Recent content by fadetoblack

Yea I know... I had to google it up to make sure I had spelled it right :D Algae... seems weird after only having the tank set up for three days, doesn't it? I don't even have any algae in the main tank that's been set up for months! I posted this same question about the foam on another fish...

Just woke up this morning and noticed some light green foam around the in-tank filter: Is this okay, should I do anything about it? I don't know if the medication in the water could have something to do with it?

Broc = Broccoli, right? Yeah I'm an idiot, but hey... ya never know. Thanks, I'll go grab some brineshrimp and daphnia later. Oh and one more thing. I'm having trouble getting this guy to eat. When I put the pea pieces in, he seemed to completely ignore them, unless he just couldn't get to...

Okay, sounds good. And sorry to keep asking questions, but what other kind of food should I feed him? Flakes aren't going to work too well because: One, they float, and he has trouble getting to the surface (even though I took out about 2.5 gal of water in order to make it easier for him); and...

Tetras always seem to disappear - I have a 10 gal and I've been unable to find one of my glow-lights upon multiple occasions... they always find that one place that you can only see then from that one angle (if even from any angle). So I wish you luck in finding him, I'm sure he's around there...

Well, I've looked around a bunch and have found many different things... people have said that broad-spectrum antibiotics such as Mardel's Maracyn-two would be good, and I just picked some up along with the hospital tank/equipment. Thawed+shelled+mushed peas and green leaf lettuce help with...

You mean that you put 14 fish in the tank all at once on friday?? That's not good. I'm hoping that I'm just reading this incorrectly?

If there is any disease in the main tank, that that's what the fish that I'm going to 'hospitalize' has, so it won't make any difference - right? Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate it. I'm going to go out in a little while to get all this stuff.

Okay, I was leaning more toward the 10 gal anyways. As far as gravel, I was thinking of putting some in anyways because people have said that not having it can stress the fish, and especially since this guy is laying on the ground a lot, I think gravel would be better than glass (or plastic) -...

Right, I didn't really mean a day... but if I put in a bunch of gravel from my current tank, that will help a bit, right? (since it has the beneficial bacteria living on it) And yes, I have a siphon, so I can certainly clean the gravel nightly and do perhaps a 30% change... or more? One more...

So... put the sponge filter in the main tank for a day and then put it in the other tank? I suppose that the hospital tank would be fine for a day without much of a biofilter, right? um... what?!?

Water levels are all great right now: ammonia and nitrIte are 0ppm, nitrAte is around 8ppm, and GH is around 6. pH is a little high - about 7.9. The feeding thing is where things go downhill. All the fish receive is a flake food, I have been meaning to get them some other sort of food but have...

Also, I'm having trouble feeding him... he has a large amount of difficulty getting to the top of the tank to get the flake food, and whenever I use the net to grab some food and send it down to him, the other fish grab it first and he doesn't seem interested in it, unless he's just...

I have a 10 gallon tank with 6 neon tetras and one platy (the other died about a month ago after having 'dropsy' symptoms, the cause of which I was unsuccessful at treating). I have been away in Spain for the past 10 days, and when I came back today I noticed that one of the tetras was swimming...