Recent content by Stargaze

thank you, I'm still quite sad but... I know I can't gave an empty tank forever :c It isn't possible for me to get comets and/or a rainbow shark if i get them at a young age, and get a larger 75-120 gallon tank when they get bigger?

Hey guys, Stargaze again. I just lost my stock of fish due to ich yesterday. Tomorrow I'm planning on cleaning out my entire tank and starting fresh. I'm sad to have lost my babies.... but I do see this as an opportunity to try different types of fish this time around. In my previous stock I...

Thank you for all the help! :D

Thank you for the input :3 After giving it some thought; I decided to just start fresh. I'm going to bleach my airstone as well as the ornaments and plants I know can be bleached. Everything else will get another good scrubbing. I'm completely replacing my gravel, and for the black stones I'm...

Thank you for the advice. I was wondering if it was possible to just heavily clean and medicate my tank for another few days, and let it run for say..... three or so weeks before attempting to add any new fish. I do not want ich running amok again. :( I have tropical fish flakes. Could I just...

Hey guys, Stargaze here again. Not sure if anyone remembers me posting about some sick tiger barbs awhile back but erm; I found out the problem. At least one, if not all of the barbs had ich. Which I discovered and had been treating about two and a half weeks ago. I had been treating my fish...

Hey guys, Stargaze again. After finally getting my tank cycled I decided to celebrate by adding some new stock to my tank. (was this a mistake?) Last night I added 3 Albino Tiger Barbs and 3 Regular tiger barbs to my 37 gallon tank. (Filled with 5 Giant Danio's and 3 Angelicus Botia Loaches.)...

Thank you for all the help :) My test had the same levels today. I did a 50% again, and my finger are crossed that this time the levels will balance out for good. I had no idea the process would be so long for tank cycling! But watching my fish play with eachother and swimming around happily...

Log for 10-27-11 Ammonia is .25 today Nitrites- .25 Nitrate- 5.0 Rise in Nitrites tells me I'm not cycled :( but at least I'm getting there!

I would have to agree. It makes me even more upset when everyone makes it sound like the fish are just disposable. They didn't want to listen to what I had to say about the water changes; But if I can save a fish's life and cause less stress with 2-3 more weeks of PWC's, isn't that so much more...

Thank you again! Currently there are no live plants in the tank. Only live things are 5 Giant Danio's and 3 Botia Kubotai thankfully! Everyone is pulling through fine and I've had no sick fish or casualties. :) Those tests are from both myself and the LFS. (The LFS said I had 10PPM for...

Thank you :) I had gone to another LFS Yesterday after hearing they had green tiger barbs. I was very disheartened when he told me that water changes were killing my bacteria and slowing down my cycling process. He pretty much told me most people buy feeders, and leave them in the tank for a...

Fascinating :) Thank you both for the input! Yesterday I did another large water change due to my nitrites/trates spiking to 2.0 and 20ppm. I'm only able to do about one a day on my work days, due to how much time it takes. :\ So I've been doing larger amounts of water to try and compensate. I...

Thank you all for the responses. I've been doing water changes to help keep that ammonia down. I'm currently waiting for my Danio's to quit feeding, as its time for another water change. My Nitrates and Nitrites have spiked! I now know that my fish tank is cycling, and I need to get those...

Hey all, Stargaze here again. I figured I would put in an update with my new 37 gallon tank. After having jumped into the deep end without learning how to swim first, I had been misled into doing a fish-in cycle. >_< I currently have 8 fish in my tank right now. 5 Giant Danio's, and 3 Botia...