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I started cleaning my tank today, and was looking for where the GSP was hiding, and he was laying on the gravel lifeless. I could only see something hanging out his gill. (I don't know if puffers have gills) but I wonder if he choked? I got in about 2 mo. ago very small, he was about .5" when he...

So my main concern was about 3 days ago my puffer started refusing food. he's about as active as normal, but won't eat. The 29 Gallon tank gets a 25-35% PWC weekly, I maintain a SG of 1.012. Temp is about 78*F. Ammonia is at .25ppm Nirites are 0ppm nitrates are 10-20 (hard for me to read...

Hi, I just purchased the nitrate and Nitrite API Liquid kits. unfortunately the nitrate came with two saltwater guides, and not a FW guide! If anyone can help me as to how far off the colors are...? I got a 60ppm on the SW card, which I imagine isn't much different on the FW, so my tank is...

I haven't seen any other fish with the ich, so i haven't been trying to treat that particularly. I looked up, and found one of the fish had dropsey. the others seem to get red spots. Today I will get the other API liquid test kits today. also, my tank has a huge bubble wand, so I think...

My situation is that my fish are getting sick suddenly. The tank is a 55Gal that has been active for about 2-3 yrs. now. It's been moved twice about 1 year ago. And has been flourishing since with 6 Cory Cats, 1 Tiger Barb, 2 CAE, 1 Otto, 2 Cherry Barbs, 1 Bala Shark, 1 SAE, 1 Lemon Tetra... I...

you could go smaller.... like the bonsi kitty's... LOL

That's so true, if vacuuming could suck up the bacteria, they'd never be able to hang on in the filter... I would love to get more plants, but I always have a hard time commiting to buying them at the LFS. I've been looking at some of the low light/easy one on some of the plant sites, but i...

I did a 20/55 gallon water change, and I've switched from Prime dechlorinator to API's Dechlorinator. it has aloe, and sounds like it will work much better. one concern i had was that the prime was not providing the proper slime coat. so i'll see how stress coat works. anyways, after the water...

i know, i need to get the phosphate reading, but none of the lfs have them, and i keep running out of money to order on online... i need to just get rid of the tank!! arg...

9 days, and I'm pretty sure this isn't working. The tank is still covered, doesn't get any light, and the cloudiness has come t a minimum, but not all the way gone. I'm thinking something else needs to happen here... Should I do a water change, and proceed with the lights out? Thanks...

I kind of had the feeling that the strips were really worthless. I'll be picking up a test kit this weekend probably...

I don't know how long test strips are supposed to last, (I test about once a week, sometimes 2 weeks if things have been going smoothly... But anyways, I have Mardel Test strips, and they have been givig a most unaccurate pH reading lately, and if i look really close to the pad, it looks like...

*Update* The tank has been blacked out for 4 days now. I decided to peek today, and see if it did any good. I flipped the light on, and it is about 50% clearer. Unbeleivable!! It didn't even look like it had done anything!! My sword probably wont make it much longer without light, all the...

i've heard that phosphorus would cause excessive algae growth. would i be feeding the algae, and risk it coming back? also having the plant, shouldn't it be keeping/using a lot of phosphorus out of the water. i would think having real plants would keep a tank in better balance.

the only tank i have is a BW 10 gallon, that is partially cycled. but i wouldnt know if salt is ok for the plant. I have plenty of buckets lying around, if it will be ok it one of those for a week. this was one of those plants that is in the gel at the petstore. so it must be pretty hardy to...

This has been going on for sometime now, and I've posted here once before, about it, and tried to get rid of it with some of your help, but it has remained cloudy. When I say quite sometime, I think it's on 5-6 Months now. And I think it started after I got my 40watt Light Hood. I don't think...

thanks for the great information, i'm taking your advise, and picking up a few angels, some more ottos, and probably getting rid of the barbs, although my tiger barb thinks he is a columbian tetra, LOL and the cherry barbs, kindda hang out with them selfs... but who knows that they would do with...

thank you for the excellent info. i'll definatly read up a little on some of the fish you mentioned. btw, i had a upside down catfish before, and all it did was hide. i never saw it!! quite frustrating, as it was a very cool fish!!