Recent content by ChileRelleno

Frozen or Freeze Dried foods are great. Freeze dried are IMO, best when re-hydrated before feeding. I like to add a drop or two of Boyd's Vita-Chem to the food when re-hydrating. Bloodworms Brine Shrimp Daphnia Mysis Shrimp Tubifex Krill Even better are live food cultures. And these can be...

I always recommend Heat & Salt, and I really like Kordon's ICH-Attack.

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Knowledge is power. If its that bad you're likely screwed... This pest is deadly, and already well advanced in it's infestation when it becomes readily visible. All the fish and the tank must be treated at the same time.

Pretty danged big. The Angels would need a defined biotope/territory, which they would not be inclined to leave, even to chase down tasty Neon tetras. And the Neons would need suitable numbers, room to escape their predation and breed unmolested. Reproduce about 20-50' of SA blackwater biotope.

More than likely planaria or nematodes. Some questions, are they... Little white squiggly worms aprox 1/16"-1/8", that are freefloating and on the glass? Or are they on your fish? Free floating? More than like they are Planaria or Nematodes that are caused by excessive nutrients/lack of...

Numbers, the more you have, the more likely they are to exhibit their natural schooling behavior. Five or six does not cut it, a dozen at least, several dozen, think big. Space, the more space you have, the more likely they are to exhibit their natural schooling behavior. A couple of feet...

55gal.... Hmmmm... I'd keep the JD and both the Clown Loach & Zebra Pleco. Bye bye, Oscar & Common Pleco.

Clown Loaches grow slow and live a long time, give'em that time and a good home and you end up with this...

Hmmmm... Been running the carbon for the whole month... Time to change it. If that doesn't get rid of the odor, then you've another problem than dissolved organics. I'd also suggest ditching one bag of bio media (pellets) and adding 1/2 of another sponge or some Blue Bonded padding. I vigorously...

The Manufacturers have little to no regulation of the claims they make for their product's effectiveness, nor control of the product once it leaves their facilities. Live bacteria products may not have the the actual nitrifying bacteria, or even if it did, shippers may not have stored/shipped...

In a healthy established tank odors are not normal, its a sign of a problem. In a newer tank it may not be as indicative of a real problem, but more often just the new system still in flux, e.g. a bacterial bloom, excessive nutrients or some such. In your case, I'd say that after a month...

Krap, try rephrasing that cr@p, "... dumb people in the world....". You ain't seen nothing until you go into Asian fish markets and see deliberately mutilated fish, and they export'em here to the ignorant. Heart shaped BPs anyone? Tails amputated at the peduncle. They do this (and other...