck.. Here is the situation. I have a 10 gallon tank, 4 danios and 1 male betta and a few live plants. Ammonia, nitrites, nitrates...