Recent content by Oak77

How do you manually trim a fishes teeth?

Yeah, I'm aware. This is my first round of fish. All types I have currently I had in groups of six or more except the cory's I had 3 of each. The ottos I only had two. I have had my tank going since November 2019. Still very new at all this. The panda tetras have done the best.

Does anyone have a link to a site or thread that I might be able to read up on how to know what type of fish are compatible with the fish in my tank now? My LFS is still open but only doing curbside pick up along with online sales. I haven't reached out to them yet because I wanted to look on...

I have had a very similar problem. I got most of it up with paper towels. I attribute it to over feeding. Once I backed off on feeding it stopped.

No I haven’t. I will give it a try.

I've been feeding minI algae wafers to my otos but they never get a chance to eat it because the cories always eat it first. Otos pretty much stay on one side of the tank. Is this normal?

I'll try double stacking the sponges. Then if I ever start up a new tank I'll have a sponge to help get it started. Should I completely clean my filter still every 3 months or so like they suggest?

Just watched the video. Thanks for the suggestion. Why shouldn't you use carbon for planted tanks? I did buy the ammonia remover by mistake that goes in place of the carbon. Here is what I bought: Would this be good to add in there? I don't seem to have a problem with ammonia. Seems to...

Thanks for all the replies. I have already changed the sponge and carbon once but in different months.

Next month I am supposed to change the biomax on my aquaclear 50. In the instructions it says to change the biomax every 3 months along with cleaning the entire filter not including the sponge and carbon. By removing the biomax and cleaning the filter it seems like that might take to much BB...

I replied yes to no ammonia in a week but I used API Quick Start.

That's the issue I had when I first set up my tank. I was keeping the lights on for 10 hrs because I read it would help the plants root better and then putting the blue light on. I got way to much algae. I was told to keep the lights on for 6-8 also.

Sorry for taking so long to respond. I just saw this for some reason. Yes it is planted. I haven't noticed mine eating pellets. They pretty much just hang on the glass and DW.

Mattgirl, you called it. The fish are coming out of the plants! Thanks again for the the advise.

Welcome, I am fairly new also. A lot of very helpful people here with a lot of knowledge. Good luck with your endeavor.