Recent content by confused_aquarist

It's very regrettable because until just a few days ago it was very actively eating, actually I feed so that every fish will get about 1 or 2 0.5mm pellets each day plus a few baby brine maybe 50 or 100 of them, if anything I feel the issue could have been due to starvation. Now it tries to eat...

Found! In very poor condition indeed! I haven't done an examination, but in my opinion this is a case of fish tuberculosis, probably the killifish finally came out from a 3 day hiding moments before death to be eaten by birds. This killifish is only 2 years old. With this fish tank I have had a...

It doesn't seem to be. I've checked every corner and nothing. I didn't think they'd be cannibalistic but this has already happened 4 times! Mysterious.

Every once in a while my clown killies would completely disappear on me overnight for apparently no reason. Because these are tiny fish I take caution during water changes to not aspirate them, and also I cover the tank with saran wrap to prevent jumping (but may not always stick completely) I...

It’s true. I’m sure fish have preferred range for how much magnesium, calcium, bicarbonate, etc., but I cannot tell so much how they react based on appearance. I use the ion exchange to forcefully reduce the hardness but because it exchanges nonspecific minerals I have to also add back...

The added CO2 must be stressful for the fish, because I can see that they're required to somehow process it. I think it's best to not use CO2 for the lampeyes, though I cannot control the pH without adding CO2. It rises to 8.0 and by then the plants are not very healthy. For some aphyosemion...

I have a wild-caught Norman lampeye that has a permanent bloat issue in the digestive tract. It bloats up during the day and recovers overnight. It can release bubble either by farting or by burping, but burping can cause reflux, so it has become very skinny. When I adjust CO2 dose to 1...

Wow this is why I should go on fish forums. It helped to know that the exporters had to go through a hassle to get the fish and that the species could be undescribed. So now I feel almost comfortable with the fact that things weren't making much sense. The hobbyists here are super fast at...

Hmm. I do remember that the location name was Nioki Mai-Ndombe. The link says only cognatum population is found in Mai-Ndombe. But then, I don't know what the Mai-Ndombe population looks like for this species, so I'm not sure whether I should believe this is indeed cognatum, or if it's a polli...

That's very good to know, and I was surprised that the exporters might be intentionally vague about the shipments so that they can be more profitable. I was wondering why thosee would be misidentified as cognatum when they so obviously are not. Like the photos that you posted, the F0 male is...

I was told they were A. cognatum, but they look nothing like cognatum.

Actually, a huge one came out this morning with thin one trailing behind it so I'm pretty sure it was just poop 😆 I've seen diarrhea before, but constipation was a first. It was probably due to a recent switch to feeding dry pellets. Some of the juveniles were still not adapted to eat dry food-...

And also actually, I had a mysterious fry death a month ago. It happened when a fry jumped from a breeder box into another breeder box. I'm not sure if it had trouble during jumping or hit itself or what, but on the same day, it stopped eating, and it got bullied, started flipping and died. I've...

I am not sure if this is parasites or poop. It appeared overnight and seemed to get a bit bigger.by day 2. It's black in color and if it's roundworms nothing is sticking out from the anus. The anus itself is sticking out a little, but nothing has come out so it hasn't yet advanced to a...