Recent content by rkolb86

I didn't have any sort of bug issue, but yours is odd...never heard of it. I wasn't able to get the clove oil before he passed on his own, but I did start a slush bag to drop him into...I figured that it was the best way for him to go otherwise. Sorry to hear that your fish is dying. It's...

The only visual sign he had was Dropsy. I'm not sure what the underlying cause was, but my guess was organ failure. I've had him for 1.5 years, but who know how old he was when I got him...or what kind of conditions he endured. My tank was always flawless. Sometimes they just go I suppose...

I went out to get some clove oil, couldn't find it locally. Came back to Bob sinking to the bottom. We watched each other as he took his last breathe. He went pretty peacefully. Bob...you were a good man. You will be missed. On that note...time to restock the tank.

Betta is on the brink of passing due to dropsy, so I'm going to have to restock shortly. I want to stick with the 10 gallon. I have a heater and a very good filter (AC20). I don't want goldfish. Cold-Water fish are ok. I think I want a couple of small[ish] brightly colored fish. Something...

Is there a cover/lid on the tank? It makes a HUGE difference.

Looks like my efforts are showing no signs of success. He hasn't been interested in eating in nearly a week. He is almost non-responsive when I attempt to scare him...doesn't even flinch. He's been swimming near-vertically against his heater/beta hammoc since last night. It looks like I'll be...

I wanted to make sure the bloating wasn't just from constipation. I tried an Epsom bath and have yet to see him go at all. I'm still not sure if this is because he hasn't had an appetite in 2 days or because of constipation. He has become more lazy so I put him back in his tank. I added...

It all started about 2 weeks ago. This may be unrelated, but I started getting lots of Diatoms in an established tank (3 months?) About a week ago, Bob's appetite started going out the window. 2 Days ago, he started getting some discoloring under his chest. Today, the discoloring has spread...

So my 10 gallon (traditional rectangular 10 gal) is almost at the end of its cycle, and I've decided that I want to throw a single plant in there for my Betta to play in. I want something he can swim through and sit on. Java Fern or Anubias were suggested to me, but I want to be sure. I...

You know, with all the frustration this 5 gallon has given me, maybe I should just go pick up a 10 gallon and see if I can cram this proprietary filter in the new one as well as the substrate and use it to seed. From what I gather, the bigger the tank, the easier it is to stabilize.

That's a big reason why id did the PWC...I figured the bacteria had depleted my water of something. Not a single NitrIte spike. It has never gone over 1ppm. Yeah...I shake the **** out of those bottles. I follow the directions exactly. My numbers as of tonight: Ammonia: 4ppm NitrIte...

There is a single fake plant

I started my fishless cycle on 10/21/11...about 6 weeks ago. Ever since the 2nd-3rd week of cycling, I've have about .5-1ppm of Nitrite with no real fluxuation....it's been stuck, however, my ammonia drops down to about 1ppm before I dose it back up to 4ppm. Some More Info: I have never had...