Aquarium Orange Algae Fish Types

May 4, 2012 - Something strange has happened to my tank, literally, over night. For weeks and weeks my tanks has been A-OK, I've been watching and checking it and vacuuming/cleaning regularly, watching feedings and nitrate levels, everything by the book. This morning I woke up and my tank is a complete 180 from yesterday - There is this weird, bright neon turquoise / teal splotchy film coating the glass, some of the rocks and the decor in the tank. 3 of my fish were , a 4th on it's last leg, it'll...

May 5, 2012 - Okay, so I'm having problems with my fish. I started my new fish tank about 6 weeks ago (it's a 28 gallon freshwater tank). At the moment I have 3 long finned black skirted tetras, three other type of tetras (I don't know their name- they're orange with black and white), 5 small neons, 2 sunset tequilla male guppies and 1 golden gourami. Just in the past two days another gourami and one molly died. In the past (maybe 3 weeks ago) a different molly and 2 other guppies died (I figured those were...