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I found a hydra attached to a stone under the cave in my 10 gal QT. I moved the cave and now I can't find the hydra. What is the preferred treatment for Hydra? I don't have any current residents that cannot be moved.

:evil: I found one of my swordtails hiding in a corner with something sticking out of its stomach(just in front of the pelvic fins). It wasn't doing very well so I euthanized it and gently pulled on the thing that was sticking out of it. It was a ~1 cm long piece of fish bone (about .5 mm...

I had to put down my Female Florida Flag Fish yesterday and now my Male Florida Flag Fish is heartbroken :cry: . He just swims around the tank looking for her but and not finding. He didn't even eat yesterday morning before I euthenized her. I didn't know that they were such loyal mates. It...

My golden CAE is anti-social. He's not mean, he just likes to be left alone. I have him in my QT that also houses my Florida Flag Fish. I have a divider to keep them separate (the male FFF was becoming to mean for a community tank but too pretty to get rid of). My CAE was on the left side...

For a history of my Praecox Rainbow's illness, check out my "Why do Rainbows turn white?" Well, my rainbow finally died. It never thrived liked the other purchased at the same time. Then its flesh became more opaque and whitish, and it had a raised sore under its pectoral fin. The flesh...

I've seen it pretty consistently in rainbows, whether they be praecox, bosemani, madagascar, etc--at home and at various lfs. Their flesh slowly turns white and then they die. The whited flesh is usually swollen as well. I have a praecox that is going that way right now. It is much smaller...

My LFS got in some blue eyed rice fish (but they were labeled lamp-eyed tetras, but that was what they were sold to them as and they were very small) like these. Has anyone had any experience with them?

How am I killing my java fern? :shocked!: I always felt they were easier than plastic plants, but recently, mine has started to fall apart. It had been growing fine for a long time. I recently switched to 100% RO water with RO Right and with baking soda for buffering. I also increased from...

Well, I noticed a zebra danio missing yesterday and I brushed it off as him hiding somewhere. Today I went to clean my filter (Aquaclear 200) and see something in the bottom beneath the sponge, and what do you know its a fish. At first I figure its probably dead until he started to swim...

I am really fed up with our local water supply :bad-words: Everything yo-yos. PH 6.5-8.5, gh 12-24 etc. The nitrates in our tap water is currently in the 80+ range. I did 2 50/50 RO pwc (one wed, one fri) because I was using some medication to treat internal parasites. Then I had a dead...

I did a 20% 50/50 RO/tap water change last night and this morning I had three dead or nearly dead blue tetras, so I decided to test the water. It had a pH of 7.6+, so then I tested the water I added-7.4, so then I tested the water I had taken out-7.2! What Is going on here? The only other...

I am hoping to get a 55-75 gal soon and my brother (hashbaz) and I are planning an oversized diy cannister filter. I was just looking for any info on your experience with submersible/non-submersible pumps (how loud they were, reliability, etc.)

Is there anyone out there using the perfecto 24" dual tube light strip? My question is this: What size bulb does it actually use? In the picture at bigals it looks like the bulbs are the full length of the strip, but all-glass strips have 18" bulbs, so I'm wondering if the pic doesn't match...

What fry foods have you had success with for tiny fry? A little back story: Have you ever tried to do a pwc and gravel vac at 10 pm and ended up being up until 1 am? :roll: One of my platies had just had babies and so after the vac I checked the bucket for babies. I didn't see anything...

I have a problem with my 10 gal qt tank. The only occupants are a chinese algae eater and some feral algae. It only grows on horizontal surfaces (gravel, java fern, water wisteria) and it doesn't stick to them (if my cae pokes in the gravel it goes flying and clogs my hob). It was taking over...

Saturday I purchased a praecox rainbow. This morning it seemed perfectly healthy and was eating fine, interacting with the other fish (maybe being a bit of a bully), and now he is nearly dead, laying on his side. My ammonia is at 0.0, ph is 6.9, low hardness, water temp 72. I had been feeding...

I bought some fish at my favorite lfs on saturday. (m+f swordtail, m+f guppy, 2 albino cory cats, and a neon blue rainbow) Less than 24 hours later I saw the female guppy floating around, barely able to swim :evil:. I humanely euthanized her and then realized there was something sticking out...

Lemme' ax youall a qeusshun (sorry I slipped into ebonics there). I have had moderate success with raising brine shrimp from cyst to adult, and I was wondering if it would be possible to adminster meds. to fish by medicating the water the bs are in. (that wasn't very good question form. Alex...

I have some red algae growing in my 10 gal qt/fry tank and I was discussing what would be a good algae eater for that tank with the guy at my lfs. He said that some red algae can be toxic to shrimp and possibly fish. Has he been smoking red algae or is this a real problem? My algae is dark...

I'll start with my more recent problem. I have a bunch of young guppies (2-4 months). One of the females' flesh is turning white. It started as a few small spots that grew as she did. The white areas are opaque while the rest is kind of clear. I don't know if this could have any connection...