Recent content by Sandip

Thanks a lot for the reply. I thought no one is going to reply ;) . As you expected i resolved it already and I did almost the same way as you suggested. The aquarium shop owner advised me to do it. I shifted the mother to main aquarium and put the the babies there, it's a 19 L tank. I did the...

Hi Everyone I am in a very difficult situation now and need some emergency advice. I have a 16 L tank in which I had a female guppy for someways now. 2 days ago she gave birth to 15 babies. They are all active and healthy. During giving birth she wanted to eat them so I stayed there and...

Hello Thanks a lot for trying to help . As I told above, I live in Brazil. We don't have all the products as you people get in USA. If I buy it online, it's always imported and costs at least 3 times more than the actual price because of the import taxes. Just to give you an idea, how much a...

Hello Thanks for all the explanation. I normally trust on the fish store, as I know the protocol they follow also I never buy a fish which is not in their aquarium for less than a month. The employee is my friend. I and my other friends bought many fishes from the store and never had any...

Hi Thanks for the reply. That was the idea I had too but was also expecting some other way, if possible. Anyways there are 3 questions more : 1) Can the fishes who are immune against this bacteria carry the bacteria if I transfer them to another tank (Just the fish not any water or anything...

Hello I am in a very complicated situation here. Don't understand how to proceed so looking for a step by step guidance. I have a 80 L planted tank with almost 19 fishes, mixed varieties and 3 mystery snails. The filter is a mini canister filter with around 500 L/H capacity. Bio media is...

As I said above the Ammonia and Nitrite are all zero and Nitrate is less than 5 ppm and PH is 7.2 (stable). As the tank is cycled I am not doing water changes so often, only once in a week (30%- 40%), even though Nitrate is low. So there is no constant adding of ions, only once a week and the...

Do you think a electronic TDS meter will show the real ppm value? I don't want to take the risk of rising Gh high ignorantly. The fishes are already not feeling good I don't want to push them too much. I will get a KH test kit and have a look at it.

Another thing, is it possible that the Ca ions and Mg ions get consumed in some days but the test still show normal Gh ?

Hello Thanks for all explanations. Actually the water that comes in my tap has Gh below 3. Ite's very soft. I use Seachem Equilibrium to rise the Gh 2 degrees more. Then it comes between 3-8. As you said, when Gh is low the snails also get affected. They almost did not move for days. Also...

What are the symptoms of low water hardness ?

How is the air quality in the house (that the air pump is pushing into the tank)? If you’ve got cigarette smoke, cleaning supply fumes, even scented candles and that type of thing are said to cause issues when youve got an air pump blowing it into the tank. The air quality is good. I...

Did you cycle the tank before adding your fish (fishless cycle) or did you cycle the tank with fish in it (fish in cycle)? I did fish-in cycleing. There were 8 fishes during the cycling and the mystery snails too.

Thanks a lot for responding. I really need some guidance... Do you run the air pump 24/7? Yes it runs 24/7 Have you brought a water sample to the lfs for another opinion or tried multiple types of tests? I live in Brazil, we don't have lfs here. The shop I deal here is called Cobasi and they...

Hi I joined this forum newly but I am reading the posts for almost a month and got a lot of help in setting up my new aquarium. I just finished cycling my new 72 liter (18 gallon) aquarium (finsh-in cycling using Seachem Prime, Seachem stability, Biodigest Prodibio and water changes)...