Recent content by themagpie

Well, its been a good 2 or 3 months since I've had my tank up and running. The water parameters have been constant and ideal. After I introduced live plants when starting my tank I had a problem with numerous snails appearing several times a day. I removed them all by hand and thought that was...

It doesn't seem to be a morning or night thing. They seem to change several times during the day. It seems to happen more when they're playing around with eachother though. one more question off topic: Do mystery snails eat up live plants pretty fast or do they mainly stick around on the...

I have 3 opaline gouramis (one of the prettiest freshwater fish IMO :D ). I've noticed that their colours range from a well defined baby blue a really dark and rich navy blue. The male usually shows the colour change first and within 30 seconds to a minute the females changed as well. I was...

Time to take a trip to the LFS! Thanks for all the advice.

They occasionally make contact (maybe even accidentally), but its usually just a little nudge from the side while they're parallel. Nothing really violent looking.

Aquarium Pharmaceuticals testkit pH = 7.0 Ammonia = 0 ppm Nitrite = 0 ppm Nitrate = 20 ppm Temp is usually 78-80 F

Tested the water yesterday afternoon and everything is fine. I also did a water change monday night. The colours did change shortly after my post : ). Im guessing it was a torn fin, because I was checking them today and the darkness along the fin is gone. They're peaceful for the most part...

Another set of gourami questions :roll: . Today I noticed the gouramis (2 opaline) weren't swimming around as much. They both have been hanging around the middle/bottom of the tank in/around hiding areas. They seem to be swimming around much less than before. Another strange thing is that...

found it! :o

Sadly my digicam is pretty old. Those were the best pics i got out of about 20. There's a better camera hiding somewhere around this house, looks like its time to go on a treasure hunt. :)

This attached picture isnt to scale. The top is the one i suspect as being the male and the bottom the female. Look correct to you?

I'm having a little trouble determining the sex of my new opaline gouramis. I've checked out this site http://freshaquarium.about.com/od/fishqa/f/faq2060.htm but the information is kinda confusing to me. Both seem to show signs of males AND females. I kinda think i may have it figured out...

Yesterday, I added 2 opaline gourami to my tank (5 black neon tets and 2 albino corys). For a couple of hours after they were added the tetras seemed really stittish around them. During last nights feeding the gouramis started eating from the top. THEN!!! two of the tetras (that always wait...

Hello again. I was wondering what everyone thinks about blackwater extracts. When i started up my tank I hadn't really put any consideration into prefered substrates. I ended up getting some moderatly dark gravel/stuff... whatever its called :). I have some pretty large assorted sword plants...

yay! today my tetras seemed much more active once feeding time came. they seem to be really agressive eaters now (hope this is continuing trend). Ah I love my albino corys. Has anyone seen these guys swim upsidedown for short periods of time (mainly when skimming the undersides of leaves and...