Fish - July 2007

I got my dwarf puffers today and as usual they don't eat much on the first day. But i washed my tank with no soap or chemicals and my tank was cloudy. I thought it would wear off because it's hot water but it didn't!!!! Later 1 dwarfpuffer kinda went K.O. and it just floated twitching. And now another one looks like it's gonna die over night...Yup i just checked and its all swimming offbalanced now. PLEASE help me save my little poor puffer!!!

Is it my fake plants or is it the new gravel? I washed the gravel

2007-07-27 20:49:54 · 5 answers · asked by rsonbie456 2

Hi i want to set my fish tank up but i know NOTHING!!!! about fish or tanks or anything! lol so i need step by step help please!!
when i 1st set it up it was to the instructions what came with the tank. for some reason my fish dies after 3 days :-(
my tank had got like a residue on the service of the water so i think it might of been that what did it. i got told it might of been from the plastic plants and rocks i had put in. i emptied some of the water to start again but it ened up being left. now it has been standing like that for months. i emptied the rest of the water out yesterday and the glass is dirty as hell, ants had tried to build a nest in my filter (i have a ant problem in the house) and ants are now in the gravel. how do i clean it to get rid of the ants and dirty marks? is it best to put live plants in with slate or bogwood for them to hide? how do i look after live plants? how do i know if my fish are actually going to stay alive this time? PLEASE HELP!

2007-07-27 20:47:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

He is Colorful & he is a ploddy? I think.

2007-07-27 18:14:02 · 11 answers · asked by Bk 1

I am setting up my 58 gallon and I would like to buy some hardy, inexpensive plants that don't need flourite. I don't need many--most of my tank is going to be caves (around 15!!) and I'll buy some plastic plants too. RIght now all I have is java moss. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

2007-07-27 18:08:43 · 5 answers · asked by Paso Fino horse lover 3

I was going to get a lot of rainbowfish for my new 58 gallon (3 foot) tank, but after looking at the prices of the rainbows, I've decided to cut down on them a little so I need ideas for other, fairly cheap (like $5 and lower-around $3 per fish being the best price) fish I could put into my tank. Here is what I have so far:

5 Peppered Cories
8 Flame Tetras
2 Blue Rams
2 Apistos (not sure which ones...but they're just the assorted ones on liveaquaria).

So...any ideas? I don't really have anything in mind...I'm open to pretty much everything, except I'd prefer to have something that's not in one of my other tanks (but I can make exceptions), inexpensive, fairly hardy, compatible with the above fish, and available in either my LFS or liveaquaria.com. I have a jewel cichlid, swordtails, guppies, harlequin rasboras, male and female bettas, bloodfins, white clouds, dwarf gourami, zebra danios, and pristella tetras.

I need as many ideas as possible and all the help I can get!!! Thanks!

2007-07-27 18:06:26 · 4 answers · asked by Paso Fino horse lover 3

i got this fish yesterday (crown betta)
it doesnt eat it floats around like a sick fish..
which is REALLY starting to worry me.
plus at times it seems like its tilted.

it seems to rub itself against the gravel
i see no sign of ich or fungus.
it appears to like corners, and the bottom of the tank.
help!

whats wrong with it??

2007-07-27 15:51:19 · 12 answers · asked by FishyQuestions 2

I have a 15 gallon tank with a one year old common goldfish. And I want to add some nice pretty fishin with my beloved goldfish. I dont want any harm done to my dear goldfish. Or should I reconsider adding fish.

2007-07-27 15:30:42 · 12 answers · asked by Miguel 1

2007-07-27 15:22:03 · 1 answers · asked by bettaz_paigiepops 1

my platy is pregnant. I can see her gravid spot. i can even see the little black spots inside. She started dropping to the bottom of tank and not eating. I put her in the breeder tank and she still hasnt had babies and she still isnt eating, and she is still sitting on the bottom Can she be having problems? she only had one baby last time. HELP...

2007-07-27 15:08:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

is that a high risk to put together

ALSO can i keep my betta in the same tank if i get a divider????

2007-07-27 15:02:06 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

So, a friend has this fish tank: http://www.aquavistainc.com/products.html

Yesterday night, the power went out, and the heater was supposed to default to 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 Celsius) when the power came back on, but for some reason, it went to 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 Celsius). This ended up killing the poor fish. :(

What she wants is a battery backup so that if power does go out, they would like the tank to maintain temperature.

I know the tank uses 0.125 KW or 125 Watts.

Can anyone recommend a solution?

2007-07-27 14:59:38 · 4 answers · asked by tsupersonic1986 2

Are pictus catfish compatible with tiger barbs?

