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It's illegal to culture mosquitoes in most countries but if you have containers of water outside under a tree or in the garden, and a few leaves fall in them, you often get mozzie larvae in the containers. You should scoop the mozzie larvae out and feed them to the fish so they can't turn into...

You can use any rock or wood for an aquarium to provide an area for the turtle to climb out onto. If you can't afford a UV light yet, take the turtle outside and let it suntan for 10-30 minutes each day. Avoid the middle of the day unless it's really cold. You can set up a kiddy wading pool or...

It could be the colour of the sand vs the colour of the gravel. If the sand is white and there are no floating plants, it will be too bright for them and they will hang out on darker coloured substrate instead. You could try watching the fish after lights out and see if they use the sand then...

Put them in a pond and breed them while you can. If you wait, something could happen and then you won't be able to breed them.

You don't have enough blue light. Plants need equal parts red and blue light and you need to increase the blue to 30% like the red is. I would also decrease the warm white to 30% and increase the pure white to 30%.

Chlorine/ Bleach will break down biofilm. You can also bleach, then rinse, then soak with vinegar. The vinegar dissolves some biofilm and various bacteria. Alcohol (60%+) can be used as a final clean up to kill anything that survived the bleach and vinegar. Plastic items can be bleached and...

Don't put food in his cave, put it out in the open so he has to come out for it. If you put it in his cave he won't need to come out and you are trying to encourage him out into the open. Another option is adding some dither fish. These are smaller peaceful fishes that live in groups and move...

They will be fine. Just do a couple of things a few days before you go. Clean the filter a few days before you go so it's clean and won't block up while you're away. Do a water change a few days before you go. Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the...

Is it too humid or too warm for them? Most frogs eat their skin after shedding, waste not want not. mmm crispy skin, I mean soft mushy skin. Call a zoo and see if they have a herpetologist on staff.

Fish can become skittish if the water quality is bad or has the wrong chemistry (pH, KH and GH), or if they aren't use to people being around them. Test the water quality (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate) and post the results in numbers here. Check the pH and GH too. Make sure the temperature is...

the gremlins got them 👻 the emoji is a ghost but is the closest I can get to a gremlin :(

How long has the tank been set up for? How long have you had the fish for? Have you changed anything in the aquarium in the last few days? Is the water quality good (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH)? Maybe post a video showing the entire tank and the fish surfing. You can upload videos to...

I assume you change the water in their enclosure on a regular basis? Make sure their tank is clean so they don't get bacterial infections. Have lots of variety in their diet, not just fruit flies. Frogs travel long distances searching for food and water so an aquarium isn't going to be too big...

As long as you eat healthy most of the time, do regular exercise, avoid smoking and alcohol, and keep your stress down, I don't think the odd burger would hurt too much, maybe once or thrice a year. The problems occur if you eat the ones from the fast food shops on a regular basis. Home made...

Yeah Maccas is short for McDonalds. HJ's is short for Hungry jacks (aka Burger King in the US). I will ignore the food too because I'm unable to tolerate dairy or wheat & gluten, which covers more than half the food in a Maccas cheeseburger.

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50 cents for a Macca's cheeseburger. That's 49 cents more than they are worth.

Red lines are usually caused by a bacterial infection. Need pictures to make a more informed identification but clean water and a broad spectrum medication might help.

Congratulations on finishing school 🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉 Now you can start working more to make money to buy your fish tank :) Don't get a custom tank though, they usually cost more than a standard tank and have no resale value after if you ever want to get rid of it. Just get a standard tank that is close...

it's good isn't it :) add it to our fuplie list.

This is an oldish thread from last year and hasn't been responded to by the op but UV light shouldn't make fish sterile unless they are kept under really intense UV light. Fish get UV light when outside in the sun and most ponds are in sunlight for most of the day, especially those in Asian fish...

That's a fairly accurate assessment of most things sold by shops. They are made to break and most things are inefficient while you wait for them to break. Look at the internal combustion engine. It hasn't changed much over 100 years and cars today use nearly as much fuel as they did 50 years...

LOL, don't you love that feeling :) I used to cycle as my main form of transport and used a backpack to bring fish home. Sometimes the bags leaked and a wet back is not something you want when carry fish home in a backpack :)

Their GH is about 250ppm KH is about 55ppm. pH is 7.0 it should be fine for mollies.

Post some pictures and maybe a video of the remaining fish so we can check them for disease.

You don't need carbon in a filter unless there are toxic chemicals or heavy metals in your water supply. And if that is the case, you should filter the water through carbon before using it in an aquarium or drinking it. As for your question, you can have as much or as little carbon in a filter...

Maybe the wood had some air trapped in it and when it was out of water a small amount mixed with moisture on the wood and blew something that looked like steam. Maybe a fungus releasing spores. No idea really. Pity you didn't get a video, would have been rather cool to watch.

Basic First Aid For Fish Test the water for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH. You really need to find out what the ammonia level is. If there is no ammonia, then there is something bad going on. Wipe the inside of the glass down with a clean fish sponge. This removes the biofilm on the glass...

The fluffy stuff on the driftwood is black beard algae. The stuff on the rock could be black beard and blue green. Lights that have too much red colour spectrum can encourage Cyanobacteria. Having lights with a 6500K rating is fine but if the light has a 3000K-4500K then it has too much red. If...

I can't watch the video, I have the time line on the bottom but no picture :( As long as the fish is healthy and the tank is clean, it could be exploring the tank (depending on how long you have had it for). If it responds to food that's a good sign.

It's preferable to only have one species of loach per tank and to keep them in groups consisting of at least 6 (preferably 10+) individuals. Having two species that are different sizes will usually cause problems to the smaller more peaceful species.

The nitrate results are false. Nitrate test kits read nitrite as nitrate and give you a false reading. Don't bother testing for nitrates until the ammonia and nitrite have both gone up and then come back down to 0ppm. Then start testing for nitrates.

Most pygmy angels are nice enough but they are all territorial so try to have one species per tank and one male and a female or a male and a couple of females if they are ok in groups and you can sex them. Not all pygmy angels can be sexed and some live in pairs while others have a harem...

This is what Adrian Tappin wrote in his Rainbowfish ebook pdf document about cleaning out tanks that had Fish TB. Rainbowfishes - Their care & keeping in captivity By Adrian R. Tappin Second Edition - Copyright 2011, Art Publications pages 533-534 Mycobacterium (Fish TB) In most situations...

Gravel and rocks can be cooked in the oven at 100C for 30 minutes to kill anything on them. You can also boil them. Plastic items can be bleached for a few hours to a day if you like and will be fine. Just rinse well after bleaching. Plastic type sponges are usually fine but polyurethane foam...

Bent spines are a common genetic defect in inbred fish, but can also be a sign of Fish TB.

if they are deformed they should be euthanised by the breeder.

The chart is confusing. Going across the chart, one side it says 1FH = 0.1ppm but going down it says 1FH = 10ppm When I did 50 x 1.785 (the dGH number) it came up with 89.25ppm I'm confused

Need to find a central American cichlid group and see if they can ID it. But if it's a hybrid, you won't have much luck.

Try to get a sump that is at least half the length of the main display tank (eg: 3ft long x 12inch wide x 15-18 inches high). A bigger sump would be even better. This will give you more water volume. Can you get a bigger tank or are you limited to space? An aquarium that is 15 inches high x 12...