Recent content by Saltair

Really. I have 5 Espies, 6 neon, a couple tiny rasaboros that are smaller than the shrimp, and two otos. No trouble until the shrimp vanished.

I am not sure anything is tougher than a bronze cory.

I have a couple Turquoise Rainbow fish and have always wanted to add RCS to my planted tank. Everything I read about the Rainbows talks about them likeing Brine Shrimp and Tubifex worms, and they also talk about their narrow throats and need for small foods so I thought I might be ok. I ran the...

I am using a hood and the tank is 30". Not having a hood isn't really an option for me. I Figured I might be getting too much light, but like you said also figured it was easier to cut down the output of the light, than end up with something that wasn't enough. The Aqualight was pretty good with...

I have a 29 gallon that has been running for a little over a year. I had a few plants in it, but wasn't paying that much attention to them I just like the idea of natural plants. Everything but the Java Fern eventually died off so I bought a plant package that was supposed to work with my stock...

I just replanted my tank three or four weeks ago, and the Vals have beeb very slow to get going. All the original growth has died off and I have some new shorter growth on them now. I dont think there is a leaf on them longer than 4". I was using Excel and read that it can be bad for Vals so I...

I just traded emails with him about this same light. I think I am going with the 30" and just set it right on the hood. He seemed to think that would work fine. How did things work out with the bulbs? I noted on the site blue, 20,000 or 10,000 as the only options. I sent an email asking if I can...

I had a Clown in my 29g planted. He looked cool and didn't touch the plants. He just lived under his log and NEVER came out. He did make an unbelievable mess under there. I finally took him to a LFS and traded him for a couple Oto's. Less bioload and I can actually watch them.

I am looking for some input on my lighting problem. I was using a Coralife Aqualight with their T5 18W 6700K and Colormax bulbs. It fit on my stock plastic hood reasonably well, and my plants seemed to respond to it pretty well. Last night I returned home to find the fixture flickering and...

I just put a Aqualight from Coral Life on my 29 gal. It has two 18W T5 bulbs and it is doing a great with my Low and Medium light plants. I have everything from Java Fern to some Ludwiga with red in it, and everything is growing fine. The Low light stuff is really loving it. I got the light for...

+1 on waiting. Its not worth it, and the early algae you see in a lot of tanks goes away on its own as Mumma suggested.

I read a lot on here about no salt for Cories, Oto's, and Plecos, but I have 1tblspn/5gal in my tanks with populations of those fish and no problems. I have an LFS close by owned by a guy that has been in the hobby for 40 years and he used salt with all these fish as well. His tanks are the...

I had read a little about the fish, mostly looking at compatibility issues, but did not run into anything about Gourami Disease of DGD. What it this? The only symptom he had was rapid breathing. When I first got him home I noticed some raggedness to his dorsal fin, but I was changed the water...

I had a Dwarf Gourami in a 10gal QT for twelve days. When I got home from work this afternoon he was dead. I am not surprised as the stock at this LFS is never great, but nobody else has these fish. So now I have a QT that just had a death I cant explain. The tank is completely cycled and I am...

I have a Dwarf Gourami in QT right now to be the center piece in my 30 with four Cories, a Clown Pleco, and eventually 10 neons.