Fish - April 2007

I would like more colorful fish in my tank.

2007-04-30 04:37:10 · 5 answers · asked by independentwoman1st 2

Just throwing this out there as a poll. I had a fresh water aquarium once. Fish sat there ate sat there ate... wasnt enough to hold my attention. My salt water though the fish fight me for the food had a grouper chase some food out of the tank as well as the actual personalities each fish has. Why waste money on fresh water? So in my supreme opinion fresh waters not worth it.

2007-04-30 04:35:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I picked up a middle aged Calico Walking Catfish this weekend. He's a freaking awesome hyperactive monster.

I got him acclimated after a day or so... 80 degrees was way too hot for him... 75 seems much more his style.

Anyways... I let him out of his acclimating cage & he's doing battle with the adult convict cichlids in the tank. I plan on moving them out to a new tank I'm cycling right now, but I'm just curious how they would fare in a prolonged fight? They are antagonistic to each other.... He'll go steal some babies & run away. They'll sneak up behind him when he lays down to rest / sulk & nip his abdomen.

It doesn't look like the convicts are strong enough to do any damage to him (since he's like 5x their size), and he's too slow to catch them when he goes after them most of the time. I know they say convicts can take down oscars several times their size... howabout this meanie?

2007-04-30 02:34:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-30 02:10:07 · 7 answers · asked by harley 1

For my friends birthday i'm getting her a beta fish.

I've had one before but that was a long time ago and he died =[

but i see those poor fish in the store in those little cups of gross water and i wonder how do they survive in somethign like that...

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How big should the tank be for one of them.
And do they need a heater??

2007-04-30 02:04:10 · 9 answers · asked by Kaley D 3

I have 3 marble mollies and 3 balloon mollies - I bought the balloon mollies only yesterday, and have today noticed that one of the marble mollies is constantly 'chasing' the balloon mollies.. kinda pushes them along, and is around the side/underbelly of the balloon mollies... what's the marble molly doing?

2007-04-30 02:01:44 · 6 answers · asked by Shazza 2

In the pet store they lookd as if they were fairly aggressive are they going to bother my betta?

2007-04-30 02:01:33 · 6 answers · asked by ian s 3

2007-04-30 02:00:15 · 13 answers · asked by Ryan c 1

I used to have a heater in my Aquarium but I took it out cause one of my goldfish burned himself on it and was darting around smashing into the sides of the tank. Since I don't have it in there he's fine now. Do I really need one or do i need a certain water temperature to avoid putting a heater in. One is a standard Goldfish the other is a Red fantailed Goldfish

2007-04-30 01:30:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-30 00:44:16 · 3 answers · asked by khaled3422 1

2007-04-30 00:04:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I got a new goldfish a while ago and didn't QT him. To get straight to the point he brought some nasty, nasty ich to my tank that whipped out all my other goldfish in about a week. I bought some medication. but it sucked.
He is my last fish left and he is in now in a medicine tank. I change at least 25% of his water a day split Quick-cure dosage to two drops in the morning and two drops at night (he is in a 5-6 gallon tank i'm guessing).
Right now his mouth is super red and it looks like he has skin flaking off of his head. His eyes are cloudy. The other goldfish died from the salt grain ich. His looks different though. I ordered another medication online that's suppose to treat everything from fungus to ich. in case something else is going on.
He won't eat.. he's too sick.. my question is.. how long can he go without eating? He last ate a little over a week ago. What should I do? He seems to be swimming around a bit more instead of staying at the bottom.Is he getting better?

2007-04-29 23:59:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have one big tank of lenght 4 height 2 width 1 ft..and ihave 15 goldfsh in my aquarium of all size...and also tiger shark of small size..from many days but only my black moore dies everytime when i bring it. there is also small gold fish in comparison to black moore in the same tank..all gold fish never fights ..they all live peacefully ....

2007-04-29 22:17:34 · 3 answers · asked by kapil r 1

its a 3 week old 4 ft tank it has 8 plattys and a ship in it, i recently had a ph level of 4 and this morning when i saw the fish i thought he was dead cause he was sitting at the bottom on the tank not moving and kinda curved over, when i tried to pick him up he slowly sucked the rocks and moved away on his side. i kept him in there to see if he is just being silly and i notice his gills are a little pinkish, becuase he is at the bottom he is not eating and hasnt really moved all day except to move his eyes and fins, anything you can telll me would be great .

