Recent content by FishAreFriends17

Actually, it is liquid we use. I guess I was confused about that because you compare the colors to a strip but when I told my fiancé he laughed at me and said we do use liquid. My bad. Anyway, yeah I am totally getting that we may have wiped the beneficial bacteria out of our tank but if that...

Okay I’m an idiot, just talked to my fiancé. We do use liquid haha. I guess I just really don’t know what I’m talking about. ??‍♀️??‍♀️

I actually wondered this myself, because it all started happening after we got that new filter! It’s a fluval 110 which has great reviews and that was the same filter we had before it broke. But maybe something is just off with the filter?

Hey! Thank you so much for the advice. So, what you are saying is you believe there is not enough beneficial bacteria in the tank, correct? I guess, I am just confused as to why the Nitrite and Ammonia levels are reading 0 and the Nitrate is at 20ppm. Unless these strips aren’t accurate? I just...

My fiancé says he can’t remember if he transferred the old media but I’m guessing he didn’t. Once all the fish died from the old setup we put new substrate and water in the tank and then just let the water run for two weeks. Then we checked the water parameters and everything looked good so we...

Both the Nitrite and Ammonia are measuring 0. It’s so odd. He didn’t say anything more about the dying tetras that day.

Yeah. They’re eating normal. No white spots or white stringy poop :(. Everything looks okay and then they’re just dead. The only strange behavior I noticed was with the two fish that were like gulping at the top of the aquarium.

So , my fiancé and I have a 65 Gallon Fresh Water Aquarium. On January 16th we got some new fish for it at our usual fish place. Well, when we bought the Corys they were in a tank with these tetras and the guy at the store was like “I just want to warn you, we just got a shipment of these tetras...