Recent content by cocoah

I found him behind the filter a few minutes ago.. I don't know if he got stuck and died or died naturally. I guess it was just a matter of time.

Thanks for the advice but I can't keep buying all this medication not knowing it will work for sure - poor college student. I did a 75% water change this morning, when I saw that salt was bad. His "pine coning" has gone down considerably(it wasn't terrible, just kind of bad) but his fin rot...

The celestial eye is doing horribly. I fear his death is close. The red blotches aren't that visible now. The day after I posted last, there were white specks on him, his fin specifically, so I got some super ick cure and did a water change. I also gave him a salt dip and then lightly salted...

The black moor passed this morning, and I feel so terrible about it. She seemed a lot better after I gave her the salt bath, her eye looked fine. Then the night before she seemed a little sluggish, not as active as usual, but it didn't look that bad, but in the morning she was completely gone...

I bathed the black moor in a 1 gal bucket of .5% salt for 10 minutes, since she's still a little one. She seemed completely fine during the process and she looks better already. I'm hoping she'll fully recover soon. Great advice! Another question I had about clamped fins.. Sometimes my...

I just tested the water, here are the results. Ammonia - 0 Nitrate - 0 Nitrite - 0 Total hardness - 75 Total chlorine - 0 Total alkalinity/kh - 120 ph - 7.8 Temp - stays between 68 - 76. That's a big range but it gets really hot here in Sacramento sometimes. Are those okay? I cannot quarantine...

December of '09 I got a 20 gallon tank and set it up with a filter, gravel and ornament. I also got a juvenile celestial eye, who has had a little bit of trouble due to my inexperience at the time, but has recovered and has been healthy for months. Two days ago I checked the water(ammonia...