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The 1/3 water changes every 2 wks was before he got sick.  He's been in a hosp tank with fresher water and the meds for the last 2 wks with water changes in that every 3 days as per the directions.  What I'm looking for is someone to say, my fish did that and I used this for a cure.  I did the...

waters ok, I remove 1/3 and clean the gravel every 2 wks.  The fish store sold me copperssafe and they said they regularly add it to all their tanks as a precaution.  (They thought my fish might have gill flukes.)  He's not happy for the last 2 wks and I hate to waste time "experimenting" with...

My lg green terrror lives alone in a 55 gal.  2 wks ago he sat swimming tail pointing down, head up and 2 days later was lying on his side on the bottom with labored breathing.  When approaching the tank, he darts around and returns to ly on the bottom.  The fish store sold me tetracyclene and...

Thanks for your wisdoms, I'll stick with the "tea-water.." / I don't keep a light on the tank beacause it is mostly bottom-dwellers, just an occasional flashlight when giving visitors the fish tour.. fish4962

I have a 70 gal with 2 double-hanging filters/no carbon. My driftwood leaches tannins and looks like tea water. I've been reading up on purigen;sounds expensive $$, grains slip out of the bags, and the bleaching sounds dangerous. Should I use purigen, carbon, or stick with the tea-water...

Carbon keeps the water sparkling clean, same as in drinking water purifiers, and comes already in the store-bought filter cartridges and you can add it to your canister filters. You don't have to use it unless you've put medicine in your tank, your fish are now cured and you want to remove the...

Rabbits can use a litterbox indoors.. I would worry about the chewing on the carpet and elect. cords.. ours is in a wooden hutch overnite and daytime, goes in a dog kennel to run around and we can go inside and sit on a milk crate and visit with him. He has a box and hay on the ground. We're...

Is that filter for a 10 gal?/20 gal? Do you have any other pets? I have 3 cats, a dog, an outdoor dwarf rabbit and a teddy bear hamster(the kind with the long hippie-hair..). Fish4962

The glass eel was @ the fish store and was a small 3" wiggly white spaghetti-looking thing. I asked how big it would get and they said not big. I bought "scout" because he was unusual and was very active. This was about 5 yrs ago. He hid under the gravel and just grew and grew.. I asked how...

Did you know that guppies can hold their sperm back until the water conditions are just right? So, they could have mated and just not surprised you till a later date... Interesting, huh. What do you have in your tank -- plastic or live plants? Ornaments? What size/kind of filter do you use...

Platys are colorful, ottocinclus are like little plecos that suck on the glass wall, cory catfish are great bottom fish, the ghost shrimp are hard to see, but are cool to watch them. Kooli loaches stay small. Have your guppies had babies? I keep my babies in a breeder net so the others don't eat...

I am into this fish hobby 8 yrs now, thus the "multiple tank habit..." I have a 45 gal tank of lg and sm goldfish, a 55 gal of 3 koi, a beautiful male green terror cichlid, a blood parrot cichlid, an ob peacock, a vestus cichlid, an oscar, a crown royal betta, an oxylotl, a 70 gal with all my...

Hello, I'm a new member with multiple freshwater tanks and am always interested in other fish friends...