2007-04-29 21:07:21 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

what fish will go with a purple dottyback, clown goby - green, 2 tomatoe clowns, clown goby - yellow , and 2 tomato clownS?
i have tons of rock
thanks~~~

2007-04-29 18:22:59 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

One of our colubian sharks sadly died on friday. I had a sneaky suspicion it was going to; all it did was lay on the bottom of the tank and moved only once in a while. His flesh was really dark too. Now, our second one is just laying on the bottom of the tank. It's flesh looks fine; it's still a nice silver but it's not very mobile. All the other fish seem fine.
Does anyone have any idea how to tell when they're sick? or what I can do to make sure it survives? Should I go brackish now?

2007-04-29 18:20:32 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have HBH betta bites. There must be something better. I wanna have what's best for my bettas!

2007-04-29 17:52:02 · 12 answers · asked by Movie.Junkie 2

2007-04-29 17:45:45 · 8 answers · asked by hockey 2

There are small white dots in my female's tank. she is kept with a crowntail in a one gal(seperated). are they eggs?

2007-04-29 17:13:06 · 4 answers · asked by Shadow(betta boy) 2

Its black and pretty big. But so is the bowl.
I think it is a type of goldfish... but im not sure.

2007-04-29 16:49:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-29 16:30:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I went to PetCo and Petsmart, they are wanting like $200+ for a 29 gallon acryllic fishtank.

This seems pretty high to me, I see some places on the internet advertizing 49 gallon tanks for the same price... but none of them seem to have 'mail order' or 'internet order' just through their stores...

Anyone have any ideas on places on the internet I can order a fishtank in the 150$ range? Gonna be using it for fancy goldfish so 10 to 15 gallons per fish.

2007-04-29 16:26:50 · 6 answers · asked by Ozymandias 5

So my fiance has a betta in a small tank that I bought her a while back. The little guy is great, has a filter and heater, builds his little bubble nest. The thing is, she doesn't like the gravel I picked out. She wants to know if she can use buttons. She has a whole bunch that used to be her grandmother's and wants to use them insteas of gravel. There is plenty to cover the bottom as well as the rocks do, but would it be safe?

my concerns are coatings on the buttons, are there any? If so is there any way to get it off? Would using buttons as a substrate harm the fish in anyway?

2007-04-29 15:56:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have some brown algae growing on my breeding net which holds a bunch of platy fry... can this hurt them?? Is there an amount I should watch for which may be dangerous to them eventually??

2007-04-29 15:51:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

When sarcophyton and/or lobophytum, shed can the waxy mucus harm other corals? I know that the water flow needs to be good and this causes the shedded material to flow throughout the aquarium... Also, I have heard that leathers can have a negative impact on stony corals, is this true? Thanks so much!

2007-04-29 15:00:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just bought two green spotted puffer fish from Wal-mart. I realize that they're barick fish so they need both fresh and salt water. I just changed them out of my bigger tank because I have guppies in the other one. Anyway, now they're swimming around crazy? Could this possibly mean that they're dying? Or is there something I can do to correct this?

2007-04-29 14:57:13 · 2 answers · asked by J 2

alright so bought the 40 gallon corner tank its set up and cycling. Im putting my swordtails in, not sure how many will stay in there but im gonna sell one gender, so there wont b any more than 10 or so

so after its all cycled and the swordtail situation is figured out, does nayone have any suggestions to fill out the other levels of the tank with fish?

2007-04-29 14:55:38 · 2 answers · asked by Skittles 4

Well there were 4, now there's only one. Somehow the other 3 escaped the breeder trap. Anyway, how long should I let the new Mommy sit in the trap? I feel bad and I want to let her out, but I don't know how long it will take to have all of the babies, if there are any more.

2007-04-29 14:41:38 · 4 answers · asked by munkees81 6

I have 2 Silver Arowana in my 75 gallon tank. Having read a previous article about arowana jumping, I need help in Arowana behavior. I know what is legal and not so please give me educated answers. I have done extensive reading up on them, but I cannot find any articles on thier particular behavior patterns. My bigger one is almost a foot long now, and prefers to eat Rosies. The smaller one is about eight inches long, and prefers crickets. There are two decent sized oscars in there with them, an Irian Jaya Tiger barb, 2 7 inch Irid sharks, one good sized lavendar Gourami, male, and an assortment of pleco's and cat's for cleaning. The bigger one looks like he is having speed races back and forth in the aquarium, and the smaller one looks sick. He will move around, but sometimes will sit dormant at the top. Ammonia level reading of .2 and nitrite at .3. I cannot seem to get it to zero. Advice? Please be very specific.

2007-04-29 14:36:23 · 3 answers · asked by I am Legend 7

2007-04-29 14:33:30 · 5 answers · asked by vo_dn 1