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Do you have driftwood in your tank? My BN pleco (now passed) loved it. My mother-in-law who fed the fish when we were away called him so ugly he was cute haha.

Gorgeous fish: you could call him "Indigo" or "Bartholomew (Bart)" the betta.

I have 3 false julii corydoras (trilineatus), and a whole bunch of albino aeneus corycats. Once they settle into a tank after the "danger period" they can live a long time. My one female (trilineatus) is 10 years old and one of my favourite all time fish. I love the gentle, bumbling, sweet...

Gorgeous duo, beautiful pic. Yes, with superior water quality it should grow back slowly .

I'm a gentle soul and vote for the fishless cycle....

Keep us posted, fingers crossed!

It's s tough decision, but if they seem to be improving you can just keep working on the partial water changes and wait for the quarantine period to be over which isn't much longer?

Ahh I get it now.... I wouldn't rush things, because if you end up putting disease into your 20 gallon tank because you didn't wait long enough, you will be kicking yourself afterward.

Hmmm I would err on the side of caution and keep the fish separate.... you don't want to gamble and lose all the fish, or stress them out and or have them hurting each other. It doesn't sound like a good idea to combine them and a new environment is a very dangerous time for all fish, healthy...

Is your quarantine tank established and fully cycled? If not, I wouldn't as it may further stress out your sick fish who are reacting to something (and very delicate/vulnerable right now). I would try to keep up with partial water changes every 2 days, carefully maintaining identical...

Good question, I don't know of any way of testing oxygen levels. You can add an airstone/airpump to the tank to help your fish and also lowering the water level after a water change can help create more oxygen in the tank (more "splash" from your hob filter).

Hmm, something is wrong though, and sick/dying fish and a bacterial bloom is not ideal, that seems like water parameters are off. Long ago when my corycats kept dying off in my newish tank I was stunned because the ammontia and nirtrite readings were 0 too. They were basically suffocating, but...

In this case I'm thinking that the bacterial bloom is a sign that the beneficial bacterial colony, for some reason, is dying off. The corycats are showing signs that they are being poisoned by poor water quality so it would be best to partially remove some of the toxins that are in the water to...

I agree with Cody, I think your tank may be experiencing a mini-spike and I had a similar problem with my corycats 11 years ago with a 45 gallon tank that was not yet 1 year old. My favourite fish store lady said that even though my test kits read 0 ammonia and nitrites, she thinks that my tank...

Awww, I feel your pain. I know where you are coming from, a long time ago I bought my kids a 10- gallon aquarium and 2 African dwarf frogs and they were dead in less than a week because the aquarium store owner didn't tell me about the fishless cycle and encouraged me to buy everything at once...

You can always squeeze a bit of the sponge water into your new pump, or what I do is use an eyedropper to siphon the beneficial bacteria from your sponge into your new filter.

Way to go, on sale too, how fortuitous. LED is a great way to help maintain constant temperature. So while you are doing the long wait to fishless cycle your 10g, you can jump start the cycle by adding filter media to your new filter, increase aeration, keep heat around 80F, etc.... You can...

Tough call, if you add more lighting, will it heat up the water more/cause more fluctuations in the temperature of your tank? My 10 gallon would have the light one during the day and by the end of the day the heat of the water tended to rise even with a heater. This didn't happen with my...

Are you able to go bigger? The smaller the tank is, the harder it is to maintain (counterintuitive, I know). I started with a 10 gallon and it was stressful trying to maintain equilibrium, so I can't imagine how hard it must be to maintain a 5 gallon.... can you go 20 or 30 gallon? Your fish...

How old is your tank? Corycats do better in well-established aquariums (i.e. at least a year old) so may be reacting to trace ammonia/nitrites in the tank (undetectable with your test kit) because your beneficial bacterial colony is still new. Great job on the plants, fish love plants . I...