Recent content by aquafrogg

Hey everyone!!! thank you so much for the replies. After a bit more time, he has really started to settle down and in. just to answer a few questions, yes he is in a very established heated and filtered tank 0/0/10. It was the home of my betta of 5 years before he passed of old age last April...

Hi everyone, yesterday I brought home a new betta who was on sale at Petco for “physical damage”. He just appeared to be missing half a ventral fin and his fins were somewhat clamped, as well as he seemed pretty lethargic. But what else can you expect from a betta in a cup? Either way, I felt...

My little 10g naturalistic black water planted tank

Newly planted/redone, will look much more natural once it has tannins/botanicals that I asked for for Christmas + once the plants have grown in some

Thank you so much! Yes you’re right, I should make a single post summing up the past 3 or so years and delete everything else and start fresh. I have wanted to make a new thread for this tank but the threads would probably end up getting merged together. This is a much better idea!!

So, the plants in this tank weren’t super healthy so I decided to dirt the tank. Since I was already needing to take out the substrate to dirt it, I went ahead and added some play sand for a softer substrate. Ollie seems to LOVE sifting through it and digging in it which is awesome. And I feel...

Someone help me fight the urge to rip up all the plants except for the crypts and penny wort and add a few lillies and a ton of floaters and botanicals and leaf litter and a few more riparium plants and turn it into a mini pond :/

Update! Found someone who can take the danios tomorrow. They’ll be going in a 75g with tons of other fishies

In the wild they typically only breed in the spring time, especially rainy season, but in captivity (provided the conditions are right) they will breed year round. One of the best ways to trigger breeding is lowering the waterline over the week (like a week-long water change) and then filling up...

I agree, you could just let them go and see what happens. A lot of the time the frogs will eat the eggs themselves, probably eat many tadpoles, and they’ll get sucked in the filter, etc. Or you could feed the eggs to any other fish you have

Man I teared up a little reading this thread. I’m very sorry for your loss and I’m so glad you are starting to heal. You and your husband’s decision was the most selfless thing you guys could have done, even if it was a very difficult choice. It reminds me of one of my favorite lyrics: “How do...

A non-picture update on this tank! I put my danios on Craigslist and Facebook marketplace for free to a good home. There’s just not enough of them to keep aggression levels down, the dominant one is constantly chasing the little ones out of the water. I hear them hitting the Saran Wrap pretty...

Guess who I saw rummaging through the leaf litter this morning? My little blind guy! What a sweet baby. He actually swam confidently through the water column too! And he found an algae wafer plus some leftover brine shrimp. I was very impressed! Huge smile on my face after seeing him

I have hydra in my 10g betta/ADF tank with no issues. They’re actually super cool little critters because of how they spawn new hydras off of their own bodies and never die unless someone/thing purposefully eats/kills them (meaning they never die of old age or disease). but if you want to get...

Exactly!! I always see mine walking upside down on the surface of the water. Magical snails!!