Recent content by Ellabee

Also want to add, try not to mix and match chemicals. Rinse the filter media often.

Hi. I love my dojo loaches. I have several. The oldest is 7 years old. First, what sort of substrate are you using? Second my suggestion is to use MICROBE-LIFT SPECIAL BLEND WATER CARE It’s beneficial bacteria that cleans and clears water reduces nitrates and reduces maintenance. It instantly...

Thanks. I’ll get some photos today. Even if they are harmless, they’re gross. I just want to get rid of them. I can’t put small fish in most of my tanks. They would be eaten. And then the tanks I do have with small fish, they aren’t eating the worms.

There’s a couple of typos. Hill stream loaches Actually I have lost quite a few since this began. I believe they are parasitic. I have all the fish mentioned above in various tanks. I really want them dead and gone. They are gross crawling up the glass, above the waterline.

Hi. Ok I’m fed up with recently having worms in my tanks. They are the kind that you see that are above the waterline and glass tops maybe on a sit tube!! They are gross and it’s really a problem. I have vacuumed the substrate numerous times. Water changes as well. I’ve repeatedly cleaned the...

Hi. A few days ago I discovered my Cory cats laid eggs on the sides of the aquarium. I scraped them off with a razor blade and put them in a small tank. Today they are hatching, but there is some white slimy looking stuff in the water now. Is this from the egg sacks? Should I remove it, or is...

Wow! That’s really nice!! I enjoyed watching. Incredible the different species in there.

Wow!! I’ve never seen anything like that. Didn’t even know it could happen. I put my hands in my tanks, but now I will be more cautious. Looks like a fungus. Perhaps you could get some kind of fungus meds from the drug store.

That is correct. What I meant is live plants don’t do well in new tanks. It should be cycled before live plants. Algae is common in new tanks, and plants somehow add to it. Here is an example of live plants added to a new setup. Hair algae. Depleting oxygen, killing the plants. This took one...

I hate algae. If your tank isn’t cycled, and you add the live plants, it will cause algae to take over quickly. I use live bacteria in all my tanks. Microbe Lift special water care. Since I started using this, less algae. The algae will also cause plants to die. The oxygen level. You could also...

Wow!! At least they lived. Lol

It’s the little bitty ones in the pet store I’m not exactly sure the type. It wasn’t any kind of aggression. It was exactly an inability to thrive. I had difficulties finding foods that they would eat. I tried everything from frozen to flakes, freeze dried. The last one that I got I had finally...

Plecos can be shy in general. I have several P.M. Plecos can be shy. I have several different kinds. My Bristlenose is the boss in my 40 gallon. There are 4 Cory cats, 3 Hill Stream Loaches and him. It’s hilarious when I feed them, and he nudges and bumps all of them. All of mine have really...