Recent content by CanadaPaul

I don't know how large your tank is, but since it seems like it stablized in 12 hours, you could get a couple of those 5 gallon water bottles (the hard plastic ones meant to go on a water cooler) from the grocery store and fill them from the tap the night before you do a water change. I have a...

I thought that tetras didn't really school (in the sense of all moving in the same direction together), but shoaled (spend time in groups sort of in the same area). Are they all kind of hanging out together more or less? If so, I think that is what they do. How many do you have?

Looks like they are not really tetras http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copella_(genus) Splashing Tetra - Copella Arnoldi They also seem to jump out of the water to lay their eggs. They sound fascinating. Edit: Oops, looks like I didn't look closely enough at the pics, but now I want a splash...

If you saw it yesterday I am doubtful it could have been eaten completely so fast. Apart from anything else I would think you should find some skeletal parts. Are there cutouts in the lid for filters and such? It doesn't take much space for an unlucky leap to let one out. The pet theory is good...

As Sherlock Holmes would say, once you eliminate the impossible, the remaining options, no matter how improbable, must be true. If it was eaten it seems you would find remains, so the only logical options are it somehow got sucked into a filter (where you should find remains) or it jumped. Years...

I have been lurking for a few days a thought I should post an intro before I have some actual pressing concern. My father and I kept fish when I was a kid and up to my teen years and then I drifted away for a while as I went to college, got a job, etc. This past year my son got involved in a...