Recent content by gmandolyn

So I've heard...I was using them as a temporary solution until I found a better one. How do you deal with pH other than using pH adjusters?

The pH keeps rising, so I have been adding pH Decrease to keep it under control. All of my fish are happily swimming around, energetic and eating well. I haven't seen signs of infection on any of them. Maybe the two gouramis were infected before I got them, and the increasing pH stressed them...

The Maracyn package I have says it can be used for "Body Fungus/Columnaris", which it describes on the back as "greyish-white stringy material covering most of the body; white or gray patches". *shrug* A search I just now did on Columnaris says it's a bacteria that is often mistaken for...

I didn't think to turn off the light. Thanks for the tips.

I don't know what kind of rocks they are. My mom used them in her tanks when I was little. They haven't been in a tank for probably 10 years, so she gave them to me and I washed them off and put them in my tank.

Thanks for responding! I thought no one would... None of the fish have gotten the fungus so far, and the remaining gourami is active and eating happily. The other fish look happy, too. The tap pH is 7.0. During the fishless cycle, the water did stay relatively high, 7.8-8.0 on average...

I just watched two of my honey sunset gouramis die this morning. Last night I noticed that one had a gray-ish somewhat fuzzy film in a strip from the upper lip to just above one of its eyes. It was too late to go to my LFS, so I waited until the morning. This morning, the gray-ish film had...