Recent content by Zevyn

If you can't see the breeding tubes, just look for the one chasing everything away from the eggs; that's the female.

I have a 5.5 gallon with Red Cherry Shrimp and 5x Galaxy Rasboras, aka Celestial Pearl Danios. Stick to nano fish if possible, but a few male guppies would also be ok. The shrimp have a low bioload, so you can have at least 8 with room for breeding in addition to a small amount of fish in that...

The mechanism is cheap. It's just a small length of airline tubing that can go from the tank to the bucket and an airline control valve. Should cost you next to nothing if you already have airline tubing. I've done the knot method before, and it's not terribly difficult. You just tie several...

I've only had Panda's, Julii and Albino, and I would say the Julii's have been the most beneficial. They clean algae from my rocks and leaves, something my other species have never done. I have a rock cave in my 55G that had a brown tinge to the surface after several months, and wiping it with...

They are well-behaved for a cichlid. They do tend to posture and give short chase to fish they don't want around them on occasion, but it's harmless. Mine just laid eggs last week and they were extra aggressive to the tank mates, but the female never once actually bit another fish, she just...

Lower water level, add crickets and toss an Archerfish in there!

I have two tanks each with a pair of B. Rams and Angelfish in them, and this is common behavior. It's just posturing for the most part. I've never seen an actual bite where damage occurred. They're cichlids, so you can expect this to happen. In fact, I'm pleasantly surprised that this is the...

If you don't have a high-tech setup that grows plants fast to the point where you're having to trim them constantly, you're not going to see them export nitrates at a noticeable level. You may have some success with non-aquatic plants dipping their roots in the water, since C02 is readily...

I've had this filter-hack going for a while now on all my Aquaclear's with 100% success: Filter Currents: A Betta's Worst Nightmare

My fancy tail male guppies are too busy playing around swimming to notice my shrimplets. They're not opportunistic eaters like the pregnant females that are constantly on the hunt for food. My males only eat when I feed them, unlike a lot of fish that are constantly scrounging around. 5x flame...

Why do people insist on lowering nitrites in a fish-in cycle? It's a process that is reactionary. You chose to put fish in before the biological filter was in place, which is fine, but you're now accepting DAILY water changes regardless of whether you think you need them or not. The fishes...

Not at all. They're the most active and interesting species I have in all of my tanks. I enjoy watching them more than my larger tanks. With that said, you don't really know how many you have until you throw some algae wafers in there. They all come out to eat, which makes you realize just how...

A couple hundred shrimp easily. My 10 gallon has over a hundred of them and I have no water quality issues. I have 3x male fancy tail guppies and a black mystery snail with them. I can't say how many rainbows though since I'm not familiar with them, but the shrimp you can go nuts with in regards...

I picked out two pairs from a tank that appeared to be stocked with full-grown adults to put into two different tanks. In fact they were expensive because of their age. It seemed easy since there was a pair on one side where one was visibly larger than the other, and another pair resembling the...

1 PWC per day should be fine for a fish-in cycle until it completes. I wouldn't try dilluting/removing nitrites from a tank that is cycling anyway. The water is safe for 24 hours after you condition it each day. You only need to be considering back to back (to back to back) changes when your...