Fish - May 2007

i have a fish tank thats 2 foot long 1 foot wide and 1.8 foot high,
i want to get a Red Devil Cichlid, but i dont know if they'd be alright, will they, if not, what other cichlids or biggish fish a, that are resonably colourful, that would be suitable for my tank???
thank you

2007-05-25 12:13:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

i just got my betta fish and put him in a 5 gallon tank and now he's flaring like crazy i dont have any mirors or other fish in the tank why is this hapening is it just scared or what ?!?!

2007-05-25 12:13:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

What would be the easiest fish or something in a saltwater marsh to take care of?

2007-05-25 12:03:55 · 6 answers · asked by Kyle 2

I'll be spending the holiday weekend taking down and cleaning my aquarium. Does anyone know of a fast method for cleaning out the gravel? The aquarium will not be set up again any time soon, so I am not concerned with preserving the bacteria, etc., I just want to wash out all of the debris and make sure it doesn't smell bad in storage.

2007-05-25 11:58:18 · 7 answers · asked by vagabond_810 3

last question for the week

2007-05-25 11:56:58 · 3 answers · asked by undercoverbabe911 2

I currently hold 2 oscars, and I want to get chiclids, but i dont know what kind or how many i can fit inside my 30 gallon tank.

2007-05-25 11:21:07 · 9 answers · asked by Tunish305 3

I i am thinking of getting 2 silver/bala sharks for my 75 gallon tank, Does anyone have silver sharks and any good/bad points about them//

2007-05-25 10:56:58 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

i got two small clown loaches today (finally)
theyre doing well theyre colors are perfect
and but they seem to be hiding alot

and not being social with one another why??

2007-05-25 10:39:29 · 10 answers · asked by FishyQuestions 2

2007-05-25 10:35:01 · 6 answers · asked by Angelface 2

I have a female guppy about 1 1/4 inches long and it keeps trying to eat my baby guppies that are 1 cm long,but she cant eat them and spits them back out and they die. how do I stop her.

2007-05-25 10:33:15 · 9 answers · asked by Angelface 2

2007-05-25 10:29:12 · 5 answers · asked by sam 2

Last week, he complete ignored all the pellets I gave him, the ones in got in his mouth he spat them out. He started eating again, but he's starting his hunger strike again. I've been feeding him those pellets since the day i got him and he's never had a problem before.

He isn't suddenly blind, he isn't letahrgic, the pellets are not too big.

I've had him since last march. The pellets have been around for at least 3 years. (wardley's betta pellets)

2007-05-25 09:22:32 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

my betta fish is about 3 years old and has been living well with me for a while. A few moments a go i noticed that she cannot swim down . every time she tries she floats back to the top and all my sources say that she has a swim bladder infection, does anyone know how to cure a swim bladder infection?

2007-05-25 09:14:38 · 6 answers · asked by putnar_spirit 2

I only have 2 guppies and 2 platies in the tank. It is 60 litres ish so I dont think it's overcrowding. All the other fish are absolutely fine. I have recently moved them to a new bigger tank but have matured the water etc. before they were moved. Any ideas?

2007-05-25 09:13:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

when i put them together all they do is fight

2007-05-25 08:53:27 · 9 answers · asked by the one 1

I have a 3000 gallon pond in my backyard but this year we have tons of algae that is sticking to the liner. everyday i go out and spend 10 minutes removing the stuff that has come loose.. Can I buy some sort of algae eating fish that can live trough the winter up here in montreal???
I have 8 goldfish and 2 koi. They seem to prefer the floating fish food rather than the algae... Please help.

2007-05-25 08:53:13 · 5 answers · asked by Dev 1

His scales on the side of his belly. he doesn't rly eat much i thoguht maybe i was feeding him tomuch and cut back but then thats when hes scales started to come off and then theres like white skin flowwing behind him or sumthing. so i guess he wasnt getting over fed idk. i clean his tank out every wednesday. oh and hes a beta fish. plz dont be dumb about this and if your not sure make sure to tell me thanks
Leah
heres a pic

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s69/MrsKeene_2007/fish007.jpg

