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By on Friday, July 9th, 2010 | No Comments


Sharks and other fish at the aquarium.

Fire bellied newts, cherry shrimp, and gouramis?

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I love all three. I was wondering. In my tall 60 gallon tank, I would like to plant a ground cover plant, and float another surface plant on top, something tough enough to hold a newt body. The water level will be high but not full, low enough to easily few the tops of the plants and possibly its newt friends. In the water I would like a friendly, colorful fish that won’t eat my newts who I know could not eat them. I was thinking dwarf gouramis? Then as a side note, how about shrimp, they can’t hurt my newts, if the newts eat them, fine. But I also read shrimp are usually too large and too fast for a tiny newt to eat. So could they all co-exist in clean 80 degree water?

help! How do I bring my nitrite levels down?

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Please help!
I have a 25 litre or 5.5 gallon tropical tank.
It has been fully cycled for 6weeks and I have just introduced my fish.
One betta called Banzai
Two suckermouth
5 Guppy’s
Ammonia 0.25
Nitrite 5.0
PH 7.8
Nitrate 80
I have put dechlorinator in all my water changes and changed 40% tonight.
I’m not too sure how to clean the gravel as my cleaner is too big for the tank so i’ve been using a turkey baster to suck the excess food.
I’ve had one death of a guppy
Filter is fine have a bubble wall too!
Feeding is my biggest concern as i’m sure i have not given them nearly enough food but there seems to be leftovers!

Well i need help with my new saltwater fish is somthing wrong with it?

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Alright not to long ago i got the live rock like a week and the water is like 1.23-.26 sumthingish. but my friend gave me this fish the other day he got from the ocean and its health is bad he sad my tank is probably more stable. it has hard white stuff on its head he said it will heal. but some reason it stays at the bottom of my 46 gallon tank and breaths alot threw its mouth and gills. somtimes it moves around.whats wrong with it?? and if you know what fish this is please tell me. it can walk like a shrimp on its feet Picure- http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/2685/1000480u.jpg

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am i a good pet owner ?

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hi i am a 16 year old student who is studying to become a vet i have 1 degu 1 wild headgehog (now domestcated ) and 2 axolotals i clean out the degu once a week he hase a large cage spechley desined 4 degus i try tolet him out for at least a hour every day and make him toys or buy a new toy once every couple of weeks i order spechel degu food on line and he is one since his bro died of numonya caused ny diabetes and the other chewd a wire that was suplying air to a tank of baby axolotals he parlised his back legs and was put down should i feel gulty i have a hog in a 2 level 4 foot long cage so 2 cages on top eatch other i change him out every day as he is messy and has news paper he has a lot of toys and has the run of ny room every other night all nite i put news paper down the axolotals where 3 but last year i lost the breeding femail after a long fight with deses
previous to this she was a verry productive femail and as i understand it thay r hard to breed i found this verry rong and hade a consvation program with wipsnade zoo the tank gets changed at leas once every 2 months i feed them worms 9 eatch dad and son every 2 days i am vegteryan yet i send god nows how many worms a year to there deth i do feelreally guilty and trie cooked meat my fish hade a adverse reaction to this and nearly past one year i accdently killed 3 babies new borns i let the water get to dirty i felt like a arce hole am i ? i have ownd and bread hamsters gerbals afrcan land snails and mice so basicly should i have pets ???????????????? thanks
the hog is wild i rescued at 2 weeks old and is verry tame i have consolted my local vet and her exzact words wher is he happy ? is he eating the right dieat ? the answers are yes then she said it is ok but he needs a summer cage and i brough meat from a butcher and tryed small amounts of cooked and raw meat as recoumended by many axolotal websitse as sometimes thay have a bade reaction hope i cleard these matters up
Sorry but I think I best go with my vets advise as he has told me NOT to let the hedgehog free as he now would not survive,I will follow his advise as he is the vet,alos I am dyslexic so I do have trouble with my spelling but this does not mean I dont have a right to have a life,and finaly my a level teachers all say I am going to reach top grades and I have no trouble becoming a vet but thankyou for your great comments………
i would like to add once agen for those of you who cant read (witch is a laugh a minnit as im dislexic ur not i got a grades in my exzams without a scriv did u )the degus that died the first diead sudnely hands up that was my fault ok the second got diabetes this is commen fr degus to get he lived for a year blind and reglar visits to the vet and he was fine but then he caught numonya if this was a resault of lets say rong food then i would have killed them all long b4 now the food is spechel degu food the axolotal hade a digestive problem she was taken to A SPECHLIST VET who said there was a 50 50 chance of her pulling through the four baby fish i was trying to make there life better by adding real plants this was rong and turned the water bade fast ok now i asked this question and was 100 precent honist i have hade many pets and all have hade a good and long life im sure if you are honist every one of you has made a mistake somewhere along the line wether it be forgrting to feed it
NO 1 IS PERFICT WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES
NO 1 IS PERFICT WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES
NO 1 IS PERFICT WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES

Corals: slowly dying?

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I have a 20 gallon nano tank that has been established for over a year now and all of sudden my corals are starting to die. I have a button polyops that should spread easily and dont ( only the large ones open anymore). I have a flower pot that used to open but is starting to die and never opens at all. I also have a green star polyop that spread like crazy but now looks like its starting to die. My ph level is is around 8.5. My ammonia is close to zero. My nitrite is around 0 as well. My nitrates are alittle hight like between the 40 and 80 portion but i think thats normal. I usually do water changes every 8 days swapping about 25 percent of the water out. The water is purchased from the fish store, not from made from tap. There are three fish in there a clown fish, dansel and a flame angel. I usually ad buffer with water changes, kents two part reef chem the next day, then some iodine or ph helper depending on the reading of the test. Any suggestions or help on this would be great? Like how often i need to add chemicals or what could save the coral? Thanks
How would you recommend quarantine it? and how much iodine and calcium?

I just got a new fish tank and need some help?

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I have a gold fish in a little cheap 1 gallon tank. after a while I learned he needed atleast a 10 gallon. I went out, got a tank, filter, and conditioner. I know the conditioner needs to take affect on the water for 24-48 hours, but I did hear something about cycling…now I know it has something to do with good bacteria in the water. How long should I wait for it to cycle enough for the fish to live in it, and will adding some water from the old tank to the new one, help with the bacteria issue?
the tank the fish is in now has no filter. Ive just been cleaning it and adding new water (i let the water sit out over night to let the chlorine and other chemicals in tap water, die off)

Since the water is mildly dirty, is it okay to add it to the new tank
the tank the fish is in now has no filter. Ive just been cleaning it and adding new water (i let the water sit out over night to let the chlorine and other chemicals in tap water, die off)

Since the water is mildly dirty, is it okay to add it to the new tank

What color is a tiger oscar’s poo?

By on Friday, July 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments

I saw something hanging from it’s bottom region that looked like fish poo but it was kind white in color…is that normal? Also my Oscar is new and getting aclimated but is it mormal for my oscar to stay near the top of the surface between the glass and where the water comes into the tank from the hang on back filter? It seems like he likes the current of the water coming into the tank.Ok, one more question..How much space is normal from the water surface to the top of the aquarium? Mine is filled to about two inches from the top..Is my water level too high and is water level important?

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