Fish - June 2007

I have a small algae eater (i would say about an inch long) and I cant find it anywhere! I have 4 fish, including the algae eater, in a five gallon tank, and they are all doing perfectly fine. I've looked everywere for the fish and i cant seem to find him. I dont think he could be dead, but i have gravel rocks and my family was thinking that he might be buried underneath them somehow. In my tank, i have this little car that is suppposed to look like it has algae and is all broken and stuff, and a tall, fake plant. I also have gravel rocks on the bottom. Ive seen him hiding on the little tube that sucks water into the filter, along the walls of the tank, and also on the car.

2007-06-23 05:11:45 · 8 answers · asked by the.m.kid 2

I have moved my guppies from a 10 gallon to a 50 gallon. I am breeding guppies to start nice strains; and the other guppies become food for convicts and oscars of friends and family. I now have a 10 gallon tank open and would like one to three fish in it that will eat guppies. What freshwater species do you recommend?

2007-06-23 04:59:12 · 8 answers · asked by dazed 4

the costof some of the shrimp i likeis to high is there a place on the net whare i can buy a lot for not like a 100 dollers some tipes i wont is the Green Midget Shrimp/
Yellow Shrimp/Red Cherry, Cherry, Fire Shrimp/Crystal Black, Diamond Shrimp/Crystal Red, Red Bee Shrimp
/Bumblebee Shrimp/Tiger Shrimp/Red Nose, Arrow Shrimp/Amano, Grass, Yamato Shrimp/Green Dwarf, Green Midget Shrimp/Ninja, Marbled Shrimp/Purple Zebra, Dream Shrimp/

2007-06-23 04:51:14 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
after i read your answers i went to check my fishtank and there were 3 more dead .. maybe if i give more information you will be more able to help me:
1- the tank is one week old .. so it is new
but i'm used to have fish all of my life
2- freshwater
3- there WAS about 25 but now 18 :(:(
4- i Touched the water and it was a bit warm and my friend put a cube of ice ,, is it ok ??
5- i don't overfeed them .. i give them Exactly like the seller told me
6- i turned the light off so it won't get any warmer ..
i have a filter and a heater
and the seller chose the fish
so i think that they do mix together

2007-06-23 04:20:11 · 8 answers · asked by lor l 1

I am thinking of getting some tropical fish, but do not want to pay a huge bill for the electricity to run the heater for the tank.
How much electicity does the heater for the tank use? Would it be expensive?
I would have a medium/small tank.

2007-06-23 03:36:15 · 8 answers · asked by me 4

i got told my turtles were called mississippi mud turtles but i cant seem to find any info on them

2007-06-23 03:32:24 · 3 answers · asked by nicola m 1

How long can a betta live?
please don't give me how long your betta has lived....because i know yours might not have lived that long

2007-06-23 03:20:50 · 8 answers · asked by Decelia B 1

it measures 18 inches long 12 inches wide and is 17 inches high. can anyone help me???

2007-06-23 02:14:58 · 12 answers · asked by brianlr2000 2

2007-06-23 02:02:26 · 33 answers · asked by pete t 1

2007-06-23 00:20:41 · 15 answers · asked by ladybabysham 1

I accidently droped a fruit pastle into my fish tank, I got it out in like 2secs. Will it kill my fish?

2007-06-22 23:51:42 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I bought a new aquarium i wanted to give my friend a bigger home with filtration :) but what i need to know is are they tropical fish? and don't worry yes im letting the tank run first :)

2007-06-22 20:05:45 · 9 answers · asked by ajdin_bilajac 2

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aoib7W7pPF7rQdj7DzsZlPLsy6IX?qid=20070622215758AAf50Au
after i read your answers i went to check my fishtank and there were 3 more dead .. maybe if i give more information you will be more able to help me:
1- the tank is one week old .. so it is new
but i'm used to have fish all of my life
2- freshwater
3- there WAS about 25 but now 19 :(:(
4- i Touched the water and it was a bit warm and my friend put a cube of ice ,, is it ok ??
5- i don't overfeed them .. i give them Exactly like the seller told me
6- i turned the light off so it won't get any warmer ..

2007-06-22 18:45:43 · 11 answers · asked by lor l 1

New to aquariums as well. It has a florecent bulb in the hood, a heater that looks like a tube to put in the water .. and the filter looks broken, so I will be getting a new one alone with water conditioner, as I have chlorinated city water. Any other tips?

2007-06-22 18:23:31 · 9 answers · asked by Hicktown girl66 6

I will be needing to travel in the car with my 2 platies for about 3 hours. I'm moving so I don't really have a choice about it. How should I do it so that they survive and also so that I don't get water all over my car. Also I'm assuming I'm going to have to empty the tank.

