Recent content by Rutrag

There is a pretty big range of colors and quality when it comes to flowerhorns. The kok (knot on head) is more predominant in males and grows over time, again depending on the quality.

Definitely ich.

What kind of cichlid?

I have a 60 with a blue ram (female, I think) pair of Bolivian rams, a trio of A. MacMasteri, and a male A. Agassizii. They are in with some angels, diamond tetras, black phantom tetras, Von Rio tetras, a snowball pleco, and a blue-eye lemon bristlenose pleco. The Agassizii is the most dominant...

I don't know about specifically with that species, but I have a 60 gallon (227 L) roughly 122cm x 33cm X 63cm, with a snowball pleco and two golden blue-eye longfin bristlenose. The two species pretty much ignore each other. I have a few otocinclus in there as well. A local aquarist has a 125...

I’m thinking you’ll need to invest in an RODI system to give yourself a fighting chance. Do you know the TDS of your tap water?

It’s more likely than not a bacterial bloom. Folks in the reef side of the hobby sometimes dose alcohol (normally vodka) to help grow heterotrophic bacteria to consume nitrates and phosphates (and thereby starve out nuisance algae). An overdose usually looks something like this. Your best bet...

Unless you were keeping pretty sensitive fish, or trying to breed, it’s probably not worth chasing numbers. Stability is more important by far. Raising alkalinity almost always raises pH. That being said, I think your pH is a little on the low side. What fish do you intend to keep?

I agree for the most part with pyealands. Your #1 issues is ammonia. Also, adding baking soda increases pH which increases the toxicity of ammonia. You need to focus on dropping that through large partial water changes. Don't forget to use a chlorine remover (Prime OR Stress Coat (not both...

I've used AquaHuna a couple of times. They're based in the Pacific Northwest. Their selection is limited, but their pricing and shipping is very reasonable. They did bump up their shipping around Christmas, but I think they've come back down now.

This is on my office desk. It’s simple with just live plants, guppies and shrimp. I enjoy looking at them throughout the work day. I’ve been keeping fish since I was 12. I’m now 49 and it seems I’ve come almost full circle in that I’m enjoying the “basic” community fish more and more as I get...

And a couple more. . . I wasn't able to capture pics of my von rio tetras, kuhli loaches, longfin blue-eyed bushynose plecos, or my snowball pleco.

Some more inhabitants. . .

This has been set up for a couple months now. The tank started its life with me as a reef that I couldn’t ever seem to keep stocked.

The first thing I would do is a partial water change, then check ammonia and nitrite. You shouldn't need to chase numbers for kH and GH with glofish tetras. They're all captive raised and should be able to adapt easily to most water sources. Stability as opposed to an absolute value is what...