Fish in the News:
Despite escaping Hurricane
Katrina with little physical damage, the Aquarium of the
Americas in New Orleans suffered significant loss of animal
life when the facility's emergency generator failed and made
conditions unlivable for most its animals. Surviving animals
from the New Orleans aquarium will find new homes. Click
here to read the entire story.
More Fish in the News: Oregon
State University researchers say the Zebra Danio Fish may hold the
key to
improved cancer research. Click
here to read the entire story.
George from St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, calls and says he has a whole bunch more baby fish. His Swordtails and Mollies
both gave birth. George also says he can't find any males among his baby fish. Finally George thinks he may have some
hybrid Aquatic Snails in his aquariums. Click
here for more information about Aquatic Snails.
Kermit asks for information about Aquarium Frogs. Click
here for more about Aquarium Frogs.
Mike has a new 6-gallon Nano Aquarium and wants to know what
to put in it? Tom and Nevin suggest a Male Betta, a few
Dwarf Frogs, a few Ghost Shrimp, a Mystery Snail, a few
White Clouds.
Vern says he emailed last week to say his Rainbow Arowana
and Oscars died from ich. Vern says he did have an inch of
gravel over an undergravel filter. He removed the
undergravel filter and odor was strong. Tom and Nevin try to
give Vern some more tips and hints.
Rod in El Grove, California, says the Clown Loaches he
bought long ago from AquariumFish.net have grown to be 5½"
long, never been nocturnal, and are aggressive.
Christopher from Maryland has two 2" Tiger Barbs that have
recently been rubbing against each other and locking mouths.
He thinks they may be getting ready to spawn. What does he
need to do to insure the fry survive?
Sandy has a Betta Fish with bulging eye and wonders what to
do?
Nina says her Spotted Plecostomus is lying on the bottom of
her aquarium, which has a lot of small Snails. She wonders
if the Snails have caused her Pleco to be sick?
Chris calls and says he sent the email, that we read a few
minutes earlier, about spawning Tiger Barbs. Tom and Nevin
talk about spawning Barbs.
Tom and Nevin continue talking about spawning Tiger Barbs
and other species of Barbs.
Bobbie calls, says she's going to be moving, and has several
8" to 10" long Comet Goldfish, that she wants to take with
her. Click
here to listen to the Pet Fish Talk Show about How to
Move Fish. Click
here to go to a web page in AquariumFish.net about How
to Move Fish. Click
here for the six steps of the Recommended Treatment.
An anonymous email says, "I
have 2 oscars in my 55 gallon tank. They are producing eggs
all the time but they always eat them. I took the eggs after
they were fertalized and placed them into my 20 gallon tank
with a air stone and after about 3 days the eggs hatched. I
had about 200 wigglers at that time. We covered the filter
with panty hose so that the babies would not get sucked into
there and they actually started swimming within about 4
days. After they started swimming they all started dying. I
have no babies left. Once they started swimming my pet store
told me to leave the air stone in and to make flakes into a
powder and I did that. I still lost them all. Is the 20
gallon tank to big for them to find food? If flake food
powder still to big for them? I could not tell if they were
actually eating it or not. Please help me I am tired of
losing all these fish. Also how often do Oscars lay eggs? I
hope you can help me with this. Thank you so much." Tom and
Nevin try to answer all these questions.
Lustar Hydro Sponge II Filter This
filter provides both mechanical & biological
filtration. Aerobic bacteria colonize the sponge,
providing a bacterial substrate to facilitate the
nitrogen cycle. In addition, it traps larger
particles, mechanically cleaning the water. Good up to
a 20 gallon tank. Size: 3" diameter x 10" high, when you
add extension it is 11" high. Related items: you will
need an air pump, airline tubing & an air stone or
just a power head & tubing to run filter. Ideal for
filtering aquariums with baby fish such as baby
Oscars.
Tannis wants to know how big a snail will his Clown Loaches
eat?
Terry from Spokane, WA, calls and says he's a notorious fish
keeper and likes to try lots of kinds of fish in his
55-gallon aquarium. Next he wants to try African Cichlids.
We talk about a compatible group of African Cichlids for a
55-gallon aquarium. Click
here to read about Mbunas. Click
here to read about some small species of Cichlids from
Lake Tanganyika. Click
here to read about Synodontis Catfish.
The Lemon Yellow
Labidochromis, a Dwarf Mbuna species, from Lake Malawi
in East Africa. Click
here to buy many species of Mbuna Cichlids.
Synodontis nyassae a wonderful Catfish from Lake Malawi that a very
compatible with Mbuna Cichlids.
Click
here to read about Synodontis Catfish.
Evan from Colorado calls and says he's had
problems with his new Marine Aquarium. He thinks his problem
is too much nitrite, and he thinks he will get a BIO-Wheel
filter to convert the nitrite to nitrate which is not so
toxic to fish. Evan agrees that his marine aquarium is way
more complicated than his freshwater aquariums. Evan says
that Marineland's web site says, "BIO-Wheels are ideal
for both freshwater and marine aquariums."
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