Recent content by Laurielou

Exactly, CUTE! But to each his own. I should probably credit the photo since is just one I found online at Annual Show It got best catfish!

I thought they were ugly too until I saw this one. Come on, tell me that's not cute!

Well, since no one has replied yet, I thought I would say hello and good luck! I think it is great that you and your new fish have eachother now.

Thanks eco! Yes, I have a printout of your guide and have been following its directions closely. I guess I was expecting the nitrates to go up more and then do my big water change. Glad I tested the pH! Diatoms, sounds like something that would be good for my garden. I will try to lug a...

I may need some help here. This is what has been going on: Days 9-11 I had nitrites off the chart and nitrates at 5 ppm or so. Ammonia had been decreasing rapidly, 4 to 0 in 24 hours. Yesterday my nitrites were still high and nitrates were up to 40. Very exciting! I dosed the ammonia back up...

I had a crayfish, we studied them in 6th grade science class and I was one of the lucky few that got to keep one. I saw someone a couple months ago mentioned yabby (which I had to look up). I thought for sure no one else would have had a crayfish!

Thanks everyone!

The LFS said their pH was around 8.3! They have good ratings online and their fish and plants all seemed healthy to me. They have panda and julii (possibly they are really trilineatus). I was thinking about getting the latter.

I am new to the hobby but am qucikly becoming obessed with tropical freshwater fish. I have a 29 gallon which I am in the middle of cycling without fish, thanks to the great almost complete guide that I found on this site. I love corys and would like to get a school of 6. I am not sure about...