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Anyone With Aquarium Experience Please Help!?

By on Friday, July 22nd, 2011 | 3 Comments

I was sort of forced into this hobby a year ago when the previous homeowners left their 2 goldfish (fancy tail and comet) and 2 blue gourami behind. Now, I love the idea of keeping an aquarium but I have NO experience and Ive already lost 3 of the original fish plus 3 others that I added! I know, horrible right?! I have been doing lots of research and I realized that a big problem I had was I was topping the water off when it evaporated and doing an actual water change only once every month or two. Also, I think theres too much gravel, it almost 2 inches thick. I have never vacuumed the gravel the entire year I had the tank. I took a water sample to the pet store and the nitrates are the highest they could be! The pet store lady told me to do 20% water change every couple of days and helped me pick out a gravel vacuum, and told me to test the water again in a week. So that’s where I am now. My new issue is one of the fish, the fancy tail seems to be sick (not surprised after all I did wrong). It is staying near the surface of the water for 2 days now and just not being itself ( its longtime goldfish buddy just died also). The other small fish is picking on the sick fish. It is nipping at its tail. I really dont want to lose another fish, is there anything I can do to save this fish?
Do I temporarily remove the sick fish? It has been in this tank for I dont know how many years, so if I take it out how to I not have it go into shock?
Is it safe to remove some of the gravel?
Any other tips you can give me that I did not mention?
And when I change the filter the entire tank gets murky for about 20 minutes until the new filter sucks it up, is this normal?
Oh I have a 20 gallon tank

Do any of you have experience with Blue or Gold Rams and/or Proper pH?

By on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 | 3 Comments

Question by Kristi: Do any of you have experience with Blue or Gold Rams and/or Proper pH?
I just came across them in my search. I think they’d look great in my tank once it’s ready for them in a few weeks (20 gal). Do any of you have experience with them?

They’re pretty much the same, except under “care level” the Blue is “difficult” while the Gold is “moderate.”

Minimum Tank Size: 20 gallons
Temperament: Peaceful
Water Conditions: 72-79° F, pH 5.0-7.0, KH 5-12 (another website says 73-86°F – Is that a huge deal???)
Max. Size: 3″
Diet: Omnivore
Family: Cichlidae
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Also, in another question someone recommended Proper Ph. Would that be something I should try?

“Perfect for salt water, brackish, and African cichlid aquariums. Proper pH automatically adjusts and holds aquarium water at pH 7.0, 7.5, or 8.2. Increases carbonate hardness and adds electrolytes. Proper pH also contains aloe vera, a proven natural stress reducer and healing agent of aquarium fish.”
Gold: https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+889+2520&pcatid=2520
Blue: https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+889+1084&pcatid=1084
Proper pH: http://www.petco.com/product/4064/Aquarium-Pharmaceuticals-Proper-pH.aspx
Thank you, Nosoupforyou! This is really helpful. I’m glad someone here knows what they’re talking about. <3

Best answer:

Answer by Miss mystery
Nope. Not me.

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Eel, Is There Anybody Out Has Some Experience On Caring These Fishes?

By on Saturday, April 30th, 2011 | 1 Comment

I was wondering, what kind of eel is the most safe one, the one that can raise with other fish and the one that usually swim out in the public, so far, I used to raise an eel that is black, it’s keep hiding in the rock, another is white but with black spot all over it’s body and another one is ribbon eel. I don’t have them all at once, they came after another when the old dead.
The black and the white with black spot, never came out to swim but ribbon eel does sometime.
I once saw a video of aquarium tank and they raise about 3 eel in it and they all swam out like playing or fighting with each other, and they really beautiful when they swam out. And also in the tank there are Blue Tang, Yellow Tang, Common Clown Fish and lots of other fishes as well.
Now I only have one Ribbon Eel, it’s black and long about 130cm and size about a thumb.
I’ve raise it since it’s was about 50cm and really small. and these passed two yrs it was fine, until last month that I cleaned out my tank make a new system to get water more clean and new decorations.
Now I only put about five different type of clown fishes and a few other small fish, total is about 50 of them.
My Common clown fish (Nemo) is about 4cm in length and and there are 9 of them but they keep on missing one everyday, and now there’s only three left, it’s started to missing about a week ago.
Could it be that my eel eat them? but why it doesn’t eat other fish as they being a lot smaller than my clown fishes? And why there never been any fish missing before???

Work Experience Melbourne 2011?

By on Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 | 1 Comment

im looking for year 10 work experience placements for september this year (just for a week per place)
i’m not really sure what i want to do, but anything different or fun?
the zoo, aquarium, police, RSPCA and some others are closed. ideas?

Horrible Petsmart Experience, Your Opinion…?

By on Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 | 6 Comments

So I went to Petsmart to buy some more fish today. I got rid of 4 platies, so I wanted more fish. The guy helping me asked what size aquarium I have, and what fish.
10 Glowlight Tetra’s
5 Corydoras
1 Betta,
I didn’t tell him about the other 4 platies or my last oto cat cause I don’t even know if I’m keeping them and it is NONE of his d*mn business.
So with the 16 fish I told him I had in my 29 gallon, he says, “your stocked, I can’t refuse to sale to you, but if they do die before 14 day’s we can’t give you your money back”. I argued with him for awhile cause I know my aquarium isn’t STOCKED although it’s close. So he goes and talks to the ‘manager’ (I have NEVER had any of that stuff happen to me before) and the manager confirmed the sale. I said, “fine whatever I’ll put the fish in my 10 gallon cause If they die I will demand my money back”.
So he sold me 2 Ghost Catfish and a Kuhli Loach to go in a 10 gallon. Wouldn’t that overstock a 10 gallon? So tell me, am I wrong?
DOES 10 Glowlights, 1 Betta, and 5 Corydoras FULLY STOCK AN AQUARIUM? I was so mad I want to complain.
Now my 29 gallon has:
10 Glowlight Tetra’s (all small 4 now)
5 Corydoras (3 are 1/2″ now)
1 young/small Female Betta
1 Otto Cat (others died)
4 Platies (all old, one is 3 yrs another is over 2yrs)
2 Ghost Catfish (they are 1 1/2″ each now)
and a small loach too…
IS THAT OVER STOCKED?
I know I have a lot of fish but when my older fish die in the next 6 months it’ll open room for the others to grow.

Does anyone have experience with moorish idols in a reef tank?

By on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | 5 Comments

I have a 135 gallon reef tank

Is it better to buy an ordinary silver Arowana to gain experience on keeping this fish, before I get a Red one

By on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | 7 Comments

Red Blood Parrot Cichlid – need a person with experience of them to answer?

By on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | 1 Comment

Ok well if you have answered or seen any of my questions you have seen then I’ve been asking a lot about this cichlids lately. If you read this Cindy, the person who has answer my questions lately, you said you own some. Anyone else with knowledge of keeping them please inform me : I intend to get a good 55 gallon aquarium in about 2 weeks. At our petsmart there are some of these cichlids and I been thinkin about gettin 1-2 of them, maybe more if I have enough room. But anyway can someone tell me things that they like require? Maybe some things they like/need and anything liek that. OK thnx to all and please I need some adivce.

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