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    apisto cac. breathing heavy HELP

    heavy breathing cac. Thank you all for all your suggestions and help. I will let you know the outcome of this situation, good or bad. Janeen
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    apisto cac. breathing heavy HELP

    cac. heavy breathing my tank is 20 gal. w/ gravel bottom, rocks for caves and heavily planted. It has been up since the begining of feb. 08. The nitrate .5, ammonia and nitrite levels are at zero. He was fine up until about 6 days ago and has progressively gotten worse. He has been in the...
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    apisto cac. breathing heavy HELP

    male cac breathing hard I do a 25% h2o change wkly, all fish came from the same tank at pet store, except I had some long fin danios in with them, who I have recently discovered have, I think fin rot. They had been moved to a new tank when I discovered this, so I don't know if they just got it...
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    apisto cac. breathing heavy HELP

    :frown: my male cac. is sitting on bottom of tank, having a hard time breathing. Have treated him for ick and used erythromicin, No luck. Both fermales fine at this moment. My frist pair expired with the same symptoms. Male frist, then female. I don't know what it is that they have. All...
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    apisto pairing

    I have a male cockatoo who is quite aggressive, I just introduced a new female to the tank and he won't be nice to her. I thought that they paired easily. Should I leave them be or introduce another female. One pair in the tank with a cory cat and frog who the male accepts, amazingly.
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    ammonia

    Thanks for the advice. I didn't think of that and that may help. janeen
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    ammonia

    I have done everything you mentioned already. there aren't any dead fish and I'm only feeding the 3 fish and frog once every 2-3 days a sm amt. I'm feeding the plants every 2-3 days flourish and also using floruish excell, a carbon product which works great. Plants have grown huge in 5 wks...
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    ammonia

    The ammonia level has been at .5 for about a 1.5-2wks. the nitrite is 0 and nirate is 0, ph at 6. I'm running hang-on filter and airstone. temp about 76-78 degrees.
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    ammonia

    :eek: I have a new tank 5wkS old, heavily planted. At 2wks it was cycled, Then put in too many fish,:redface: reduced fish population down to 3 plus frog, got ammonia down from verrrry high to .5 but ammonia levels won't drop past this. Why is this? It is making me crazy. All fish and frog in...
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    rams showing signs of ick

    I have a pr of rams that I believe are starting to show signs of ick. One spot on males tail and golgen killi starting to show some whitish spotting too. What is the safest method of curing this in rams?
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    HI I'm new too.

    My name is janeen from washington state just north of seattle. I have had rams for 2mos and I'm now hooked and soon purchasing a pair of cockatoo's from a pet store near my home. They have double and triple reds. My question is how to tell for sure if a female is a female when they are only a...
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    Bio-Spira. Does it still work?

    I just used bio spria in a new tank and it still had to cycle on its own, now 1 mo. The bio sprira greatly depends on the freshness and there aren't any dates on this product. Also depends on how carefully it is shipped and at what temp it is keep and a person can't be sure of that. Best way...
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