Recent content by coralbandit

My experience with the blacks was they were the best parents or homicidal maniacs. I am sure you will have great experiences with them. I would think you could house a pair of rams with the zebras. Hi Liz~!

Most likely a fry from your platy.

Are you using a drop checker also in the tank? Where is the Milwaukee's sensor located? In the tank or sump? What is your Kh? I had no issues dropping 1 point in ph in my 180 with dual overflows and istas in my sump. I used a Milwaukee controller and it was great.

Congrats on doing such a great job keeping.

40 years of keeping and breeding fish and owning the 'Handbook of Fish diseases' lead me to my conclusion. Not trying to use scare tactics but I would seriously remove the fish. There are fish diseases that can infect humans like Mycobacterium commonly known as fish TB. They are difficult to...

Beautiful~!

That is an internal infection. Do not let that fish die in your tank.

I believe Kennys replacement is Forrest and can be found on Simply Discus. At least that is how it rolled after Kenny passed.

For quality angels or discus I can only highly recommend Discus Madness in NJ. They take orders and ship. I made daytrips of going there even having a couple meet ups with members here.

If I was going to keep discus with angels I would introduce the discus well before the angels to establish their territories. If you are going to remove some fish to accommodate this I would remove the angels also and re-introduce them after the discus have settled in and are eating properly...

Those flex hoses hold a ton of besides reducing potential flow. I believe they are metric sized but I would be looking to replace them with a smooth hose. All my sumps came with flex hose and they were my first modification. You could also just start up the filter with the return in a...

Sorry to say that usually by the time we see the damage it is too late to correct. The swelling is from an internal bacterial infection that has done far more damge internally than can be seen from the outside. I would strongly consider euthanizing the fish. It is important to not let the fish...

Looks like a prolapse from what I can see.

You have a python? Picture above is of a snake.

Have you looked in the canister filter? I would put a sponge over the intake..