Recent content by Gennifer

Well, we just wanted to update everyone - our black angel died last night. Seemed to be getting along well all day long with the yellow angel, but for some strange reason, just started having trouble swimming - laid flat for a bit - tried to swim for a bit, then just died. The other fish...

THANKS!! That totally makes sense - amazing how something as simple as that can "mess up their world" and give everyone in the tank a fresh, fair start. LOL Our yellow angel is being much nicer to the black one today. Doesn't seem to be bothering him as much. We had to remove our rosy barb...

Well, the barb that died yesterday definately had fungus on her tail. It looked like a white cottony plume, almost like her tail had been shredded and then cotton stuck on it. We treated the tank for fungus hoping to save her, and she died right after the treatment. She was already pretty far...

:D Thanks guys - I didn't figure it was too big of a deal, but we're basically washing hands good before and after, and I wasn't paranoid about wearing gloves, that's just my step-mom's advice, because she's paranoid! LOL I think my hubby was mainly wanting to rule out that we were possibly...

Well, we have 2 last remaining barbs in there, and they don't show signs of any fungus, nor ich that I can tell. Other than they were swimming strangely last night, like purposely ramming themselves into things... I hear this is a sign of something bothering their skin?? But I don't see any...

Okay, this is going to sound stupid, but we're totally new at this, and we're trying to rule out some things we might be doing wrong. My hubby wants to know if it's bad to put your hands and arms into the tank while moving things around, etc. Does this put "bad things" into the water off your...

:hyper: Okay, as if we haven't had enough BS today treating fungus and ich in one tank, now we have an issue with our other tank. We only had one small yellow angel in there and thought we'd bring her home a buddy today. WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING? So I bring in a marbled Angel who is just...

Yes, I double checked the readings, and our nitrItes are high, about 3.0 which shows to be stress, near danger level. Also our KH is low, as we're only registering about 40 and it should be much higher, right? Anyway, our nitrAtes are sitting at 20 which shows to be in the safe zone...

Okay...we were going to treat our pregnant tiger barb as she had fin rot on her tail (fungus). She died shortly after we dropped a tablet in (She was in BAD shape) and I've read the box, and it says to remove the carbon from our filter. I'm assuming so the carbon won't pull the medicine out of...

:-( Okay, after reading the fish disease section, it appears not only do our barbs have the white ich spots (like salt grains) but obviously, this one barb also has the fungal tail rot/fin rot. She has a huge white fluffy plume like thing on her tail fin. Now my question is - how do we treat...

:no: We had 5 little tiger barbs in a small 10 gallon tank, and our heater cooled off without us knowing it, and BINGO they got ich BADLY!! Seemed overnight almost! Anyway, we've since done 2 ich treatments, but everyone started telling us we just needed to warm up the water, which we did. We...

:blink: Okay, please bear with us, we are new to this testing thing. (Fish too!) We bought a 10g tank for Christmas and have since added a few new family members. After reading in these forums, we decided we needed to get a testing kit because we had been overrun with brown algae in the last...

Hello and thanks for the replies! :byebye: We have a 10 gallon tank, and all of our fish that are left, are from our original purchase 3 days after Christmas. They have all been troopers and stuck it out with us! But like I said, our tank has been crystal clear and lovely until now. I take...

Okay, from what I gather, too many nitrates & silicates cause this brown algae to grow. Along with poor lighting, although I don't think lighting is our problem. We have a very bright flourescent light in the tank, and we are in front of a window, although not a BRIGHT window. I'd rather...

Okay...let me clarify something. We did NOT cycle our tank like many of you talk about here, for a long period of time. The paperwork that came with the tank said you can add fish after 2 days of letting things "run." Basically we got the water to the right temp. and let the filtering system...