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    How To Clean Sand As A Substrate

    Just some other things I have been told about cleaning sand (I haven't done it myself but I wanted to get sand at one point): 1. Turn off your filter, etc, before starting and wait until the sand completely settles before turning on. 2. Every so often (maybe once a month?) you need to 'stir'...
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    Can You Help Me Understand What Fish Loaches Get Along With?

    I definitely think clown loaches are not for me, no matter how nice they look. They sound like a picky fish and may grow quicker than I am ready to upgrade my tank. I will look into the other species suggested.
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    Can You Help Me Understand What Fish Loaches Get Along With?

    Interesting discussion so far. I have to say that I do agree with you that certain fish do need their water maintained/changed regularly. I don't think there are a large number of fish who need this though. I know someone who has two arrowanna fish and if he doesn't change his water for over...
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    Can You Help Me Understand What Fish Loaches Get Along With?

    I thank you for your responses, but it still gets me how so many people blindly jump at you if you don't do water changes every week. There is no evidence that water changes are needed that often. I know many people who only change their water twice a year and they have no problems with their...
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    Can You Help Me Understand What Fish Loaches Get Along With?

    I'm looking at getting some loaches (probably clown) because I really like them and want some bottom fish for my tank. I currently have some zebra danilos, black skirt tetras, blue dwarf gouramis, platy, and some tetra that I can't spell the name of (looks like a black skirt, but is reddish...
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    When Your Fish Won't Eat, Help.

    I can't really give you much information now as the discussed fish are already dead and I just did a 50% water change today. Does anyone have any idea of how to help prevent or treat a fish once it gets to the stage of not eating? Neither fish showed any outwards signs of being sick/infected...
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    When Your Fish Won't Eat, Help.

    My levels are fine and I did do a 50% water change recently... I don't think it has to do with the water. I'm really confused as this is at least the third fish I have owned that has starved itself and the platies and snails in the tank are fine, they have a very healthy appetite.
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    When To Stop Medicating For Fin Rot?

    So, I bought some fish and about a week or two later they got fin rot, but my danio's that share the tank with them didn't. I medicated for about 9 days and their fins still are very damaged and possibly look a bit white on the edges... When do I know that it should be safe to stop medicating...
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    When Your Fish Won't Eat, Help.

    I just recently (in the last 3 weeks) had two fish die on me. It is something I try to avoid, but apparently these fish had other ideas. My 10 gallon tank had a nice hunk of driftwood, 2 platies, 1 blue gourami, 1 bristle nose and 2 snails. I regularly put food like peas/lettuce, etc into my...
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    50g Cube To Be Planted

    I'm just getting into planted tanks myself, but I'll try to help you out. If you are going with a planted tank (and more than just one or two plants), you will need to supply nutrients. I agree with planting before the fish are in, there is nothing wrong with that idea. Plants are good...
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    Quick Question On Plant Nutrition

    I'm sure if I kept searching, I could find the answer to my question, but after 10 minutes I feel lazy. I have a 55 (US) gal tank that has plants and is getting more. I am just starting CO2 injection and I currently use Flourish Trace for trace elements. One of the guys at the LFS said that...
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    Co2 Equipment

    Usually the yeast based CO2 injection will not work for a tank that large. One problem that I hear lots about using the DIY in the large tank is the fact that you do not get a consistent supply of CO2. Although, I have not heard specifically about using 2 at once. Pressurized co2 really isn't...
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    Help: Using Co2 Injection

    How does this unit look? http://www.mops.ca/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/sk...9a89+1217214968 Other than a co2 tank, will I need anything else? I have a 60 gal tank and it's moderately planted but we will be planting more.
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