Recent content by Featheryfish

This is Belgium, the rescue golden retriever - German shepherd mix! He is about nine years old, and he's been part of the family for almost three years. His hillbilly nickname is Belly Bob. He had a pretty rough life before he found his forever home. He is epileptic and has a hard time with...

Interestingly none of my fish looked particularly fat or distended beforehand, or I probably would have noticed this issue sooner. I guess they can tuck away a lot of gunk in there. Ugh. I was thinking when the treatment is done I'll tear out everything, shake out the plants, swish the...

Thanks! I did something right, yay! :hooray: The catfish do not seem to be negatively affected by the General Cure, I am really happy.

Thank you! That makes sense. I was wringing my hands over whether food would push their digestion along or clog it up in this case. I'll go ahead and give them their breakfast. Thankfully they are eating, I think I caught this before they got sick enough to lose their appetites. Ugh, mostly...

Hiya Colin. I tried taking a few pics earlier today but I didn't feel like any of them provided a clear view of anything useful when I cranked the resolution down. It's lights out in fish town right now but I could try again with the video on Youtube thing tomorrow if you think that'll help...

Sigh. Well, the ich has not returned after being heat-treated away, and my fish were peppy and normal for a few days there and enjoying some new driftwood I got for them. My plants are also growing well and looking lovely. My ammonia and nitrites are zero, my nitrates have been around 5 ppm...

I did 86 for a day, then moved it up to 88 and didn't find any behavior difference between the two. I'd have tried 90 since no once was having any trouble breathing but my heater doesn't go any higher. It just made them go fast and eat a ton. On reflection, I don't think I really ever saw any...

I turn the lights in the room on first for a while, then their moon lights, then a small LED table lamp next to the tank, then I turn on the bright lights. Similar deal in reverse at night. I don't have a dimmer or a timer so I kinda just DIY a sunrise/sunset using what I have l on hand, I don't...

I've seen my skirt tetras exhibit more of a pale brown coloration on occasion, but when I turned on the light this morning, almost all of them were a pale brown instead of their more typical inky black. Even the white skirt tetras seemed whiter. They are usually a bit paler in the morning but...

Thanks Byron. I'm just a little upset and easily triggered right now. I know you probably talk to a lot of people who aren't exactly on top of things and haven't done a water change since 1999. I have also considered the possibility that the water conditioner was damaged chemically in some way...

Thank you, Deanasue... I really miss the little guys, when I turned the light on this morning and saw only three catfish bundled up in a tiny school I couldn't help but cry. I can't believe I killed half of them even though I was trying so hard. One of the ones I lost was much more exploratory...

The "small water change that perked them up" was only about 2 gallons with a bunch of the conditioner that was working for me mixed in. It was not the water, they've been getting new water galore day and night, it was the conditioner or I'm a silly corncob . :band: I described doing water...

You have prevented me from ordering a sandy airstone in the nick of time. Plastic it is. Thank you. Yeah, I guess I'm going to stay awake tonight ordering aeration equipment and staring at my catfish willing them to not die... so far they're cooperating, they continue to improve rapidly now...

I was just giving it a good stirring with big kitchen spoon, then pouring it into the tank, slowly from a big cup, through a colander, from rather high up, 'cause that's what I had on hand to work with. This seemed adequate, if not overkill, with the original water conditioner - but perhaps not...