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One of my tetras has been drunk for a few days now. He is swimming very weirdly, leaning sideways and just not normal. The rest of the fish seem fine. I hope he's not going to die. He looks fine otherwise, no noticeable illness on him. Any ideas? I'm going to check the water and do a pwc...

We bought my son a wall size mural (underwater scene). It has 8 parts and the directions say to overlap the seams a bit so when it dries it will be set perfectly with no spaces. Anyone ever done this before? I'm going to be hanging it on Saturday and any advice would be appreciated! Wish I...

I bought 4 ADFs last Tuesday and put them in a QT tank. One died the next day, I exchanged him for a new one. Another one died the next day again and I didn't replace him. Now I have 3. They lived in the QT till today and looked and acted healthy. Today I put them in the community tank and...

Now that I know you can put soil in the habitat, I was wondering if an ivy would be ok? Are they poisonous? Is there a better alternative? Thanks :P

Yesterday at my local petsmart the girl told me cob bedding was great for hermies. Of course I listened and bought it for the new 10 gal I bought them. Just wanted to double check that it is ok for them. It is so much different than the sand, it seems weird. The bag says it is for birds and...

Today I bought a 10 gal QT tank and put one of my hobs from my 55 gal on it with nothing else at all inside. Added 4 ADFs. Do I need to put some substrate or rocks in for them? I would rather not if I don't have to. How long should I keep them in there to observe and is ich easy to spot on...

Are there any plants I could plant in a leopard geckos home? Still trying to plan out how we are going to set it up. They need a certain kind of sand don't they? Can I put soil in a few areas to plant some plants in? ~Thanks

After my pwc yesterday I turned the plugs back on and now my airpump buzzes noticibly louder than it used to. I tried to make sure all the hoses were in tight and moved it around a bit but still buzzes. It was a $15 dollar pump, do they go bad? It is only 2 months old. If I run the bubbles...

My gold dojo loach has a little black dot (tiny spec) on the top of his head that he didn't have before. It almost looks like algea or something like that. My ammonia and nitrite are 0 and nitrate is 10 and ph is 7.8. He is acting ok, not sure what to do. I want to try to wipe it off and see...

Ok geologists, I need some help here. I tested some very nice cave making rocks with a muriatic and nitric acid mixture I found in my husbands gold testing kit. I squirted it all over the rock, on the reddish parts and on the yellowish parts and nothing. No fizzing at all. Does that mean...

Hope you all are having/had special days. We are going to a reptile show here shortly. Hope we don't come home with anything...I'm not quite ready yet!

I gathered some nice big, flat granite rip rap rocks from outside and scrubbed them really well all over with a toothbrush in a bucket of water. I made some nice little caves and such in my tank...and am wondering if rocks leach minerals or anythink like that? I hope all my fish aren't dead...

In this morning's local paper there is an article on the front page that makes me so mad... There is a local artist that made a sculpture with bettas in it. It is on display at the new Mesa Arts Center. Get this...he put one betta in each of five light bulbs (regular size) and he has them on a...

I posted a :?: on the reptile site but it is not as popular as the AA I guess....anyone know a good reptile site. We have a 76 gallon aquarium that we are going to make into a terarium and I wanted to learn a bit about it BEFORE I go buy everything this time!!! My kids want geckos, we...

Well I copied and pasted it onto my sig. but the link doesn't work. Not sure how to do it correctly???? Not very good at computers. I don't know how to PM either.....Please advise. If you can add it go ahead otherwise tell me how. Thanks!

How do you figure the gallons of an aquarium from the dementions? I have one that is 59 1/2 long, 12 1/2 deep and 25 1/2 tall. (inches) Can anyone help me to figure it out? Thanks!!

Is it a bad idea to just keep my tank at 87o all the time as a preventative against ich? Or is it bad for my fish? I am keeping it there till the end of June to deal with ich right now. All my fish are finally not showing white spots anymore :D but I know the ich cycles so I'm keeping it...

Well the ammonia and nitrite were both zero and the nitrate was 20. My water ph is high too, 7.6. I'll do a water change this weekend when I take out the other UGF. I only took out the one that wasn't working last week cause the water was so dirty from taking it out. I can't believe all the...

Well I had 8 now I can only count 6. I haven't seen any dead fish~ they are just gone. Do you think any of the other fish would have eaten them? The neons are much smaller, I would think maybe they would have been eaten first. I don't know exactly what kind the white ones are but they are...

It is one thing after another around here.... I was adding a heater and a new power strip for all the plugs yesterday and had all my stuff unplugged, when I plugged it all back in one of the UGF doesn't work now. I figured I might as well remove it instead of replace it cause I wanted to get...

I read the article about this and am confused which way to go. Any ideas on the subject with regards to my particular fish would be appreciated. This is my first ich experience and I need some guidance. I did purchase a heater today and mardel coppersafe. I first noticed spots on my loaches...

I don't know which to use. The loaches and pleco shouldn't do meds and the tetras shouldn't do salt~ what should I do here? Any ideas on which is preferable are appreciated. This is my first experience with ich. I read the info and am confused about which is better.

Is it just muckier water? What fish like it, do most like freshwater better?

Thanks for the advice and support, I appreciate this forum and the experts who like to help out us rookies! The three tetras are a beautiful addition to my 55 gal tank. They are white with big lacy fins. One has a few grey tiger stripes (we call him Yoda after our grey striped tabby) The...

I wasn't sure if it was a good thing to do pwc frequently while cycling. It seems maybe yes??? I made the mistake of adding (16 :oops: ) fish already to my 55 gal and it was only 1 week old so I am trying to help the fish out, is that the right thing to do? Maybe adding some water from a...