Recent content by Petrah

Good news Holly... you were right! :thanks: I lowered the temp a bit yesterday and a tiny bit more today. Tigger is now eating, and seems to have a lot more energy. :dance: Hopefully this Ich mess is over, but I will continue to monitor them both closely before I attempt to get them to their...

All I have is flake food at the moment. Will check out the New Life Spectrum though... thank you!

Can you elaborate a bit more about the garlic food?

Good to know! The one that's not eating is looking rather emaciated. :(

Before I continue, the two tiger barbs I have are going to a new home *after* I get rid of the ich as I know (now) that the tank is too small. I originally had 5 Barbs. I started the tank around the 1st of Jan I think it was. What I have: 10 gallon Marineland starter kit tank. What's in it: 1...

I have a few Ghost Shrimp in a 10 gallon tank with some other fish, and every time I put food (Omega One Super Veggie or Omega One Color Flakes) in the tank it takes them only seconds to start going about searching for the food. How do they notice the food so quickly? I tried tricking them by...

I'm so sorry to hear you lost some of your fishies. :( I'm doing the heat and salt treatment right now with the two Barbs I have left, and one of the things I've noticed when researching this method is how long you should do it (there seems to be different recommendations on how long it should...

I have a few Tiger Barbs, and I've read that they like to play chase with one another. Mine do, but they never nip at each other.

Thank you!! :fish2:

Thanks for the welcomes, and the comments!

Hi there Charlie! I'm new to this hobby so I honestly cannot give out any advice for the fish side of things, but I can and do agree with what Sambo stated above. ;)

Hello all ;) Not sure where to begin, except to say that I'm learning from some extremely stupid mistakes that I could of prevented had I done a bit of research. Will try to make this short as I'm sure you guys have seen these mistakes a billion times already. :cool: I bought the Mainland 10G...