Recent content by Californialivin

Most definitely am, don't know if i told you but I got this glass one in the picture for 40 bucks and a acrylic the same size for 45 had to get a lid for this glass tank for another 20 but for 60 bucks i think its a good tank. I'm refinishing the acrylic then i'll do something completely new fw...

Can see one of the pics. Good luck! how many gals total on that tank? looks small from the pic for 2 dps was told atleast 5-10g each depending on planting. they're definitely an interesting species good luck on the new tank!

If you haven't been testing your water then there are a million variables that could be it. who knows the hardness or ph of the water you're using plus it sounds overstocked as is and probably even more so before the deaths occured though deaths happen to everyone eventually. i lost two corys...

my rainbow wouldn't stop chasing corys in a 3ft by 18inch tank hopefully the extra 2ft help but i only had 7 small corys and the rainbow on bottom so similar stocking ratio...

Thanks ninja you guys are awesome. I'm happy my tank is good water wise. I was worried cause i didn't test for a while was waiting for the api master kit to get here. Happy it is now. I'm not going to add anything for atleast a month. I've added the java recent the honey gourami recently those...

Thanks for the info ruskull I have bad news I awoke to find the second petco sterbai cory to seem lethargic. All my peppered were happy to have the light on, same with the rams. This one cory was on a green melon sword leaf just sitting there for an hour. So I netted him, he didn't resist the...

Well I only have one small 1 inch sunset honey it doesn't show any interest in other fish my rams even though the bottom has lots of wood both insist on ramming eachother for dominence the other sterbai is looking fatigued. He's all alone try's to hang with peppers but they tend to school separately

I use ten to twenty percent supplemented RO water the stuff I get from the ro machine at Von's, walmarts seven 11 its 100% pure of chemicals and additives has 07ppm of good minerals so yes when I use this the hardness and ph might drop some at max like .1ph and maybe 5-10ppm lower on the tds...

It sucks but that was one of the corys that would be getting donated they didn't look amazing healthy to begin with came from petco. does that water test look good to you guys? I haven't been doing them long but i think those shades are 0ppm

Its adjustable yes the bettas tank is big for a betta atleast 10g standard rectagular glass has a whipser 10 filter and the heater is a adjustable one so i can drop the heat as needed right now its warm enough here in CA that i havent been heating his water.       On to something else. One of...

Will do the Cory's are flourishing on Cory pellets and whatever Alegae they scavenge on their own. But I will feed Alegae too how much pellets/wafers/flake do you give daily I usually give the 7 Cory's a few pellets maybe 4 or 5 cause the rams want a taste usually plus a good pinch or two small...

I'll change plans then. i'll keep them stocked until I find a suitable store that has atleast 5-7 in stock so they can hopefully be bought with a decent school, then once that happens i'll get the ottos or nerite snail and some rasboras to add to the pack.

No matter where i go these sterbai aren't going to have a perfect home, they'll be "donated" to the local store where they have no population probably sold off at a discount quickly to someone unknowledgable and unsuspecting I'd find another few but these two were bought when i just got...