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I would definitely say that looks like ich, stress and the low temperature are usually factors to that getting worse and it spreads very quickly. If you recently added any new fish, it may have come in on them as well. Get a heater in there ASAP, 70° is a pretty low temperature for most tropical...

Looking at more than one website I have seen a wide range of temperatures suggested for either species, the average that I have found by looking at different sources is what I listed in my post. It may not be exact but honestly I don't believe any one website will likely know for sure, either...

I have asked this question many times over the past maybe 5 years of my serious interest in fishkeeping. I have not once gotten more than a half-hearted "I guess." as a response. PLEASE! If anyone has any possible answer, experience, or knows of anyone who might I would very, very much...

I wasn't going to put them in the trunk, probably the back seat of the car. I was thinking maybe I would line the styrofoam with a plastic bag and make a hole in the lid to thread the airline tubing for the airstone through and then just keep it closed so it's dark, stays warm and they get air...

I'm going to be moving and I want to avoid rehoming my fish if at all possible. I am moving in with someone that is a 12, possible 13 hour drive away by car and I can't decide if it would be safer to ship my fish or drive with them. If I drove with them, I could use portable airstones (the type...

Today I set up a 10 gallon tank that I want to move my growing molly fry into so I can get them out of the breeder nets I have been keeping them in, in the parent's tank. I took the new cartridge that I plan to use in this HOB filter and stuck it in the back of the filter on the established...

Nic1, I keep my tank almost at 80 degrees, which is what my heater maintains if I try to adjust the temperature. It either lets the water be 73 or 80 degrees because my last heater I was using I have learned has an exploding problem so I stopped using it. I can't make the water warmer but I have...

The thing is that the specks are completely gone today. They didn't look fluffy or anything like that, they looked like tiny little specks smaller than a grain of table salt but they were brown in color, and they were scattered around just kind of sitting on it as if it had been rolled in dirt...

I have a 55 gallon brackish tank that currently has 4 adult mollies (1M:3F), a dragon goby, 3 baby columbian shark catfish and a bunch of molly fry in breeder nets. About two days ago I was looking at them and I noticed one of my cremesicle mollies had what looked like dust or very fine dirt on...

Thank you all for the responses. I still haven't seen it today so I am pretty sure at this point that it is long gone. I would have thought it was the knife as well at first but the thing is that one of the foods I give are shrimp pellets which are not that big at all, and my ctenopoma chokes on...

I have a 75 gallon freshwater tank with fish including a 3.5" leopard ctenopoma, 3" african featherfin catfish and an approximately 4.5" african brown knifefish. I had a single adult platy that was in the tank as well, because it was a survivor from a columnaris infected tank a while back and I...

You should up the corydoras to a school of 6 is possible, they like bigger groups.

Well, I have always heard that puffers in general are very intelligent (for fish anyways) and the only thing i've heard this called is "boredom". I suppose i'll just keep planning on redoing the decor of the tank and getting some mangroves for it and hope he stops going up and down on the wall...

That second tank with the tea-water.. Did you not soak your driftwood before using it? Honestly, you should take it out, soak it some more in a bucket or in a bathtub with hot water until the water stops darkening, and do water changes to get the dark water out of your tank..  How long has the...

I am very sad to say, but my baby senegal unexpectedly died this evening. It seems my heater is not working correctly and so the water is colder than I normally keep it, but I am really not sure if that contributed.. I'm sure it certainly didn't help. My other fish are still doing well and I re...

I took a look at that website, and just so you know- you should try to avoid those "starter packs", if you saw them. I saw quite a few of them that had schooling fish being included in them by themselves or only in pairs, and one even threw in Bala Sharks (grow over 12", or 30 cm) with small...

It seems that they aren't likely to spawn if you don't have moss or other suitable "nesting" areas for them. If you look up "Boesemani Breeding" and avoid some of the setups they mention, I don't think they will spawn. I may be wrong though, so hopefully someone with a better idea will say...

Maybe add a few smaller round rocks and strategically place them around the tank? I think some darker colored ones would look nice against the sand.

I thought he might be blind but his eyes look normal.. for an albino. They're a perfect clear red, would I be able to tell if he actually was blind? Ninjou, I feed mysis shrimp, bloodworms, brine shrimp, tropical flakes, tetra veggie wafers, the occasional crushed and shelled pea, and shrimp...

About 2 1/2 months ago I brought home a baby Palmas bichir and albino Senegal bichir. I originally had them in a 20 long while I finished cycling my 75 gallon tank, and then moved them over along with my other fish (in my signature). Since they have been in the 75 gallon, my Palmas bichir has...

