Recent content by jen106

I'm moving in the next couple of weeks. I have a 60 gallon that will obviously need to be drained, and I'm unsure the best way to get my fish to my new house. Luckily, I only have a few in my tank currently: a large angel, a 5ish inch Senegal bichir, a bristle nose pleco, and a cory cat. The...

Also, trading in my angel is a GREAT idea. My bichir is very active but not aggressive.

I used to have a 45 g tall tank that started out as a tropical community, but turned into basically an incubator for my 150 g oddball. I had ropefish, fire eel, silver arowana, red-tailed cat, needle gar, elephant nose, some rubber eels, as well as angels that kept laying eggs (but someone kept...

My 4 year old once dumped literally 3/4 of a large can of flake food into my 55 gallon. I spent 40 mins trying to dredge the flakes out with a net, then days vacuuming the gravel and doing water changes. This was after he filled the toilet with just about ever toiletry item in the bathroom. ???

Thanks! I may just wait until my last angel goes to the big tank in the sky and get more small ones rather than try to introduce small ones. I'll update when I get some new stock!

I recently upgraded my old crusty, blackbeard algae riddled, nitrate filled, generally gross 55 gallon for a brand new 60 gallon. As my old fish died, I didn't replace them as my balance was out of whack I was planning on eventually getting a new tank. So what I've got left: 1 large angel 1...

True!! Save $ where you can. You'll end up spending it on something else for your tank anyway.

I just set up my new tank with Tahitian Moon black. No rinsing required, comes with packets of bacteria and clarifier, and, oh, did I mention you DO NOT have to rinse it? Petco dot com will have it on sale for $14 per 20lb bag. I'd pay the regular $20 to not have to rinse it. I'm pretty sure...

Lucky for you it is a likely an Oranda and not a Comet (usually as a prize, from a carnival) and gets 12-18" long. Ha! Funny you should mention this! My kids won (what I'm guessing is) a Comet. It was a teeny tiny little thing. Luckily I have a 50 gallon with large angels that are fairly...

How do you clean it?

Thanks!

Are there plants that will work well in low light? I have an LED lamp, but it's a pretty base model and not super powerful. I do use Prime after all my water changes.

Yes, it's established. It was a cichlid tank before I got it. It's big gravel and the tank was kinda gross. The dirty rocks make a lot of sense... Do people use sand in their tropical tanks? Is there a benefit? And yeah, at least ammonia and nitrites are 0!

Sort of an update to a post I did a month or so ago. 55 gallon, the big emperor filter, 7 fish (one is a goldfish- and no I can't get rid of him). My nitrates were through the roof and the fish store lady suggested a 90% water change over the course of several days. Did that over the course of...

Here's what I did to alleviate too much food being lost in the rocks; a tiny dish. I did this after one of my frogs became emaciated from not being able to get enough food. Also, I feed mine a small amount (4-6 larger pellets or maybe 20 of the tiny pellets) twice a week. I've had this guy for...