Recent content by Eleven13

Go with the ZooMed "Ultra Sun" bulb. It's what I have in my tank and it looks fantastic. I wasn't a fan of the "flora sun" bulb, it made things a weird color IMO.

Thanks for the advice, I think that is what I will do. I figure I might as well do it now while I don't have anything in there, especially if it will benefit me in the long run. I'm not sure if I'll be able to use a pillow case though, so if I go back to my bucket method (it's like a 15 gallon...

Hey everyone, I just switched substrates yesterday from gravel to sand. I currently don't have any fish and only two plants, both of which are tied to driftwood and not planted. I bought 20lbs of Petco white aquarium sand for my 10 gallon tank. The directions on the bag weren't very specific...

Hey everyone, I've had my betta for about 2ish years now. He's in a 3 gallon marineland eclipse system with 3 live plants (2 betta bulbs and an anubias). The temp is generally between 82 and 86F and I do 50% water changes weekly. He has been doing very well, but he gets scared easily and I...

Thanks for the response Berylla. Good news, he actually looks a lot better today and I got him to eat some pieces of frozen bloodworm. I did another 50% water change and ended up adding Stress Coat to the water so I'm hoping that will help chill him out and get him eating well again. If the...

Thanks again, I actually do use prime and used it the past two 50% water changed I did yesterday and the day before. I'm just confused because the tank has been running without a filter for a long time now and he's been a happy camper up until earlier in the week. I will test the water and see...

Thanks for the reply, assuming he survives this ordeal I am going to get him in a better tank. I have one but I've been trying to fix the light fixture recently but then this happened. I will look into melafix and prima fix, what is the most concerning to me right now is that he won't eat and...

Hey everyone, My mother has had a betta for about a year and a half now. He's in a 1 gallon heated (sort of...the heater is trash and only keeps the tank around 74) tank. It has a filter but it doesn't get run often because he gets blown around by the current and stuck to the intake. I planned...

Haha thanks, that's Valentino (girlfriend got him for me for Valentine's day :lol:) My lighting is a simple T8 6 watt fluorescent, nothing fancy. I used Seachem excel in very small doses to initially tackle my algae problem, but that mixed with the light reduction helped a lot. Just something...

Thanks for the link, that stuff does look pretty nice, fortunately I don't have any fish in the tank currently, so any type of cycle wouldn't be a problem.

I have plants in my 3 gallon betta tank and they do fine, I had algae issues in the past but I reduced my photoperiod to 8 hours and it solved the problem. I have anubias, anacharis, a crypt (currently going through crypt melt....waiting to see if it'll recover), and a bunch of aponogeton...

Thanks for the advice, I want to change my 10 gallon over from gravel to sand and I'm trying to gather all of the info I can before I make a move :D I've heard great things about dirt, but I'm still not sure about it...I'll probably go with some sort of sand this time around and look into dirt...

I kept blood parrots a long time ago and loved them, maybe I'll get some more in the future once I get my hands on a bigger tank again ;)

Ich. Lots and lots of ich. Not so much at local stores, moreso at chains like Petco, etc.

That looks similar to what I had on the leaves of my anubias in my betta tank. I ended up reducing the photoperiod to 8 hours, and within about a week it became very loose and I was able to just brush it off and get rid of it with a water change.