Recent content by Antimoine

Hi there, I need help with one of my tanks. I have a planted tank (33 gallons, aquaclear filter, new aquaglo neon) and it started to deteriorate last week. I now have brown algae and some sort of stringy stuff on the plants, they're getting brown on the edges and i also lost 2 fishes (I think)...

LFS had the same results, pwc done every week. Nothing abnormal that I know of cause I usually get informed before getting something new. I'll post a pic later today

Nope Nothing, He was there the morning, and a rotting carcass the evening... I lost a neon and a rasobra the same way. Any idea ?

Hi everyone, please help! I lost another fish yesterday (choco gourami, my favorite one) that I had for almost 6 months... 33 gallons, a Loach, 3 Rasboras, 4 neons, 3 glo danios, 1 algae eater, a pearl gourami (very pacific)and a black molly. Plenty of place to hide, plants and airstones...

I'd like too know the name.... looks like http://www.exotic-cichlids.com/M.%20Lateristriga.htm only smaller and more colorful I'll continue searching cause I really wanna have ideal conditions, they're super nice fishes. Edit ...

A friend of mine moved and had to dispose of 2 dwarf cichlids.... So I decided to take em and since they're quite small I placed em with my 2 gouramis in a 15 gallons tank (extremely overcrowded now I know). How big should the tank be for those 2 cichlids? (kinda blackish with a yellow mouth...

Well I have an tank of gouramis, one of american cychlids and a community tank of small fishes like rasboras neons danios dwarf gouramis etc... Since I decided to change the feding pattern of the fishes I got interested in veggies...

Hi, I was told last week that I could feed my fish with veggies. I can only assume that any vegetable wont do. Can someone tell me what to use and how to use it? Thanks a lot

Well I kept plants for a week and afterwards intruduced a pleco and 2 snails. I had ammonia at around 0.02 for a week and now I have nitrite at around 2. Today is pwc day for all aquariums so I thought it would be time for a filter exchange. I have never tried a fishless cycle which is very...

I worked at a pet shop a few years ago where we frequently received those dyed fishes.... Most were transparent fished with added blue or red dye in the fins and tail.... The thing is that after a while they loose the color and you have a translucid fish. And yes those were huge sellers...

Ok, so it's going to get hot around here in the next few weeks and since I have tanks requiring temps below 24 c I decided to make a chiller. But I need help. I do not have a cooler or a fridge to cool down the water but I already have a overpowerful pump and tubings and a sound proof box to...

Excellent idea, didn't think about that. But since I once had parasites in the old tank, am I taking chances in transferring the disease as well? My old fishes are ok but everytime I add a fish in the old tank the seem to die of an unknown sickness... (Hence the new tank).

I knew something was wrong with the way lfs sellers always tried to sell the stuff..... Bio Spira? I'll start my research right now. Thanks a lot.

I intalled another tank last week and I an now at the nitrite part of my cycle. I noticed that a product called cycle which I use when adding fishes is also supposed to sherten the nitrate period and the ammount of nitrate in the tank, helping the cycle go through. I don't recall seeing this...

Ok so adding plants is not going to bring it to 0 but it's going to affect the plants? Good thing you asked indeed. Now adding fishes will bring the nitrate up right ? I'll have to keep an eye open to watch as i plan on adding fishes then.