Recent content by BethesdaLou

I have bladder and ramshorn snails in all my tanks. They are amazing at helping my tanks keep a healthy environment. When the population explodes, I cut back on the food I'm feeding my fish and tweak my lighting to help calm things down. The snail population eventually scales back until the...

Thank you DD and PK for the additional insight. I've attached two pics of the pearl gourami so that you can see the condition. I will continue to treat with meds and monitor.

This is a very interesting forum thread (sorry that I am a few months late to the party). I've had a store bought pearl gourami for about 9 months in a community tank with many other fish. About 2 months ago I noticed a skin rash developing on the gourami and what I believe was mouth fungus...

Totally agree with YellowGuppy. It may be tempting to add more fish to your pretty little tank, but with livebearers things can get out of control very quickly once the females get pregnant.

My biggest fear is the electric going out for more than a few hours. I know it's just a matter of time...

well, I have a lovely community tank with some great peaceful tankmates, but I added 6 green tiger barbs on an impulse buy and it created havoc for everyone else. It's not that the barbs are picking on anyone else, but there constant chasing each other around the tank relentlessly is stressing...

5 gallon tank that my older brother started with a pair of guppies. He went to summer camp and left it to me take care of. I proceeded to mess with the heater and cooked the guppies.

HI MissNoodle, when I got home from work tonight the last of the young corys was dead in my quarantine tank. I'm so disappointed, but I think the issue was definitely the flourite substrate. Probably too rough on their mouths and they starved. Even though my adult corys have been in the tank...

Thanks tropicalpleco, I've thought about that and I think there is adequate food. But the substrate might be the issue as the tank has Seachem flourite, which does has very jagged edges. I moved the last young cory into a quarantine tank that is mostly sand bottom, so I'll see if that helps...

I have a well established 36 gallon freshwater community tank, about 12 months old. Lots of plants, snails and good water bio. Small groups of hatchet fish (12), cardinal tetras (10) , pristella tetras (7) , siamese algae eaters (3) and one pearl gourami. There are also 2 adult JuliI...