Recent content by kayleyface

I've never been to Red C (though I keep meaning to), but I've been to a number of other stores in the Seattle area. I don't mind The Fish Store and their new location is much cleaner and tidier. However, imo the stock is less varied than it used to be and I've seen a lot of dead fish in tanks...

I was having a similar problem. My solution was upping the number of cories in my school. That might work, depending on how many cories you currently have.

My camera is in hiding somewhere, so here's some rather poor quality pics with my phone's camera. The first time I left the house and came back after I got the two females, one of the female's feelers and fins was torn up. I imagine the male was the culprit, but I'm not totally sure. But...

Awhile back, I was able to pick up a single male and two female scarlet badis. When I saw the store had females, I snatched them up, since they're so hard to come by. They're in a planted, 5 gallon with some ghost shrimp, they feed on the shrimplets, which is an nice easy source of live food...

I've done 13 different species of danios in all and I did mix giants with zebra momentarily. The giants were actually the most personal of the danios I've kept. They were, however, also hyperactive (this coming from a species that is known for being hyper). They had extremely interesting...

I had such a bad experience with tetras (several of my fish lost eyes when I added my bloodfins, they were immediately returned) that I'm always wary of them. Rummies have always seemed fun or I'm particularly drawn to Congos. I never considered bolivian rams, but I did consider a pair of...

I've had my 55 gallon planted, community tank running for 3+ years and a good number of my fish are getting quite old and gradually dying (hopefully of old age since danios aren't known for living much past 3 years). The tank originally started as a danio tank with 7 different species (ranging...

The poor gourami that died seems to be the only one who had ich. The tanks been free and clear for over a week now, so I picked up two new female pearls. They're gorgeous and definitely already full grown. The male seems semi-interested in them, but is generally more interested in hanging out...

I do have access to two of his size, conveniently. I was pleased to see my lfs with adults as opposed to juvenilles for once. Once I'm sure it's safe to do so, I'll have to pick them up. He thoughts!

I would suggest upping your school numbers in general. I had four boesmani rainbows initially (all the store had) and they weren't aggressive, but they were extremely unhappy, trying to school with my danio and such. I added two more from a different store a few days later and they were all...

I have a 55gallon with a school of danio, a school of Boesmanis, a pair of blue rams, and a small school of cories. I also had a bonded pair of Pearl Gouramis till recently. The female recently got ich and the male, who never had before, started picking her. I moved her to a quarantine tank...

I recently started a 15 gallon freshwater nano tank. When researching fish, I get a bit obsessive and I found a spreadsheet online with nanofish. It was from 2009 and I've spent hours updating it, adding species, deleting species (in my opinion 2" fish just don't count). I can't remember...

Thank you everyone for the post ideas. I actually ended up swapping my 20H for a 15 Column (better space profile for my space, even if it's more limiting fish-wise). With nice shortcuts taken in cycling my tank thanks to bio-media from my 55 gallon, I now have a fully cycled, fully inhabited...

I've read a fair bit about threadfins, I'll have to look into the other two though, they look interesting. Chilli rasbora were also recommended to me by a friend and I think they might be my favorite new fish I've learned about in the past day or so.

I've looked at scarlet badis in the past. They're gorgeous little fish, that remind me a lot of my blue rams in my 55gal. The only thing that's always worried me is I've heard they're very picky about food. Ember tetras are pretty. How are they personality-wise? I'll be honest, I tend not...