Recent content by Leila

Quick follow-up: back from my long weekend and all fish are alive and well. Thanks again for the good advice!

Thanks, Andy and huma-huma. I really appreciate the advice. I’ve never “not fed” my little guys before so having you weigh in reduces the stress.

Hello Aquarium Advice folks! I’m going away for three days and don’t have my usual fish feeding support. Is there a good way to feed my fish automatically?

By the way, I used “him” but I don’t really know if it’s male or female.

Hi folks! This probably sounds a bit far-fetched, but am hoping you can help me solve a mystery. I have had an Amano shrimp for about a year and a half in my community tank. I didn’t see it for about two weeks and was sad - I thought he had passed away. But then! I saw him again, and he was with...

Thanks, BigRedReefs. I ended up calling someone that my supplier recommended as knowledgeable about rams/cichlids. He mentioned that it’s a normal eating habit for them. Eat/spit, eat/spit….. and the good news is that the rams are now poo’ing like crazy so I figure they must be ingesting...

I’m watching them from the second I put the food in (twice a day) and it doesn’t seem that one morsel stays in their mouths. They certainly grab a lot - they seem hungry- but just spit it all back out.

I got two electric blue rams a few days ago. They’re active and healthy looking. BUT! When I feed them, they eat like crazy but spit everything back out. I’m feeding them flakes and dried bloodworms. Any clues at to what’s going on and what I should do will be super appreciated.

Thank, Sara. Hmmmm....I looked up images and videos of water fleas and in the videos the fleas look lighter than what we saw. Definitely not what the larger one looked like. Our magnifying glass was not helpful.

Sadly, these things are too teeny-weeny to take a picture of that would be of any help. Just picture small dark dots zipping around randomly.

So when we changed our tank water today, we noticed all these little dark spots swimming around at the bottom of the water we sucked out. They’re too small to even describe a shape, altho a larger one looked kind of like a brine shrimp. Any idea what these lil’ guys could be? Fish are all...

Thank you! I was just hoping to add a shrimp and understand that hard water is bad for them, in particular as they molt.

Hi folks - quick question: has anyone used the api water softener pillow? The water in our 20-gallon tank is good in every category except hardness and I’m afraid that if I use it, it might set one of the other parameters (ph, nitrates, etc) off. Obviously, I am no chemist! Also, the change is...

Hi everyone. My poor Little Rock shrimp started molting a couple of days ago and seemed not to be able to release the old shell from his front antennae and “feathers”. Today he finally got it off but is deformed (broken antennae and stumps in front). What could cause this? Could I be doing...

Thanks! I’ve scrubbed everything that I can - I think this stuff is stuck on with crazy glue. We do a pwc weekly. Lights out maybe?