Recent content by willsta2000

A betta would do ok in a 1g.

Legalities and disease aside, you may run the risk of subjecting your koi to some fin-nipping. Sunfish have a lot in common with cichlids... don't remember for sure, but I think they occupy the same genus. I donated a sunfish (that was captive bred in a goldfish farm) to a nearby university...

Assuming that the peanut oil is not congealed in the bucket(s), you could remove the top rack from your dishwasher, and wash them two at a time. I washed a couple of new buckets this way so I could make spodies in them several years back. They should just fit in the dw. Oil is tricky to get...

I would get 3 more tiger barbs and a clown loach, the clown will feel comfortable around the school of barbs, much like it's with its own kind.

Don't use distilled water, unless you are mixing, because it lacks essential ions (electrolytes), and will kill fish, amphibians, and probably turtles, even if pH, nitrates nitrites ammonia are all ok.

a pike is a gar... equivalent to freshwater barracuda, destined to eventually attack EVERYTHING you might as well have an alligator in there

The glass will absolutely fit through the top lip. (The only shape that won't fit through a hole of slightly smaller size is a circle.) Realistically, you do want to get that other piece of glass out of there, but being it is a small tank, you also don't want to break the relatively flimsy...

Have a glass shop cut another piece of glass for it. If you can't get that one out, take a razor knife and remove the silicone from around the perimeter on the bottom, lay the new piece of glass right on top of the old, silicone in place, and voila! It's on the bottom, you won't see it anyway...

I had 3 pond Koi that I named Whiskey, Tango and Foxtrot.

I have Blue Rams too... but my tap water fluctuates from acidic to basic every couple months. Last month it was right at 6.0, and it is currently between 7.1 and 7.2, and unfortunately it is pretty well buffered, so it doesn't adjust well, but my rams are happy, so I don't mess with it.

Fish will do better at a stable high pH than at a constantly fluctuating pH. Unfortunately even tap water pH fluctuates fairly often.

They could definitely be tetras, the anal fin gene has yet to be expressed.

It takes weeks for fry to come to resemble their parents, as in early development, all vertebrates go through the same processes, granted the points where different genes "turn on," causing differentiation happen at different times. Wait a couple of weeks, and you'll know which fish was the...

There is definitely a point of diminishing return for preventing incidental exposure to pathogens. I'd say it's a given that most all of us are cautious of our behavior around our tanks (washing whenever coming into contact with the environment). The reality is fish can also harbor Salmonella...

"everything was gasping at the top" My barbs all assume a downwards-facing position near the surface when sleeping, is this what they were doing? You have to get up pretty early in the AM to see them doing this, though, maybe 2-4 AM. They'll be all over the place, on top of my powerhead...