Recent content by ParadoxOwl

So, I've had my little Betta, Samurai, since June. He has moved tanks twice and never with a problem. He's been in a 20 gallon tall tank for months. He patrols the top where he has a floating Betta log, and wistera on the bottom. Now, he lives with 3 Cory Cats, 3 Oto cats, and 4 snails. All...

JTDS have genders. I have a for certain female named Potty tickle (minecraft joke) and she had babies. I have been able to sex the other two because they don't like coming out at all when i hold them. JTDS's are live mystery snails, they have genders. I done so much research on that just to...

The eggs are clear blobs, and we had Ramshorn's so I know they aren't that. So, if i cull the bladder? snails once a month will my filter support them? I have a Japanese Trap Door snail, 3 actually, and they are live bearing snails. Potty Tickle, our only female, gave birth and we have the...

Took me a while but I snagged a picture of the biggest one i got out of my filter. is it a bladder snail?

I know for sure they aren't Ramshorns. I'm trying to figure out what they are other than black XD

So, this is a fairly normal occurrence? I removed the two biggest that I assume are the breeders, and cleaned the canister of all eggs and visible babies. Now I am gonna pull up my driftwood and check there. They like wood too I am assuming?

So, today I took apart my goldfishes canister filter to find two snails and a TON on eggs and teeny tiny babies. I guess the first question would be, now that I have removed the eggs, cleaned and dried the filter (while keeping the media in a bucket of tank water), is it going to be ok if some...

The snap happened over night, and I work then and normal people sleep, so i guess nothing could have been done. The weather was a beautiful 75 degrees all week. I have an Oranda, and I'm told they are more delicate like the pearls, so i should avoid putting them outside... unless it's summer...

Ok, so after reading the sticky here showing a large telescope eye, and after much research saying goldfishes need a larger aquarium, I decided to move some fish to my friends parents 8,000 gallon pond as well as their 800 gallon pond. Now, this pond is cycled and the water parameters are all...

Here's 3 photos. These buggers are hard to capture. They are thin and hairlike.

I keep trying to snag a picture of them, but it's so hard! They look like little white wiggly hairs. My research says they might be nematodes? PraziPro isn't killing them whatever they are! If they are these nematodes, should lack of anything being in the tank kill them? I read a few posts that...

I took D.W. out of his tank and emptied it. I kept the old media in another tanks water, in a bowl, while i re-started it. I removed the gravel to clean it further, ran his decorations under hot water, and added the filter and heater after being cleaned. Now there's some kind of white wiggle...

My Betta, D.W. has always been fairly, active let's say. Flaring at everything from his plants and filter, to the snail and me. He swam like a nut job all day and gobbled up the food I gave him. He seemed very happy and healthy. I do a water change every week, usually 25% but sometimes 30%...

I honestly through out the bottle. It was a water conditioner that said it had aloe in it. I also added API StressZyme.

This is my snail eating bugger pre-gravel removal