Recent content by LadySundew

Hi! I've made this paludarium in a 60 liter / 10 gallon tank and I'm trying to figure out if it could be suitable for housing firebelly newts (the chinese ones)? I've been researching on my own but thought it would also be good to ask here! The water is about 15cm deep here but it could be...

So I have this 125 l tank and I'm currently deciding on what fish to stock it with. I'm considering clown killifish. But the problem is, how do I lid this tank? It's got branches and houseplants on top so a traditional lid won't do. I have a lot of floating plants which I've read can reduce fish...

Well I guess the movement wasn't so unmistakable... I'm real confused since I swear I saw it doing that streching and unstreching while being attached to the bottom of the container. Like it was swaying itself around? Anyway, I went trough the videos and observed the thing since I still have it...

Now that you say it, it seems obvious! It does look like the bigger ones I've seen in ponds and moves like them as well. I googled again and it's definetly a leech, the shrinking and streching movement is unmistakable! It seems that they can be dangerous to multiple animals depending on the...

Here's a link to a video I took of the creature on a USB "microscope" camera. The quality isn't the best but you can see the shape an how it moves as well as the colour: Sorry about the wobbling of the camera, it's kinda hard to navigate your target with it. I can upload more footage if...

A tragedy has occurred in my tank... Yesterday I noticed some half eaten shrimp bodies on the aquarium floor and freaked out. I did all water quality tests but found nothing. However I didn't have to look for the cause too long: the water temperature had dropped from 26 °C to 22 and the heater...

We're getting a corn snake as a Christmas present for my younger sister. Since she's still pretty young (12) I'll be primarily responsible for the snakey. Here's a list of everything we've already purchased: Exo Terra Large Wide - 90 cm x 45 cm x 45 cm the Pet Factory's Coco humus/fiber the...

Thanks for the response! Yeah, that's kind of what I thought about the current food and the betta. I'll start looking into betta foods. About the shrimp, I just came back from a trip to HelsinkI and bought some more moss for them from a shop there. I'm also searching for shrimp hides that are...

I'm trying to find the best way to feed my 15 gallon tank with C. habrosus, red cherry shrimp, assassin snails and in the near future a betta (as soon as I get my quarantine tank). I've been feeding the tank since I got my first shrimp in February with JBL Novo Tabs. The ingredients list and...

My tank's shrimp population is finally reaching to the point that I'm comfortable to start preparing for the arrival of a betta. I have two pet stores that sell fish in my town but while the other one's otherwise good their bettas always look a little ragged (they're a chain store). The other...

I too have been doing research on getting a bird even though I can only get one once I live on my own (in a few years). I'm pretty sure I want a cockatiel. I found this wonderful and informative site while looking for Finnish breeders. The site is Finnish but everything (except for some of the...

I didn't have an air pump previously but I just came back from getting one. But I ran into another problem because the instructions said that the pump must be placed above the water level of the tank. I'm not able to build a shelf right now so the only possibility would be to hang it from the...

Would it be okay to move the wood and take some sand out, if I take out the fish, the shrimp, and the snails while I do it? I do believe that an air stone is going to help I'd still like to try and eliminate the problem (which seems to be the wood and too deep sand?). Thanks to you both I'm...

Where in the tank sould I place the stone? Or does that matter? Like near the filter so that the air bubbles would go all around the tank with the currdent? So I shouldn't do anything to the piece of wood or the depht of the sand? I realised I only started to see the bubbles after I rearranges...

Yeah, it's sand. The research I did did warn me about "the dangers" of sand but all of it told that I'd be okay by just disturbing the sand while doing water changes which I've been doing... And I think I might have lied. I took a better loik at the substrate and it might be closer to 6 maybe...