Recent content by ShinyMoose

My older male Ram is super sweet. I had gotten a female Ram before to pair it with who was also super sweet and they were always together, but unfortunately I could not get her to eat anything from day 1 (and I literally tried everything), she eventually perished after a month of not eating...

The black substrate is just plain black sand from Petco. That’s what I have in the hospital tank which he/she’s only been in for 4 days. I was worried the Cory would continue to get picked on. I was leaning towards the culprit being the new Ram as I can now tell it’s another Male, and it’s...

Hello, about 3 weeks ago I added 5 Cory’s to my community tank since I had only one in there prior, and the other day I noticed one that seemed to be swimming weird and was dark around the middle so I assumed it was stressed. I looked closer at it and most of the tail was missing! I’m not sure...

Thank you, that makes sense. How long should they be separated? And would she do ok in a 10 gallon tank for a while? I have a quarantine tank that just has some ramshorn snails in it, otherwise I have a 45 gallon with two Bolivian Rams, some Cory’s and Neon Tetras (it’s a peaceful tank so not...

So sorry! Thank you! I tried to look it up online but I still wasn’t sure. The weird thing is that they were both much closer to the same size when they were first at the store, but my daughter picked the biggest one to take home first. And I guess it was more than a couple weeks before she...

Hello, I am wondering if anyone is able to assist in determining the sexes of two Jack Dempsey fish. They were both bought from the same group (a surrender to Petco), but one is much larger now and more colorful than the other. The bigger one was bought first and then the other was bought...

Thank you for the advice! And yes, it can get pretty expensive if you’re adding it all the time with water changes. I haven’t been adding it with my normal water changes. I added it in the beginning to start the cycle, and then somewhat followed the directions on adding some on the directed...

Then I shouldn’t worry about the Nitrates being between 10 and 20 it sounds like. Good to know! After having to haul buckets repeatedly during my ammonia and nitrite spikes I ended up buying python water changer. Makes it sooo much easier to do water changes! And yes this product says reef...

Yes, I did find a big sheet of a course spongelike material that I will be cutting to the proper size and start slowly replacing the filter cartridges that are recommended (which I currently have in there) for my filtering system. I don’t want to do that yet as I don’t want to have a cycle...

Just an update, after the ammonia spike I had a nitrite spike, but both have settled down to 0ppm. Now the tank seems to have a bit of rising Nitrates, yesterday they tested around 10 to 20? The colors seem so close to the same so it’s hard to tell which…. I added some Microbe-Lift Special...

Just thought I would post an update. My poor sweet little Ram didn’t make it. She never did eat anything, I was able to finally capture her and put her in my hospital tank and tried treating her for parasites just to make sure that wasn’t the problem, but I think she was just too weak and sick...

Hello, I realize this is an older thread but I’m curious if you can give me any opinions on the Microb-Lift special blend water care? This is what I’ve used, along with their Nite Out, to cycle and care for my tank since I started it in February this year. Lately my Nitrates are creeping up, I...

Ok, that makes sense. Thank you!

I just found my first clutch today, I’ve had mine since February, but until recently I’ve had 3 mystery snails in that tank. Last week I moved one to my bigger tank. My clutch is small like yours, how long did it take for them to hatch and did you leave them where they were laid?

Ok thank you. I thought maybe they were, I don’t usually have the water line that low but didn’t fill it up higher last time I did a water change. The color and small shape of it though threw me off from what I’ve seen online of their clutches. Maybe as a first clutch, the momma snail didn’t...