Koi Fish Information Centre

Well, I don’t know how big your Oscar is, but Oscars are pretty resilient and adaptable so you could use the Rubbermaid or even a significantly smaller tank if it’s just going to be a few days’ time in respect to “temporary” - just be sure to include a fair amount of his current tank’s […]

Hello everyone I found my Baloon Molly male spining around himself this morning , and both his eyes are protruding out a bit. no other symptoms (coloration, fungi.. etc..) I can’t provide water parameters, but the temperature was 84-86 during the week, and I was keeping it around 82 by using freezed bottles several times […]

Hi Shari,
Here’s a few pages I have in my favorites with lots of pictures of various algae. If you don’t see it on these, it may not be algae. It could be a type of mold or fungi which commonly will grow on wood in aquaria.
http://www.plantgeek.net/article_viewer.php?id=9
http://aquariumalgae.blogspot.com/
http://faq.thekrib.com/algae.html#types
http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/algae.htm
http://www.freewebs.com/thefishgirl/algea.htm
http://www.sydneycichlid.com/algae.htm
Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com

So where is Lenny or Sue when I need them?
I’m back from cleaning out the Chambers of Death…
There are many ways to fumigate - I personally do not like any chemical with formaldahyde or formalin in a fish pond. HOWEVER, for plants only, they work very well. Buy any pond curative with formalin […]

Shirley, Don’t know why, but I thought this question was answered, and regret that it hasn’t been. To answer your question short and to the point — No, Fungus is not contagious, in the sense that it is spread from fish to fish as flukes (for example) would be. […]

Well… I was pretty certain that doing a PWC wouldn’t cause this “fuzz” to grow on your driftwood. It’s just a natural thing that happens with certain driftwoods. They are organic so things will grow on and in them. Pleco’s and probably other fish actually eat the wood as a part of […]