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Hi All, Been away from the forums for a long time, now down to 2 tanks from 5. Had a hellish fall and many health problems not the least of which is a weird skin condition that cropped up concurrently(but maybe coincidentally) with a massive loss of fish: loaches and my large angel. I've...

Hiya noo yawk, noo joisey! My fiancee and meself have too many baby angels here in Queens. We're not taking them to the lfs, we've put too much love into these guys to just dump them! Their parentage: MA - long-fin, koi angel, (orange crown, scribbled markings) PA - reg fin gold babies are...

Soooo, our 15G Qtank was decimated (sob, snif) by a tankload of botia angelicas with ich. Died during their quarantine period, 2days apart. I wondered why the lfs was selling these beaties for $1 @ - they looked fine, and then Wham! Our angels in the 55 gave birth around the same time to about...

just got back from the lfs, and they had what they were calling 'dolphin loaches'. can't find any mention of em on loaches online, they're not in axelrod's book, and websearch just brings up regular dolphins... they are mottled brown, have a hi dorsal fin, and a fleshy adipose fin (making me...

was just told to use a diatom filter to clean up a worm prob - i have an eheim 2215, and 2217. is there a way to modify either of these?

hi everybody! we thought we were doing ok... today when B cleaned all the tanks, he noticed these white threads wiggling 8O along in the water of the 55 & 30. we vac/water-x 50% the 30 weekly, with amid-week poo-grab. 2 - 2.5" angels and 1 3" panaque. silk plants, wood, pebbles...

8O Got home today and one of our swordplant leaves is covered with eggs! they look like wee strings of pearls... My golden marble veiltails are zealously playing guard duty. YEE HAA! Saw 'em pairing off from the other two and going 'house hunting' til they seemed to really find one leaf in...

hi everyone, We are thinking of moving our royal panaque to a tank of her own (territoriality/mulm-volume issues). She's 5-6 inches in body, will come out in the light if she sees the cories eating a shrimp pellet or to attack our other spotted pleco. He's nearly the same size now as her and...

Do guppies 'save a few' to be born later? Our new female, after 4 wks, had a few (fair-sized mind you), and not only still looked like she had more to go, but 2 wks later has not 'liberated' the rest. We know livebeares can have several litters off of one mating, but isn't there supposed to be...

umm, this one you might chalk up to 'new parent paranoia', but... how will a manicure affect my fish? :wink: even tho i'm a bit of a girly-girl, my nail varnishing has been on hiatus all winter, and now that spring is here i'm in the spirit for the ole shiny fingertips. But, will the toulene...

hi all, we just bought a power gravel cleaner (lee - looks lie a python), and don't notice any real improvement in sucking power vs the hand-type. (oohh, my other-half is smirking over this post...) :roll: our panaque is a reaaaally dirty gal and we also need good power for the 15G which is...

hi all, came home from the lfs, gave the nightly feeding, (tonite's menu -bloodworms) and wow - the mollies chowed down and lost their inhibitions! talk about ballet and gymnastics all rolled into one! they didn't care if they were tumbling into the plants, bubbles, in the midst of the...

hi all, we were doing so well.... one of our 3 lil' pigs is sick! can it be popeye? He stopped hanging with the lads, then started sitting in odd places (the hollows of a leaf, on top of a driftwood, finally just facing the corner.) we noticed on saturday that he had 1 bulging eye, which...

hi all, Our 55G is up and into it's 'trates w/ 12 zebra danios, three mollies (they've never been happy), the 3 lil' pigs (corys) and now we have to wait for another wave- fell in love wi' a big boy: a 3" royal pleco( panaque) who is chowing down all over our driftwood, eaten thru a lettuce...

Hello and Wow! :D this is such a great site, we've decided to stop lurking around and say hi! We are about to expand from a 10G to a 55G. This part's embarrasing: We seem to have made all the usual mistakes: (too soon, too many, overfed, and one "Tetra don't-try-this-at-home Jackass Moment"...