Fish - April 2007

I am getting 1 betta. I need one more companion. So far, I thinking of a Olive Nerite snail, which doesn't reproduce in freshwater tanks. Think this is a good idea, or tell me yours. (or both.)

2007-04-03 09:59:51 · 4 answers · asked by ???????? 1

2007-04-03 09:57:34 · 9 answers · asked by z_huh 1

I put a fungus killer in my fishtank yesterday. I took my snail out before I did and kept him out for about 3 hours. How long should I keep him out? I looked at him today and he's sitting on the floor of the tank and is kind of half way closed and doesn't look like he's moving. I think he may have died :(

2007-04-03 09:49:05 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm trying to hook-up an undergravel filter using an air pump. I bought the tank used but I have the air pump, the air tube, an airstone. I can't get the tube to go through the top of the riser on the undergravel filter. No websites go into detail about how it works and I got the filter without directions. What do I do to make the filter...work??

2007-04-03 09:48:31 · 4 answers · asked by rhi(09)ler 3

is there any other way to make a male blow a bubble nest beside taking another males bubbles because none of my other males are blowing bubbles.

2007-04-03 09:48:07 · 3 answers · asked by michael h 1

I keep many mollies, and have previously had successfull births of numerous fishies, but I can never really tell they are pregnant until I see the little guys!!! I would like to capture them in a small tank to help them in their survival (not getting eaten by mom and dad). How do I tell if they are pg or are birthing????

2007-04-03 09:46:42 · 3 answers · asked by Deb 3

My sister has a betta and she doesn't pay much attention to him and sometimes will go a few months between cleaning his bowl. I have 3 goldfish and was wondering if he could go in my tank with them. I used to have a betta in a tropical tank and had no problems. I know that bettas are warm water and goldfish are cold water, could that be a problem? I don't use a heater and my tank is usually around 70 degrees.

Thanks!

2007-04-03 09:46:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

These are tropical tanks that have been up for 5-6 years. All are well below the established rate of 1'' of fish per gallon of water. Nitrates, nitrites and ammonia are all at zero. I use seachem alkaline and acid buffers at every water change at the rate of 25% every two weeks. One tank is an african knife tank w/ raphaels and one clown. One is an angel tank, one is a parrot tanl w/ albino cats, then I have a 40 gallon w/ 4 silver dollars and lace cats. All tanks test the same.

2007-04-03 09:40:08 · 6 answers · asked by Me 7

I don't know whats happening. My tank is so cloudy today. I did a fifty percent water change the previous day, since it was a little cloudy, and it turned clear again. today i wake up and its ten times cloudier!!!! My water has been getting cloudy very quickly ever since i cleaned out my filters really well. I'm not going to change half the water again, since it only makes the tank mre cloudy the next day. I used the right amount of top water deoxifier. What can i do? Is my tank done for?

2007-04-03 09:14:24 · 7 answers · asked by rybka 3

I bought a pretty large bag of "Green Flake" fish food which is supposedly top of the line. I have had it since November 06. My question does this type of food ever go bad and if so when? I don't want to be feeding my fish bad food.

2007-04-03 09:09:07 · 4 answers · asked by ccmd00d 1

I have a 20 gal. freshwater, 3 fish, had tank for about 5 weeks, upon initial setup, got 2 (mollies) fish, cycled fine, 2 weeks later, got 1 (molly) fish, cycled fine, left for work one day a week ago with crystal clear water, came home to extremely cloudy water, did 2 15% water changes in the 4 weeks prior, have done multiple since, no change, have tried treatments, conditioners, etc, still no change, current conditions in tank are: ammonia 6, and PH (did a test, came out yellow, color not on measuring card) if i had to guess would say about 5 and tank is 75F . I am new to all of this, just trying to keep fish alive, any help or suggestions would be grateful.

2007-04-03 09:06:38 · 3 answers · asked by phreebird 2

I have recently been fishing and caught a strange looking fish. It was very unusual and an old man passing the lodge told me it was a bitterling.Was he winding me up as i have never heard of one before and does anybody have any info/pics.

thanks!

2007-04-03 08:45:37 · 12 answers · asked by vanessa 3

2007-04-03 08:25:06 · 6 answers · asked by vanessa 3

My goldfish/koi live in a 1200 gallon outdoor pond and haven't eaten since the end of October (due to the weather change here in NYS). The water temperature is suppose to be 50 degrees when feeding resumes. It has hit that number once and then dropped back into mid 40's or lower. We have a brief lull now and I'm tempted to feed them (freezing weather is expected tomorrow night). Are there any fish pond experts who may know whether it's possible to feed on and off throughout the Spring thaw timeframe? I know that the fish metabolize food much slower and could die if the temperature forces them to cease metabolizing with food still in their system. I am also afraid of starving them...as they haven't eaten fish food(wheat germ for autumn/spring) since 10/22/06. Any immediate help is greatly appreciated!

2007-04-03 08:08:56 · 5 answers · asked by janet 2

please can you help me, I have got a minnow with big fins i cannot remember the name of it but it as swell up in the stomach and its back seems to broken is they anything wrong with it or is this just normal its about 12-16 months old...

