Fish - October 2007

2007-10-03 11:18:18 · 11 answers · asked by folake i 2

Found this on youtube, i don't get how the oil dosent make the water boil. Plus don't know how they get air.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH96MhITOlk

2007-10-03 11:17:07 · 8 answers · asked by Goober 6

2007-10-03 11:13:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am doing a project at school where we have to maintain a fish tank for the entire year, but my fish keep disappearing! So far, two of them have just diappeared. The tank is covered, and the fish we have in the tank are: 5 neon tetras, 2 cardinal tetras, 3 albino corys, and 3 fancy guppies. So far, 1 of the cardinal tetras and 1 of the guppies have disappeared. Why is this happening?

2007-10-03 11:11:26 · 8 answers · asked by markenalyssazach 2

i just bought 2 goldfish and they keep coming to the top as though they are gasping for breath i have a live plant in with them and i also treat the water! i asked a question earlier and people answered saying bowls are no good and will kill the fish. but when i bought the bowl and fish noone mentioned this to me

2007-10-03 09:48:19 · 20 answers · asked by linzi114 1

who went to the ball and pulled a muscle

2007-10-03 08:19:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want a 55 gal tank but can only afford a 29 gal. Do you think 9 neon tetras, 5 tiger barbs, 4 cory cats and 3 mollies are too much for a 29 gal. I can't get the 55 gal but I want a lively fish tank. Serious answers only please.

2007-10-03 05:47:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I bought two tiger ocscars and I am wanting to breed them. I have a 50 gallon fish tank, and I have a little 10 gallon tank I used two put them both in there to prevent other fishes in my large aquariam from eating the eggs, and I use to allow the baby fish to grow before I place them in with the larger fish. I placed the two oscars in the small tank for a week, and still had to results in reproduction.. Any advice?

2007-10-03 05:27:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-03 01:35:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My tropical fish keep showing red threadlike worms out their cloaca. my angel fish had it first and it died and now my gourami has it. basically they have about 5-6 bright red threads sticking out their cloaca - sometimes there is only one but it is usually a bunch of them. Here are some photos - sorry its not the best its hard to take photos in fish tank. Can anyone tell me what this is and how i treat it?
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5158/dscn4099ov6.jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/1410/dscn4110ep3.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/2897/parasiteen0.jpg

2007-10-02 19:43:11 · 2 answers · asked by Steff S 1

I know that it is illegal to keep game fish in an aquarium such as largemouth bass and bluegills. Since peacock bass is a game fish (but not in California) I wonder if it is legal to keep one.

2007-10-02 19:31:22 · 1 answers · asked by Nam N 1

One of my pond koi got attacked by a turtle today. I don't know where the turtle came from, but he got him good. I managed to get the little guy out of his mouth, but I want to know if he's beyond saving or not. The turtle got him by the tail, and he's torn open slightly at the top of the lateral line and behind the dorsal fin. Luckily the turtle didn't manage to get any 'chunks' of him, just torn open a bit. The tail fin is pretty torn up, but he is still able to move his back fin, so I know there can't be too much damage. Missing a lot of scales, but aside from that, he looks pretty good. Been breathing really heavy though.

This happened a little over an hour ago, and the koi is still alive. He's mostly just floating around in the quarantine tank I put him in, but he can still swim if you give him a nudge. Is it beyond saving? Should I humanely euthanize it? Or can I treat it somehow?

2007-10-02 17:48:31 · 5 answers · asked by Kadan 2

Does this refer to earthworms you get outside or bait you buy in stores? And does the senegalus have to be a certain size before it can eat an earthworm?

I know you'd have to wash them off if so.

2007-10-02 17:41:51 · 1 answers · asked by Megan 2

I want to feed my large goldfish brine shrimp but i want the shrimp to grow to a decent size before i feed them. i would really prefer them to adult size but i find that difficult to do. so any size between adult and newborn would do

2007-10-02 16:55:02 · 4 answers · asked by Greeny 3

I have five convict cichlids all about 2.5 to 3 inches. I've had them about a month and I believe they've worked out the pecking order since I rarely see any nipping or serious aggression. In fact after about two weeks, there almost as peaceful as community fish instead of the little devils all my sources have stressed. I've seen no eggs, babies, or even breeding behavior as i've studied as of yet, but my two biggest ones both have bloated bellies. At first I thought they were being overfed but I feed twice a day and each time the food is gobbled up within seconds and I'm not even sure they're getting enough sometimes. Could it be I've got egg stuffed females an no males or what? I've waited for them to reach a decent size hoping i'd get at least one sexually mature pair our of the five, but I still believe i have a tank of females since none exhibit male behavior. Should I get a definite male and see wht happens? What do you think?

2007-10-02 16:50:12 · 4 answers · asked by enygma4113 2

I set up a reef tank and every thing is 0 .... nitrate, nitrite and my ph is fine but my ammonia is like .25 or .50 i want to get my corals and anemones out of my other tank (bubble tip anemones, dough nut coral, galaxie coral, and some mushrooms) Will they be ok if i move them or will it kill them.

And i will be dripping them into my other tank to acclimate them.

