Recent content by Elliott

I have had an aquarium now for 30+ years and definitely thinks it's WAY easier to keep fish today. When I got my first tank, a 30g, my brother-in-law and sister were moving. We set-up the tanks and had to wait a week. Sheer torment for me. Then we got 3 small fish, I think they were the...

Green leaf lettuce that has been in the freezer for just a few minutes is great for veggie eaters. Zucchini for my Pleco was always a big hit. The Koi would eat frozen green peas that were popped out of the skin. French cut green beans the cats and plecs ate. But by far the strangest thing I...

I'll be moving 2 three inch Silver Dollars, 2 Gold Gourmies, 3 Albino Cory cats, 2 Skunk Cory cats, and 2 Clown Plecs, so crowding shouldn't be an issue. I smaller tank has been setup for over a year now. I set it up and never added livestock but it had live plants for a time. I went through...

I would like to know everyones opinion. I'm need to move all the fish from the 150g to the 75g for a MAJOR cleaning. When I move, the new tank is ready: same temps, same pH, I just net them and run to the new tank and drop them in. I haven't had any problems doing this.

Setting up such a small tank, IMHO would cause more problems beside the aggression issue. Do most of the aggressive fish grow large, bigger than 5 inches?

I'm not heartless or mean. But I believe any time this happens and humans try to help it just makes things worse. I wonder how many times this has happened around the world and it either worked or the whale died? Stress will kill quicker than any ailment in wild animals. This whale was in...

I feed for six days, then skip the seventh day. I have been doing this for many years. I feed only once a day with a high quality flake. I will occasionally add a piece of zucchini for the bottom feeders.

Would it help to raise the Kh of the water?

Usually when I do water changes I just drain about a 1/3 of the tank and just refill. I add PRIME during this time and any other chems that are needed.

I prefer Prime. Doesn't Stresscoat contain aloe vera? In the pass I used Stresscoat but had a foaming problem. Started using Prime and it went away.

75 waiting in the wings and the 150 community.

The 150 is set up as a cummunity right now. I like this type for a couple of reasons. (1) Variety. (2) Less problems, by this I mean when I had a species tank I would have a spell of fish dying. I had a cichlid tank and had approx. 6 dozen Sicolofy (sp?) the solid blue type, and about every...

New here but not new to aquariums. Got my first tank 30 years ago. Now have only two tanks. A 75 set-up to take the fish from the 150 to be cleaned. Currently only doing community tanks. Tried salt but just didn't enjoy it as much. Had Koi for awhile in the 75. Did cichlids for many...