Recent content by brynneth

whatever you have, i have one too. he was a suprise find at the fish store and the owner asserted that he was a pygmy and that he was a bit larger than they usually are, mines about an inch long. he looks exactly like your fish though, with the short round body and longish fins. he hasnt grown...

hey, i have an odd one here. i have a nice little eclipse tank in which i am housing my friend's cory cats while she is at college. i cant actually I.D either of them because they are both uncommon species and i've forgotten, but i can ask her and get back to this if its relevant. i do know that...

Yes, but you had high ammonia too, right? And your stats sounded a lot higher than Herodave's. Really high ammonia and nitrites can kill a betta, but barely readable nitrite and nitrate (heck, half of my tanks read that, and I've got sensitive bottoms feeders doing fine in there) doesn't seem...

Yup. I've kept peacock eels before, and it is DEFINITELY a spiney eel of some sort. Really interesting pattern though. He should eventually end up in a 40 gal with spotted raphaels, tons of hiding spots (on account of the raphaels) and lots of plants (on account of thats just pretty). He...

I just bought a small, brown and black striped spiny eel from the LFS. I looked up African Frenatus Eel on google and got, essentially, that it won't get bigger than 10 inches, which is good enough for me. Anyone know any specific care info on this guy?

Yesterday when the fish store was cleaning out some of their old tanks, they came across some very very small gobies which I subsequently bought. They are almost an inch long, and light grey (almost transparent), with two vertical stripes, one from eye to chin and one from tip of dorsal fin to...

In response to the original poster, the pinned topic said that there was 200,000 ppm available on the biowheel for the bacteria, not that the biowheel put that concentration of 02 in the tank water. If that were true all our plants and fishes would be dead. Jolaf, you are not supposed to...

Hi, I recently got an African Butterfly Fish and he's barely eaten anything since I got him last week. I'm worried that my filter is disturbing the surface too much for him to sense his food. I have Anacaris that float on the top to give him some cover but I'm also worried that might not be...

i just wanted to add that i have some elodea that spreads across the surface of my tank so he has a hiding place but i also have it set so that my filter causes a weak current across the surface of the water. maybe reducing that would help him detect food? i read that he needed the food to float...

hi, i have a problem with my african butterfly fish and im not quite sure, but this seemed like the place to post this, if not please let me know. i got him about two weeks ago and put him in my cycled tank with a few other new fish. i have since learned that some of my fish are not suited for...