Recent content by beccarain

I realize this thread's been quiet for awhile but I just found it and had to add, this little tank is gorgeous!! I too have a 2.5 gallon that I started cycling 3 days ago (fishless of course!) My plan is to get a male betta; right now the tank has white gravel, a rotala plant, two small sprigs...

I just started doing my first fishless cycle with ammonia (i'm on Day 2). I have another tank that's already established (cycled the "old fashioned" way before i learned about fishless). One thing I've read about fishless . . . if the nitrItes are "off the charts" it has been suggested to do a...

I'm not sure what you mean by swimming like he's been bitten . . . he has no tank makes except a snail that apparently hitched a ride on the plants. His behavior is . . . he'll be swimming slowly, or just staying put, like on top of one of his plants, then all of the sudden he darts, like he's...

Hi black angel, He didn't look like he was sick . . . The spot on his tail might have been there before I added the plants. I kept an eye on the spot on his tail in case it was ich, I was expecting to see more than one spot if it was ich. His behavior looked fine to me though. It was one...

Hi everyone; I'm a newbie who has done hours, no days, of research since receiving my betta as an unexpected gift two months ago. A few days ago, Boomer had a whitish speck on his tail; it’s gone but now he has a small whitish bump under his mouth. Today he started darting more often than...