Recent content by dprids

A fish tank is like the human body. Complicated and simple. A lot of these general pearls of wisdom are measurable endpoints of a very complicated, multivariate, system. An human physiology analogy would be a blood test. In a blood test, they measure platelets, red blood cells, neutrophils...

Ok, I turned up my heaters. I am going to go slow with temperature rise a bit. Its rock solid at 80 degF right now. She (the electric blue ram) is swimming and eating. I checked all my parameters and they look OK, but I did a 10% water change and put in a standard dose of that API stress...

My fish store doesn't open till noon, or I would go there. But I want to treat the entire tank promptly.

I have another ram in tank. coreys, xray tetra, ottos, guppies, 2 rams. The rest are fine, just new fish. Got them from very good fish store...

I got this new electric blue ram 2 days ago. she started showing spots and resting tail on plants. I am going to petsmart to get meds stat. This is ich, right? Any other thoughts? I dont want her to die.

She will nip and chase other fish (especially the pristella tetras) and coreys and guppies to the point where they dont get food. I had a tetra die yesterday. Floating upside down, maybe swim bladder issue? I checked water parameters and they were all good. But, I tried to put food in two...

I have a 50 gallon tank with: guppies, 4 xray tetras, 4 Corey's, 6 ottos, and 1 electric blue ram. See picture, I think its a female. If anyone knows for sure, let me know. Problem: I feed twice a day, assorted treats. I also put blanched cucumbers in once a week for my ottos. The ram is...

Here is a 15 gallon sump for a 35 gallon hexagon tank. :)

I just built this new tank and incorporated smart controls:

I slept on it and my add a water bridge with an overflow tank.... See below