Recent content by FishyFather

Thank you for the well wishes and welcome! Are you mentioning minerals for general health of the guppies? I noticed the alkalinity was too low, but I thought guppies and cories could live together with pretty much the same conditions? I went to my LFS yesterday and got a similar recommendation...

That's really good to know! Apparently Seattle has very soft water like I thought, around 22 ppm. I'll have to think about what to do for my cories!

Darn, that's unfortunate! I'll look into other gouramis more then, thank you :)

Great tips! I don't know about water hardness, I live close to Seattle and we generally have really soft water. I'll do some research on it!

Thanks for the advice on the Paradise Fish! I don't want to get anything that would be too aggressive with my guppies, especially given that I've already had some issues with them (I already made a different post). I haven't been considering Pearls but I'll have to check them out! I was...

It's a 29 gallon! I really like the size for the space I have.

Hello all, I started this freshwater aquarium a couple months ago (fishless cycled!) and started with some guppies, 2m 4f. Things went great for a bit, no ammonia spikes, nintrite 0 nitrate <10. Then the same day I went to add some corys, I noticed a male died- I had truly no idea why, but know...

Hello all fishy friends! I'm very excited to be here! I have half-stocked freshwater tank with some corys and some guppies, and a plant (don't remember the name off the top of my head). Looking at getting a gourami to top it off, but taking things slow! My family had fish tanks when I was...