Recent content by gimmethatfish

What kind of fish? With clean, warm water and good quality food you should start to see regrowth pretty quickly. Within a week or so I'd expect to see lots of clear fin tips growing in. What are you treating him with?

I usually pick up decorations and vacuum under them as I go. It can get pretty funky under them, even though I have sand in all tanks. Stuff still seems to slip underneath.

I have a pair of German blue rams as well as a pair of apisto cacatuoides in community tanks, and they do very well. Very peaceful and pretty and active fish. Lots of personality, and they don't mind swarms of fast-moving fish everywhere. My rams in my 120 gallon tank eat and swim right along...

I use several coats of clear Plasti-Dip on my styrofoam backgrounds. No problems with them, and I've had two tanks with them for well over a year. If you want something thicker/harder, you can use a marine epoxy resin - like Sikatop 107.

Not to go off topic, but I've never heard of an overhead sump before. I am intrigued by this.

I LOVE my little dwarf puffer. Super cute, super personable. You'll need a supply of live food, but blackworms and pond snails are easy to cultivate. Bonus points that due to their tiny little invisible fins, they look like little hovercrafts that move with the power of thought. I just want to...

I have used PPS-Pro ferts for a couple of years, but I never have dosed daily as it recommends. The best I usually do is twice a week. When I set up a CO2 system on my 120 gallon tank, I started dosing every other day, thinking that I'm asking these plants to grow like crazy with the CO2 and I...

It's really not unusual for a betta to not eat for several days to weeks in a new home. Just be patient with him. Bettas can go for a month or more without food and show no ill effects. I wouldn't worry unless another full week goes by and he has eaten nothing.

Not sure, but here's what I do to add meds to food. I mix the medication with the pellets first, then add garlic guard liquid just enough to make the whole thing kind of moisty (or aquarium water, as you did). Then I spread the whole mess out on a plastic bag or tray and let it dry. Then crumble...

I just treated a tank for ich with cories in it. The cories never seemed to get ich, but my whole school of kubotai rasboras had it. I kept the temp up for a full 2 weeks and then gradually reduced it. The cories were fine, and the ich didn't come back. Mine are panda cories. I didn't change the...

I would definitely use sand if you're getting cories. I'm also not sure I'd mix a gourami with rams unless you were to go with a honey gourami. I just personally have had bad luck with any other kind of gourami (all meanies). My 4 year old has a 20g tank with a honey gourami, 8 male guppies, 7...

Yeah out of my 7 bettas, only one can co-exist with cherry shrimp. The rest of your stocking looks good though I would probably get 6 otos for a proper shoal. The betta will probably eat the platy fry, but that's kind of good for population control and also nice healthy live food for the betta.

I've had great success with the seeded sponges from Angels Plus. I have used them 3 times for friends establishing new tanks, and have had a near-instant cycle with them. The longest I think was about 5 days, and that was adding 3 sponges in a 55 gallon tank, dosing ammonia to 4ppm. Good stuff.

Peacock gudgeons are pretty and personable little fish that often get overlooked. Very peaceful, and they stay small.

*Most* bettas do fine in community tanks. Out of my 7 bettas, only one didn't do well in community. You could get one male or one female betta along with a bunch of peaceful community fish if you were set on a betta. Just avoid gouramis, paradisefish, and anything that might nip at the betta's...