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Well, he has mostly been eating the algae in the tank and any flakes I add. It's been a while since I've added algae discs, so that's about it. The tank has been staying clean, so I guess he is still eating. I've watched him eat flakes too, but not much.

Hello, I have a pleco and his lower stomach area has been bulging out for a couple weeks now, but it has gotten worse. He spends a lot of time upside down at the water surface lately too. Usually he would only do that when I drop flakes in the tank to nibble on them. The top half of his...

ok, thanks!

Hello, My heater for a 20gallon tank busted, and all I have is a big 250watt ebo-jagger submerssible heater. My question is, will this be too powerful for a 20g? No matter how powerful a heater, it should just keep it at the set temp. and not be a problem, right? Thanks.

The clown has been trying to snuggle with the puffer all day. The puffer just ignores him though. If they are still doing it tomorrow I'll upload a video of it, my co-worker is going to bring in his camera.

It doesn't seem to be marine velvet, after searching for it on the net.

He's been flashing against the sand for two months, but mostly only at night..we can tell because he moved all the sand from his corner out. I haven't seen him do it against rocks yet. Nope, no QT tank, it's our tank at work.

Hello, We have an oscerellis clown that seems to have developed small white spots on the very tips of its fins. There are no spots anywhere else, and all the other fish are fine. It has been like this for going on a week. For the past 2 months the clown basically stays in one corner of the...

The turbo snails are way too big for the puffer to eat. They have real hard shells. And the burrowing snails are under the sand, so he can't see them...I would think they are too big too. The puffer is only 1.5" big, and will only grow to 3". We are feeding him small snails though that he...

Practically no clean-up crew. Can you suggest one? I have 3 turbo snails and 2 burrowing snails...can't remember their names.

Hello, I have a Valentini puffer in a 30g tank. I put a clam in from the grocery store this morning for him, but he didn't tear it apart like some said he would. He picked at it, and I could tell from his stomach growing that he did eat some, however there is a lot left over. How long would...

Interesting forum post menagerie, all my sunburst platties are doing fine - no sign of problems..in fact, I just noticed that one looks pregnant. Have to get sleep, be back in a few hours. Increasing the thank's temp. 1 per 12 hours until I get to 86, then I'll add the aquarium salt. I've...

And, btw, all the articles I read suggested the meds as if they worked great with no hint of problems. Also a guy at work said he used ick guard and it took care of his ick. Maybe it just depends.

Crap, I should have come back to this post, forgot I even posted the question after I read article after article on other websites sigh

Also, thought I should mention that the ammo-chips in there are the same ammo-chips as when I first set up the tank. I've washed the media cartridge in tank water in a 5gal bucket, but other than that left it, so they are not recharged and may not have had an effect even if they were supposed...

Also, I increased the temperate 1 degree every 12 hours until it got to 82 to help speed up the process. Does that mean that I should have increased the frequency of doses? Also, everywhere I read all it said was to take out carbon, but nothing mentioned about other media such as ammo-chips...

I bought a new plant, and it infected my tank with what I thought was ick. At first it looked like small white specs, so I bought Ick Guard II which is supposedly for scaleless fish. I did a 25% water change before the first medication, took the carbon out, and re-added medication every 24...

Hello, I'm new to aquariums, and I would like to know how my tank got Ich so that I can avoid repeating mistakes. I have a 55 gallon tank that is about 3 months old. It is a community tank, but also has a figure eight puffer. The fig8 was biting fins, so I decided to give him his own tank. I...

cowfish: I'm going to try the green water route. Thanks allivymar. The guy at the petstore let me pick out the shrimp with some coaxing (he said policy was not to allow that with feeders) and the tank was overflowing with the shrimp, and included many egg-laden females. Got six in one trip...

Along with that, what would you suggest I do to light the tub? Buy a normal hood and just lay it across the top of the tub? I'm not sure what size I should get, because if the bulb is close to the plastic it could melt the plastic. Maybe there's something cheap I can get from the hardware...

Thanks! After reading up more, I've decided to try the rubbermaid approach for now. I already have some 20 gallon tubs. I'm going to put them all in there, put plenty of live plants, and some javamoss and see if the babies survive without the mothers being contained. Containing the mothers...

Just an update on my progress. I'm still clueless about a lot of the questions above, but here's what I've done so far today (my second day). I went ahead and got one of the small filters, a whisper 10. I also replaced the hatchery I talked about above with a simpler floating hatchery. It...

Not sure how this got into SW & reef, I was just at the FW forum...hmm, I guess an admin will move it soon. Sorry!

If there is an experienced ghost shrimp breeder here that could answer the following questions and help me get started, I would be forever grateful. I just bought a bunch of stuff today to get started, but I don't really know what I'm doing. I could only find vague information using yahoo...

Why would the rocks not be meant for an aquarium if I bought them at the LFS where all the other gravel substrate bags were? What method do you guys use to rinse your gravel?