Recent content by SryImABiologist

I have an hob and airline tubing that needs to be able to go in from back :/

Ok so I want a hood on my 10 gallon tank because it reduces the sound of air stone sponge filter ect but I wanna switch from t8 lighting to led and the only led hoods I’m finding are for tanks with fake plants there are no hoods with a legit led bar that can grow plants! Does anyone know where I...

update: i added cephalexin to the hospital tank to treat for bacteria

If it wasn’t fungus why would the surface lesions react to the fungus treatment?

so my mama guppy had a fungus spot on her left side and i treated the whole tank with API fungus cure, aside from killing my elodea anacharis it seemed to clear up the fungus on my guppy nicely...two days later while im doing the final water change to get rid of the medication i notice my guppy...

so went and got my water tested, turned out i have 0 ammonia but high nitrites, i seeded my tank with beneficial bacteria when i first cycled it and it had an established filter in it, idk what to do now besides water changes and i got aqueon amonia and nitrite neutralizer.

also they die one by one, its like they slow down turn cloudier and cloudier and then die every morning i wake up i find a new one dead, whole

i get the bag let it temperature acclimate for about an hour fill a cup with a clamped air tube that slowly drips water into the bag, but they arent dying when i buy them they're dying like two or three weeks after.

still finding dead shrimp... can anyone help?

hmmm im not sure, its most likely species specific if it was chytrid then its specific to amphibians, they have really thin skin compared to fish. Im not an expert sorry.

just an update, i got a bristlenose pleco and he obliterated the fungi on the rocks tank and filter, and a group of ghost shrimp is keeping it off new plant growth

are the scales sticking up or have they just turned white?

my ph is at 7.2 which is good for this species since they can take a range of 6.0-8.0

i took an established sponge filter and put it in the tank so i have that, a new sponge filter, and a hob filter, the hob is just mechanical filtration, its been set up for a week i even seeded it with nitrifying bacteria cultures, im not getting any ph swings and i just added the hob filter 3...

oh and if you look closely at the picture new smoother shell towards the front is all new in the last two weeks....