Recent content by imba

I feed my fish once every two days, and they are all healthy and lively. I only feed everyday if I have fry or fishes that are still growing. Give it a try, if you don't see any adverse effect, why not? Helps to keep water cleaner.

I use a chopstick to stir the sand up abit so that the debris are floating, then siphon them up. Stir gently tho

About 20% water change on both my planted tanks. I also only feed once every 2 days, which helps as the fish produces less waste

Just snip the dying leaf from as close to the bottom as you can reach.

I also personally use new life spectrum as a staple and rotate some freeze dried and frozen food in between. I use the NLS Betta formula, but I only feed once every 2 days for a mature betta

Try 2 in the morning and then 1 in the evening. I think 3 pellets a day is plenty for a Betta

10g would be perfect for a nice fancy betta

Yeap, my full grown one is about 3.5cm. They behave very differently compared to pygmies. More like a regular cories, true bottom dwellers.

A 5 gallon is really too small for mollies. I hope the store can let you return them.

I think just stay with what you have now. Getting more cories will just compound on the mistake. It's really unfortunate some stores grossly misinform customers just to sell fish.

To be honest, I think you are well stocked now. I wouldn't add more if you ask me. Keep an easy to maintain tank and you'll find yourself in the hobby for a long time

If you want to add live food to their diet, maybe try live microworms. They are easy to culture and maintain. But you already have a good rotation of diet there for them.

I use these pellets too. If possible feed twice a day, 4 - 5 pellets each serve

If you wanna keep shrimp with any schooling fish, chili rasboras are probably your best bet. I've kept a colony of cherry shrimp with these guys before in a 5 gallon, and the chili's didn't come close to putting a dent in the shrimp population

5 sinking hikari wafers for 4 dwarf corys is alot. I would say you really don't need that many. I feed one wafer to 10 dwarf cories once every two days, and that's all they needed. Try cutting the the portion down and I bet you will not get any adverse results. Try 3 wafers, then maybe 2, and...