http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/ A great way to share experience & ask ?s Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:18:04 GMT Lenny V. aka GoldLenny http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44343 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44343 How long have you had your tank set up? Do you have this "brown substance) on the gravel, other decorations, glass, etc? Give us more details about your tank. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:15:08 GMT Steve Szabo http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44342 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44342 I cannot say for sure, but it may be diatoms. Try scraping it off with a single edge razor blade. Just watch your fingers, as the curved surface of the heater Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:08:52 GMT Lenny V. aka GoldLenny http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44341 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44341 Reply to 5. first - OK. A big step is keeping the sun out. That is a BIG part of the algae problem. Natural light is good for plants but in nature, there's Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:31:48 GMT Jade http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44340 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44340 I have a hard light brown (tanish) substance covering the tube of my aquarium heater... is this sediment? I was wondering if that's what's causing my high Ph Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:17:01 GMT cat.rose http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44339 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44339 Hi Lenny, Here's the answers to your questions: 1. How many fish? - 2 guppies, 2 GloFish, 3 platies (one is a baby/few months old)   2. How often do you do Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:15:13 GMT Lenny V. aka GoldLenny http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44338 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44338 We haven't talked about this in many months but I just got an automated email alert that this may be on the schedule for the Senate on Nov. 9, 2009 and for the Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:56:18 GMT harry perry http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44337 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44337 I remember those. My mom wouldn't send us to school if we had a temperature. So, stuck the thermometer in my hot tea. She said your going to school because you Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:50:51 GMT Dayne http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44336 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44336 As an old lady who grew up with mercury thermometers and lots of fevers: the shaking was not to get rid of air bubbles, but to shake the mercury back down Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00:45 GMT Gwydryn@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44335 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44335 Actually, it's 2 males, 3 females and I bought them all within a week and basically added the 2 boys on the same day. They flared and postured, but it was all Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:28:23 GMT bill 1433 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44334 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44334 LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Answers both questions. Bill Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:27:43 GMT Steve Szabo http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44333 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44333 Lenny, If the males have been together since they were hatched, then there is a very good possibility that they will live together peaceably. However, should Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:01:08 GMT Lenny V. aka GoldLenny http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44332 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44332 Do you have females or male Bettas? I know there are always exceptions to the rule but it seems that five males in a 30G might get a little rambunctious. I Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:41:42 GMT Gwydryn@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44331 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44331 In a message dated 11/8/2009 12:33:15 P.M. Central Standard Time, GoldLenny@... writes: Ummmm... it's Lenny and there's never an end to a subject as long Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:19:53 GMT Lenny V. aka GoldLenny http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44330 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44330 But you have to remember, that in the wild, yes they are often found in shallow waters but not always, as they also live in slow moving streams and rivers.... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:54:59 GMT Steve Szabo http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44329 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/AquaticLife/message/44329 Bill, Yeah, but you know what you are kickin' for? Or, what you're kickin' at? \\Steve// ... From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com