Recent content by JenE

I am really stressed out about my poor fish! After I saw that the original sick cardinal tetra had taken a turn for the worse (not more ick, but he wasn't swimming and was pale, losing his color) I immediately set up our new 6 gallon tank. I went to net the fish and couldn't find him. I...

THe original sick cardinal tetra is not looking so great this morning. I'm tempted to move him out of there into a small tank that we just got. Do you ever move your sick fish and treat it alone, as well as treat the whole tank?

My tank is 29 gallons and only 1 of the 15 fish has it (a cardinal tetra). He was just introduced to the tank on Saturday and was going to be our last addition. Now I am kicking myself for not having a proper quarantine tank. Once this is figured out we are not going to add fish without...

Have any of you successfully treated ich without meds, just by raising the tank temp to 86 and doing water changes?

Luckily we have avoided a power outage so far! Thanks for all the advice. MY husband figured out that with what we already had we could run the tank for a little bit every hour using our car (with inverter and long extension cord). So far so good. Thanks for all the suggestions!

They are predicting ice storms this week with possible long term power outages. So, of course, I am freaking out about how to deal with my 6 week old 29 gallon tank if we get power outages!! What has worked for you all in the past? Is there any hope of maintaining the bacteria in my filter?

I do have snails and I pull out 1 or 2 a day. Does that mean I am feeding too much?

Thank you!

How often should I be feeding my fish? The food containers say 3 times per day; people have told me once per day. I struck a happy medium and have been feeding them a little twice per day (it took me awhile to figure out the proper amount per feeding). Now I'm worried that I am overfeeding...

Uh oh, two other fish have it this morning so it must be something to worry about. Off to the aquarium store to get something to treat it with. I'm nervous about adding chemicals to my new tank, but I don't want all the fish to die. Thanks for the help, and any other suggestions are always...

Thanks for all the suggestions! I'm so excited to add some fish. Unfortunately my son is demanding Glofish so those will be our first additions. I love the black-skirt tetras so more of those would be lovely. Thanks!

I am so new to this that it is overwhelming to browse all of the old threads and try to find the information I need. We have had our tank for over a month - 29 gallon, ph 7.4; ammonia0; nitrite0; nitrate 10-20ppm before water change this morning. We have a White Cloud Mt. Minnow who suddenly...

We currently have 3 White Cloud Mt. Minnows and 3 black skirt tetras in a 29 gallon tank with live plants. The kids are always eyeing the balloon mollies, dwarf gouramis, cardinal tetras and other tetras at the aquarium store. One of my sons love Glofish but I think they don't look very...

I am feeling encouraged today. I decided to take some tap water and mix it with the chlorine/chloramine remover I am using. I tested it for ammonia and also tested a sample from my tank. They were the exact same color (which the kids think is yellow but I think it is ever so slightly greenish...

I am feeding mine Wardley Shrimp Pellets. They don't sink on their own, I have to put them on the bottom with my hand. But, they stay on the bottom and they aren't messy.