I’ve never owned them but according to this reputable profile and care sheet, http://fish.mongabay.com/species/Metynnis_argenteus.html, they are egg scatterers. Do you have a gravel substrate on the bottom? It would seem that most of the eggs would fall down between the crevices and be safe from scavenging by the corys. The profile also […]
As someone else suggested, if you have any decorations, large rocks, driftwood, etc., you may need to clean under them. The smell could be from the gases put out by anaerobic bacteria growing in a mulm buildup somewhere in the tank… or from a dead/decaying fish or other critter. In general, a healthy, […]
New glasses didn’t help. Sigh.
Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com
Check the nitrite level. Whenever my tank has any fishy smell at all (noone has specified what their bad smells smell like but several have hinted that that’s what it smells like), my nitrites are high. They’re classically associated with the fishy smell.
A noxious rotten odor would be hydrogen sulfide […]
Ok guys, where shall i start from…..well the tap water smells ok….the bad smell is only for a few seconds after opening the cover in the morning…..so i tried something out last nite…..i kept the covers open the whole nite and guess what? not only the smell said good bye but the water now […]
I’m breeding silver dollars and the tank size is abt 60 gallons, they seem to be spawning every few days…..i’m quite sure cory cats do not eat the frys but what abt the eggs?
Goldfish do! Of course, there’s not much they don’t like… fruits, veggies, etc. LOL
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What type of fish like oranges? Barbara In a message dated 7/17/2008 11:54:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mlfrancis2@mindspring.com writes:
This isn’t a solution to your problem, but I have a few fish that like eating orange slices… the pulp not the rind. Anywho, I feed […]
Thanks Lenny. She had me wondering. What a difference 1 letter makes. Jimmy McHaney Husser, LA
When you do your weekly PWC’s, are you vacuuming your gravel good to get the detritus out of the gravel?
I saw in another of your posts that you may have a UGF. Have you been doing proper maintenance and cleaning on it? See my reply to your other post.
What are your water parameter […]