Recent content by Calcifer10000

I've been using Melafix for several days now, so I'll continue that. Should I combine another antibacterial medication along with it, or keep medications separate? The red spot seems not to be in the fin, but hanging on the outer surface. Maybe I could try removing it...

Hello! I posted awhile back about ich; thanks for the replies. I think my tank's ich case is gone, but a few of the fish seem to be missing fins, while others have perfect fins and are just fine. It shouldn't be water quality and I haven't added anything new, so I was thinking, could it be...

I did a serach and didn't find a topic on this; sorry if it's a repeat. My tank just recovered from a bout of ich; now I want to do a major cleaning-out water change. Will my gravel suction tube possibly reinfect my tank with ich if I use it? If so, is there some way I should be...

Hello all! It's been awhile since I've been here, it's nice to be back :) Anyway, my tanks have been doing pretty well (for once :) ), been getting lots of guppy fry lately, and saw some zebra danio fry in there too; just hope some of them can survive... Anyway, I bought two dwarf puffers...

You know, I have no idea myself, I'm kinda curious about that too. I don't know if fish food gets stale/loses nutrition to fish, but I've used flake food that's like a year or two old, and supplemented with other things, like some tubefix worms every once in a while, seem to keep my fish going...

Hmm...I don't know if this would interest you, but I've got a glass catfish, and I think it's one of the best fish I've ever bought :) It's not really a catfish in the sense that it's a bottomfeeder; they feed like 'normal' fish. They work well in groups or pairs, or alone, like in my tank...

I just bought 5 neon tetras and 5 black neons; the blacks were perfectly fine and schooling around the tank within a few min and not one has died from shock, unlike the neons. Neons are so fragile! The blacks are cool, not as colorful cuz they don't have the red and blue, but they're still...

I'd never thought I'd think about the sleeping habits of fish, but I've started noticing what they do, and I thought it was just generally pretty interesting. My guppies hang around at the top of the water, or sink down and I swear, almost cuddle into the gravel at the bottom of the tank...

I stuck a male beta into my 29gal tank and it did fine in a pop of guppies (all female), zebra danios and neons. The problem came when I bought 3 black-skirted tetras without realizing they were aggresive. (I've always been under the impression that tetras were all delicate, gentle fish. Boy...

When I was first starting my tank I got a lot of great advice here, but I didn't seem to have as much trouble or have to spend as much time/money as I got the impression I should've with cycling. Fish are delicate, but not that delicate! I mean, they're probably one of the oldest lifeforms on...

Hi there! I love my albino cory; it's a tough little critter and even my betta in the community tank didn't bother it; it's a great cleaner and very active. I also just bought for my other tank a small loach; it's interesting and very enthusiastic about cleaning the bottom! Also, a just...

I've been keeping a pretty healthy (or so I thought) 29 gal with 8 guppies, a glass catfish, 2 neons and a cory. Just yesterday I saw that the water had this clear scummyish bubbly layer on top and the water on the far side of the tank away from the filter wasn't even moving; it was like some...

Thanks for your thoughts, everyone! The reason I asked is because this gender changing thing happened in my tank and I was wondering if it's just a kind of genetic accident or something. It actually didn't happen when I separated out my males and females (I had 2 males and 10 females from...

I'm just curious, does anyone know if the ability for guppies to change gender :!: a natural one for them? Interested to hear your thoughts!

Thanks so much for the help!