2007-10-02 16:43:22 · 3 answers · asked by lyd285 2

I have an outbreak of white spot that has killed one fish already. Any hints or help much appreciated!! Im using a treatment but at a lower dose due to the catfish. I started treatment yesterday and will treat every 3 days. My guppies look worse and so dose my shark HELP ME PLEASE!!! ASAP!!!


TANK CONTAINS:

28L tank, filter(without carbon) 6 guppies, 2 bristle nose catfish,1 goldern catfish, 1 electric yellow and a rainbow shark.

2007-10-02 16:17:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

our aquarium is about 6 weeks old. after the first week we started having a problem with green hair algae. we purchased a sea hare to help with the problem. two weeks later we purchased a Lettuce Nudibranch to help out. this afternoon when we came home, the Lettuce Nudibranch was attached at the top of the aquarium and looked sickly. he is smaller and not as filled out as he has been. he is about 4 weeks old and we have not had any problems with any other creatures. has anyone ever heard of a Lettuce Nudibranch splitting or laying eggs in an aquarium? is it possible that he is sick or that something attacked him? we have several snails and hermit crabs in the tank and have just added three blue chromis as starter fish. the chromis have been in the tank about a week and have thrived well. we have not seen anything mess with the Lettuce Nudibranch. any help will be great! thanks!

2007-10-02 15:37:24 · 3 answers · asked by clyde0523 3

i have had several freshwater tanks throughout my lifetime...along with several different styles of fish....i wanna know how hard it would be to start a salt water tank...i have a beautiful 70 gal tank that is currently freshwater with tropicals...but im just not happy enough with it....well and my son wont shut up about wanting nemo fish....:-D

2007-10-02 15:30:05 · 4 answers · asked by the3balints 1

2007-10-02 15:28:26 · 4 answers · asked by UR 2

How do you sex otto catfish?

2007-10-02 15:05:52 · 4 answers · asked by Charlotte 2

2007-10-02 13:36:29 · 6 answers · asked by ? 2

Hi-the gourami was the first fish and when we added the angelfish (about same size) -gourami nipped angel's tail,followed him everywhere at first and then stopped. Now they are fine together and best buds.

We tried adding 3 harlequin rasboras (small ones) and gourami immediately started chasing them all. He made short work of 1 and he is now dead.

Thinking now that we need to add bigger fish so he won't bully them and different fish.

We were thinking some barbs might show gourami whose boss but all sources say they aren't good with angels.

My son likes danios,bleeding heart tetras,black-finned tetras,penguin tetras. However, my older son has kept danios before and they can be chasers/aggressive/fin nippers with other fish.

Any idea aquarium experts out here?
TIA

2007-10-02 11:55:02 · 2 answers · asked by fishmom 1

2007-10-02 11:00:27 · 8 answers · asked by ringjunkie123 4

Does anybody have any in depth reading on channel catfish? They're abundant in my local Pittsburgh rivers. You can catch them with french fries while fishing (i.e. little effort required).

I think it would be cool to do a big species tank that emulates the local environment for a couple of these guys... Like lift some aged stones with moss growing on them & driftwood / roots from the same location that the fish would be acquired from.

Does anybody have any good web resources / reading on these fish? Or are they completely inappropriate for an aquarium? The ones I see are typically around 12" long by around 9" around.

2007-10-02 05:52:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

yesterday i bought a gold fish as a gift for my little sister. it was this kind . http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/292115/2/istockphoto_292115_goldfish.jpg

we put it in a bowl but this morning i found it dead. im thinking because the water was too cold? because it was just a normal bowl and i gave it flakes so it could eat? or maybe because right away when we bought and came home weput it inside th bowl?

2007-10-02 05:42:03 · 9 answers · asked by g_ramirezjr 1

i now have 5 Pink Zebra Danios and 5 Leopard Danios but i want to have a Senegalus as it looks so unique... i was just wondering which of the 2 is easier to care for... (breeding is not part of it)... and which of the 2 requires better care including water conditions... in short which of the two would live longer in a more harsh condition than the other...

2007-10-02 04:45:37 · 4 answers · asked by Random Loner 1

i have got a leaflet here it came with a fish bowl that i got i just wondered what it says is true:
clean the gravel in the stale water and tip the stale water away. set the gravel aside and clean the goldfish home. do not use any cleaning fluids. replace the gravel.
now what questions i want to find out is...
what is stale water???
do you need to fill the bowl with fresh tap water or abit of the old water or both???
please answer i need to know. anyone please reply???
cheers xxxxxx

2007-10-02 04:34:12 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

is it algae? is it good or bad? my driftwood looks like a reddishbrown trunk from the petshop... and the growth im seeing are like very fine fibers ranging from white-dirty white-brown in color.... and i only have danios on my aquarium.. also i dont want to get a pleco.. it doesnt look attractive.. hehe...

2007-10-02 04:19:25 · 3 answers · asked by Random Loner 1

i just want to know if i need to put anti chlorine solutions to the water when im doing my 25% water changes?

2007-10-02 04:16:19 · 2 answers · asked by Random Loner 1