Recent content by BOBJOESIM

I'm reading through this and definitely will take this under advise the next water change I do, actually funny thing about that little bit about using it as fertilizer, I loved using the bucket of water filled with the gunk in the gravel for my potted plants and they seem to enjoy it as well...

He passed last night after I added medications and did a 60% water change with salt. Thank you all for your help regardless

Wow and I thought I was going overboard doing it twice a year with this canister : / people close to me actually told me that when they used to keep an aquarium they never had to clean out their filters because the stuff broken down over time and didn't really reduce the water flow for them...

Well in this 30 gal where I have probably around 15ish pounds of gravel maybe a good 40-50%? I use two 5 gal buckets worth of water at the very least (and top it off with extra if the water doesn't reach a certain level because i siphoned out more than usual), and I do do these on the weekends...

Yes I clean the gravel out with a water siphon for water changes (that's actually how I remove the water to begin with). The filter I last cleaned a month and a half ago (I'm afraid of accidentally putting my tank into another cycle and so I only do it approximately twice a year, it's an eheim...

Hello all, I've had this rhino pleco ever since he was a baby (starting out when I had a stupid 1 gallon aquarium back in 2012-3), and slowly over the years upgraded his tank as i figured out what was going on (the stupid fish store owners/workers I talked to said that he was an algae eater and...

Update: I've been doing 30% water changes every two days, and adding aquarium salt, melafix, and methlyne blue (paraguard from seachem) after each one, and I just noticed this weird bubble thing above what I think is my pleco's...breeding tube or something? It definitely wasn't there...

The second picture is a head-on view, it seems like both of his eye globes are deflated :(