Regards

Philip

2007-04-03 07:56:06 · 2 answers · asked by philipcunningham2003 2

My roommate found a egg like thing in our beta fish bowl, it looks like a white ball inside of a jelly ball. We had a gold fish, a beta fish, and a sucker fish in the bowl before, but then she cleaned it, and now the beta is alone, and we found that. What might it be?

2007-04-03 07:47:43 · 3 answers · asked by Laura 2

I am not sure if this is a fry since this is new to me. This morning there are hundreds of little white dots swimming all over the aquarium. They look like tiny air bubbles but not they are the size of a dot. So can anyone tell me what the cichlids (texans) fry is suppose to look like and if they are should I stop the filter?

2007-04-03 07:38:49 · 5 answers · asked by charm t 2

can u put any other fish with a male betta fish?

2007-04-03 07:15:22 · 9 answers · asked by Szanna 2

I ordered some discus (two mixed and one red snakeskin) at the beginning of January. They did really well until about two weeks ago. The smallest mixed discus stopped eating. He would swim up to the food like he wanted to eat it then would swim away. After about two weeks he died. The other mixed discus just stopped eating about two days ago and died last night. Now the last discus, the red snakeskin, has started hiding. Do you have any idea what could be wrong? There are no obvious signs of Ick or disease. Water tests are normal. We over quite a variety of foods from beef heart to blood worms to flake food, all of which they liked and eat until recently. Any information would be appreciated greatly!

2007-04-03 07:15:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

so i just got a needle fish from petsmart and they labeled it as a green fish. How ever i have read that they eat fish!!!! so am i totally screwed now?

2007-04-03 07:06:08 · 3 answers · asked by lyd285 2

i have two red zebra danios in a ten gallon tank. one of them seems to be geting fatter. is s/he pregrent. how do i know if they are boys or girls. how do i know if they are pregrent?

2007-04-03 07:05:33 · 6 answers · asked by . 4

2007-04-03 06:54:27 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is small and his/her tail is black and similar to a guppy's tail.right on thetop of his head its all rd and the rest f his body is orange.It uses his tail to swim.Does anyone know wat this fish is called?

2007-04-03 06:52:24 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can someone help??A relative came over today and took one look at my goldfish tank, only to start frothing at the mouth with rage of how cruel I was to allow them to live in such an enclosure!Apparently you shouldn't use tap water in a tank for goldfish. I feel extremely stupid now, and after doing research on google.com nothing really helped. So can someone tell me if you have to use dechlorinating chemicals in the tap water because I never did that before and the fish seem ok.

2007-04-03 06:49:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

OK please read my earlier question also titled Urgent HELP HELP HELP
My betta is doing better right now, he is swimming and reacting to activities in and around his tank. He even recognised my hand and swam up and ate a lil. He is resting on n off.
I wanted to ask if it is OK to add aquarium salt right now because I have never used it for the 1 month that I have had him. Is it OK to use it now? At this time I don't want to take any risks.
Thanks to everyone who answered and the new people who are going to answer.

2007-04-03 06:43:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a little tank that we set up about a week or two ago. We had three snails and two dwarf frogs. Yesterday we came in to find one dead snail, now the other two are dead. What could be happening and what should I do to protect my frogs? HELP!

2007-04-03 06:39:36 · 2 answers · asked by RaeJillian 1

This Saturday I went out and purchased a 10 gallon tank kit from wal-mart (with a heater and a filter), soem trees and stuff for the fish to hide in, 2 silver dollar's, 1 angelfish, 2 guppies, a algae eater, and 3 ghost shrimp. yesturday when I got home from work, everything was dead except for the ghost shrimp and 1 silver dollar (and the silver seemed lethergic and he/she's mouth was wide open).
The water was really warm so after I fished out the dead (they were also at the bottom of the tank and not floating) I turned the heater off, it was about 85 degrees out, and I'm not running the a/c this early in the year.
I am not sure if the silver is going to make it (I can't tell about the shrimp, they move too fast-so I'm assuming their fine).
we put them in distilled water (reccomended by the sales clerk) and I was feeding them tropical fish food twice a day, does anyone have any suggestions???

2007-04-03 06:25:35 · 12 answers · asked by Nicole E 4

2007-04-03 06:18:00 · 10 answers · asked by big bill 3

i have 2 silver mollies. the pet shop said they were both females. i have a black lyre tail male mollie. One of the silver mollies is very very fat compared to the other silver one. the fat one stays twards the top of the tank and the slinder silver stays in the middle of the tank. The 2 silver ones hang out sometimes in the middle of the tank. Is she ready to have fry? I am good at breeding guppies but new to mollies and platies.

2007-04-03 04:53:45 · 2 answers · asked by sportyconnie 3

The filter I use on my 20 gallon tank can hold two filter cartridges. One sits right behind the other.

My thoughts were; I've been running the second filter (which obvisuly doesn't gets dirty) to allow bacteria to build up in it. Then when the first filter needs replaced I move the second one forward and put the fresh filter in the second spot to allow bacteria to build up in it.

Am I rotating these correctly, or am I wasting my time and money running two filters in there?

2007-04-03 04:36:14 · 8 answers · asked by mr5oh 3