Recent content by Kaligma

I don't find your help rude. Being nit-picky is not a negative thing, as it increases awareness of details potentially overlooked or misunderstood. I appreciate knowing details to help tighten up overall knowledge and experience. Thank you. I had already been looking into better foods and am...

There are two angels, now 5 swordtails, now 3 loaches, a bn pleco, and one nerite snail. We have java ferns, a small vallisneria, and two anubias. It's a 55 gallon tank with a Fluval C4 HOB filter. We typically do at least a basic vacuuming and/or water change every week and a big clean once a...

Hello, Thank you so much for everything that this community has provided. We are so grateful and have had a blast with everything involved in our fishy friends but our concern is red flagged! We are worried about the health of our fish. We had a couple kuhli loaches die and now a swordtail...

It's difficult to tell if he is eating or not. As it's hard to spot these guys eating, in general. We've had the loaches for about 3 months but when we got them one of them was full grown(or appeared to be). So, I'm not certain of their proper age.

Just looking for advice about what could potentially be happening to one of our Kuhlis. This duder has been super thin on their belly for about two weeks. Originally they had a couple red sores on them too. We got API's Melafix and the red sores went away but their belly is still so thin. They...

Thank you, much!

Nah, we currently have a koi angelfish and a bn pleco. They were an emergency transfer from a dirty and uncycled 10 gallon. Knew about the live bearing of swordtails, makes sense that all male swordtails could create a problem. The angel and bn pleco have been in the tank since we got it setup...

Hellos my fishy friends! Tank has been cycled for over a month now and we're hoping to add to our community. It's looking like a lot of sources are saying the addition of 3 fish maximum per introduction and at least two weeks for more. I was just curious how all of that works with schooling...

It is bark, thank you! Makes sense to test parameters in its own waters. Much appreciation.

Hellos! My fiancé discovered this piece of wood while cleaning up our home and is curious if we could safely add it to our tank. I've scrubbed it and then boiled it for an hour. We were wondering if anyone knew what it was and if it would be okay to add to the tank. I can't remember exactly...

I don't have any tips but the snail shot is glorious!

Finally got a couple decent shots of our BN Pleco. I just wanted to share since they're rare for us and he's pretty dang adorable!

We just started but here it is. Upgraded from a 10g that was not in good condition. We've learned a lot and a lot of thanks to the community here. Looking forward to more real plants but are happy with the java ferns that we got. It really helps develop more life in their kingdom. Still...

Hellos! It appears that we have a minor calcium buildup around the mid-tank area. Even if this were not the case, as we get top buildup. Is there a good way to be able to manage it with wiping/scrubbing while the tank is full or before/during water changes? I don't wanna chance any disasters...

Welcome to the community! Happy to have you here!