Recent content by rustedscrapmetal

That's good, reliable advice! I'll mark it on my calendar. Considering my fixture has no fans, I'll do it yearly by your advice. I think a year and a half had a noticeable decline in plant growth.

Good to know. I'll be swapping then out when I do my routine water change on Tuesday.

Thanks for the info! Being new to plants in a tank, it's nice knowing from someone who knows what the symptoms mean.

Ok. Considering it's been a year and a half, and my plants are not flourishing as well, I'll assume it's the lights since I changed nothing at all in my aquarium since. The only change I ever made was to take out the carbon, since I found in unnecessary to have after my natural wood stopped...

Hello! I have had aquariums since I was a little girl. I currently have four tanks in my house, two nano, one ten gallon, and my crown jewel, a 55 gallon planted freshwater tropical community tank. I have had it running, plants and all, for a year and a half now, with no problems. I house only...

It's what I'm thinking, I just noticed it. It is rather cute, though.

http://youtu.be/ocEKDpXcNrA Linked is a video... So I have a pair of chocolate gourami. It used to be that they stayed separate, one on one end of my 55 gallon aquarium, the other on the other side. The spot they're in now once belonged to the boisterous one of the two, who would always chase...

Yeah, the other tetras are fine also. So at least it won't be spreading.

I decided to euthanize the fish. Poor little guy was twitching about, and after further inspection I found he was spitting out all his food. I put him in a gallon of water from his medication tank, and slowly poured in 250 mL of tank water mixed with clove oil. When he was anesthetized and only...

Will do. The white patches went away a bit, not as severe. But most of the red tail fin still has black speckles, and the spine is still slightly curved.

It's looking to be one of those three. He seemed to slightly improve with medication, but only slightly. Still alive in the iso tank. I know the scoop. If I get a rash, I go to the doctor immediately and tell them I work with fish keeping. But for now, I have too large a heart to euthanize the...

No one knows?

Also, might this be contagious?

Here is the problem. I have a healthy school of neon tetras, except for one. I have had this school for a year now, and none have exhibited any problems, all tetras appeared near identical. Then I start noticing only one of the tetras swimming by himself most of the time. I thought nothing of...

That too, as well as they can be semi aggressive in the least.