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Thank you! The only thing I haven't done is the salt yet. I now know what is happening with the rainbowfish. I saw my electric blue acara go at his back twice. So much for a more docile cichlid! It is only about 2 inches. I also saw it go after another rainbow. It does not like the turquoise...

Thank you for your responses!

I think you may be right. I was doing a water change and able to get some better pictures from above him. Should I put stress guard in the tank to help prevent infections?

I am hoping someone has some information on wether this is tress related or illness. It is the only fish in the tank with any sign of anything wrong. A few days ago, I had to remove a fish because of increasing aggression, which put the tank into some stress. This fish was hiding for a couple...

That is what mine look like in the other aquariums. I think I am just going to replace the sponge filter so this doesn't spread. The worst smell seems to be coming from it. Hopefully with the small number of fish I have right now, the sponge in the Aquaclear will be enough until the other seeds.

Thank you both! Do you think since I have the Aquaclear 110 also running with the spongefor it plus a sponge from my 55 cut in half in the media basket, I could just remove the old sponge filter? Would the Aquaclear sponges be enough? Nitrates are low I'm sure because I am building up the...

Everything else seems fine. Fish are active and eating, ammonia and nitrites 0, nitrates 5. 3 of the rings were right at the water line, but the others weren't. I never would gave thought anything was wrong until the smell. The water itself doesn't smell whe the tank lid is opened.

This is the filter and the bio rings that were affected.

I have had aquariums for a few years. I have a 10, 20 and 55 gallon aquarium in addition to the 125. My other aquariums don't have this. Just the normal brown color and smells you mentioned. The smell is like mildew you would have in a shower or something that didn't dry out completely. The...

I was cleaning out some clogging on my Aquaclear 110 intake tubes and noticed it smelled like mildew. There are a few bio rings that have mildew spots on them. My air driven sponge filter came from a lfs to jump start my cycle when first setting up the aquarium. It is a 125 gallon with fish...

Here is my 55 gallon fake planted tank. We have such hard water, I have never attempted live plants. The fish don't seem to mind though. It has been running with fish for about 7 months after a 2 month fishless cycle. I do 50% water changes every 2 weeks. Ammonia and nitrites are always 0 ppm...

Thank you! I was worried something bad was happening.

That sounds good. Thank you!

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What do I do about it?

Hi. I am fishless cycling a 125 gallon tank. It was started using a cycled sponge filter and a cycled 2nd sponge in my new AC 110 filter. I'm about 4 weeks in. The ammonia is 0 ppm and nitrite is at about 2 ppm in 24 hours. The tank is on the 5th ammonia dose. Yesterday I noticed the airline had...

This is my Kribensis that lives in my 55 gallon community tank. I think it is a female due to the pink area that appears occasionally. Maybe? I haven't decided on a name yet. Tank mates are 3 dalmation mollies, 2 silver lyretail mollies, 6 serpae tetras, 5 silver tipped tetras, 3 green lantern...

This is one of two Pygmy Corydoras in my son's 10 gallon tank with 6 platys and 2 nerite snails. They are a lot of fun to watch swim around and "play". The one in the contest especially loves to swim up and down quickly in the tank. Unless it is in the little cave or resting up against the...

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I love photography too. Here are some of my favorites taken with my Canon 7D mk II.

This is River, our 7 year old Australian Shepherd. She hates having her picture taken unless she doesn't realize it is being done, as you can tell from the picture with the note. River loves to go hiking and play in the stream. She also loves to be around the sheep and goats. She is a very...