Recent content by nj278

For the first time I am looking to buy a filter (all of my other tanks have come with a filter or two or three - somehow I have six tanks but 14 filters). At this stage it will be a 35 gallon tank (3ft) with 6 sparkling gourami and a starlight pleco in a few weeks once some biofilm and such...

Thanks very much, and sorry about my original post being all over the place! I clearly was too tired for this (also had an incident yesterday involving a siphon, a danio, and it's guts being ripped through its stomach so clearly not having a great day). Anyway, I will see what plants I can find...

Hi everyone, happy (somewhat belated) new year! I bought 6 sparkling gourami in May for my 18 gallon because my lfs was moving and needed to get rid of stock. I knew there could be issues down the road but figured I'd cross that bridge when we came to it (and here we are). They have been very...

Thanks for your help. I do my best to keep the bottom clean, but only about 5% of the tank is accessible because it is so densely planted. In my four years of fish keeping I don't think I have ever had any turn so quickly. I'll have a go at testing using the method you said and see how the...

Hi, Tank What is the water volume of the tank? - 65 gallons How long has the tank been running? - about a year Does it have a filter? - yes Does it have a heater? - yes What is the water temperature? - 77F What is the entire stocking of this tank? (Please list all fish and inverts.) - 1...

Hi, My female betta has recently recovered from some swim bladder issues. She was in a tank with some corys and no matter what I did, she would eat their food (wafers the size of her head, frozen foods I syringed directly onto the bottom of the tank, anything). I moved the corys out and fasted...

Some more water changes I think. After a year of nothing, I am finally getting algae in my main tank so thinking I need to maybe do more water changes to keep the nitrates down, I don't know, we'll see how it goes. I'll also reduce the light hours (10 hours was probably pushing my luck a bit...

I released my one surviving sterbai fry into my 65 litre sparkling gourami tank. It's so cool to see it finally able to display normal behaviours and explore this giant new environment. Hopefully, in the future I'll have a higher success rate. Juggling full time study, running a farm, and...

Sounds like an awesome tank. Bottom dwellers make the most sense to me. Is it a 20 long or tall? If it is a 20 long, I'd add half a dozen corydoras - either habrosus, hastatus, or pygmaeus. I don't know anything about peacock gudgeons (now I'm very jealous that you can't get them here), but a...

Spontaneous fish purchase after seeing that my LFS is moving and had at least 25% off everything. My purchases: 6 sparkling gourami - One of the first fish (possibly THE first) that I ever saw and immediately fell in love with 2 bronze corys and 3 albino (already had 2 and 1 respectively so now...

Hi, I know there are lots of posts on here about this topic, however I feel that I have tried everything and I am just hoping that someone has a wonderful idea to share. I've got three L183 (starlight) plecos in my 65 gallon, along with community fish including tetras, SAE, angelfish, bolivian...

I have been wanting to make a thread so I can share random aquarium-related facts that I learn and find interesting (and learn more from others), but have been waiting to hear a fact that I found worth sharing. Well, I just learned that one gram (about 0.035oz) of activated carbon can have a...

I went away for a few days and left the babies under the care of my father. 30 when I left and 22 when I returned so I'm happy. Given that his old eyes can't see the microworms, there were no waterchanges, and the microworms have dried out (didn't know that was a thing), I don't think I could...

I love your stocking. I would go with the sterbais. They are a bit bigger but, like you said, are a bit more temperature compatible with your other inhabitants. Sterbais are very cool fish too, and I have found them to be very active.

I was sure that I had started a thread for this, but clearly not. Hi! So, late last month I moved my four sterbai corydoras to their own 18 gallon, started feeding them frozen foods (mostly bloodworms and mysis shrimp, but also some daphnia), and almost immediately they started spawning daily...