2007-06-22 18:09:57 · 2 answers · asked by ??? 2

2007-06-22 17:41:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

i want a porupine puffer or a dog face puffer could i put to on a 10gallon tank or smaller if not what is the smallest tank possible for one but would it be alot of up keep for a smaller tank? but what is smallest possible for my position

2007-06-22 17:40:45 · 10 answers · asked by User 1

2007-06-22 17:39:47 · 11 answers · asked by haliy l 1

2007-06-22 17:37:06 · 9 answers · asked by Count b 2

Do snails eat plants? I was growing a plant in my fishtank, and I think the snail was eating my plant. Damn snail.

2007-06-22 17:18:53 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Well i was at my friends house the other day and we went next door to go swimming...and the people set up there pool wrong so they were going to drain it in the next day or two. They live out where there is a lot of wild animals. So there is these tree frogs that snuggle into the crack of the pool all the time. The frogs then decided it was time to lay eggs and they layed all there eggs in the pool. And as i said they were going to drain the pool. So my friend and i decided to save as many as we could find. We found probally more then 10 of them. I bought food for them the other day..and it is tadpole food and frog food. But like the food seems to big yet for them to eat. i am scared that all the tadpoles are going to die and i want to save them. What do i do? and they are tiny right now...and i can see through there bodies and see there little black eyes. They also stick to the sides of the tank. Can you tell me the stages of the tadpoles and anything else i shold know...thanx!

2007-06-22 16:42:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I set up the tank for my African Dwarf Frogs today and when I put the thermometer in I noticed the temperature was just staying at 80 degrees. I tried shaking it down to 70 but it was really difficult. My question is do mercury thermometers go down as the temperature gets colder? Or do you have to keep shaking it?

I am almost 15; born into a digital thermometer world lol so I dont know much about the mercury ones.

2007-06-22 16:11:18 · 8 answers · asked by ? 5

my orange swordtail had babies today, so i really need help to take care of them. i'm so excited. can you please tell me the supplies i need to take care of the babies. i'd really appreciate it.

2007-06-22 16:10:57 · 4 answers · asked by vampire_thirst 4

It began about a week, or so ago. The fish was always strange. Swimming up & down the glass as if looking at it's reflection. So when it began swimming very oddly, I didn't think much at first. The poor fish was SPINNING very fast on it's "beak", and did this non-stop, as well as some other seemingly uncontrolled movements, and dives. Like I said, it did this for a week, and progressivly got "worse", much less active, and eventually just completely handicapped in it's abilities. He died today. I had him a few months now, with no real problems. I didn't change his diet, or environment or tank mates. Any clue?

2007-06-22 16:00:34 · 5 answers · asked by john h 1

2007-06-22 15:34:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have 3 left, and they all have dark colored bulges at the bottom of their bodies, they all look healthy despite the others died! Are they pregnant? I haven't seen any babies is so long! Also, if you do not have any purifier, how do you add water to the tank? Mine is small, and they are running out of water!!

2007-06-22 15:22:16 · 4 answers · asked by Breianna C 1

I have a 70 gallon mixed African cichlid tank. I admit I was a bit premature adding m 25 fish but now the levels are confusing me. I had about 1ppm Nitrite and Ammonia when I added half the fish. I waited for the levels to come down to about .5ppm to add the rest. The levels have never been optimal in the tank...but thats just the precursor to the problem. Now the tank doesn't seem to be producing the Nitrate that it used to. It was putting out a solid 40ppm when I would check every two days, now its down to about 5ppm. Ammonia is currently <.25ppm and Nitrite is still hanging at 1ppm. I have done two smaller water changes and conditioned with Prime (which detoxifies the Nitrite and Ammonia) so the fish seem fine, all eating well and acting normal. When I added the second half of the fish, over two days I added a flask sized bottle of Nitromax to the tank. Levels did not change much. Now, for the past few days I have been adding another bacterial supplement. I need help...

2007-06-22 15:19:01 · 4 answers · asked by Tim 2

1) Do you need a permit in Pennsylvania, USA to breed fish?
2) Can you sell fish in a newspaper without a permit?
3)Do you need a permit?
4) What does a permit allow you to do?
5) How much $ do they cost?

2007-06-22 15:10:54 · 4 answers · asked by theARTSlover003 3

i went to the store today to get more flake food...and i saw bloodworms and baby shrimp as well...so i bought a container of both. the guppies seemed to love the bloodworms...but the baby shrimp may be too big? will they eat it? they keep picking at it but i dont see a whole shrimp being consumed. is it just too big for them or will it just take longer for them to eat it?

2007-06-22 15:09:27 · 7 answers · asked by tyra s 2

do you think it should be illegal to easily purchase "tank-buster" fish? i am particularly thinking of fish like pacus or any of those fish that grow to gargantuan size. i cannot imagine, except ignorance, why someone would get a pacu that can get three feet long. very few people have to money to keep these fish when they get to their adult size. i know several stores in my area that sell cute baby pacu that are like 6 inches long without any labels that says there size. i think that any animal like this you should have to get a special permit. what do you think?

2007-06-22 15:01:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous