Recent content by Kwenbee

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Hi everyone...haven't posted here in awhile due to work schedules, and because my fish have been doing rather well. Unfortunately, just last week, we lost three neon tetras in the 5 gallon tank, and a few days ago, lost our oldest and toughest fish, Bill the Betta. The odd thing is that Bill...

I thought about the digestive thing, but didn't have any frozen peas to try to feed him. I wasn't sure if broccolli or string beans would quite be the same :lol: So, I just hoped for the best, but unfortunately it didn't work. I have no idea how old he was. We've had him since January and...

Well, I got home last night and poor Jake the Betta was history. No apparent reason. He had seemed a little listless for the past day or so, and yesterday, just to be safe, I checked the water levels. All were fine. When I scooped him out of the water, his belly seemed a little puffy, so I...

We have three tanks. The 20 gallon tank inhabitants tend to prefer Tetramin products. I've tried others, they just don't seem to like it. I did buy those nasty Tubiflex Worm Cubes and they totally ignored them (plus they NEVER stayed stuck to the glass like they were supposed to). The...

Hmmm...none of those problems apply to our tank. I do not use chemical additives of any kind. I gravel vac every single week, and NOTHING is being vacuumed out of the gravel bed in the 20 gallon (the 5 and the 10 do have some gunk, but they don't have any brown algae). I did have to change to...

So, if I take the stuff out and clean it up and scrub the glass, it may clear up or it may not? Hmmm...that's not what I wanted to hear. Guess I'm going catfish shopping if that's what it'll take to get rid of this nasty stuff! Actually, one of the plants looks kind of cool with the algae on...

So, I finally get the cycle straight in all the tanks (still battling the 5 gallon for some reason...it's okay, then I get a nitrite spike for no apparent reason), but that's not my question.... I have now developed a nasty case of brown algae in the 20 gallon tank, and a little bit in the 5...

Ya know...I don't have barbs, but I have the same problem with guppies. Every single guppy we've ever bought dies. They seem fine, then they start swimming at the surface. Water parameters are FINE...no nitrites, no ammonia, minimal nitrates. Then, I go into the room and the poor guys are...

This morning, apparently Bill had built a little bubble nest which really makes the surface of the water slimy and gross. I couldn't take it anymore, so I moved the filter over to Bill's side of the tank. He wasn't too impressed with the change at first, but he seems okay now. I just kind of...

We use the micropellets in the neon tank and they love them. It is easier to overfeed with them though since you really can't 'pinch" them, we sort of pour them in our hands and sprinkle from the palm. Our bettas eat nothing but those hard little pellet things, and we sort of feed them by...

My actual thought was just to get a stronger filter, but today I realized that Jake has far more water movement than he likes, he actually sometimes appears to be working hard to swim slowly, so I guess I HAVE to put in two filters. My plan was to get rid of the cheap floss type stuff in the...

I gave up on guppies because I couldn't keep them alive for more than a week or so...the only one we ever kept for any length of time was the one who died when the new ice age came to my aquarium. I have no idea what it is about our aquariums that guppies can't live in, but the last few died...