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  1. C.w.deegan

    Untreated well water

    I moved recently I got rid of my big tanks but kept my betta in a 10 gal the new house has well water it's untreated no water softeners it's not very rusty but it has a slight metallic taste to it my questing is will prime be enough to make the water safe for my beta or should I find another...
  2. C.w.deegan

    Free: Moving giving away my fish

    A variety of african cichlids peacocks mbunas mostly and my community tank has a few guppies bolivian rams fork tails and a some tetra glo fish
  3. C.w.deegan

    Free: Moving giving away my fish

    I am moving this weekend I am keeping my tanks and will set them back up eventually but I am shutting them off for now I am going to donate my cichlids and my community tank fish to my lfs unless someone here wants to come pick them up before Saturday I'm in lake county illinois about a hr north...
  4. C.w.deegan

    Clown pleco missing eyes

    And is there anything I should or could do for the fish? It's missing both its eyes so i know it's completely blind now. Can it still live a healthy life without eye sight?
  5. C.w.deegan

    Clown pleco missing eyes

    OK what could of caused them to suddenly do it? The pleco has been in the tank woth them for 7 months and this just happened any idea what could of made them suddenly want to go after it?
  6. C.w.deegan

    Clown pleco missing eyes

    And I am going to move it into another tank when i get home
  7. C.w.deegan

    Clown pleco missing eyes

    They are african cichlids mbunas and a couple small pecocks the largest fish in the tank is 4.5 maybe 5 inches
  8. C.w.deegan

    Clown pleco missing eyes

    I was looking in my cichlid tank last night I have 1 clown pleco in there with my cichlids I noticed both of its eyes are missing and I noticed a few of my cichlids nipping at it is there anything I can do for the fish both its eyes are missing I feel bad I didn't notice this sooner he's been in...
  9. C.w.deegan

    Just thought I'd share my 2 main tanks lol

    One is a 36 bow front other is a standard size 55 the 36 is a community of guppies forktails a few bolivian rams and some tetra glo fish (kids lol) and the 55 has a small assortment of cichlids in it mostly mbunas and 1 male 2 female blue pecocks
  10. C.w.deegan

    Fluval c4 hob filter noise

    OK I'll have to look at it when I get home from work it's not the lid it was making the noise with the lid on and off I'll look at the impeller when I get home amd see if I can find anything wrong with it
  11. C.w.deegan

    Fluval c4 hob filter noise

    I did a water change today and cleaned out the media on my fluval c4 hob filter when I put it back together and plugged it in it did nothing so I took it out and noticed the impeller had debris on it so I took the impeller out of the housing and cleaned it the best I could. It's now working and...
  12. C.w.deegan

    Thoughts on buying stock from a fleamarket pet seller

    Yeah thats what I was thinking get 1 or 2 fish and quarantine them for a couple weeks and see how they do were heading there right now so we shall see lol
  13. C.w.deegan

    Thoughts on buying stock from a fleamarket pet seller

    Tomorrow me and my wife will be going to a local flea market just to look around and get a few things every time I am there there is a old guy with a booth and he sells birds and fish I have always been hesitant to but from him tho because I'm worried about getting a sick fish or the fish being...
  14. C.w.deegan

    Bolivian Ram stocking

    I'm not sure how many for a 90 gallon I have 4 adults and 1 juvenile in a 40 gallon community tank and they get along with the other fish and are not very territorial with each other if that helps at all.
  15. C.w.deegan

    What Made You Want A Freshwater Aquarium?

    It all started with a bag of dog food lol. My wife kids and me went to a local pet store to get some food for are dog, when my 2 boys were looking around they noticed the fish section. They were around 3 and 5 years old at the time and the kept trying to get me to go look at the fish with them...
  16. C.w.deegan

    Got a bunch of new plants and none of them are labeled

    Yes post them I'm not good at identifying plants but i know there are members on here who could more than likely id them for you
  17. C.w.deegan

    Cycle crash

    OK thank you I'm going to put the fish back in when I get home from work I'll keep a eye on my parameters I didn't let my filter dry out I kept all the media in a bucket of tank water so most of the filter bacteria should have survived I'll take some media out of one my other tanks and add that...
  18. C.w.deegan

    New plants established tank

    The duck weed yes you can just put that in it will float and multiply with little effort I'm not sure about the pond weed though iv never had any in my tanks
  19. C.w.deegan

    Cycle crash

    I wanted to redo my 20 gal tank, I removed all the fish and snails and drained the tank completely removed the sand substrate (wanted to do a glass bottom) then replaced the decorations rocks and driftwood I am still using the same well established filter and media my question is would the 100...
  20. C.w.deegan

    Is 3 months the time to quit?

    Don't always belive people at your lfs they want to sell you more fish and more supplies I learned this first had with my lfs when I first started 3 years ago to them your someone they can sell more fish to or a new filter etc when things are not working they would rather sell you a product then...
  21. C.w.deegan

    Need help panda cory

    Some kind of fungus maybe what are your water parameters etc I'm not the best with sick fish i know there's other members who will chime in on this and they gonna ask about your water parameters and other information about you tank try and give as much details as you can please
  22. C.w.deegan

    Ph too high?

    Yeah the guppies will still breed my guppy tank sits between 7.8 to 8 ph and mine still breed
  23. C.w.deegan

    Guppies with tattered fins from cichlid juveniles?

    I already removed the cichlid juvies and put them in my larger tank so far it seems the larger ones are leaving them alone and I did a 40 percent water change right after I removed them from the guppy tank and added some stress guard I'll have to get some medicine today or tomorrow then for my...
  24. C.w.deegan

    Guppies with tattered fins from cichlid juveniles?

    I recently got some juvenile cichlids from a family member who's cichlids spawned I put them in my 36 gallon guppy tank to grow them out a bit before I move them into my cichlid tank but in the last week almost all my guppies now have tattered tail fins I have not seen any of the cichlids...
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