Recent content by sarahsunshine

Thanks, everyone, for your comments. I truly don't think that my neon has ich anymore... absolutely no other fish have any symptoms whatsoever. It's now been 1.5 months, and he is still swimming around and eating well. He's even chasing the other fish periodically in "fishy tag" (they do this...

OK, well, he's still around, eating, swimming, active, but he still have very little red. No other fish have become colourless. I would turn the temperature up on the tank in case it's the beginning of Ich, but the Kuhli loaches would likely have a hard time with that, and my other tank isn't...

There I was, impatient, and then my computer died… Virus attack… Found a great place near my house, though, who’ve fixed it right up, reinstalled operating system, and all that jazz. Now it’s good as new! Anyway, my neon is still lively and eating, just lost his red except in his tail. I...

No one wants to help my poor fish?

I have a tropical community tank (below) that has been untouched for about 3-4 months. In it I have 6 neon tetras. I noticed just the other day that one of the tetras is looking a little “scruffy” and his red stripe is rather dull. All the other fish look healthy, and when I feed them...

plus, I'm in Canada... I'll try to find someone around here...

Excellent!!!!

Thanks! Pleco has been munching happily! Water changes on this tank are eazy peazy so they happen more frequently and larger than necessary - so I think everyone will be happy. As long as I don't completely over-fertilize again, I think the algae should be OK. There is quite a bit of light...

I don't currently have enough filtration to get away with a BN in my 10g, and I think the tank is a little small for a full grown one. *But I hope to get a bigger filter soon - and a bigger tank! Dream on, dream on!

Thanks for the response! I'm keeping track of this actually. White cloud minnows are low biomass-type species and using the little calculator at aqadvisor (not the 1"/gallon rule), it suggests that my stocking level would only be at 79% with 9 white cloud minnows. I realize it's not a hard...

Hi, I’m establishing a 10g, and it now has 9 white cloud minnows in it (got six more yesterday). I’ve been keeping the tank slightly warm for the white cloud minnows (74ish), because I’d like to put a school of something else in there (red phantom tetras?). It also has a couple small...

I suggest putting in your set-up at www.aqadvisor.com and finding out what it suggests as the amount of water you should change weekly. Take this as a ballpark number, and see how it works for you (how fast waste and nitrates build up). Then go according to what works. I end up changing...

I agree completely with the established media – ideally that’s what we would all do if we had the option! And I would hope that they did keep the correct temperature range for the fish. However, I don’t like empty tanks, and I’m not past doing a ton of testing and water changes to keep them...

Have you cycled your tank at all? It’s a 5-6 week process generally. I know most people would recommend against it, but, unless you have really soft heart and can’t bear to lose a fish, get a cheap hardy fish (white cloud minnow?), and cycle with that so that you have a constant input of...

This thread has veered from it’s original topic… but I must say I was impressed when I went to get my first fish (post initial accident) at the LFS and the first thing the employee said was “how long has your tank been established. Is it cycled?” How’s the cycling going?