Recent content by J-T-T

See and that was just it. We understood how nature should have worked and had the life cycle talk as they can get eaten for awhile until they get big enough to fit in. But every one we found survived with absolute no help from us. We feed them baby food of course and did a lot of yelling...

Lol. They are really not supposed to survive. Apparently they are 'good grub' for everyone in the tank. I must have gotten lucky with all the plants and stuff in my tank, they found lots of places to hide out and stay safe. Pretty cool experience though. My son thought it was the...

Thanks very helpful info!!! I kinda knew about the egg thing but wasn't sure about the proper terms so thanx again. I will keep an eye out as we have quite a few males. Started with just 4 barbs 1 male and 3 females about a year. A few weeks after I got them home I started freaking out...

I am not intentionally breeding my cherry barbs so this is more of an info question than any thing. I have a mama that has a huge tummy that she seems to have had for a super long time. Is there any way to know how long she is going to hang on to her eggs? Second, does it cause her...

Thanx to all!!! I will start to do bigger PWC. you have all eased my concerns about hurting my fish. Good to know I can make a bigger difference for them in a good way faster!!!

Thanx!! I will do bigger PWC's. I read somewhere online that big changes cause too big of a swing that could cause issues but I will do a 50% this weekend. Thanx again!! Oh on the feeding. My son has been doing that so I will pay more attention as to how much he is putting in for everyone!

Hi everyone!! I am hoping you guys can give me some advice on how to drop my nitrate levels in my tank & some possible causes of out of control levels Here are the details: 55g tank Been doing every other day 10% pwc changes due to the nitrate levels and every seven days a 30% pwc. ( not...

Hmm so it seems to have gotten smaller again? At a loss here.... Not sure is causing this to change back and forth.

Just looked that up on the Internet. Doesn't seem fit?? No other spots or damage. She is swimming fine and her gills and fins look normal. Eats well too

One of my oldest ((and biggest) female cherry barb has what I thought was a scab from an aggressive male nib. But it all of a sudden is slowly started to both get bigger and looks a bit furry? Any ideas out there? I have tetras; barbs and a Borneo Sucker. All in 55g tank. Most of the...

K will look around the Internet for the chlorine levels. Can't get to my lfs until this weekend as local is relative... But always worth the trip!! Will let you know.

Jlk publics water... No softener etc Just tested my tank (it has been 24 hrs since my last pwc 80%) current readings. Ph is gone again and the cycle is crashed no readings across the board. Even tried it twice with two different sets of API test kits Tap h2o reading Ph 7.4 with high ph test...

Monkey...no none are stuck at the bottom

They don't seem to show signs until they are fatal ones and rapid deaths. Have (left) 4 "checkered tailed tetras" 4 neons; a Borneo sucker and about 2 dozen cherry barbs ( they had babies and I can't count them accurately any more)