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Once Angelfish eggs have hatched and the babies are swimming around should you separate the parents and the babies? I've heard 2 stories and I don't know what to believe. I've heard no because they parent them and I heard yes because they eat them. Thanks!

Open sore. it's beginning to close up though. It looks like the melafix and the salt etc are helping. Hopefully he'll be ok in a week or two and can go back home to the 55.

well, for the last two weeks I was in Washington D. C. for work and I come home and my fish tanks have been... well... frankly a nightmare. Two fish died while I was gone and yesterday I noticed one of my zebra danios has a huge red sore on his side. It looks almost like a canker sore on humans...

Well, there are caves etc in the tank and I haven't seen any agression towards my clown plecos... but all 3 of my pitbull plecos are missing their fins and I saw them go after my cory cat. =/

:( Crap. Ok. And I can't get up there tomorrow :( it's an hour away and I have to take my dad to the airport :( Is there anything i can do w/ them till sunday? i hope they take them back *UPDATE* Alright well, I caught them both and put them in breeders nets so that they can't kill anything...

Alright, well, I've had NUMEROUS issues with my big tank in the past. Basically I had water issues and all the fish I put in it died. I finally went to this very good but very expensive fish store near my work because they seem the best educated. It took ~3 months... but I finally got my water...

I would be careful w/ the shark. i've heard they get much larger than youre saying there. That pleco is a bushy-nosed pleco and he will stay small and will likely do rather well in the tank. The same w/ the cory cat, but you have to remember that they are schooling fish and prefer to be in large...

Nah, different color gravel. otherwise I woulda just spread it around. I was getting tired of the color anyway. lol I could leave both filters on for now. but when I move I was hoping to set up another tank and that's my "spare" filter. It's only a 20 gallon and it has enough filtration on it...

Alright, I just finished setting up the other tank. it took forever to clean and I left it out on the porch for about an hour filled w/ water to make sure I don't have repeat leak situation. I put my fish into a big bucket and emptied out the rest of the water in the leaking tank and moved it...

yeah, that's what I was thinking. I might put the gravel in a container and put it in the bottom. I actually found another tank in my basement that's big enough so now I'm in the process of cleaning it out and praying it has no leaks. I got it from someone used. =/ Wish me luck!

I woke up this morning to find that my corner tank (my 12 gal) is leaking pretty quickly. The only other tanks I have are a couple ten gallons and one 15 gallon w/ a large crack in the back which doesn't leak, but after this I'm thinkin' prolly don't want to risk it. I'm going to go out and get...

I really recommend you get your own liquid test kit. As a former petsmart employee I can tell ya that the employees don't always know what's going on w/ the tests or the results and at the one I worked in at least we used the dip stick things which are far less accurate than the drops. For now...

I acclimate the fish by floating the bag in the water and then letting the temps get to be the same and then adding water slowly to the bag over about 30-40 min usually. I just have regular gravel substrate. As for the pH, I know it's on the higher side, but like I said, it seems like...

Ok, This is going to be long, as most of my posts are, but you can get through it and give me some good advice i'll really apprieciate it. So basically, I cannot get any new fish without them dying in my 55 gallon. The problems began quite a while ago when I had my red minor/red serpae tetras...

Watch out for your serpae tetras. I've had issues with those and a betta in the past.

I've had bettas with just about everything and I've never had a problem w/ the bettas going after anything, but I've heard other people who've had betta nightmares. Worth a try.

I second Preuss. I love them. I live in Howell, but I work in Lansing. They're fish are awesome and most of them are bred by one of the guys there, so they're not shipping in or anything (this is the freshwater at least, I doubt he does the salt). My only complaint is that they're crazy...

I think you should be ok w/ the ghost shrimp. You can also move the betta into there. I've always had danios and bettas together... but then you may want to reconsider the dwarf gourami w/ the betta. they're both air breathers and they tend to be fairly aggressive when it comes to having a...

I don't suppose you have a picture of a pregnant one do you? I think I have a pregnant one... but (s)he has been this way for over a year and I would have thought she'd have laid the eggs... but she always has the huge bulge and I've never seen a baby fish. Not sure what's up with that.

Thanks for the advice. I ended up ordering 2 of the 300-watt one's yesterday. Prolly get em next week :)

Yeah. There's not much else I can do about it tonight. Like I said, hopefully the last 2 will be ok. As for the 50% water change, my schedule doesn't always allow me to do weekly water changes. I'm the only one in my house working, cleaning, taking care of the animals, doing the laundry, making...

Ugh, I guess I'll update. I came home from work to find my 4 new albino cory cats dead. I tested the water parameters (my mom somehow lost the charts for everything but the nitrite and the nitrate, so I only tested those). But were off the freakin' charts so I scrambled and did a 50% water...