Fish - March 2007

I have found some simple ways to help betta eat. Try shaking his food at the top of the tank(MAKE SURE LID IS TIGHT)then if he swims to the top try feeding him 4 pellets that is what worked with mine hope i helped

2007-03-02 03:39:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im not sure what I want to get. I want both!!! But I know I cant since gs are freshwater and fiddler crabs are freshwater. Which would be the simplest setup and cheepest to maintain? How many could I have for a 10 gallon

2007-03-02 03:09:23 · 3 answers · asked by Skittles 4

i have a 20gallon fish tank and want to change it from freshwater to brakish water and need a step by step to start it out and maybe a few tips to maintain it

2007-03-02 03:02:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My cichlids had about 100 babies. I didn't even know they had been mating. As I was unprepaired for this I don't know know what to do from here. My question is, Will the parents eat or kill the babies? Should I remove the babies from the tank or leave them as they are?

2007-03-02 02:55:49 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-02 02:55:47 · 12 answers · asked by Sherry B 1

do cats have sex like humans

2007-03-02 02:53:56 · 23 answers · asked by [x]...Chlo Chlo...[x] 1

i have a 120 gallon community tank which consists of tiger barb, green barb, clown loach, pakistani loach, catfish, angelfish and gourami. i want to add 1 male siamese fighting fish. would that be ok or would it be a problem?

2007-03-02 02:49:19 · 16 answers · asked by dtj_m 1

2007-03-02 02:12:49 · 11 answers · asked by Loren G 1

Special floor lights at night
Fish pond under floor

2007-03-02 02:02:38 · 6 answers · asked by ct2bgd 1

just wondering if i change the water like every week or every other week, if there will be enough oxygen for both of them to live, or am i just gonna kill alot of fish?

2007-03-02 01:09:56 · 17 answers · asked by forgetforlornforeverforgive 2

my daughters platty has been pregnant for what seems like forever. her gravid spot has become very large and dark. i have noticed though her belly is starting to get bigger. does she sound close to term? im just not sure when to put her into breeding net.

2007-03-02 01:09:38 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

i was just wondering if anyone new if i could put my beta in a warm water tropical tank or do they like cold water better will they fight with my other fish or should he be in a big tank all by himself i tryed the little tanks but i found they got dirty too quick without a filter any answers

2007-03-01 23:27:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-01 23:25:33 · 28 answers · asked by erin w 1

2007-03-01 19:24:51 · 8 answers · asked by sagar kiran v 1

I have a 44 gallon tank, 3 goldfish, and extremely cloudy water, you almost cant see the fish! it has been set up for just over 3 weeks. water tests show high pH and high ammonia, i bought every product known to man to fix these, it seemed to go down a little, but is still cloudy? it is a freshwater tank, and i am getting soo frustrated! The petstore told me to stop doing water changes until it settles?! any suggestions?

2007-03-01 17:30:06 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

My betta fish Murphy was rescued from Wal-Mart by my mother and sister-in-law and given to me as a Christmas present. I've attempted the "mirror experiment" several times to illicit a response from him, and he never gives me one! He either ignores the mirror completely or glances at it and swims away.

I have him in a one gallon desktop aquarium with a golden apple snail. I've had him for over 2 months and he seems to be doing fine--good color, nice fins, active, all that. He even occasionally pecks at Mookie (my snail.) Their water is changed weekly and I always make sure the water temp is where it's supposed to be.

What's wrong with my fish? Is non-aggression a personality trait that some bettas possess or should I be worried?

2007-03-01 17:06:48 · 10 answers · asked by Jennie V 1

I have a plescostomus and two fantail gold fish in a tank, I only recently put the pleco in there, which there was some algae so he's been eating that. I just put in one of those sinking algae disks and the goldfish are going after it.... Is that okay for the goldfish?

2007-03-01 16:44:45 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Other than at a petshop or in the middle of the ocean.

2007-03-01 16:04:32 · 17 answers · asked by Mark 1

Last night, i turned the light off in my tank and sat and watched for a while. I could here this clicking noise. Then out of my live rock come a worm looking thing, it was about the thickness of a piece of wool and looked weird.

Does anyone have any idea what it is and if it is bad.

2007-03-01 16:03:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have a few platies that look like they are getting fatter(pregnant?) and i have read tons about gravid spots but i'm still not sure exactly where they start. i know they look like crescent moons. 4 out of 5 look like they have crescent moons that start close to the anal fin but go all the way up teir backs. anyone know where i can find a picture of a gravid spot or if you are sure this is it let me know. thank you so much. p.s. i did have 10 platies and the others had none but i think may have been killed off by my male. it is pretty big so is that a possibility too? i am assuming this is the male because it is the only one without a dark crescent moon type thing. lol...sorry for all the questions but i love asking questions on this site.

2007-03-01 15:55:07 · 2 answers · asked by mrsimmons@rogers.com 1

i already have ghost shrimp and a snail

2007-03-01 15:50:30 · 12 answers · asked by aj 4

the shrimp pellets seem to be very messy and most of it just settles into the gravel, i also feed them sinking algae disks, but i dont feel like they are satified with just this, they may occasional get some flake fish food but that is mostly eaten before reaching the bottom

2007-03-01 15:49:38 · 6 answers · asked by aj 4

i have a 55gl aquarium!

2007-03-01 15:42:16 · 6 answers · asked by Darkness 2

He is turning 26 and I thought I would get him a Betta fish. I have had one for a year now and I love it. He babysat mine when I went on vacation last summer and I think he really liked it. Should I get him one of his own all set up with a tank for his birthday?

2007-03-01 15:34:35 · 21 answers · asked by cutie pie 5

Are you supposed to put water in the bowl? My plumber said I don't have to.

2007-03-01 15:31:46 · 13 answers · asked by Olpy I. Gunther 1

2007-03-01 15:23:29 · 1 answers · asked by harvardbabe 2

I had a 120 LT mixed African tank and before i moved them to the 400LT i had noticed, on occasions, that the fish would scratch against the sand.

I started searching the inet for information and the closest that could describe it was Ich. But the problem was besides the scratching the showed no other symptoms.

Fortunately and after an article i found on this site it was probably water parameters since i am now monitoring them closely and I don’t have any scratching going on in the new tank.

However having read the what can happen if your fish catch Ich (Or any other disease for that matter) i am concerned.
Is it worth setting up a UV on the system? I have heard controversy opinions on this subject.

2007-03-01 15:22:55 · 8 answers · asked by liuzi 1

My fish tanks problems, have spanned several weeks and questions here, and therefore the whole story is rather long, all the details I have posted here for reference:

http://bbb.quadratec.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=46;t=000221

The bulk of my new question is here:

Finally getting smart, I figured maybe my tank was never cycling as much as I was changing the water, so I've just left it alone for about a week now. (I haven't done any water changes since the change to the 20 gallon tank). It’s been a little over a week so I had the water checked today:

Chlorine - 0
Ammonia - 0.5
Nitrate - 20
Nitrite - 10
Hardness - 75
Alkalinity - 80
pH - 7.8

Since my Nitrate and Nitrites are finally testing something other than zero, I assume this means my tank is finally beginning to cycle? How do these levels look for week and half old tank roughly? Should I do anything, or wait it out longer and see what the water checks in another week?

Thanks in advance!

2007-03-01 15:11:47 · 5 answers · asked by mr5oh 3

how many days will they go without fish food?

2007-03-01 14:55:59 · 10 answers · asked by bobby s 1

where can i find live black worms to feed a pet fish?

2007-03-01 14:54:03 · 2 answers · asked by STEALTH NINJA 2