2007-07-27 14:54:08 · 9 answers · asked by C-Los 2

I have had my goldfish Jose for about two months now. He has someting on his tail which I am concerned may be fin rot. It is faintly white, but not very much so. It is also slightly frayed, but again, not very much so. I am worried that he may have fin rot, and that he may pass it on to his tank buddies Paco and Maria. Does this sound like fin rot? I have done research on the disease but am still not sure whether he has it because the white and the fraying are very slight and very hard to see. I would treat the water with a fin rot medication just as a precaution, but I heard that it messes up the biological filter and gets rid of the good bacteria. If this is fin rot, what should I do?!?

2007-07-27 14:53:57 · 5 answers · asked by blue92 3

had a problem on one of my fish had a white fuzzy spot on it and got very dull in color I removed from the tank all of the other fish looked great BUT NOW my goldfish its color is still vibrant but it is swimming around crazily and then it will float to the top and act like it’s tired of trying to stay down. It has no spots on it its just really fat all of my other fish anyone got any ideas

2007-07-27 14:36:52 · 10 answers · asked by saturngirl 1

Is it okay to put couple comets in a pond with 10-15 koi. Will the comets effect the koi in any way or make the koi sick?

2007-07-27 14:34:24 · 5 answers · asked by COOL 3

I have a Tropical Fish tank. I have 2 Tiger Barbs, 2 Gourami's, and A Tri-Color Shark in the tank. Yesterday my catfish suddenly died and I noticed some whit spots on him when I took him out of the tank. Before he died he was swimming up near the top of the tank and kept falling to the bottom. Today I noticed that my Shark was acting similar the way the catfish acted before he died, and I also seen the little white dots on the shark. The other fish are fine, for now. The PH and ammonia levels of the tank are fine. What could be the problem?

2007-07-27 14:30:11 · 6 answers · asked by Mastro 2

2007-07-27 14:25:41 · 7 answers · asked by Carolyn B 2

Recently for my new fish I completely revamped my tank into a whole new setup. I used to have neon gravel, an assortment of ornaments, pink , blue and purple plasric plants. I started to think all the artifical dyes, and plastic might have been affecting my tank. When my Ryukin died I completely revamped the tank with natural gravel, a live plants and no coloured ornaments.

Which do you prefer and has what I did made any difference to the health of my future goldfish?

2007-07-27 13:55:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-27 13:54:05 · 2 answers · asked by Faith 1

i bought some baby firemouths 2 of them and i put them in my 55 gallon tank in a breeding basket net. in that TANK i have one oscar med size two jacks med size two small plecos really small.how long should i leave them in the basket so that they dont gett eaten?

2007-07-27 13:32:38 · 2 answers · asked by Mr. Firemouth boy 1

and can it have cafine

2007-07-27 13:23:58 · 3 answers · asked by Faith 1

It give the direction but it don't say how much carbon to use. I can estimate by looking at what the old once has in them. Can you use to much carbon?

2007-07-27 13:08:15 · 3 answers · asked by sweetansassy 3

I already have 1 Aqua-Tech filter, but I am getting a otocinclus and I have heard they are huge waste makers.

Also, if i have two filters, do i still need a air pump. The air pump is a 5-15 gallon as well.

2007-07-27 12:58:07 · 7 answers · asked by Sally 2

It reduces stress and stuff. It's for fresh and saltwater tanks.

2007-07-27 12:52:09 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-27 12:37:54 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-27 09:54:34 · 2 answers · asked by Faith 1

What are some african cichlids that can go in a 40 gal tank

2007-07-27 09:52:03 · 4 answers · asked by br1an767 3

I had a fish for over a year, that died this past week. He was a blue male guppy. I am getting a new fish to go in my aquarium this coming week, and was wondering is there anything, besides fish, that can go in there? It's a 5 gallon filtered aquarium with freshwater. I love having fish, and was wondering if there was anything else that could go in there?

2007-07-27 09:38:07 · 9 answers · asked by ♥ Animal Lover ♥ 4

So, I wonder: How do fish know their own kind? And even more so, their own colors? I have a tropical community 55 gallon designer aquarium and am more fascinated everyday. It is a new tank, and I started adding fish little by little over 8 weeks. My final result is: 2 sunburst Mollies, 2 red Mollies, 2 dalmation Mollies (one white with black spots, one black with white spots), 5 zebra Danios, 2 Ghostfish, 2 Gouramis (one powder blue and one sunset color), 2 neon tux Male Guppies, and 1 Plecco algea eater.

So here is what I came to notice. Every fish sticks with their own color! As you see, I have 6 Mollies, two of each color and they only stick with the coloring that they are. I find this fascinating.

Does anyone know why and how they do this?

2007-07-27 09:33:52 · 6 answers · asked by joanne s 1

Here is the picture of my new platy . Can anyone tell me whether these are males or females or one male and one female and which one is male and which one is female?

http://maxupload.com/img/92B044D0.jpg

Thanks for your time. For best answer .......your have to say ........The front one is male/female because and the back one is male/female because................................

2007-07-27 09:24:38 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous