Rebecca, what kind of fountain pump did you have before? Did you have that pump sitting right on the bottom of the pond, or sitting on some type of platform? If your pond bottom is really loose muck, you might want to sit your replacement on top of a […]
Great to see thsat you finally were able to obtain some items to work with, for your fish. Before I go any further, I would just like to suggest your trading in those two Chinese Algae Eaters for Siamese Algae Eathers. The CAE’s can get to around 10″ long, and […]
As the various smaller Danio species will interbreed, its possible you have a long-fin Zebra Danio — Pearl Danio cross. Without being able to see a photo of this fish, it also sounds from your description that it could be the rather new ZD Glo-Fish with its added anemone gene. […]
I know you take good care of your tanks but whenever I answer a post, I know there are hundreds or thousands of others reading the post so I try to cover many bases with my answers so others might learn something.
Yes, fish seem to tolerate pH changes better… especially if the pH change is […]
As you saw, the main reason for the center braces was due to the use of thinner, lighter glass as the thinner glass would bow out several inches without a center brace. It wouldn’t hurt to fashion your own brace. A strip of plexiglass and some epoxy would work.
Or you could do it […]
I tried both ways, and found I got better color on my bettas with a flash rather than a backlight. Then again, my backlight isn’t the best - so if you can get a good backlight you’d be better off skipping the flash.
-Lana
“There is nothing more useful than sun and salt.” - Latin proverb
On […]
Internal bacterial infection. It’s what caused the pop-eye and is now causing the bloating.
Given your limited access to medicines, the best thing you can do for all of your fish is to make sure they have optimal conditions so they have less of a chance of getting sick in the first place. This […]
Add about 1/4 teaspoon of salt per gallon to the water rather than what you have available for medicine there. If he does not seem to improve over 24 hours add another 1/4 teaspoon per gallon.
\Steve//
Quit worrying about buying chemicals. Your tank water at 7.6 is perfectly fine for most fish. There’s no need to bring it down with chemicals or other means.
Now that you know your “softened tap” has a baseline pH of 8.0, simply add 30% RO water to your tap water for each LARGE PWC […]
On my blog, I have a link to DIY Pond Pre-Filter which has a couple of different examples of DIY pre-filters. I just came across this site http://www.mvwgs.org/filter.htm also which has a similar type of pre-filter and I need to add this link to my blog page. For the pump size shown on […]