Recent content by dont155

Trust the thermometer. If you want get another thermometer to be sure.

This is a pretty crappy pic, but I swear these two Cories want to mate. They swim everywhere together and seem to even want to sleep together. The one on the right is male. The left is female. -Don T.

I have 3 Australian and 2 Bosmani. I may get one more Bosemani to round out the group. I agree the Bosemani have a better color scheme, but the Australians seem to flare and show off more. Of course that could be because the biggest one is the king of the tank and there is one less Bosemani in...

LoL, They tend to spit flake out, and I did try small [granules?] (they look like little spheres) Anyway, those still seem to be too big for them as they spit those out too. It's been a bit fustrating trying to find other things that they will readily eat.

Thanks guys, I have three of the Australian guys. The one pictured is the biggest right now. I also have two Melanotaenia Boesemani, here's one of them: Rainbows are CooL fish, I'm glad I picked them. Its almost a frenzy at feeding time, I've been feeding them Daphina, Bloodworms and...

Can someone please give me the precise scientific name of this Rainbowfish? The store listed it simply as an "Australian Rainbowfish" But I'd like to confirm that the listing on the store's tank was correct. There seem to be several varieties of Rainbowfish from Australia. Thanks, Don T.

Hehe, I have very hard water with pH of about 8 - 8.4. (Hard to tell exactly) The rainbowfish and Cories I put in don't seem to mind this at all. :) The biggest problem I have with it is controlling the *&^%$ calcium/mineral deposits that keep building up on my equipment. It's gets worse if...

After 55 DAYS of patient dosing and a final seeding of filter squeezings from a freind at work. I waited an extra week after the Nitrites finally dropped to make sure there were no unanticipated spikes. After much research, I started the tank (29 US gallons) off with 5 Peppered Cories and a...

This is THE Prime: http://www.seachem.com/products/product_pages/Prime.html And this is a FAQ link for Prime: http://www.seachem.com/support/FAQs/Prime_faq.html

Stuff happens sometimes. At least you remembered after only a couple of hours... what if you had gone to sleep and woke up the next day and THEN remembered... :?

You need to dose it with a good ammonia source if you're going fishless. It won't automatically cycle without some ammonia for bacteria food. If you want to go automatic, pick up a good sized shrimp at your local supermarket and place it in a stocking in the tank and leave it to rot. The...

I've watched some of the employees at my LFS do it. They get the water and fish in the bag, make sure the bag is well opened and round all the way to the top, then grab and close the top very quickly, trapping the air inside. It may take some practice, so try it a few times with no fish until...

For the Python syphoning issue, I discovered quite by accident that I could in fact, increase the suction a bit. The "problem" was literally at the tap. The part that goes on the water spicket isn't supposed to be "rotatable". That is, when mounted, the part should not easily rotate to...

Ended up doing a 50% water change, but even after that, diluting the tank water with 50% tap water STILL gives me a pretty high Nitrite read... LoL, I may have started out with more Ammonia than I thought! But the bio filter converts the Ammonia pretty efficiently now. I did do a second...

What type of ammonia is being used here? I'm using a 10% solution which is still kind of strong. It only takes 1.5 mL of it to bring 29 US gallons to about 1 ppm. I'm currently dosing at that rate every 12 hrs. Which means 2ppm every day. Ammonia readings are returning to zero within the 12...