Recent content by shalihe74

Quick update: my dude continues to be improving. Have been doing 50% WCs and medicating, and the injury is... looking better. At least it is looking cleaner. The dead/loose scales that were causing grey spot in the earlier picture have fallen off, revealing quite a hole in his meaty bits. I've...

Thanks, all, for the help! After reading DragonFish's response (and before An t-iasg's), I ran out and got the Pima- and Melafix and added it to the tank. Read An t'iasg's post and ran back to the tank to make sure my lil man could still swim. He could, so... I assume that means he's...

Awesome, DragonFish. Just so I'm clear - I want to give both of those meds? Not one or the other? Better to give them all at one time (am/pm) or 1 in the morning and 1 at night. or does it not really matter? Thanks so much!

Here is a pic of the lil dude from today. He seemed a little better last night, so I put some more water in (trying to raise it to the point where I can turn the filter back on). He's still hanging in there, but not his normal frisky self. I put a mirror to his tank and he didn't even try to...

Hey folks, About a year ago I got my little Betta fish. Recently he hasn't been doing too well. Early this week I noticed he had some sort of tumor or something on one side - just a big swelling under his skin. Looking it up online, it said it could be a fluid-filled cyst or possibly fishie...

Thanks for the input. Good to know about the dechlor - that was my thought, too. I don't think the tank was unusually tall - 15" maybe, but he was just a lil guy... maybe that was like trying to swim 15 miles for a breath. I don't know how old he was - I got him from PetSmart in January. He...

LFS? I'm afraid I don't know what that means. Only translation I can think of is 'local fish store' (??), in which case the answer is 'yes: Petsmart'. Water changes happen about once a week; sometimes a little less frequently, but if that's the case, I a bigger change. I do add dechlor and am...

You must have been replying while I was editing the original post to include that info. Chemical analysis of the water is in process. Ammonia is 0, NitrIte is 0. Nitrate is 4 minutes from being done... results: 10 ppm.

Hey folks, I had three betta fish. They seemed like happy little guys, then one developed (I think) swim bladder disorder from over-feeding (again, I think). I stopped feeding him, and drastically reduced the amount of food the other guys were getting (from 4-5 pellets 2x a day down to 2...

Thanks again for the advice. This worked perfectly. Swapped the filters Thursday night. Friday morning there was a bit of nitrite in both tanks. This morning, both tanks were 0 for both ammonia and nitrite. Awesome!

Excellent! I will rub the filters together, and then put the one from the cycled tank into the non-cycled tank. Hopefully that will minimize the impact to the already-cycled tank, while giving the non-cycled one a much-needed kickstart. Thank you so much. The fishies thank you, too, I'm sure. :D

Nope. The only way I have been managing the ammonia in the tank(s) is by PWCs. Ooooh.... awesome suggestion. I will definitely do that. When you say 'take some material from the filter', are you suggesting that I open the filter itself, pull out some of the charcoal in it and put it into...

1. Oh yes. I've been doing regular 40% (2 gal) PWCs to keep ammonia in check, but occasionally will do a 20% or 60% if I feel the smaller/greater volume is better. (For example, I'll probably do a 60% PWC tonight since the ammonia was up around 1 unit this am.) 2. I am using the API FW...

Hey y'all, I visited here back in January when I got a wild hair to become a fish-owner. That unplanned wild hair turned into 3 5-gallon aquariums, each with a betta fish. They are all still alive (which I attribute more to the hardiness of the fish than to my fishkeeping acumen) and seem...

Photos, as promised! First shot is of the two tanks. I, um... didn't like how the two hex tanks looked on the table, so... um, I... well, ... Iboughtanothertwotanks. :) These are Eclipse Corner 5s and I like them sooooo much more than the hex tanks. They have a hinged lid that makes it really...