Recent content by mwe_ch

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I'm from Winnipeg myself, but live in Switzerland! Which stores at home have you tried? -M

I bought and moved a 65g/230l freshwater aquarium back at the beginning of May and used a large coleman cooler to hold about 1/3 of the water and the fish. So if you have a cooler, this is an option (and everyone uses one at some point, so it's a good investment!). For the drive, I used oxygen...

Clarifying To clarify by "boredom" I meant in reference to the fact that he is a shoaling/schooling fish and right now he's alone. I got him (and his previous tank-mates) second-hand, but the others succumbed to the stress of the move. In reference to the above, is the tank big enough for...

Hello, Now that I've gotten a large 230l/65g tank and have transferred my fish into it (they are doing great, see aquarium 004 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! for befores and afters), I've now set up my original tank as a planted tank and QT for a lone neon tetra that has a bent spine (I think it's...

I think I've figured out what's happening to my disappearing fish! Last night I had 6 healthy rummy-nosed tetras, this morning too, but after lunch, there were only 5! Where did the 6th go?! I looked through the java fern, through the other plants, in the grooves in the mangrove wood, in...

Thanks for the advice. I'll look into European (I'm in Switzerland) equivalents. For now I've added a bit of coarse gravel all over and terraced it up on the left side (and removed and moved some mangrove). Once I find something better, I'll remove the gravel and replace. Darker gravel...

So, since setting up my second-hand tank two months ago (saved all gravel and java fern plants and half the water), I have consistently had the same water parameter readings, but fish have been disappearing and/or getting ill left, right and centre. I'm figuring some of the fish were old, and...

Well, after a few days of not eating, the separated single Neon Tetra with bent spine is now eating and doing ok. So, if he lasts another few weeks, I'm going to guess it is NOT fish TB, but some sort of vitamin deficiency he got when with his other owner. Problem now (yes, ANOTHER problem...

Yeah.. I thought it might be TB but haven't had time to google the symptoms again... Better use gloves in both tanks from now on, I do not want to get an infection myself! Keeping my son's hands out the tank is another issue.

ACK! Another Neon tetra "disappeared". He was there for the evening feed and not there in the morning. Weird. So, I moved the two remaining Neon Tetras into the 40l tank as it was planted and cycled. One (who has had a huge belly the whole time I've had it) died overnight, the other...

Hi, Is it possible to add plant substrate (not top gravel) to a tank after it's already set up? I added some to my small 40l tank which already had water, and the water was full of brown sediment for 2 weeks. Luckily it's just in the setting up phase, but I didn't want to remove the water...

I guess they are gone then and once the weather stabilises (still hot, cool, hot out this summer), it'll be time to think about fixing the numbers so they school better. That or I take the neons out and put them in my small 40l (12g?) tank... hmmm... -M

I only have the snails that came in with a new plant (despite rinsing!). No snails that I actually "bought". Could these attack a fish carcass? Another search today and still nothing to be found, but my weak male Swordtail is suffering again from the rapid temperature drop in the tank (we...