Recent content by juliemichelle

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Thank for the help. I'll drive up to Des Moines this weekend (1.5-2 hours) away, if it isn't snowing too much and hopefully one of the large pet stores will have something. It's so heartbreaking when my daughter finds another of her fishies "hidden" by a plant. (My dad keeps telling her that...

I am on day 8 of Maracyn, day 3 of Maroxy and day 3 of Maracyn - 2 (always treat with CopperSafe). Two more have died. My tank is getting empty. Everything that I have researched says that this is caused by poor water quality. This weekend I bought a new filter for my 55 gallong and my 10...

Duh Julie....I currently have 8 fancy tailed guppies in QT right now and would like to add them to the mix. Will they all be peaceful?

I recently researched and bought 2 dalmation lyretail mollies, 4 mickey mouse platys, 4 regular platys, 2 black sailfin mollies (sadly 1 died on day one and the other has a horrible case of ick) and 2 red cap oranda goldfish. According to my research all of these like water in the 75 degree...

My bettas are fine in theirs. There are vents at the top of the water level and at the bottom so that there is circulation but not a strong current (which bettas hate). I have seen pictures of betta breeders breeding bettas (say that 5 times fast) in mason jars with no circulation whatsoever...

Oh...and try using a bigger net!

I was trying to catch some convict cichlids and I called my LFS and he suggested dumping in some ice. And then he started laughing hysterically! :twisted: Honestly, I finally removed all the plants and ornaments and drained half of the water out and amazingly they were easier to...

Bettas (male bettas) LOVE to eat the fins off of any other long finned critter - especially guppies. Maybe you could find one of those hang on the side (but still in the tank) isolation tanks. I have 3 bettas in 3 of these and they're great. They're called BettaVisions. They're clear plastic...

My convicts seem happy with current. In their 55 gallon tank they enjoy hanging out by the HOB filter output. They like bubbles too! Mine enjoy swimming through the bubble strip and then at the end of the strip they shake their gills and fins and shake out the bubbles they picked up! They're...

"Elly" was labeled as a "freshwater snowflake eel". The forum and I had a quite a conversation about him and whether or not there was such a thing as a freshwater eel. Perhaps it is still in here somewhere.

Oh! Forgot to mention that it took 2 grown men to catch him and move him to a new home with only an oscar (that was too big for his mouth). He does prefer a brackish environment. The new owner and I ran into each other yesterday at the LFS and he's still growing!!!! :mrgreen:

I recently kept an eel in my freshwater tank. He started off at a cute 10 inches, but after 2 months he grew to almost 18 inches and ate everything he could catch. He started eating 4 frozen krill every other day to eating 5 cocktail shrip every day and 2 dozen goldfish every week (and clown...

Is it just a small pin hole? My female betta had that too and she did just fine (until my eel ate her one night). :oops: