Recent content by RobScoots

Hi all, So as the summer is descending upon the northeast I'm noticing the temperature of my tank is getting higher and higher. Even during the cooler months, the lights seemed to keep the temp around 78*, despite the heater being set down at 72*. Today the temperature spiked all the way up to...

Hi guys, thanks for the feedback. So I put the cory in a QT tank with melafix and pimafix, but he didn't make it past Tuesday night... I've been keeping a close eye on the rest of the tank. Just now (Thurs AM) I work up and another cory looks worse than the first! He was all pale and sitting...

Hello all. So I picked up a school of 4 peppered Cory's this Saturday afternoon, and added them to my 24g. I didn't notice anything awry at first. On Sunday I saw that it looked like something was wrong with one of their fins, and now it's gotten worse and it looks like his skin is peeling...

Hello, So I have a question about the nocturnal behavior of Zebra Danios. It seems every time I leave them with all the lights out (as in all the lights in the room, not just the tank lights) for any significant length of time, I turn on the lights to find most of them swimming at the surface...

The substrate is Floramax. The only decorations I have are a few small pieces of manzanita driftwood.

Hello All, I posted here a few days ago about my consistently high nitrite levels on my month old 24 gallon tank. It ran for about 3 weeks before I added 6 Zebra danios just over a week ago. I've been following everybody's advice and doing large daily water changes and feeding every other day...

Thanks guys! I was freaking out that the fish wouldn't make it...but actually they seem way more settled today for some reason. I did a 50% change today, and I did notice a slight drop, although they're still too high... I'm going to do another 50% tomorrow, and so on until the cycle is able to...

Hello all, this is my first post here, so hello! So I've started my first freshwater aquarium. 24 gallon cube. I set it up almost a month ago and put a few plants in it - some java fern, anubius, foxtail, and a red plant (can't remember the name). I ran it for about a week with just the...