Recent content by AquaDad

Yeah, buying, fixing and reselling is what pays for my hobby, since the wife doesn’t want me to spend any money on it. [emoji23]

Oh, and no, I couldn’t see anything in the water because there was a lot of tank dirt mixed into the water, due to the emergency nature of the rehoming. [emoji51]

Definitely meant to say Marimo, not Marino. [emoji23] I’ll eventually reseal and resell the tank they came in, if that’s what you mean, yes. The fish that came with it joined my guppy collection.

Kind of what I thought, but good to know I’m not alone in my estimation. [emoji23] It was someone’s guppy tank that sprung a leak. Definitely had algae in it, but I wasn’t sure if this was maybe some sort of fine/dense moss. It has the consistency of marina balls though, which are algae, so.. ??*♂️

So I inherited a tank full of what the guy claimed was moss a few days ago, and I picked out as much of the Christmas/Java/flame moss as I could. But now I’m left with this fine, dense green stuff. I assume it’s algae, but wondered if it might be a type of moss that I’m not familiar with, due to...

My koi angels are six or seven months old, and their bodies are still somewhat translucent, especially where the scales are white instead of orange/black.

Great, that’s what I was thinking as well, but I just wanted to be sure.

Oops, I just realized that I had the wrong board selected for this. ??

Hey, I just put these pieces of manzanita in my tank and they’ve grown a pretty thick layer of slime on them. I only have a couple guppies in the tank right now, so I’m not really worried about any fish, but I’m curious what the slime is and if I should take them out and toss boiling water on...

Hi there. I have a pair of BA tetras that I had to separate from my community tank because they started biting other fish’s fins and killed a couple of them. I’m not super familiar with them (I inherited them from someone else), so I don’t know if they’re male or female yet. Recently the bigger...