Recent content by Ceres

I changed about 40% of the water, I had started before I even read your post(I was afraid of changing too much because I did just change it yesterday). It's a 10 gallon and 5 platies.

Nitrate 10 Nitrite 3.0 Hardness 300 Alkalinity 300 pH 7.8 Okay I didn't see the difference.. lol I did change their water and I realized I never cleaned their gravel the whole month I've had them. So I did that as well. While doing it I noticed quite a lot of uneaten fish flakes floating...

Okay, I thought these strips would have tested that.. I'll have to wait til payday. :( What can I do to lower the nitrate?

I don't know what is high and what isn't?! My fish are platies and my strips test like this Nitrate Nitrate Hardness Alkalinity pH I changed 50% last night and added the aqua safe like normal but the water is cloudy and the test strips read out as follows: Nitrate 10 Nitrate 3.0 Hardness 300...

One of my platies I recently purchased I noticed was missing part of her fin and when I noticed I researched it and I think with good nutrition it can be repaired. I have been keeping an eye on her and it seems to be true. It was a good chunk too! I'd keep an eye on the fin and see for yourself...

Thank you for the welcome! About how many peas should I feed them? I'll try that today and how many times a week? :)

That is what I thought because I had goldfish a few years ago that when I returned from vacation I found my mother didn't change their water at all and they HAD ich. It was white.. I will post some pictures tonight. They aren't very good as my platies are very quick! But the pics I uploaded on...

No I don't have a test kit. I'll have to get one as soon as I can though. We live in a small town and our Wal-mart is small too. When we travel out of town I'll have to make a stop at Petco to get a test kit though! As for aggressive one of the platies is a bit aggressive. At one point I did...

I recently got platies and I'd like to know the best advice on how to keep them. I have a 10 gallon tank, no live plants, 2 males, 3 females, a heater that I keep at a steady 80 degrees, and I change the water two to three times a week. When I change the water it's 25% water change(the tank is 3...

This was before it was an all platy zone.. I had two guppies but I think my aggressive platy offed them! At first I thought they died because of either something I did or because I purchased them from Wal-mart, but I noticed within a few days he was trying to kill the remaining two fish I had...

I'm new to fish keeping and I've tried looking this up on google but I couldn't find anything that remotely looks like what is wrong with my platies.. I first noticed it on one of my male platies on his side just behind his eye a little ways, an oval shaped black spot.. He's a Mickey Mouse platy...