Recent content by Emclenaghan

Looks great! I love it!

I like the marbles! They still look sort of like gum balls. Your set up is coming along nicely!

Out of the 7 we now only have 2, one of the glofish and the Betta. When I took the dead ones back we got 2 more glofish and everybody we have now seems to be doing great! Crossing my fingers!!

That's really neat! I am pretty excited about our little guy. He hid under a leaf all day yesterday but was out more today. I think he may be growing accustomed to his new home!

I like your tank! What about adding an ADF- African dwarf frog? Would also love to see a pic of your Betta!

We just went and took back the dead ones. We left with 2 more, hopefully they work out better. I just posted a thread about my experience with their fish department guy today....ridiculous!

So, I started this tank for my daughter. It looks to be cycled, all my levels are holding steady and the ammonia is down to almost nothing. We got a Betta, 2 neon tetras and 4 glofish. Well,24 hours later and 2 of the glofish plus both the neons have met their maker. Everyone else seems healthy...

Ok, now I really have to hang my head in shame.......Petsmart. I know better but I feel so bad for their fish. The employees at mine are idiots!! I cringe at the bad advice I hear there so I considered it more of a rescue than anything else.... One of them came out of the bag looking half...

See that's the thing, and why I panicked a little. My water is testing 10-20 for nitrates, and not quite a .25 on ammonia. We just got some glofish and neon tetras yesterday. Both the tetras died and 2 out of 4 glofish are dead too. The remaining 2 are very listless and the Betta, well, I can't...

Your Betta is beautiful! I wouldn't worry about either of those things unless he starts to act weird. Just keep an eye on him and keep up with testing and changing your water.

Personally I think you would be better off leaving him in the 2 gallon until the 5 gallon cycles. Just keep up with your PWC's and he should be fine! He will be much happier in the fresher water and you won't mess up the cycle in the other tank.

I know, honestly, I just posted on another thread yesterday and said almost exactly what you just told me. Why I put that stupid tab in the tank? I don't know... I think it was just a momentary lapse of judgement and the fact that I had these things laying around. They did nothing to the pH...

Has anyone ever used these? I put one in my 10 gallon yesterday to lower the pH, major fail!! Anyways, now it looks like everything in the tank is dusty and if I "dust" it just kicks it back up into the water where it floats around looking all gross until it settles back all over everything. Is...

My daughter, for like a year, has been going on and on about how she was going to rescue one from the little bowls at the store because "that is so mean!". So wise for a 5 year old!

So glad to see this post! I was just pondering this last night. Our water has a pH of about 8.4 which I keep trying to lower with those expensive little fizzy tabs. Every time I do a PWC I have to add them, they cloud the water, although the fish find them entertaining to watch! All of my fish...