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Yeah, I ment aquarium salt. To me they mean the same thing, but I realize there is a difference. My bad.

I wasn't refering to salt, I don't and never have owned a salt water aquarium. I'm not an expert on this topic by any means. I was simply stating my experience with a very simmilar issue, and how I was told to fix it. It worked for me, take my limited knowlege for what it's worth. I use a...

I use it with charcoal in my tank, have for years. Keeps the water crystal clear and amonia free.

The answer is unanimus, it's not a good idea. I happen to know from experience however that puffers do not make a poping sound LOL. Unfortunately I had a green spotted and a fahaka, and the fahaka decided after a month he was tired of seeing the spotted buzz around the same tank. After...

HITH is pretty much always capable of becoming an issue. Some fish are much more suseptible to it than others. Catfish, oscars, pike cichlilds, and some say angel fish (though that hasn't been my experience) are common ones. It isn't really contagious, unless the water is poor quality. It is...

In my experience, multiple water changes, (large or small) in a new tank that has an amonia issue is a bad idea. I had a very simmilar issue a couple years back with a tank I had just set up recently. Everything was perfect for about a month, then bam! Huge amonia problem. I thought I needed...

My experience when I had my oscars was the same as both videos show, they loved the currents. My filter puts out about 300gph, and that was where they always wanted to be. It gave them something to do other than fight over territories.

I'm only home 3 days a week, and I swear the whole time I'm awake, I'm either watching my daughter, or watching my fish. I love them. They're always doing something that makes me laugh while my wife is trying to talk to me. She gets so pissed LOL. I can't help it. I can't wait to get a 250g...

Oh, here is a thread to give my opinion on. As a "young" 25 year old I feel maybe I can help speak for the younger generation of us, and at the same time maybe all of us. I do NOT feed my fish other fish just because I enjoy watching them kill. The fact of the matter is that for me, I have to...

I don't have a 200 gallon tank, but I do have a 110 gallon tank. I usually do about 50 - 60% water changes. I can't run it out the window or anything cool like that, so what I do is use a 20 gallon trash can that I use ONLY for the fish tank. I bought a fairly in-expensive fountain pump for...

I hate Walmart. The only fish I've ever bought there was a spotted puffer and I quarantined it for a month before adding it to my tank. It actually did very well, until my fahaka puffer tried to eat him, and caused massive internal injuries. It's really quite amaizing how tuff a puffers skin...

I have to say, the argument for a video has gotten completely out of control. As for the name calling and bickering, let's just grow up a little bit. Everyone on here is entitled to their own opinion, and like it or not, it's their opinion. Dovi or SH you choose, it's one half dozen or the...

Well, I haven't been able to get anything yet, but he is doing incredibly well. I had to leave town for a couple days for a funeral, and I had my buddy come feed the fish. When I got home his face was almost completely closed up. I know he didn't turn the lights on, and he didn't have any...

As slim as the odds are they'll survive, wouldn't that be cool if they did??? They've made it this far, and that's already greatly beating the odds. I'm not puting my money on them surviving, but I'll be rooting for them! :thumbsup:

Thanks a lot for the help. Good information doing searches on the internet is so varried from site to site that I wasn't sure what to believe. I knew more than likely it was a malnutrition problem since I was doing a water change every few days to begin with, but vitamin k is what does it huh...

I just copied and pasted it, but that is even faster, thanks. I think with a little help from you veterans I'm getting the hang of this site. Now If I could just figure out how to post a picture....

Thanks a lot, I didn't think about basically starving him to get him to eat the medicated pellets. That was the biggest problem I've been having with switching his diet. The other fish love the new food, but all he will eat are the worms, I'll have to try puting him in the 10 gallon and try...

(WoW you are impatient... you only gave us 4 min. Never used sand I keep all my cichlids on gravel or a bare tank. As you have found sand is a pain in the butt. I guess you ment to thank us in advance for our help.) Yeah, sorry about that, first time, didn't really know how this...

I have a red pike cichlid about 6" with hole in the head. I don't know what to do. He and my other fish came down with ich, and I started doing 20% water changes every two days, using the recomended amount of jungle products ich guard, and 1 tablespoon/ 5 gal. of aquarium salt. It took about...

first of all, your dad really is a fool. Just thought I'd state the already known, I'm good like that. Second of all, The thread is correct, all that should be needed is some kind of salt. My fish got ich a couple weeks ago, and I had the fastest results doing a 20% water change every two...