2007-05-25 08:36:53 · 7 answers · asked by Allibug'smommy 2

2007-05-25 08:05:25 · 9 answers · asked by Hannah j 2

2007-05-25 07:12:35 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a 55 gallon tank and I don't think I overcrowded it. I asked a million questions when purchasing the fish and chose good "starter" fish such as platy's, guppies, mollies, guarami's, etc. I have a Bio Wheel 350 filter which I cleaned
but am still seeing the cloudy water. I have about 6 fish left including a sicilian worm and a corey. My daughter has always treated the water before we poured it in and will test the water again before adding more fish. Thganks to all the help and if there is anything else I need to be doing, please let me know because I am clueless at this point. Thanks. Ally

2007-05-25 06:49:00 · 13 answers · asked by davidnally 2

I have an African Dwarf Frog in a cycled 2.5 gallon tank. Should I take it with me or will it be fine for three days? Also I am cycling a 10 gallon tank what should I do with that one, I can't take it with me?

2007-05-25 06:38:18 · 9 answers · asked by Mosh 2

I have a stable 30 gallon tank that has been going for a few years now.

In it I have a half a dozen live plants, 7 neon tetras, 3 flame tetras, a molly, two swords, two ADFs, a pleco, a chinese algea eater, a khuli loach, and a gold dojo (weather) loach

But ever summer I seem to have the same problem. Since I don't have AC, when a heat wave hits, my house gets very hot. The problem is it gets too hot for the tank (mid to upper 80s and sometimes even in the 90s). Then at night it cools down to the mid 70s to low 80s. The extreme heat plus the temperature fluctuations are not good for the tank. (I have my tank heater set to kick in if the temp drops below 70.) I have tried adding ice cubes and cold water, but that only works if I'm home all day and can add them in small doses. Does anyone have any ideas how I can keep my fish safe during the summer and when I'm generally away from home all day?

Thanks for any help or advice

2007-05-25 04:45:55 · 11 answers · asked by PurpleFool 2

Hey, I have a 20 gallon tank with a very small Green Terror in it. I've had him for a few months now and he seems very happy and is growing at a nice rate. I don't feed him a ton of food so I'm pretty sure that there is no over feeding. I change the water and the filter carbon/cotton every other week.

Today I noticed a puffy white mold like substance growing on my filter. I have never seen this before and have no clue what it is. The mold is not in the water, it is surrounding the inner portions of the filter above the water line and has grown a touch out of the small vent like things on the filter cap.

I am using a Whisper power 30 and have had no problems up until this white puffy stuff. I use water conditioners when I change the water and keep the ph level at or around 6.8-7.0

My fish seems happy and healthy but I am concerned about the mold, my nephew has pretty bad allergies. I had an issue with Ich a few weeks back but that is ok now.

Any help would be appreciated

2007-05-25 04:13:33 · 6 answers · asked by Rob 3

ok ive been feeding my betta pellets for its entire life then i went to the store and got bloodworms and feed them to him for a week now he wont eat the pellets what should i do just let him eat the bloodworms for the rest of his life or only gve him pellets so he's forst to eat them help plz!

2007-05-25 03:24:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

also does anyone then with the answer pls help with what the fish looks like by providing me with a link to be able to look after it and know what it should look like, thanks! (Minimum maintainance prefered as it is for kids and they love fish and want to look after it themselves)

2007-05-25 03:17:38 · 29 answers · asked by smilydoll 1

Our tank is about a month old. I have cleaned the filter pads but it is still cloudy...any ideas?

2007-05-25 03:09:39 · 9 answers · asked by davidnally 2

2007-05-25 02:31:00 · 10 answers · asked by big bill 3

I am usure because the parents are being very over protective even when we turn airstone on (they keep moving them around) They are freely swimming in the tank since this morning. We have ha the filter on but turned because we were worried it may ham them but tank is getting very dirty & weneed it on. There is only the parents in the tank it is thier lot of babies. We have plants(real & artifficial) onaments & gravel in a 2.5' tank, we have not removed anything, should we? we are greatful to any educated response.

2007-05-25 02:22:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

the country that i am in does not speak any english, i cannot communicate to buy an aerator as i did not even see one there and after buying the bowl and fish as a first time user, i discovered it was wrong. so i need a solution as to how often to change the water and feed it.. i bought 2 plants as well. Pls do not reply with dumb answers like affordability of aerators-money is not the point here-i want to save the fish and i have realised the folly of getting one in the bowl. Also did not see any fish tanks, so i have to make the best of the situation and ur experience counts. thanks.

2007-05-25 02:22:12 · 14 answers · asked by smilydoll 1

2007-05-25 02:18:27 · 8 answers · asked by big bill 3