Recent content by angelocarusone

Let me first start off by saying that if I could, I would be dealing in tanks larger than the ones that I will detail. Nothing would thrill me more than to have a large, stable, 75g; unfortunately, it's not possible for a series of irrelevant reasons. So around May, I started getting into this...

okay...so it's about 4:30 in the morning right now and I couldn't sleep, so I decided to get a small flashlight and examine my saltwater tank to check out the critters at work. Anyway, i also happened to shine the light into my 6 gallong planted betta tank to find my betta lying practically...

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That sounds similar to my situation. Travis didn't get the buldge under his neck until the levels were VERY scary. I'm still a newbie, but I would probably go ahead and assume that he has dropsy and give him a treatment for it. Unless, of course, the buldge is normal after high levels or...

You know, my Betta (Travis) suddenly became inflated below the neck as well. He was also behaving slightly strange and so I assumed it was dropsy and treated him as so. However, during that time period my nitrate and nitrite levels were just crazy off the charts and so I'm not sure if his odd...

Hey Everyone: On my desk right now, I currently have a 6 gallon eclipse set up on the right side and I love nothing more than looking over to my right and watching my Betta swim around. This tank has motivated me to start doing research on a tank for the left side of my desk. I've been doing...

When I was in HS, I had a 40 that I used to keep 5 tetras in and two zebra danios, but I was very bad at it and ultimately just got frustrated and stuck it in storage. For example, I used to wash out the entire filter system every two weeks. My water changes used to be about 75% every week. I...

Thanks for the reply. Do you recommend adding any chemicals to it to help fight the algae? I will be increasing the frequency of water changes and gavel vac'ing for the next few weeks to see if the problem starts to go away on its own. The wattage on the light is 8. Is this too low? Can I...

Pennylane... What happened with your fish situation? How did it all play out? Did you return them? Upgrade your tank? Very curious here...

I have a 6 gallon eclipse and in it, I currently have two plants and two bulbs that are just starting to sprout. One of the plants is a sword plant, the other one, I have no idea what it is, it just have very large leaves. I finally got over the dropsy that my betta was suffering from and my...

Thanks Everyone! Menagerie: I'm in East Meadow.

Hey Everyone: I'm new to AA. I've been coming to the site for about two weeks now, reading up on various things; but last night I figured that I would register so that I could start posting. I used to have a 40 gallon tank when I was in HS, but I never did anything correctly with it, and...