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i don’t bump the heater up because he’s housed with african dwarf frogs! he doesn’t hang out by the heater though, which would be my sign that he’s cold as he did that for a couple days before i got a better heater a couple months ago. i did a water change and got him some frozen bloodworms to...

just tested! temp: 76° ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 ph: 6.5 nitrate: 0

OH the dish is a great idea!! sorry to hear that! i see my two that eat on the bottom of the tank eat plenty, due to me severely overfeeding just to get them to eat.

I have three adult african dwarf frogs. Basically they’re really hard to feed- they just bash their heads into the gravel substrate repeatedly until they get a mini pellet. this results in them knocking 80% of the pellets i give them in between the rocks to be lost forever. so basically i have...

oh and another note, he only ever flashes against the amazon sword plant i’ve never seen him rub against anything else been sitting by the tank since i posted this to keep an eye on him and he has just been flashing over and over i am much more worried now

My plakat betta has been flashing for a month. i didnt know it could be a sign of flukes until today. i don’t know if he’s just been flashing in the last month or if i just didn’t notice it before then. its not every day and i haven’t seen him do it more than twice consecutively but ill be...

help. this is gross but i’m so sick i can barely stand or see between influenza and my chronic connective tissue disorder. i was crying while feeding my babies and my snot dripped in the tank. should i be worried? i seriously don’t know if i have the strength to change the water either.

ooh okay! i actually don’t know what exactly it is either- aside from dwarf pleco. i’ll attach another picture of it’s back

anyone know whether my knew dwarf pleco is male or female? i can try to get a better picture if necessary but it’s kind of hard because of how tiny and fast it is. it’s doing quite well so far and is getting along great with the frogs.

are these spots new? has he changed color before? it looks to me to be iridescent scales on his gill covers, not an actual illness, but if it’s affecting his behavior and he doesn’t normally change color, it could potentially be something. also, in his gill, it looks like hyperplasia.

it’s been so hard to get a picture of him because of how high energy he is. finally got one. he’s not the prettiest betta ever but he was a rescue with a badly damaged spine who couldn’t swim- he’s my pride and joy and in my eyes he is the most beautiful fish in the world. his name is jesse...

i don’t disagree but the algae that’s growing on some of my plants is impossible to scrape off and was a delicacy to my snails.

i have a 20 gallon long planted aquarium with 3 african dwarf frogs and 1 betta (they get along dw) i had 3 mystery snails but 2 passed from old age and the other was killed by my frogs. don’t want to get snails again because of the issue my frogs pose but i do want a new algae eater based on...

so i have 3 mystery snails and one got mysteriously sick a month ago (still has not died but has not eaten or moved at all) since then the other two have also gotten sick. one has still been moving and eating a bit just less than normal and hasn’t been laying eggs like she normally does. i’ve...

oh so interesting!! all i knew is that pothos releases more than most plants- i didn’t know this about willow!