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Hi Folks. I am flabbergasted. Got an established 20 gallon tank with two filters, small natural gravel substrate on top of an old underwaterfilter leftover, and real plants. Took a sample of my water to Petsmart, they said "Great". Got half a dozen platies, They died within a day. Petsmart...

I just got 8 orange/black tailed platys from Petsmart. Did the recommended 30% water change, added the recommended conditioner, let them sit in the bag for 20 minutes in the water, added recommended tankwatre to bag. All this before letting them loose into the tank. Now I am puzzled. They...

Hi people, this is your Excedrin headache # 32 again.:( Here is the problem. I bought several new plants and put them in the tank. The water was just a little "flaky" because i stirred up some stuff in the gravel. I vacuumed the heck out of it, and within two hours, the water was clear as...

'hi, this is your Excedrin headache # 32 again. My 20 gallon tank, planted, two filters and one air-stone, lets fish disappear. I cleaned 2/3 of the water yesterday, (lots of debris and gunk) and this WAS my inventory: 2 dwarf silver tetras (the pet store called them silver glow-fish) 3 small...

Hi, it's me again. I have had aquariums since the early 1950's, but always went by guess and by golly. Just took everybody's advise, and mostly did well. Now . . .i am getting curious about what is what and am looking for some catalog of small freshwater aquarium fish. Have been cruising and...

Actually this is a part follow up on my "help" posting of a few weeks ago. It seems that the white mold or white? algae? blobs of something are gone, although there are still some small pieces floating around, but they get sucked up by the Eheim filter, that is, looking at the intake piece...

My interest in aquariums started as a kid, when we had one in our classroom. We lived in Amsterdam and those were the '30s, so my parents were too poor to get our own. Many moons later when visiting clients at home as a Govt. health insurance guy, I saw many tanks with many different fishes. I...

I thought I knew it all. I am 85 and not exactly a "newbie" I have had aquariums for over 60 years, from steel-frame with concrete type back-walls with niches for plants, to present acrylic/glass, each time about 30 or 20 gallon. At one time in Holland even a 150 liter. I have made just about...