Recent content by Mayonnaise

Well I cobbled together my father's old air bubbly gravel vac, took out all the plants and went after the gravel until I thought my back was gonna give out from the awkward way I had to hold it... Does anyone know of a safe adhsive one can use to glue a gravel vack back together? Cause the ones...

Menagerie: Latest Readings: Nitrates = 0 Nitrites = 0 Amonia = 4.0-5.0 pH = 7.6+ (off the chart toward the Alkaline) There's a bunch of crud down there and I haven't a clue what it is, cause it's certainly not hikari betta bites, or bettamin (I alternate.) Looks like dust. I used to change...

After nearly a week of daily water changes, I still haven't got any nitrites or nitrates, and I still have way to much amonia. I'm pretty sure my shrimp is dead as When I took the plants out to clean today, he was no place to be found in the tank. (I checked each plant as I removed t to make...

No, can't get a bigger tank. I won't have room for it at College. It's hard enough transporting the two gallon. 8^(

I don't own a gravel vac, but I syphon out the water with some thick tubing that I think used to be bubble tubing. All the Gravel Vacs in the store are way to big for my tank, which is only a 2 gallon hex tank. My tank isn't planted at all... all the plants are plastic. I'll cut back on the...

Ok, I get that... pH is fine... leave it alone... got it.... What about my Amonia Problem? 8^S

No, I haven't got the recepts, but I didn't buy them, they're in the basement left over from my father's fish tanks years ago. 8^)

Ok, I have No Nitrates and No Nitrites... I also Have No Alge... (So While I was at the store I picked up sinking alge tabs for my shrimp.) My pH is something higher than 7.6, that's as far as the chart goes but the liquid is darker than that. I've got pH up and pH down. Is the pH the problem...

I AM using a liquid test... and there's a card in the box to compare it so shades of yellow. I wasn't sure all tests used the same color so I didn't say what color it was. I have the "Aquarium Pharmaceuticals" one, with the blue fish on the box in the lower right, that's dressed up as a doctor...

I got an amonia test kit over the week end, to test the amonia in my two gallon that I've had for 6 weeks, which contains a Male Betta, and the Amano Shrimp I got at the same time as the amonia test. Anyhow, the test came back positive for bunches more amona than should be in there. That was...

Well we went out to dinner... and now 2 hours later I still have a shrimp. I was prepared for the possibility that he might not be ok, and wasn't even gonna name him, but my brother got attatched pretty quick. Speaking of my brother, Hypostomus, he says thank you for your complment on the name...

Ok, so earlier today I set out to get a ghost shrimp as a tank mate for the Betta I've had for a little over a month. They didn't have any left at the shop, but recomended a shrimp they called Caridina japonica (Which I didn't know at the time was just another name for an Amano Shrimp.) Anyhow...

Thanks!!! He s a fast eater, and he was flaring his gills at the time... so it does seem like that's a verry viable possiblity. 8^)

Ok... Moving Today. One Last Question... Morning Feeding is an hour and a half away. When you plan to move fish do you feed them that day? Is it better for them to move on a full or an empty stomach? I don't want the poor dear to get Seasick or sommat... Thank you!!! 8^)

No. I have Gravel in the bottom of the tank... and I was looking below him... that's why I didn't see where it came from. He's acting all normaly... so I dunno what's going on... I'm not sure if I should feed him tonight if he's got a stomach upset though... 8^S