Bah.... The one thing I didn't notice about the rosy barbs is that they prefer colder water and the warmer water my other fish want would stress them out. Since the weather loaches don't do as well in warm water either, i'm going to hold off on those two.. Which pretty much brings me back to...

What types of fish do you have? In my experience, the "vacation" food blocks you can buy cloud the water up and don't seem to actually feed the fish very well. If you can get a timed feeder, that may work but you should set it up and try it out for a few days in advance to be sure it works and...

I think what I will end up doing is 1x Oscar, 1x Jack Dempsey, 1x Banded Leporinus, 1-3x Sun Catfish and 6-8x Silver Dollars and i'll plan on 280 Gallons (36" wide) and see how that works out. If down the line it starts looking like they need more room, which they probably will, i'll upgrade and...

I was at my LFS yesterday and walking by some tanks when I glanced over and thought.. "Wow! Those are some HUGE cherry barbs!" and then I realized they looked a little odd so I found the tag and they were actually Neon Rosy Barbs, which I had never heard of before. These get up to 6" compared to...

Dropsy isn't actually a disease or something you can cure, it is more a symptom of the last stages of organ failure. When you can recognize that it is occuring, generally it is too late to fix anything. Sorry. :( The only way to prevent it from happening again is to make sure you take very good...

I have been looking at Oscar fish for a while now and though I never really thought I would like them, they are starting to sound a lot more appealing the more I read. I have been thinking of setting up a tank for one and adding a couple other large fish to go with it that would be more or less...

Okay, from what I am understanding.. The spotted pictus I mentioned only grows to about an average of 5" or a little less, so my main question for that is would they be safe to keep with Boesemani Rainbowfish, Pearl Gourami and Weather Loach(es)? The first two grow to about 4", the gourami maybe...

I apologize for my long posts, I've gotten complaints about not using paragraphs before (not here) so I am a little paranoid and space things out a lot, and I also ramble a bit. Sorry!    After finally accepting that I couldn't have the Boesemani Rainbowfish I adore for another tank, i've...

If you mean your tank is at 1.002 s.g, that isn't enough salt at all for your puffer. The cichlids you have (going by your profile) should not be kept in the much saltier water that your puffer needs. Young GSP 2" or larger should be in 1.008-1.018 s.g, and adults in 1.018 - marine. Are the fins...

You said there are other fish in the tank also.. Is this a brackish tank or freshwater...? Only baby GSP should be kept in freshwater and if yours is an adult that could be why it is showing these symptoms.

(sorry, i've got kind of a lot of them. I've done some pretty stupid things over the years)   I've made the mistake of trying to keep a goldfish in a bowl, as well as bettas.   When I was about 8, I went out and dug a hole in the middle of the lawn, cut open a black trash bag and lined the hole...

The monos and scats need brackish water to thrive and if they are no longer babies but are still in freshwater, they will have very weak immune systems and will have a much shorter lifespan. Also both argenteus and sebae monos are schooling fish and should be in odd numbered groups, 5 or 7...

I see from some of your other posts that you have other freshwater fish as well, right? Maybe add a little water from your established tank, or a plant, a handful of gravel etc just to be on the safe side since the tank is still pretty new. I'm not a fan of live food myself but if you wanted to...

Dang... If that's the case, he's going to need to be moved into a different tank when my African knife and bichir get bigger. Are there other angels you can think of that don't grow as much so I know when i'm next in the market for them? Or other specific ones that grow more quickly? I didn't...

They are in a 75 gallon tank, their tankmates are in my signature. All of the fish right now are currently very small, though my black angel not growing is a bit worrysome because of the predatory fish I have. So far none are bothering it but I will feel better when it starts showing some growth. 

A month or so ago I purchased very small angelfish from the same store, and same tank actually. All the angels were the same size and I didn't notice anything noticeably different between them all, but now it seems one of mine may be a veil Angelfish? I have been feeding them both the same...

He's only really happy at feeding time, he goes crazy until it's gone or he's got a big round belly, but he calms down soon after. I feed him whole krill, mysis shrimp, bloodworms, and occasionally brine shrimp and shrimp pellets. I'm really not a fan of feeding live anything and i'd really...

He may have learned incorrectly too and since no one has told him any differently he assumed everything was good. I have had very well meaning people tell me things before about pets and I took their word for it for the longest time until I found out I was wrong. I honestly suggest you upgrade...