The clown pleco has been getting worse slowly. he comes out during the day time quite a bit and forages around. every leading ray on all his fins except the anal fin and the tail fin is red, or getting red. nitrates at about 5 ish, 0 for others. 7.4 ish ph, 120 hardness, 120 alk, on a strip kit ...

hey there, update about the pleco. its been another week or two, got all the temperature problems fixed, found some hair on the impeller of the penguin filter which was causing that to go wacky sometimes. and cleaned the tubes out on the fluval, its a fluval 204 by the way, not a 403.
the pleco has ...

Thankyou silurus, well that means i presumably have all female glass cats. cuz the entire pectoral fin looks to be a perfectly smooth arc all the way around, no serrations anywhere. I like this method, that is pretty darn easy, as long as i can get them with the right background to see the fins ...

hi, dont know if youve figured something out yet but heres an idea, can you get a thermostat and set it to the temp range you want and then make that run a power bar with the 10 heaters on it? is that what youre going for or is it something completely different.

How sensitive would ghost cats be to the ingredients? And does it really not effect the bio filter? Going to look up what the ingredients take care of individually. Any ideas on getting the percentage included in the bottle of each ingredient. thanks Mats

thankyou mats, got some decent pics on my n95 phone but its a horrible phone and needs its own software and usb cable to download and im on the gf's computer. will get pics up in my aquaria soon i hope. thankyou.
also, where do i look for sexing the clown? any threads that are decent come to mind?

Hi, I went looking for some antifungal stuff for my platy's. stress and things caused them to get big pale patches on them. i keep a clown plec, an unkown cory, 4 glass cats, and 3 platys. i did a pile of research on the best fungus medicines and through it all i was led to believe try Maracyn 1 for ...

Hi there, I haven't found a place that says how to sex glass cats yet but i was wondering if the eys and organs coloring could be used to do it. I have 4 in a tank with some other fish.
I have 2 with black iris' and black pupils so the eyes look more or less on solid black dot with a faint faint ...

Fairly new P.Maccus was sick looking when I bought him. much better now, about two or three weeks later. All that seems to be wrong now is the leading ray of the pectoral fins is red, both sides and just the first fat ray in the fins. all other fins are fine, he doesn't seem to be fuzzy anymore. I ...

Hey there Banana, hows kingston treatin ya?
With the puffers, I've got my original whos almost bigger around than he is long, and the new one who was super underfed, just a big head with a string for a neck and body, now in two weeks hes grown to half the size of the fatty puffer. but he will nip at ...

Hi there, I have done a pile of lookin around on the net for solutions to these types of algae. I'll explain what seems to be working for me in case anyone else is having these problems too.
The brown gunky looking algae that takes over anything in the tank it can rest on such as decorations, plants ...

Thankyou for the advice, I will get a few more buckets and just keep some outdoor tapwater on hand when it's water change time to get it up to Temp. I think landlord man might have just gotten a rainbarrel too so if possible i'll snag some of that instead too. Thanks again for the advice. PS. super ...

Hi there, I have had a tank running for about 6 months now and have only used the water softener water in it. I am trying to find out what this causes in tropical freshwater fish. OR, How I can clean up the outside (bypass) water to be safe for the tank. It is softened by salts and it isn't ...