Recent content by Dippiedee

Ok sorry for saying it

He had started spending 100% of his time next to the filter (until I switched it out for the sponge filter) so while I didn't see anything its definitely possible he ripped his fins on the intake. I think ill add a 25% mid week water change to his maintenance schedule until his fins are back to...

This is the only downside to it. If the people receiving notifications for a thread still received a notification for a merged post then I'd see no problem with it. If anything I find the merge quite handy; instead of editing and waiting a solid 5 minutes for my post to load so I can change it...

Water change day. Pale sand is hard to clean...

Visual update. Hes started greeting me everytime I go near the tank again

Im in no position to diagnose hopefully someone else will come along and do that but if you wanted a gravel vac just cut a plastic bottle in half and tape some hose piping into the neck of the bottle; works like a charm. Feeding daphnia is good for bloat.

Overrated - Honey gourami lol. And discus. And oscars; I like oscars when they're little but a full grown one is low key ugly. The humble cardinal tetra is underrated; not because they aren't common or even popular but because I don't think many people really appreciate them at their best; in a...

14 I believe Edit: 13* but I was close lol

Alrighty so this morning his bloat has gone down a lot. He's still a little bloated but its not too noticeable. I've fed him some daphnia. He's swimming all around his tank again so I just need to tackle the fin rot. Any chance the rot was caused by stress because the current of his previous...

Ahh my nemesis; patience... Waiting until I get a quarentine tank is probably a good idea too. I'll leave the stocking as it is for now then

That seems to be a common experience with them just from the last 5 minutes of googling RTS. I love them too and this particular fish is gorgeous; however it is already bigger than my Firemouth and my convict. Satan I'm not too worried about because she can handle herself but my Firemouth is...

There's a real nice 4/5 inch red tailed shark at my local maidenhead in for rehoming... Its tempting I love red tailed and rainbow sharks. But I don't want to disrupt the harmony in my tank. Edit: i did some research on RTS and there's too many horror stories about their aggression. The fact...

Alright ill feed daphnia tomorrow. Im hoping his alder cones will arrive soon for tannins i ordered from ebay instead of amazon which was a mistake; everything shipped from ebay takes ages to get to me where as his filter from amazon took like 2 days :rolleyes: I shall keep updating on his...

Sorry I meant frozen. Hes had bloodworms the last 2 days. I haven't fed him today because of the bloat. Should I feed him daphnia tomorrow regardless of whether the bloat has gone down or not?

He never flares at his reflection in the side of the tank (or at anything tbh) but ill give it a go I've seen that food mentioned a lot for bettas; ill get some Edit: He definitely has fin rot; his fins are black in places. But how has this happened? I was under the impression fin rot is...