Recent content by RachelG

I wanted to eventually get a school of about nine or ten diamond tetras to keep with my angelfish, who is currently still a quarter-sized baby. I want to wait a bit before adding more fish, though. Will diamonds be suitable, or will they be nippy even in a group this size? I was also looking at...

Yep, a yardstick showed the bottom trim of the tank is bowed up at the ends. The stand looks fine, though I need to get the tank off to properly check that. Thanks. (No beer though, I cannot buy any. Would soda do? :( )

If the new tank does the same then I'll be convinced that I have the worst luck...Or that Visio is going down in quality. The store owner is so big on them, though. :( I thought styrafoam was a bad idea with rimmed tanks. Edit: Look at all the little baby crypts I salvaged from the brown mush...

I talked to the store owner today. He will try to get a replacement for me. It will be a few weeks longer before my awesome dirty crypty tank comes into being, but oh well. On the bright side, I ended up stopping at Petco on the way home(Not where I bought the tank from) and noticed they had...

Yeah. The problem is I may need to wait a few weeks to get someone with a car who has time to take me, and the place doesn't sell tanks on the shelf. They'll have to order another one, which will take a couple of weeks. This will take a very long time. And I got my hopes up that I'd have the...

Added up, the tank is a quarter inch off. I don't think that is safe.

I think it wouldn't be a big deal if one side were raised. But BOTH sides are raised, I think this is very dangerous and could result in a broken tank and damaged floor. :(

That's not gonna happen because I have no experience with woodworking. I don't even own a saw or drill. :(

I think it is the aquarium...I spent time checking the aquarium trim with the little level checker, and I think it is the bottom trim of the aquarium. It's bowed up at the edges slightly. Man, I have to take it back to the store. This is such a pain. :(

Ah, maybe it's because I have a short tank, but my ram seems to swim all over. I guess he'd stick to the lower part in a deeper tank, huh?

In the mean time, is it safe to let the tank sit unfilled on top of the stand like this?

I've never kept an aquatic animal that could hurt me, but I used to have a female betta who would lunge at and try to bite my finger if I held it close enough above the surface. Her jaws weren't big enough to get a grip so she'd just bounce right off. Sometimes my harlequin rasboras do the same...

I have a Bolivian ram with my endlers and they get along well. He might eat a few of the fry, but they breed a lot. So I would suggest some kind of ram. :)

So against all odds I was able to get my dream 45 gallon tank a lot sooner than I thought! This is by far the largest aquarium I've ever had and I'm so excited to get started on it. I have a little liquid-filled level checker, and the stand is perfectly level. Unfortunately, the tank bottom or...

Uh, bump?