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Thanks for the great advice everyone. You're all awesome!! I'll leave my sg at 1.025. Now I'm a firm believer that LFS's give bad advice just to help profits. Go Figure!

is Ph more table at higher sg?

My LFS keeps their saltwater fish in 1.018 SG and recommended the same to me. Me SG is 1.025. Should I gradually lower it to 1.018? Isn't the Ph more stable at 1.025?

Hello all, quick question. Just out of curosity, I asked my LFS manager what SG they keep their SW fish in and they told me 1.018 and recommended the same to me. They even have some LR and LS in their tanks. I was told that this SG is healthier for the fish in the long run and it won't harm LR...

Some live plants and a big assortment of fishes such as tetras, livebearers, catfish and a couple of bala sharks!! Thanks for the compliment!

ph- 7.4, temp- 78, ammonia- 0, nitrites- 0, nitrates- 20-30 ppm.

Hello, I just set up a 150 gallon freshwater tank about a month and a half ago. I already have some fish in it. However, the water just won't clear up. It's not too cloudy, but it just has that light milky cloud which is enough to make he tank an eye sore. The tank has about three inches of...

Any thoughts??

Hello all. My parents don't have access to a computer. They have a 150 gallon FOWLR system. About two weeks ago, they got a 3" maroon clown. The fish is in a 10 gallon QT treated with cupramine and the salinity is 1.021 and the temp is 78 degrees. Anyway, they noticed that the fish is starting...

I have mollies that are not doing good, either. They are infected with internal parasites, I think. Their poo is whitish and stringy. I'm going to treat them with Jungle's parasite clear since it treats internal parasites. Has anyone had good results with this med?

Quick question. I have a 10 gallon tank with live bearers that are not doing good. I think they have internal parasites since their poo is white and stringy and look skinny. If I postpone treatment any longer, I'm afraid I might lose my fish!! I tried garlic but my fish don't really eat enough...

I'm having a problem with my mollies and playies in my 10 gallon community. They do fine for a while and then all of a sudden they get stringy poo and start to lose weight and eventualy die. I went to my lfs and they told methat it was internal parasites of some kind and they recommended...

If ich was present in your main tank, you should remove all fish and QT them for 6 to 8 weeks. Also raise the temp to 82 to 86 degrees in the fishless main. This helps speeds up the life cycle of the parasite so there's a better chance the parasite will die off within 6 to 8 weeks. In the...

I had a yellow longnose butterfly in qt for 10 days now. He had no ich on him when I first got him. However, he is now covered with ich.The funny thing is the SG is 1.008-9, the temp is set at 82 degrees and there is coppersafe in the water. He still eats pretty good but I don't understand why...

I just did a little research and I found out that copperbands from Australia do better than those from the Phillipines because they use cyanide to catch them in the Phillipines- NOT GOOD. That's another question I'll ask the lfs before I buy 1.

Thanks anyway, maybe I'll try and introduce 1 to my other SW tank, which is a 90 gallon if and when I find a copperband that does accept food at the lfs. It's another FOWLR that contains a blue damsel, a pair of coral banded shrimp, a pair of ocellaris clowns, a black and white heni butterfly...

Thanks for the great advice and Kudos, FLUFF. I'll just ask the lfs to feed any copperband butterflies they might have to see whether or not they eat.

Hello everyone, I have a 20 gallon tall glass tank that I got about three months ago. I have a couple saltwater acclimated mollies in it along with a blue damsel. These were used to cycle my tank. There is also about 10 to 15 lbs of live rock along with 3 inches of live sand at the bottom...

I have tons of tiny cone shape snails plagueing my aquarium. Can they carry parasites that affect fish?

I have alot of small nuisance snails (little spiral ones) in my tank. Are they possible carriers of internal parasites that transmit them to the fish? Should I get rid of them?

I've got six female platys in my 29 gallon tank and two of them are not doing good. They have white stringy poop thats hanging from them. They are not eating well and they look skinnier than the others. I think it's an internal parasite of some type thats attacking them. My tank has ALOT of...

Is paraguard, which is made by seachem, effective in bare QT to treat ich, velvet, external bacterial infections, external fungal infections and external viral infections such as lymphocysts? I bought a bottle of it a while back and I want to try it next time I buy a fish to be QT'ed. I read the...

About a month ago, I purchased a five gallon tank and put a thin layer of gravel on the bottom. I then added about an inch high of brackish water at SG 1.010 to 1.012 to the tank. I decorated the tank with a few small stones and a plastic aquarium plant and added an airstone for some...

I have had a school of serpae tetras for a year and three months now. One of them is acting funny. He is constantly swimming up to keep his balance, but keeps sinking to the bottom. No probs with the other fish. What is the problem with him?

I have a couple of questions about turbo snails. Will they eat spinach, zuchinni or romain lettuce as a substitute to algae that grows in marine aquaria? I like them alot and I'm interested in adding a couple of them to my tank in the near future. I just don't think that enough algae can grow in...