Recent content by bananafish

@Colin_T i really appreciate your help. i’ve never even read about what you’re talking about, so i’m really glad i posted here! i can’t imagine what would be irritating them though… i did have an issue with my filter clogging and i couldn’t initially find the issue, so it wasn’t running very...

thanks for the response! i shared a photo on another site and they suggested it was ich so that’s why i’ve been treating with paraguard and turned up the temp. i’ll attach a pic now and will get back to you on the other questions.

hi! i’ll have a sitter looking after my aquariums while i’m away for a week and am trying to figure out the best plan for my planted 55 gallon that i believe has ich. i have a suspicion though that it might be neon tetra disease but can’t confirm. fish have had symptoms for about 2 weeks now...

i have a small group of neos in a 10gal heavily planted tank, with a male betta. he is completely uninterested in the adults, but i’ve got a feeling he’ll take out any shrimplets he could fit in his mouth. he’s constantly poking around in the plants, so despite having lots of hiding spots, i...

i’m 1 week in with a male betta and blue cherry shrimp. everything was going great and i decided to test my water this morning. AMMONIA 8.0+ PPM?!?! nitrites off the chart too. pH dropped from 7.6 to 6.8-7.0. i switched out my old internal hob for a penguin 100. i stuffed the new filter with...

thanks for the response. so 2 days after adding flakes, i tested 4ppm ammonia! woohoo. now today i tested .5ppm nitrIte! even more exciting! now here’s my problem - my nitrAtes are still WAY up there, at least 80ppm, where they've been for at least two weeks, and i find myself doing 25% water...

any thoughts on the axelrodi raspora? what a perfect fit! anyone have experience with them?

so.... looking for a teensy tiny fish to accompany a male delta betta. my tank is heavily planted, including floating plants, driftwood, and carpeting, and eventually a java moss wall background. i have pink ramshorn snails and blue cherry shrimp on their way, and plan on getting ivory mystery...

thanks for the help! i got some seeding material from an established tank and now i’m wondering how much fish food i should be adding for ammonia and how often?

wow how i wish i had found that resource 5 weeks ago.... will stop at ace tomorrow for the ammonia. and i think i found someone locally who can give me some gravel from their tank so things should be looking better!! i think you’re definitely right about them starving, i’m now realizing how...

from the caribsea description on petco website “Contains essential live bacteria”, i’ve read people having a fully cycled tank after just a week or two from using this stuff. i wonder why it was so different for me!

is there anything i can do to ensure the process continues smoothly? thanks for your help btw!

none, i thought the seachem and caribsea would introduce bacteria and take care of cycling. sorry if i sound stupid this is my first tank!

hey! new here and to aquarium keeping. sorry for the excessive info that will follow but i wanna get to the bottom of this! and would like to know if i should change anything i’ve been doing. i set up a 10 gallon planted tank 5 weeks ago. i used caribsea eco complete substrate, and have been...