Recent content by JerryO

2 weeks ago I noticed one of my neons was bloated and swimming on its side. I moved him to an isolation tank immediately for observation. Gave him some peas incase it was constipation and did daily 50% water changes dumbing the water from the isolation tank and replacing it with water from my...

1 ppm ammonia out of the tap for me. I do my aquarium maintenance on tuesdays and treat my water with prime and now that I am cycled I am back to 0 ppm total ammonia on thursday / friday. While using prime you will need something that test for free ammonia (seachem test) rather than total...

Sounds like a good idea I use the soda bottle trick and that helped A LOT but I konw betta are more sensitive to current than most fish.

My betta Mr Betta (What do you expect when a 2 year old names him) was floating in the right front corner of my tank when I got home from work last night. If I touched him he would swim away a little but then float back up and to the same spot. I tried to luer him out with food to no success. I...

I have 1 ppm ammonia in my tap water (think chloramine) so when I do my weekly water changes I treat with Prime. I have an ammonia alert thing in my aquarium (and I test with the seachem kit) and after my weekly water change I read about .05 ppm free ammonia for about 5 days. Then finally on day...

So my tank has been set up for a few weeks now and right from the start I wanted to feed my fish a healthy diet. I have tried peas (deshelled), cucumber, zucchini, and freeze dried bloodworms for the inhabitance of my tank, but… My betta will only eat betta pellets My tetras will only eat...

I dont think this is a sound plan... as a beginner I made the same mistake. I put 3 ryukins in a 20 gallon. The ammonia was out of control right off of the bat, even with massive dialy water changes. I ont think you wouls make it to a year. Bigger tank or different fish is the only solution

UPDATE: I am now stocked with 12 neon, 1 BN pleco, and 1 male crown tail betta. Everyone is getting along fine. No fin nipping from the neons and the beta even schools with them occasionally.

Now that my cycle is complete I find it hard to get on a regular maintenance schedule. I do a 20% water change / vacuum once a week, but how often should I be testing for Ammonia, PH, Nitrate, Nitrite, etc... Right now I am testing every other day and it does not feel like I am doing enogh...

So I had the typical problem of my HOB filter being a little too powerful and creating a stronger current than I wanted so I went to the soda bottle trick and it worked great. Now the problem I am having is since I lost some surface agitation there is an rainbow oil like film on the top of the...

I would think you could get it to work if you wanted to put in alot of effort. I mean removing every pop rivit and plastic clip down to the individual pieces then seal them individually with some sort of 100% silicone sealer, then reassemble everything. It would be alot of work, risk, but I...

So I put a piece of blanched cucumber in my tank for the first time for slimer (my BN Pleco) and he didn't really seem interested in it at the time. A few hours later I went in and the neons were going nuts after the skin of the cucumber (they were fed at the same time I put it in so they were...

Day 3 update: Lost 1 but all of the others are healthy. Eating and swimming well. I think I am out of the woord now. ;) Hopefully I wont have any other excitement in my aquarium adventure for a while.

So I went to my LFS this weekend planning to get 10 neons for my newly cycled tank. He filled the bag with water, added the fish, and when he picked it up from the air filling station disaster!!! The newly air filled bag slipped from his hands and exploded when it hit the floor. We both sprung...

So my cycle is complete. I rejoiced and added some fish (12 neons and 1 BN pleco to start). I started to see some ammonia show up, which I expected a little spike after reading the forum since there are now fish in the tank and the load is higher, so at .5ppm I did a water change and treated...