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What kind of fish? With clean, warm water and good quality food you should start to see regrowth pretty quickly. Within a week or so I'd expect to see lots of clear fin tips growing in. What are you treating him with?

I usually pick up decorations and vacuum under them as I go. It can get pretty funky under them, even though I have sand in all tanks. Stuff still seems to slip underneath.

I have a pair of German blue rams as well as a pair of apisto cacatuoides in community tanks, and they do very well. Very peaceful and pretty and active fish. Lots of personality, and they don't mind swarms of fast-moving fish everywhere. My rams in my 120 gallon tank eat and swim right along...

I use several coats of clear Plasti-Dip on my styrofoam backgrounds. No problems with them, and I've had two tanks with them for well over a year. If you want something thicker/harder, you can use a marine epoxy resin - like Sikatop 107.

Not to go off topic, but I've never heard of an overhead sump before. I am intrigued by this.

I LOVE my little dwarf puffer. Super cute, super personable. You'll need a supply of live food, but blackworms and pond snails are easy to cultivate. Bonus points that due to their tiny little invisible fins, they look like little hovercrafts that move with the power of thought. I just want to...

I have used PPS-Pro ferts for a couple of years, but I never have dosed daily as it recommends. The best I usually do is twice a week. When I set up a CO2 system on my 120 gallon tank, I started dosing every other day, thinking that I'm asking these plants to grow like crazy with the CO2 and I...

It's really not unusual for a betta to not eat for several days to weeks in a new home. Just be patient with him. Bettas can go for a month or more without food and show no ill effects. I wouldn't worry unless another full week goes by and he has eaten nothing.

Not sure, but here's what I do to add meds to food. I mix the medication with the pellets first, then add garlic guard liquid just enough to make the whole thing kind of moisty (or aquarium water, as you did). Then I spread the whole mess out on a plastic bag or tray and let it dry. Then crumble...

I just treated a tank for ich with cories in it. The cories never seemed to get ich, but my whole school of kubotai rasboras had it. I kept the temp up for a full 2 weeks and then gradually reduced it. The cories were fine, and the ich didn't come back. Mine are panda cories. I didn't change the...

I would definitely use sand if you're getting cories. I'm also not sure I'd mix a gourami with rams unless you were to go with a honey gourami. I just personally have had bad luck with any other kind of gourami (all meanies). My 4 year old has a 20g tank with a honey gourami, 8 male guppies, 7...

Yeah out of my 7 bettas, only one can co-exist with cherry shrimp. The rest of your stocking looks good though I would probably get 6 otos for a proper shoal. The betta will probably eat the platy fry, but that's kind of good for population control and also nice healthy live food for the betta.

I've had great success with the seeded sponges from Angels Plus. I have used them 3 times for friends establishing new tanks, and have had a near-instant cycle with them. The longest I think was about 5 days, and that was adding 3 sponges in a 55 gallon tank, dosing ammonia to 4ppm. Good stuff.

Peacock gudgeons are pretty and personable little fish that often get overlooked. Very peaceful, and they stay small.

*Most* bettas do fine in community tanks. Out of my 7 bettas, only one didn't do well in community. You could get one male or one female betta along with a bunch of peaceful community fish if you were set on a betta. Just avoid gouramis, paradisefish, and anything that might nip at the betta's...

I have a betta, pygmy cories, and 3 african dwarf frogs in my 10g. And I have an 8 gallon with a betta and 4 celestial pearl danios. And another 8 gallon with 3 sparkling gouramis and 7 kubotai rasboras. Lots of nano/small fish to choose from!

You can get something called a "prefilter sponge" to stick over that. Or you can put a couple of thicknesses of new (rinsed) pantyhose/nylon material around it.

Snail eggs?

Ludwigia repens grows like a weed for me in all of my tanks. It's pretty too.

I have a betta with pygmy cories and african dwarf frogs. My only regret is I should have gotten habrosus/salt and pepper cories instead of the pygmies because the pygmies are so shy that I barely see them until I dim the lights and sit very still watching the tank. But no problems among the...

I had a Fluval view for a while (until I dropped it and then tripped and fell on it and that was the end of that. I liked it very much, and it was very good for a single betta. I also have a Fluval Spec V (two of them, in fact) which I like very much as well.

Bettas are hit or miss with shrimp. Most of them will eat shrimp, I would say. Maybe some larger ghost shrimp would be okay because of their size. A good algae cleaner for bettas are nerite snails.

I totally thought I heard something moving around in my house the other night. Must have been those ich aliens. Anyway, I have all affected tanks bumped up to 88 degrees with no obvious signs of stress to any of the fish. I have 3 tsp per gallon of salt now in every tank that can tolerate it. I...

The weird thing is that I have separate nets, buckets, and siphons for each tank except for the 2 in my daughter's room which share equipment between the 2 of them but no ich in those tanks (yet). Don't know how ich has managed to spread!

Thanks for the response Linwood. I feel much better about this whole thing hearing other people have had success and it hasn't harmed any of the fish. I've had horrible visions of having to catch and separate all the fish in my 120 gallon without tearing out all the plants and also catching all...