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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!

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...

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 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...

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...

Hi everyone, I have some (more) questions. I usually, dont' have this many issues w/ my tanks, I swear. Ok, so roughy 1-2 weeks ago I noticed my 55 looks SLIGHTLY cloudy... barely noticeable... over the last week-week and a half or so.. .it's been getting worse and now it's definatly very...

Hi everyone, I'm currently looking into replacing the heaters on my 55 gallon. I currently have about the cheapest hang-on-the-back heaters available to man and they seem to be acting up a bit and on one of my other tanks I had an issue w/ the same kind boiling fish and then not heating and...

Hi, I was wondering if someone could give some advice about my black skirt tetra... this is gonna be kinda long so I'll appologize for that now. Ok, so prolly close to 4-5 months ago one of my black skirts got really beat up in my 55 by some red minor tetras which I have since gotten rid of as...

Hi, I have a black skirt tetra that got beat up by my red minor tetras. He looked pretty bad by the time I had noticed what happened (all bloody, fins torn up pretty bad etc). I found him beat up last Sunday and he was moved to my 15 gallon with another black skirt that was beat up but has...

Hello everyone, I just purchased a flying fox algae eater. I had never heard of it before, but I told the lady at my LFS what I wanted and that I have a pretty small VERY PEACEFUL tank in which my betta tends to sleep at the bottom and I wanted something that stays small, eats algae, is very...

Hi, I was wondering if any of you have or have had experience with golden rams? I saw some at my LFS and they are beautiful. I don't want to buy anything that has been dyed that color, but they are really gorgeous, but it was the first time I had ever seen (or heard of them), so I thought I'd...

are beating the crap out of one another. There's 1-2 in particular that are going after the other ones and one or two really being picked on. :evil: I read somewhere and was also told to get rams either in pairs or 5 or more, so I got 7. One was floating upsidedown a little while about and...

Hi everyone, First of all since I haven't yet posted this year Merry Christmas :x-mas: and Happy New Year. Second, and to the point, I was wondering if I could get your opinions on my 50 gallon tank (the fish list should be at the bottom of here). I was hoping to get some dwarf gouramis in the...

So, I've been struggling w/ my 50 gallon tank since about May. I finally got fish in it. I added 8 zebra danios a couple of months ago. They're doing great... however every other fish I add to the tank tends to die w/i a week. I'm not home much, so my family takes care of the tank. I went home...

Hey, I have two bushy-nosed plecos (my 3rd died today (prolly from injuries when the LFS person dropped a big rock on him twice and cut him w/ sissors and had him in a tank with chiclids which were picking on him like no other) sry bout the rant) Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knew how I...

Aite, I have a question about 2 of my tanks. I've been in England for over a month and just got home 2 days ago. My mom and brother have been "taking care of" my fish tanks while I've been gone and has managed to something do very not cool things w/ em. Tank #1: My 10 gallon tank was...

Hey, Someone is willing to give me some fish for free. 2 of em are mollies, and I know enough about them... the other four are "rosies". He said they're orange in color. He sent a pic and they don't really look like barbs... any ideas what else they may be?? Thanks! I'm attaching the pic he sent...

So I've been noticing that the longer my tanks are up... the more they stink 8O Right now I can smell them from anywhere in the house, it's really disgusting and right up by the tanks it's naseating (sry bout the spelling) I'm good at water changes and everything, but I don't know why they're...

Ok, so last Sunday my bushy-nosed pleco somehow managed to jump out of my 10 gal. I do not know how long he was out, but it was between 45 min-4 hours. When I found him I was convinced he was dead. I set him on a plastic bag on top of the 50 gal since he was not moving. I then went to take a...

So I'm still trying to cycle my tank... I know these threads are prolly getting annoying but... :oops: . I just checked the stats on my tank. My boyfriend had me add 1/2 a tablespoon of ammonia to it last night :evil: saying that otherwise all the bacteria I have grown would die.... I did a...

Ok, so I finally thought my fishless cycle was done, ammonias finally at 0... nitrates are about 30... and I check the nitrites and it went up to .5 !?!?! What the heck is up w/ that?? If I do a big water change can I still put fish in today????

Ok, I have had crazy problems w/ cycling my 50 gallon. I finally have the nitrites to 0 ppm, ammonia's about 0.5 ppm, nitrate about 20-30 ppm... if I do a really big water change can I add my pleco and cory cats to it? They've been in a 10 gallon and really need something bigger... so I really...

Ok, so my ammonia has been going down the last couple days. Nitrite has stayed at zero since I started to check the nitrite (which was not the entire time). I checked the nitrate the other day and it was 0 w/ my old test. It is not a liquid test, well, it kinda it, it has little pills you drop...

Alright, so I've been having major problems w/ cycling my 50. I've had it cycling for close to 4 weeks now. My ammonia is FINALLY going down, in the last couple days from 4 ppm to 2 ppm, however I have seen NOTHING happening w/ the nitrate or nitrite? Is it possible I missed the nitrite peak? I...

:bad-words: GRRRRR... alright, so here's my problem. None of the stores around here carry "100% pure ammonia" so I got the closest thing I could and used that. I threw in 2 filter cartidges from established tanks as well as some plastic plants and gravel from them as well. I've been checking the...