Recent content by bluedragon

Once you use a canister you will never go back.

I had 1 Gourami in my tank. I just bought another plus 2 dwarf neon's. The drarf's are doing fine.... no problems with them being aggressive or being chased. However, my reg Gourami is chasing the new one all around the tank. I feel so bad. I thought they were such peaceful fish.

I had 1 Gourami in my tank. I just bought another plus 2 dwarf neon's. The drarf's are doing fine.... no problems with them being aggressive or being chased. However, my reg Gourami is chasing the new one all around the tank. I feel so bad. I thought they were such peaceful fish.

Thanks for all of your advice. I was thinking maybe it was stress. I had added stress coat to the tank. Although sometimes I wonder what a number of squirts will do in a 55 gal tank... Should you do it while they are in the bag? My LFS used to add it to the bags and I notice they are...

I don't use a background because my tank can be seen on both sides. It's 55 gallons, I bought two of the rams, bought them just 2 days ago, I fed my fish color enhancing flakes plus blood worms yesterday. I don't what type of rams they are, only that they were a very solid blue blue and very...

Thanks, what is a R/O unit? It's the standard kit which detects soft to very hard water.

I recently discovered some really beautiful colorful fish in my LFS the other day. He told me they were called RAMS. They were very vibrant, half blue, half orange. I thought maybe they were salt water fish! Anyway, although in the store they couldn't be more vibrant, when I got them home...

Hi, I have a 55 gal fw tank. I've been struggling with terribly hard water that stresses the fish.... way over very hard water in my test kit. :( Also, the Ph is difficult to stablize with such hard water as well... not to mention scraping off all the calcium crust from the tank rim and...