Recent content by christylee

Well....I think I have found the route to all of my problems I've had lately. Gas pockets in my sand bed. I never thought in a million years I would have this issue...I only have 2" of sand that I thought I was stirring up pretty well when I do water changes... but tonight while I was doing a...

I actually have four cherry shrimp in my tank with neon tetras, harlequin rasboras, cories, and bolivian rams. None of my fish care about the large cherry shrimp..but the babies. Forget it, those poor little babes are snacks in no time. The tetras are always the first to get em. I would look...

In the past I kept a number of tetras together with absolutely no issues at all. I kept cardinals, black phantoms, serpaes, pristellas and black neons. I was a bit inexperienced at the time and only had like max 4 of each which doesn't really make for a pretty tank though lol.

So, I tested my tap water. It appears to be reading around 10ppm for Nitrate. No ammonia, and no nitrite readings though. When I do water changes I use NutraFin Aqua Plus. I did another tank reading (no problems since my cory dying) right after testing my tap water and it read around 20ppm...

Ahh! Maybe my tap water has nitrates then. I never thought to test it!

Thanks! Sadly he passed...the other three are doing well still and look healthy. I sort of think this was due to poor acclimation by my boyfriend. Because two died..and he picked up two recently and just dumped them in the tank (I advised him otherwise, he didn't listen, awful). He also...

Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 30 ppm kH: 40-50 gH: 50-60 Tank size: 46 gallons Tank stock: 2 bolivian rams, 4 false julii cories, 11 neon tetras, 4 cherry shrimp.   I change the water / vac the bottom every Saturday and change about 10 gallons of my 46 gallon tank. No chemicals or treatments...

Tank size: 46g moderately planted, eheim 2213 pH: 7.0 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 30 kH: 40-50 gH: 50-60 tank temp: 78F Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): One neon tetra has pop eye. Sadly I got him from my LFS two weeks ago with it...

I'll try to get a good picture. They're very skiddish though..probably because there's only two! They're more on the brownish color. But one looks more like the right photo and the other looks more like the left lol. Regardless they're cute and I feel bad now! I'm gonna stop and grab three more...

Sorry if this has been asked before..I tried searching but didn't find a result!   I've heard people say cories are best kept in groups of 5+ but when I was at my LFS the other day one of the guys (I don't trust his advice and the owner wasn't there) talked me out of getting more and said two...

I kept cichlids in a 46 gallon bowfront for a couple years... they were okay until they got larger. Yellow labs are really great..and if I were you I would stick with them and do a species tank with one male and four females. They're more on the more peaceful side of cichlids and a tank full of...

Hi!! Welcome! 

Also because a few mentioned PH. I tested today!   pH = 7.0 KH = 40-50 GH = 50-60

Thanks for the lookout on the snails!   I'm so excited to get started! I'm still awaiting a plant shipment to my LFS before I get crazy. lol. It looks so empty right now, I only have one small plant left over from when I had the cichlids. Don't even know what it is..but it's actually doing much...

Thanks everyone!! :)     This is great!   do Nerite snails get crazy in terms of population? I really want a snail of some kind..but I don't want to end up with like 30 snails all over the place.