Recent content by shadowfax29

Hello DragonChild. I've heard of this occurence before. Not with your particular fish though. I've seen neons and one lemon tetra schooling together and have also heard of instances of clown loaches schooling with tiger barbs. :mrgreen:

Hi. I was just hoping to get someone's opinion on this. I recently had an outbreak of internal parasites among my discus and rams. I had a few medications on hand to fight it. One being a food additive so the fish can ingest the medication and the other is Hex-A-Mit. One of my discus had...

You're right. I'm not trying to give fluval a bad rap. They have to be doing something right as it is a very popular filter. I just know someone whose cats tripped the hoses twice. The second time resulting in about $1000 of dead cichlids. :( There's also a local store here that talks...

Here's my opinion. It's true that the hood filters function the same as a HOB filter. I have a 5 gal. tank with a hood filter and to be honest I really can't stand it. It's hard enough to get into the tank to do any maitenence as it is due to its small size plus there's a filter in the way as...

Good luck with getting them to spawn. My rams will attempt it about once a month. Only once have the eggs not been eaten and that time nothing happened! The eggs sat there forever and after about a week or two they started growing a fungus on them. Sounds to me what's happening is your pleco...

Wow. That's awfully expensive. I'm not 100% sure on exactly how much you would need for that type of setup but someone has an auction running on ebay where you get 100 bio balls for $4. I have a 180 gal tank with a wet dry and a 30 gal sump and if I had to take a guess I'd say I have probably...

My girlfriend's 75 gallon recently leaked right out the bottom seal of the tank. What a mess. Luckily it was made by All Glass Aquariums and the store we purchased it from gave us a new one without a problem since it was still under warranty. Hopefully yours isn't leaking from the bottom...

Ouch. I don't blame you for being upset. Although I have to say that something similar did recently happen to me. I ordered a specimen of Pogostemon helferi from Singapore and what arrived was much smaller than I expected. I was expecting something close to 6" and got a tiny 1/2" plant...

Hi again. I just want to say thanks for all the helpful info. Trimming all but one or two leaves actually is rather conveniant since there's actually only one really healthy looking leaf on there right now. I just hope this thing doesn't completely die off on me. As for the low temp...

Hi. I just purchased a Madagascar Lace Plant from a local aquarium. The plant is a good size but doesn't look to be in tip top shape. I didn't want to pass it up as it's the only one I've ever seen for sale locally. Its a very dark green color and while transporting it home a pretty good...