Recent content by Crazyfishlady77

Should I treat for fin rot in the display tank or try to catch him and put him in the q tank. He is a schooling fish and I wonder about the stress of catching him and keeping him alone in the q tank. I never know what to do in these situations.

I have 6 cories. A few days ago I saw that one of the cories barbells are completely worn away. He was still swimming around and eating. Now, he just lays at the bottom and I can’t tell if he is eating or not. I’m not sure how he lost his barbells. I’m not sure what to do about it. I have a...

The fry are eating up a storm and acting naturally... they did have a minor case of ich that took about 10 days to clear up, but nothing in the last 2 weeks.

My platy fry has a long string of brown poop that hangs down and it takes anywhere from 5 minutes and much longer for the poop to fall down. Is this a cause for concern? Is he constipated? I feed them 2x a day, 7am & 7 pm. A tiny pinch of excellent quality flake in the am and brine shrimp in...

I will next time.

They really should remove the dead fish before it gets moldy and half eaten by the snails.

A week ago all the fish looked great. It was a drastic change from last week. The ich was contained to my quarantine tank.

I am so disappointed in my local Fish store. Last week I bought 4 otocinclus catfish from them. They looked healthy, nice rounded bellies, actively eating and swimming around the tanks. Well, they came down with ich yesterday. Today I stopped in for more sand for another tank and looked at the...

Well I don’t want to use shrimp because platys will eat my shrimp and I don’t think that’s fair. I will have to think of something else.

Ok. I am wondering when to move them to my 5 gallon grow out tank? Any thoughts?

I saved these platys from my LFS. Can anyone tell how old the larger fry is? I’m guessing the tiny fry are at least a week old. Thanks.

My tank is fully cycled and awaiting the 4 platy fye to grow big enough to move to the 5 gallon grow out tank. How do I keep the cycle going without fish? I used brine shrimp in a media bag to create the waste needed to cycle the tank. Should I just continue to use a little brine shrimp? Thanks.

You don’t need to continue dozing with ammonia. Don’t do a water change until your tank is fully cycled. Fully cycled means you have 0 ppm (parts per million) of ammonia which you are approaching. Your nitrite is rising because the beneficial bacteria is converting it to nitrite. Your tanked is...

I fail to see why you felt it important enough to point this out and yet didn’t address my actual concern.

I was just thinking that too. My quarantine tank is fully cycled!! It’s a challenge to figure out which is male and female at my LFS. So I think it’s a crap shoot as to what you get. It’s easy to say females are fatter (now this is fat shaming the girl fish), but picking out the right sex as...