Recent content by Petty Officer Salamander

Are you treating ich, or throwing treatment at an unknown cause?

try getting a python and conducting regular tank maintenance.

be creeped out.

^^^^ please tell me you texted that from a phone (it's the only possible way to have any semblance of grammatical sense).

More than one of us from NC around. Welcome!

Well, the main reason lobsters are kept alive until the moment of cooking is a food safety issue. Once dead, nasty bacteria tend to build up exponentially faster than even with fish. It is possible to kill the lobster immediately before cooking, but most people don't, because it is rather...

between working on cars and being a volunteer firefighter, I've had some nice burns, and let me tell you, there is nothing about a burn that you don't feel.

IMO, there is no line. When it comes to food, any non-human living thing is game. If I was starving, you bet your hind end i'd fry up my cat and have some shish-cat-bob. My morals lie with killing living things NOT used for food or other reasonable purpose (danger to others, etc).

hold the phone here. how is some fist pumping reality show jerk tossing a live fish in a frying pan comparable to a fisherman catching, killing, and eating a fish? Furthermore.. How does anyone know what is more painful (freezing or burning)? Last I checked, people who burn or freeze to death...

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no. not okay.

Recommend leaving the salt in for one full week after the last seen ich on a fish. Leave temperature up for two full weeks after. (not a weekend and then the end of the week)

definitely check into your nutrient/co2 deficiencies before adding anything specific to the tank. What caused an imbalance in one tank may not be the cause for imbalance in another.

and given the excessive gas-off of the water shown by the bubbles, I would indeed suspect that there is too much co2 in the water. Add an airstone to the tank, that should help gas off any excess co2 that is hurting the fish.

looking forward to seeing some FAT angels. nice tanks.