Recent content by Mattei

Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep a close eye on him.

Last night I quickly checked on my tank before I went to bed and I noticed one of my otocinclus' head what stuck inside the intake to my power filter! So i quickly got my net and pushed him out and he swam for a little bit before going to the top and just falling to the bottom of the tank. He...

nice fish :)

Keep an I on your red tail sharks, typically they become very territorial as they get older and if not given adequate space and a good hiding spot one might go after the other (been there done that). As long as they set up there own little territory Im assuming it should be okay.

I witnessed 4 of my guppies going at some BBA on one of my anubias and no matter how hard they tried they couldn't get it off. A couple minutes later they just gave up and moved on.

Problem with hydrogen peroxide is that I live in Canada and my local pharmacy does not carry it. So I am just going to go with a 1:19 bleach water solution and quickly dip the plants in and then rinse with water.

Yes thats what I plan on doing, except in a diluted bleach solution because I do not know where to find h202.

Alright thanks for the advice, gonna start doing that right away!

So basically you had your lights on at two different periods a day? Im gonna remove my old gravel and clean the **** out of the stuff, my worry is it wont be enough :( Im also adding driftwood which I know can also be attacked by the stuff.

Yes its thick and black and doesn't come off easy, I can see a couple spots on my crypt. The only way I can get the small pieces off my glass to is with a razor blade.

Im almost certain its brush algae, black like hairs that come to a point which is hard to remove, there isn't much on the glass but its taking over the anubias and I do not want an outbreak. I do 20% pwc every week. My oto's don't touch it either. I had read somewhere that it is caused by...

I am planning on doing a substrate change quite soon from regular gravel to flourite, and adding some mopani driftwood which I have been boiling for a couple days. Currently I have 1.5 w/g with a couple java ferns, jungle val, crypt wendtii, anubias nana, and anubias coffeefolia in my 20 gallon...

I bought 3 two weeks ago and tragically one did not make it, as oto's tend to die early, for reasons I do not know. But the other two are doing great and always eating. I am probably going to buy a couple more.

I also have some of these little guys, very fun to watch as they scoot around the tank looking for and eating algae.

I currently have a 20 gallon tank which is moderately planted and looking to switch my boring plain gravel to flourite. Is this okay to do, because I am not sure if I will be disturbing the biological bacteria in the tank that keeps everything in balance. If this is okay to do, is there...