Recent content by littletank

Ignore my last reply please, I hadn't turned the page and read Malkore's response, which basically answers my frantic question about the cycle. Still though, I'm confused about whether or not my bacteria will be able to handle all the extra ammonium and will cause a nitrite spike? Maybe I'm...

yeah. good job toirtis. i looked up polyacanthus fasciatus and trichogaster chuna on google images and he definitely looks like trichogaster chuna with a little more blue than those images that the search came up with.

I really do need to get on the digital camera bandwagon. Especially since we've got kids that our out of state friends keep asking to see. Maybe at Christmas. I was looking at my new gourami, Aruba, this morning in the sunlight and the blue on the top back of his side and top fin is NOT...

Well is it going to be too much ammonia for the bacteria to process? I don't want to go through any more cycling. I REALLY REALLY don't. Maybe I should just go back to bottled water for water changes?? I mean everything has been going so smoothly after all sorts of cycling/ fish disease...

Awesome. Hopefully Aruba will be whole again soon! littletank :D

Hello. I just got a dwarf gourami. I've never seen this color variation before. Let me know if I'm just not observant at the fish stores or if it really is new. He's a dwarf, but is a little thinner than and less rounded than most dwarf gouramis and he's all honey red bud the top of his back...

Hello there. I went to my lfs today and asked for a honey and blue dwarf gourami. They had like 20 in a tank and I looked them all over really well and they all seemed healthy, so I didn't pick out a particular one. Well, when I get home and put his little bag in to adjust to the temp I...

I had a dwarf powder blue gourami that never ate, not even once. I tried everything--brine shrimp etc. He just stayed in his corner and yeah, literally "wasted away" until he couldn't even hold himself up anymore so he'd prop up against a plant. It was so sad that I had to do the "drop in a...

Thanks everyone for your responses. I wish I had read them before I went to the fish store today. I was on that end of town running other errands so I told them of my dilemma and they gave me something called Amquel+ to remove the ammonia in the water. Oh, and if anyone is wondering, yes...

Hello. For some reason the water from my tap has had an ammonia reading of 5 for the past couple of months. We have an Aquasana water filter attached to our kitchen sink and that has an ammonia level of 2.5, so what am I supposed to use for water changes? I have read that bottled drinking...

thanks everyone. I'll put him in then. Have a good week!

I have a six week old platy fry that was born in my 10gallon tank with three adult platies and four zebra danios. After he was born I put him into a 2.5 gallon tank. I want to put him back in the 10 gallon, but I'm wondering when he will be "old enough" to be able to swim freely around the...

Yeah. you should probably just leave her in the main the tank. You'll have so many that it's not worth stressing the poor girl guppy by putting her in the breeding tank. Just keep scooping the babies out. These mommy fish spend their lives being chased by males, getting pregnant, growing...

Hey purplesmurf! Yeah, she looks pregnant. She'll go about thirty days from the day she's impregnated before delivering, at least mine does. She has babies then thirty days later she babies again. We're on our fifth pregnancy. Sunkist, my mom platy is the same kind of platy as yours. She...

Hey Puriti. I have a big mommy platy that has had 4 litters in four months. Her fry hide IN and Under the gravel. Literally. I use my net to swirl the gravel about and I'll find a few. I have never been able to rescue more than 5 from one litter. Even if you do spot one, they swim really...