Recent content by JDWebb01

She gets around just fine, acts like a normal fish, gobbles up her food, worms and shrimp, a spirulina salad one in a while.

Our beta, Bubblehead, has some kind of ulcer or tumor, anyone see this before?

Excuse me, perhaps you should read my last response, I did answer your questions. You asked me if I did water changes, I said not all the time, you asked me what my substrate was, I told you, dirt and lava, you asked my what my nitrate level was, I said 20ppm.

Just tested, 0ppm. No vacuum, part of the tank has a thin layer of black lava gravel, the rest is dirt. Very clean, no residue like I have in another tank. Feeding schedule was every other day, minimal, mixed dry and brine shrimp. About 18 fish in all, small, the largest fish I had was a...

Nitrazorb was used for high nitrite levels, and the tank has always had plants in it, I replaced 6 small plants. I think that may be the issue. I test regularly and make water changes accordingly. I have read two schools of thought on water changes, and I know of several that exist without...

Had a sudden Ph change from 7.2 to 6, have a tank full of dead fish. All other parameters are good. The only change to the tank was the addition of some new plants, and an API Nitra-Zorb to reduce nitrites a bit. Could that be the culprit? It was basically overnight, right after the new plants...

Thanks for the response, however, the fish died. Water parameters were perfect, the other Rosy Barbs and Tiger Barbs are just fine and have a good appetite.

This Rosy Barb is gasping, stays in one place (has a very friendly relationship with a large Mystery snail) note the hole in the upper fin, and a white mark and a dark red mark. It doesn't eat, seems to want to be by himself with the snail which he doesn't attack, just stays by it. Anyone have...

To alleviate the possibility of a snail infestation, would it be advisable to wash new plants in a copper solution before planting?

Not sure I follow, we have 5 Ottos in the 21 gallon low profile tank where the Pea Puffer was (for about 4 months until we moved him) and he didn't bother anyone. At all.

Read my above post, we had one Pea Puffer, was not a problem with other fish or Ammono shrimp. However, they are territorial, one per 20 gallons was the recommendation when we got ours.

We had a Pea Puffer in a 21 gallon planted tank with Rummynose, Tetra's, Featherfins and 5 Gourami's. He was just fine with them. He was in there for snail control of which he did a poor job, so he was exiled to his own tank and replaced by a dozen assassin snails!

Been treating with Furan-2, is there anything else I can do? He's one of five, would hate to loose him.

Discovered one of our Gourami's has some kind of infection. We are treating the tank with Furan-2 at this time.

And then there was this guy...