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    HELP!

    My oscars are laying on the bottom, on the bottom of the tank, and I have had 1 loach disapear, and the other is staying at the surface!!! PH 7.0 Nitrate .25 Nitrite 0 Ammonnia 0 What is going on!!!! They were like this when I came home from work!!!! I see some pieces of corn on the bottom of...
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    Couldnt find noniodized salt.

    Will Kosher work? Aquarium salt is getting expensive for my large tank.
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    Big tank complete!!!

    I finally got my 200 gal made, but due to and accident it aint quite 200, I think my uncle said 193. It also started cycling. I have in it now 2 3in Tiger Oscars, 4in pleco, 5in pictus cat and 2 small clown loaches. If I did the the math right that will be 70 full grown inches of fish. It looks...
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    Oscar's acting weird???

    The new oscar I obtained the other day is being bullied on by my other oscar. When I first put them in the tank they were attached at the hip so to speak. Never more than a fin reach away. This has been going on for the past 2 days. Now my other oscar puts his mouth sometimes even bites the...
  5. J

    What is HITH?

    I was on a oscar website and it mentioned HITH, as a fatal disease to oscars. It didnt really give anymore info than that.
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    Friends got bad advice from walmart

    Well I adopted another oscar from someone out of a 20 gallon. This was in the tank with 2 swordtails, 2 black mollies and a pleco. The swordtails and block mollies, were eaten. The owner was just gonna throw the osacr away, until I agreed to take it of there hands. These 2 friends of mine, got a...
  7. J

    Betta male attacking female betta

    What can I do to stop this? I wanted to try and breed them but all he does is chase the female around.
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    I got a ten ga, tank and I want a betta

    What kind of other fish would do in a tank with a betta? I want to get 2 corys and some kind of algea eating fish. I dont wanna over stock.
  9. J

    Sexing and breeding angelfish

    How hard is it to sex and breed angel fish, and will a 29 gal be sufficent?
  10. J

    Clown loaches pairing up?

    I have 2 clown loaches that have all of a sudden started rubbing and nipping at each other. They had recently dissappeared in the tank for 2 days. They have always hung around each other. Could they be getting ready to breed? If so what could I do to help it along?
  11. J

    Fuzzy things

    There are fuzzy things, that are floating around the tank, after I done my pwc, It came from the gravel. My python just dont seem to work well enough. Gravel vacs in general dont work well enough. Is there anything I can do to better clean my gravel?
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    Just put some feeder fish in my tank.

    I put 7 little roseys in my 75 gal. My convict got one a my jack dempsey got one. My oscar had 5, and still looked hungry. He ate all 5 in the time it took a convict and a jack to eat just one. I have never seen my oscar move so quick, he was just darting around the tank chasing roseys.
  13. J

    Sand?

    What kind of sand can I use in an aquarium, can the play sand from walmart work? I want to con vert my 75 gal to sand if at all possible. I dont see any sand at any of the lfs.
  14. J

    Looking for some Clown loaches in Eastern TN area

    If you want to get rid of some let me know.
  15. J

    ANybody in the East TN area want cichlids or catfish?

    I got 1 4in pictus cat, and a 1in Jack Dempsey, and a 1 1/2 in Black Convict. Trade for feeder fish or plants.
  16. J

    Where did my clown loaches go???

    They just disappeared!!! Do you think my oscar at 3 1/2in could eat 2 2 in clown loaches???
  17. J

    Who here got oscars or jack dempseys?

    What is there age and size?
  18. J

    Oscar growth

    I was wondering if any of yall know how fast an oscar will grow. Mine is 3 1/2in now, but cant wait till it is atleast 8in
  19. J

    New to planted tanks!

    I have a question. I bought 2 large sword plants today just to see how they would look, and really like it. They are planted in a 75 gal cichlid tank. I know cichlids like to uproot plants. But a buddy of mine got a planted oscar tank. Iasked him how he did it. He said he cut the bottoms out of...
  20. J

    Cloudy water

    I just did a water change on my 75 gal tank last night. Why would my water be cloudy?
  21. J

    Oscar and Jack Dempsey eating algae wafers???

    Is this ok? I put them in there for my pleco. But my Oscar and Jack get them first. I thought I read somewhere one time that, to much plants in there deits could hurt them.
  22. J

    Wanting to start my first salt water aquarium

    I had a old 29 gallon, aquarium laying around the house and wanted to know if the aqua fin power filter I have for it would work (I know nothing about salt water aquariums. It is for up to 40 gallons. How do you turn freshwater into saltwater? And what kinds of fish would a 29 gal hold, and how...
  23. J

    What is cycling?

    I have heard this expression many times on this forum and always wondered.
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    Oscar---lossing it scales?

    I got this Oscar off a friend, do to the fact that he was is a 3 gallon aquarium. He is about 3 1/2 inches long. The bottom half of his body if normal color. But the top part looks like he aint got any scales there. Could this be some kind of sickness, or stress.(like when stressed birds loss...
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