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While cleaning the tank today, i noticed one of my fish was bent (a harlequin rasbora) I've had them for a few months now, and only just noticed, but without seeing them from the top and the filter off you can't see it, so it may have been around for ages, I dunno... Just wanted to check see...

My flame gourami is going through the same stages as the last one I had (a few months ago, different tank) He is sitting in the corner of the tank up at the surface, breathing heavily. All my other fish are fine, and I had my water tested today (it was fine, showed 80 for hardness, whatever that...

Haha I would love to see a picture of that fish with a plant on its head!

When should the mum be put in a breeding trap? My GF has had her guppy in one for a couple of days now because it looks close to birthing.

I have the 4+ in a 90L tank. It is a big filter, but very quiet and the current isn't too strong for the fish. As the others said, since the U's are out, the + are very cheap! Worth a look if you can find one. But to answer your question, get the U3. Seeing as I have the 4 in my tank and it...

Thats what I figured with the digital ones... I figured the glass one would be the most accurate, being that its such old technology it must be doing something right to still be used! but even that one was cheap... i got it while my GF borred the digital one.

I don't have one of them. Are digital ones normally accurate? I don't know how complicated it is to make it accurate, but either way - the thermometers show 25 and 23 degrees, and I'm going for 24 so I guess that's good?

I have 3 thermometers, a stick on, cheapo digital one and a cheap glass tube one, but they all say different temperatures. Which one would be the most accurate?

I'm a little paranoid because I don't want the rest of my fish to get sick (expensive to replace!) so I thought I may as well make sure my new Gourami's behaviour is normal. I got him yesterday, its a Flame gourami. He hides a lot, which I expected, but I just came into the room and saw him in...

Going from the advice I get from LFS in Australia, there is no certification at all! I think your best bet is to just work for a LFS to get an idea of how things work, gain both business and fish knowledge before opening up your own. It would be important to know how to run a successful fish...

Should he quarantine it if possible?

BN attacking each other is quite normal - so you will have to follow blue's advice

Yeah, you're right. I just copied a list of compatible stuff and added clown loaches. i dont have first hand experience in it, just going by what I have read from other people. as far as adding fish, you can add up to 4 small fish (tetras, rasboras and the like) a week, or 1 larger fish - the...

I have a used tank, which has been fine for the 2 months I've had it. Fish are relaxing to watch, but I've found a bit stressful because I keep worrying that they're a bit sick, or that the water isn't good them... I worry like this because I came into buying fish with no knowledge, so killed a...

I missed out on a couple of fish because they didn't have it, but your tank will be way overstocked once the fish grow up...

Did you clean the tank with chemicals or anything?

My girlfriend had a spiral shell in her tank, she lost 2 fish who swam up it and couldnt turn around to get back out! Once we figured out the problem we stuffed the shell with glad wrap so it wouldnt happen again! Shame about your loach, hope you find him!

I am tossing up which one of these fish to buy - either common or peppermint (L183) bristlenose. I don't want my fish to hide so I never see them, but I have heard that peppermints are timid and hide a lot. Does anyone have experience with them, and are they generally more scared than common BN?

I want to lower it because everything I read about my fish says they should be at around 7 - 7.5 is right at the top or what they like. If stable is better, then I suppose all is good!

I looked into this as well a while ago, and the internet said don't do it. Corys and tiger barbs don't mix. I havn't had first hand experience with it though, just going off my research when I was finding out what to stock my tank with.

Lately my tank has had PH of about 7.4-7.5, and I think it's the substrate. I have Richgro playsand from Bunnings (hardware store), which I read online was inert so wouldn't change the PH. I just tested then in small containers, my tap water is about 7.2, and the container with playsand did...

In my old 30 litre tank, I had 7 pygmy cories. I first bought 4, and they swam around everywhere and were great. Then I went back to the shop and bought the rest (only 3 more) and once I put them in, the fish stopped swimming and sat in the furthest corner all the time. They were in there for a...

http://www.fishlore.com/fishforum/general-discussion-archive/4729-melafix-alert-labyrinth-fish-all-please-read.html Apparently Melafix shouldn't be used for gouramis - I dont have any first hand experience with it, but I did remember reading this about it a few weeks ago. Maybe that has...

When I first got some cories I was told by my LFS that they won't survive on algae wafers. They need protein in their food, so make sure you feed them other foods as well as algae. I wouldn't worry about it causing algae though, they're quite a popular food for fish. At worst, you can stop...

Just from looking at pics on google it looks much more like rabauti than a bronze... rabauti have the same black stripe that goes all the way around the front, bronze dont.

This morning the spot on my hastatus cory was much brighter than normal, and one of his eyes was yellow-ish rather than the black it normally is. After swimming a bit, his colour has come back completely. Anyone know why this happened?

how would the pygmy corys translate? is 8 of them and 4 normal sized ones OK? What is the effect on them if you have too many for the tank's floorspace?

Right now I have a 30litre tank, with a 90litre one cycling. It should be ready in a couple days. The 90l floor is 30" x 12" I have one panda, bandit, and sterbai and 8 hastatus corys in my 30l (nothing else) I bought a panda and sterbai before I knew you couldn't mix different species, but once...