Recent content by Ebreus

Hello everyone, So, I'm downsizing my tank. Moving from a ~50g to 20 tall. I've recovered my plants, animals, decor, and some of the soil from the old tank. However the old tank was running for a long time and in all that time the soil has almost entirely broken down from balls into a fine sand...

Ah, sorry for neglecting the specifications in the body of the comment. Size: 50 Gallons Stocking: 2 Harlequin Rasbora, population of Blader Snails, 5 Amano Shrimp It's also moderately planted, maybe veered into light planting.

Hello everyone, I've just begun acclimating some Harlequins and noticed today was supposed to be the day for the tank's water change. I change on a schedule and the tank should be good to go a while longer without significantly affecting water quality (but I will check for certainty). This has...

Hello everyone, I've managed to catch the Nymph from my previous post before it could kill any (more) of my fish or shrimp. I've got it in an emergency tank for now and plan on returning it to it's habitat tomorrow. I don't want to kill it, either directly or through shock so how should I go...

Thanks. I'll keep this in mind if I manage to net it/them. It managed to find somewhere to hide in the time it took to get an ID so now my priority is removal before it kills any more of my pets.

Hello everyone, Found something in my tank and r/Whatisthisbug over on Reddit is coming up Dragonfly Nymph for ID so far. I think it may have killed one of my Rasbora. Aside from netting this one what can I do about this? Think it'd be OK if I took it to the nearby river and released it? It's...

Maybe, I wish I knew Rasboras better so if there was any indication I'd at least have known what was wrong.

Unfortunately this isn't going to be the case. The not-eating Rasbora died this morning. Found one of my shrimp eating the body when I woke up. :(

Hello everyone, I'm a bit concerned about one of my new Rasboras. I'm new to having them and this one hasn't eaten since I got it. I've fed them twice, one today and once yesterday, and the other four are enthusiastic about feeding time but this one isn't and overall seems to have less energy...

Just the one last night, I'm thinking that the errors I made in testing last night just produced strongly erroneous results. I did set an alarm and wake up early to try and do one after 5h from the first like recommended but couldn't muster the energy to do it or willpower to wake everyone so...

I've looked up the instructions for the API kit and made sure to test properly today, rather than doing it from memory yesterday. Here are the results; Again from left-to-right: PH, High-Range PH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate I'm certain they're in this order this time. Mistakes made testing...

Amano Shrimp, there's nothing noticably dead in the tank. I've noticed the shrimp will kill & eat members of the snail population. I don't think they'd have left one to rot but that would be the only thing I can think of that could be dead in there. I misplaced my instructions for the API kit, I...

These test-tubes are a lot larger than the ones that came with the kit. The ones that came with the kit broke over time. I use a syringe to measure for these and it's 5ml, or as close as I could get with as anxious as I was, in each tube. Update: First water change complete and my housemates...

They're left-to-right in the order I listed. The last two might be reversed. Alright, got water leaving the tank now. Thank you. How important is this timeframe? I can try to be as close as possible but I don't think my housemates will let me change the water again at 4 in the morning.

Hey, Sorry I've been away for a while. Just bought some plants for my shrimp tank and my LFS talked me into trying some Rasbora after mentioning my problems with keeping guppies alive. I've just finished acclimating them and got a dreadful feeling so I tested the water and now I'm even more...