Recent content by guppypups

Hello, I have a tank with a whole ton of subwassertang attached to ornaments and driftwood. My fish absolutely love it, the fry like to hide in it and any stressed females can dissapear into there pretty fast, and most the fish just hang out by it all the time. I was cleaning my tank with a...

So I've had a cory catfish living with my guppies for almost a year, although I know his previous owners had him for quite some time so its likely that he is very old. He stopped being quite as active for a few days, and now all of a sudden my guppies are biting him! And he's not swimming away...

According to the water quality sheet for North Calgary (where I live): pH: 7.1-8, averaging 7.6 GH: 10.9-13.2 grains per gallon, averaging 12.1 KH: 174-267, averaging 214 mg/L as CaCO3 I never knew there was so much to know about water affecting fish! I'm still relatively new to the hobby and...

Tap pH is 7 So I don't know what's dropping it Should I add pH up? I know its temporary and not ideal but it would give time to figure out what's changing the pH

The tap water is 200ppm and is supposed to be 7-7.5 pH. Any idea whats lowering the ph? Would activated carbon in thr filter do that?

UPDATE The previous owner has the same water temp and similar hardness. He didn't use conditioner and I do but that shouldn't be the problem should it? He swears they are just adjusting but it's been a week Help

So I have a new group of mollies and they are a pretty sad and sickly bunch (see my post in fish emergencies) One of them has an odd habit none of the others exhibit. He/she spins like a ballerina whenever a tiger barb is close. When I say that I mean, tail straight down, nose straight up, and...

A couple of months ago I got guppy grass and it apparently came with some green hair algae. I didn't even realize it was algae, believing it to be a moss of sort, until yesterday. Is this alga bad for my tanks? Will it harm my fish or plants??? I tried reading up on it but all I can find is...

So I recently got a group of mollies, 7 of them from a breeder. When I got home I acclimatized them for 30min and released them into the tank. They all swam to the bottom and grouped together behind a large ornament. I figured they might be shy or adjusting so I wasn't too worried, my tetras had...

So a while ago one of my guppies became very skinny so I isolated her. you can see the full post here Short version of the story is that she is from a group of three, and the other two became thin and pale and died. I have a separate group I got after the first death so have 9 fish total...

When you say to keep this salt level are you saying add salt every day or just don't dilute it through water changes without replacing some?

UPDATE: I monitored the guppy tank and realised one of my females are hiding and have white stringy poop. She's large and could be hiding due to pregnancy. some places I read claim white poop is a sign of parasites whereas other places it simply means they aren't eating which can also be due to...

She'd only be about 7 months old. The male took only a few days to die once I noticed his behavior, however I was accidentally a little rougher with him than I'd like to admit when transporting him and I didn't have microworms either so he simply didn't eat.