Oh, i have my good share of house plants and flower garderns, and a garden. Lol! I've cut some house plants just to throw in my tanks to float. I never have enough anyways might as well start more. [emoji6]
Half of my large garden is nothing but strawberry patches. Got rows and rows of them. My favorite.
Thank you very kindly. I just did water changes so I will be ok for a couple of days. I think I can rubber band a bag over my hand so the dressing doesn't get wet.
Sorry to hear about the ich spot, but you caught it quickly. I have a concern about the dawn dishwashing detergent. I'm not doubting that you rinced well enough this time, but I always warn hobbiest to never use any type of soap or detergent on anything associated with a fish aquarium. Any traces of unrinced soap can be toxic to fish. You can use chlorine bleach like Clorox to clean with as it rinces away completely easily. If you have any mineral deposits or difficult to remove algae when cleaning a peace of equipment, common table salt (preferably without iodide) makes a good scrubbing powder which also rinces off well and harmless to fish. Also don't use commercial sponges. They are soft when you purchase them without being wet because they contain a humectant that is also toxic to fish. There are thin plastic fiber dish scrubbers (usually green in color) that are not attached to sponges that are also safe to use.
I must be doing something right, I've washed a lot of containers and tanks in Dawn and I've never had a problem. Imo, I don't see much difference as to using bleach. Just the smell of bleach and thoughts of using it for my fish stuff scares me. But, I will probably be trying it with my plants when the time comes. Unless I figure something else out.
If you're not afraid to use the Dawn, it's certainly your choice. I just wanted to give you the heads up about soap toxicity and suggest some alternatives. Straight, undiluted white vinager is also a good cleaner that kills pathogens, rinces away well and it's acidity even helps to disolve mineral deposits. However you choose, it's obviously up to you. Good luck.
Nothing's working. I even tried to open a new post and can't load any pics. Tried downsizing the pic. Can't delete any off my old posts either.
I've enjoyed the pic you've been posting. Maybe you can open another posting like "Angellove78cont. I don't know what the site would allow, but it's something worth looking into.
One nice thing about viper is that a male won't care if her tail is perfect and when she's ready, you can pass on her original beauty to her offspring.
this is Viper the day she lost half her tail. This is how bad it is.Poor girl. But she still has her most beautiful green color. I already said that when she's ready to breed, a male won't care about her short tail. I would love to see the offspring from her genes.
When my daughter got in my tank and took the girls out. It's actually growing back sooner than what I thought. Been dosing with stress coat when I do water changes. Thought I'd try it out. Think the water changes help more. But doing everything I can to help her. Everyone else is back to normal. No stress. Took about a wk for that. It's been crazy.
I know. Just hurts me to see her like that. I was worried it was broke off up to the body. But she must of had just enough tail to start regrowing it. It's starting to. We'll see about breeding her in a few months. That 1/2 A tail don't faze her a bit. She swims just like the rest.
I'm happy it didn't break up to the body. I know you keep tank clean, but I know the dangers to a fish with an open wound. I only have a red male in a community tank. Big Red is very beautiful too, but I must admit that if I had seen one the color of viper, I would have gotten it instead. She's amazing.
