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once my ABF ate 9 crickets. I let my girlfriend feed all my fish once, talk about unitentional nitrite spike. what a bad idea that was. "But they look at me and open their cute little mouths, and i feel bad." "Andrea, where did 1/5 of my flake food go?" :crazy: :wub:

hey, i have a wet dry filter, i was wondering if i could put my heater in the filter as opposed to the tank for asthetic reasons or would it... (insert catastrophy here) thanks, john

ohh, i didn't know that, thanks. Now ill go and convert that to farenheit. Man i wish we used the metric system here in the us

Hey, I just bought a mosic gar, what temp should it be at? The woman at the lfs said 75, but seemed very hesitant, so I figured I'd double check. Thanks

My abf is in a 55g community tank and hasnt eaten any small surface dwellers yet. But i feed it crickets every other day so myabe thats why he is so docile. They are awesome fish, definatly a strong addition to any tank. He doesn't seem to need much room as he doesn't do all that much, except...

i have tons of really healthy plants and no algea, so i must assume my nitrAtes are low (my test kit doesnt test for nitrAtes). my PH is around a 7 i think (im a little color blind [makes testing tricky hahahaha sometimes i have to call my gf in to double check lol])

both are negligible. Close to zero, also, water quality is ok, did a 20% water change (well, more like 15%... lol i got lazy) 5 days ago. I gonna do a 30% change today before I reintroduce him into the tank. Also, (stupid question but....) How much salt constitutes a salt bath? I have a super...

My male betta a few days ago developed a nasty case of fungus i think. He had this white coat on his eyeball and white stuff coming out of the side of his mouth. And a white thing of gunk between his mouth and eye. I upped the salt by half again and started treating with melafix and now the...

yeah so boo-ya!

sw tanks seem hard and expensive :-(

so far so good. The size of the tank definatly helps. They have seperate territories. But oddly enough, the territories are really close. On is on the front left side, the other is on the back left side. I think it's because the water is stiller over on the left side. I had a barb in there, had...

i've been watching them (all day it seems) and the white betta is too distracted by my african butterfly fish to bother the other betta. They share the same area and sometimes the betta pecks at cricket legs hanging out of the ABF's mouth. :* :wub:

I'm sorry about coral. Just think though, she's in fishy heaven right now.

Well, I have a 55 gallon tank with lots of little gold fish, and African butterfly fish, 2 bettas (i know its controversial, its being discussed in the betta section), 8 or 9 neons, a snail, and 6 or 7 ghost shrimp. One of my bettas ( a lovely completely whiteishpink color) and my ABF are in...

thanks for all the replies :-D

Hey, my girlfriend just got a 1 gallon tank as a gift (with a little mini filter and light). what would be a few fish that could withstand such unstable conditions? (has a really good filter for such a small tank so waste isn't really an issue)

so far so good. It's been 3 days and no fin nipping has occured. They basically stay away from each other except during feeding time during which they gang up my poor feeder fish (left over from cycling, couldnt bear to get rid of them) and eat all the food :D But yes, they have very distinct...

a 55 gallon with caves and its heavily planted

Hey, I really want a moray eel. But seeing as I can't turn my tank into a brackish one, I need a good alternative. Preferably something that looks similar. And no polyupterous's (sp???lol) Thanks, john

Hey, I was wondering if it were normal for 2 male bettas to get along in a big tank. As an experiment (standing there with the net ready of course) I put 2 male bettas in my 55 gallon tank together. Not only did they not duke it out, but they even swam and 'played' together for a while. Maybe...

get an african butterfly fish, they are big and top dwelling and very no-nonsense. And its a blast feeding them crickets. :D

good call on not returning him. I didnt think that one through lol. good thing i asked first :)

will salt hurt a betta or neons, or african butterfly fish? thanks -john

Well, my ABF hasn't been eating for the last week and a half, which is coincidently when i first got him. Well, today, instead of feeding right before lights off, i fed him in the morning. He ate not 1 not 2 but 3 crickets. And some flake food :flex: . I am really exicited and thought I'd share...

so, seeing as its just a feeder fish, should I issolate him? or give him back to the lfs? I realllly dont want to re-cycle my tank

One of my fish has a little finrot. I was wondering if adding melafix will affect the cycling of the tank in any way. Thanks in advance -John

ok, good call. Thanks, ill try the cotton. :-D

I have a peice of driftwood in my tank (from the lfs, been boiled etc) and i want to attach java moss to it. How do i go about it. I was even thinking of stapling it to the drift wood. Would this cause problems? :dunno:

cool, thanks I hate eye balling it :whistle:

Does anyone know how many drops per gallon i should use withh this stuf? (made by aquarium pharmicuticuls)

now i know i should have googled it.. but if people didn't ask questions, there would be no forum :-D

Heya, dumb question, but whats a python. I gather that it's somesort of water changing device/cleaner(?) but does anyone have a pic? THanks

wow, thanks a ton for all the usefull (and speedy) info. Thanks for the link also. I thought the aloe vera was good.. ahh well, seeing as i just bought a ton of it, they will just have to deal till i run out. :P

hi, i have a quick question When I do my water changes, I do it by buckets (man does it suck [55gallon tank]) and i was wondering, so far i've been adding the dechlorinater (sp) to each bucket for fear of having the chlorine kill my bacteria. It's a massive pain in the butt cause i have...

rofl. I'd just like to adknowledge Barday witty reply. :-D

just realized i mislabeled the topic ;)

Does it have any benefits? I don't think so, but id like some confirmation. The tank I bought was a marine tank, and the lighting box came with 2 black bulbs (the long skinny kind [sorry about my lack of techincal knowledge]) and the main white bulb. Can I replace the black one with a...

ohh, LFS owner didn't say turbulent water was a problem. And yeah, ivehad him for 4 days now. THanks for th info

My african butterflyfish isn't eatin. Why is that? he's in the tank with a bunch of feeder fish. The surface of the water is turbulent, but the lfs owner said that was fine. I dangle the cricket i the water for a second, and then let him float. The ABF is completely unintrested. Sometimes when I...

Whats broken on it? if its just leaking, then it's wicked easy. If the glass is cracked, it's a little harder. Either way, you can fix it yourself. In the case of a leak, just use a razor to remove the offending silicon, than reapply some silicon. Or if the glass is broke, just have a pane cut...