Recent content by blackberry75

Personally, I'd put it where it's the last thing the water passes on it's way out or the first thing before the biomedia. But I'm not an expert by any stretch. Hopefully this will bump your post so someone smarter than me will chime in

Mystery solved. I added more plants from another tank a while ago. While observing the puffers I noticed something darting around in the plants. Its feeder a guppy. Specifically one of the females I'd thought I lost. Last time I saw her, she was very pregnant... she's not now. There's zero fry...

I have 4 of them in a 30g planted tank. For the past year they've eaten snails no issues. Recently my snail tank crashed and I lost the whole stock in there (daughter was "helping" feed them w/o telling me). While I get that going again, I've been throwing in tiny mystery snails and whatever...

I think continuing quarantine is best at this point. They don't sound healthy. Unfortunately I am inexperienced but hopefully someone with more knowledge will chime in.

My stepson agreed to take his brother's fish while they moved out of state (spoiler, they didn't come back for the fish). There where 12+ common gold fish and 2 black moors in a filthy 29g. Thus began my journey of trying to save the lives of ich riddled fish with bacterial and fungal...

I don't know about royal plecos, but my common doesn't really eat during the day. He really only comes out for food after lights out. Throw some wafers or zucchini in at night then walk away. Check in the morning to see if he ate anything. Fish won't starve themselves in the presence of food, so...

If you have live plants, I recommend a light break in the middle of the day. In my tanks I have the time set to 5h of light in the morning, 4h off, and 6h on in the evening. The plants seem to thrive with this schedule and I have minimal algae issues. It's not perfect, 'cause I still have some...

You need the new tank as soon as possible. Only genetics will determine how quickly an individual fish grows. Some grow super fast, others slowly. That's for all species. As for tank size, that's determined by fish size, amount they poop, what they eat, how messy of an eater they are, how much...

Well that sucks. I imagine there's no way to house more than 1 Oscar in that tank.

I scored a huge tank. In my head I have a picture of what I want, but I understand some of these fish can't live with each other in reality. Here's what I want: Oscar (albino tiger preferred) Rainbow fish(just for their colors and look of schooling fish) Cardinal tetras (same reason as...

OMG I didn't even put 2 and 2 together! I've noticed a change in the taste of our water but it's like this every spring. Fudge.

Possibly. It's definitely worth looking into. Unfortunately both fish passed and another is losing their color, which is a different symptom from the other two. I have no clue what's wrong with my tank. My only hope is that the water changes get rid of whatever the problem is. My parameters...

I'm wiling to accept I'm wrong, but I test before and after every water change, there's no ammonia in my tap water, and I change water frequently. It was only one fish so I moved him to the hospital tank, but last night I noticed it on the tail of another fish and moved them as well. The filter...

It's currently in the living-room while I get the basement set up for all my tanks (fish and land hermit crabs). My kids are healthy and active, so probably a lot of vibrations. I'll try some of your suggestions. Thx

I forgot to put water parameters. Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 5 Kh: 3 Gh: 8 Ph: 7.6 Temp: 76F