Recent content by jlinsey

Got it working - thanks! Opened it up and cleaned the impeller and it started right up when I plugged it back in. :thumb: Never realized you could open up and clean in there...

We have an Eclipse System 6, 6 gallon aquarium and have had it for about 5 years. The pump often goes off with power outages and usually I can get it going again by rapping on the top of the housing, but not today - it seems to be dead. Local places do not have the part so I will order it...

Thanks everyone. I've completed my order with Prime, a spare bio-wheel and a few new types of food. Our fish will have a happy new year!

After one year of fishkeeping in our Eclipse 6-gallon, we have five fish...a silver tipped tetra, and four marble mollies. I'm going to place an order online (probably BigAls) because I need filter inserts and dechlorinator. We have been using Stress Coat which was recommended by...

I've noticed lately that the photographs on tank packaging show what I've now learned are way overstocked tanks. For instance, our 6 gallon tank shows about 5 goldfish or 20 smaller fish in the photographs on the box. Yesterday I saw an ad for an 8 gallon tank with three goldfish. It seems to...

We have a plant, a rock and a castle, so there are places to hide. Since I did the water change, the molly is still bothering the platy occasionally, but the platy is no longer hiding :-). Thanks for the info on the M/F fin differences; now I know the biggest molly is a male and I think all...

We have had our Eclipse 6 set up since January this year, and, after losing our first two fish in the first few days, now have a platy, a silver tipped tetra, and 5 mollies that were born right at the start. Some things that have happened recently seem to be related to the mollies getting...

Thanks so much. That approach makes sense to me. The water temp is at 79 now, and I will slowly bring it up to 80-82 and see if any more spots develop. It's a good feeling to be doing something, yet not something drastic!

We have a 6 gallon Eclipse aquarium which has been set up since Christmas. After losing our first two fish, one of which had had babies, I found this site and got help to get cycled. Since then, everything's been fine until this morning when I noticed a white spot on our platy's tail. It...

We have a 6 gallon eclipse tank with a platy, a tetra and 8 young mollies. For the second time, the platy has a split dorsal fin. The first time, I used the Melafix and it worked great. At the time, we were cycling and I added it with the daily water changes. Now I am doing weekly water...

We have a 6 gal tank that has been set up since last Christmas, with a platy, a tetra, and 8 young mollies. The latter were born to one of our original fish that died. We have the tank in the kitchen on the counter between the fridge and the range. I'm going to run the self-cleaning cycle on...

It's not a mercury thermometer...my mistake. It sounds like for now I should trust the thermometer a bit more and turn the heater down a notch. Thanks all.

What we have is a mercury thermometer suctioned to the inner wall of the tank in the corner opposite the heater and filter. I will look into getting a digital one. Thanks

We've had the Visi-Therm 50W in the tank for about a week now. I set it for 77 degrees and it's brought the temp up to a steady reading of 80 degrees on our thermometer. The fish are doing fine. I remember reading somewhere that the thermometers can be inaccurate, so for now I'm thinking that...

Well our 8 baby mollies grew fast in 2 months, and the netting on the playpen was covered with algae (it really looked awful but my efforts to clean it did not work), so we decided to release the babies last weekend after our weekly PWC and when we were home to observe how they did. The platy...