Recent content by Jamie D.

Warm water, vinegar and elbow grease it is! Thanks for the advice!

I just lost my last betta a couple weeks ago (tumors), and I'm done with labyrinth fish, for awhile at least. My four ADFs are currently in a 6 gallon corner tank, and I'd like to clean out and redo my long, shallow 6 gallon bookshelf tank for them instead (and "retire" the corner tank, which is...

That turned out stunning! Well done! I'm sure it'll be an overgrown jungle in no time, and you'll be trimming plants nearly every water change like I have to (misery loves company, but frogs love jungles, so...we do what we have to do). :-)

I have a couple of these ceramic caves for my dwarf plecos. My clown plec prefers a self-dug cave he made below one of my driftwood pieces, but the Leopard Frog plec lives full time in one of these...he's like an eel, poking his nose out to see what's going on or if there's food he should grab...

Soup and Dumpling - I love it! :-) Glad they're settling in so well! I'm sure your plants will settle in nicely once you get them all mounted/planted in the new place.

I put a square of moss in my betta tank last year. Man, that was impossible to clean or keep clean. I don't think I'd do it again, personally. I removed it, but some of the moss lives on attached to some wood I have in there, and it's much more manageable there, for some reason. I have some...

I love bettas...they have such personality, and throw such adorable tantrums if you're late with the food. Or in my Smudge's case, if you try to put up an algae shield background on the tank for part of the day to block natural sunlight - he hates it, so I'm stuck cleaning algae out of the tank...

Oh goodness - what a handsome fellow! I can see why you scooped him up. It'll be interesting to see if he retains that same coloring as he grows!

I had mopani wood in my ADF tank for quite awhile - I didn't soak or boil it first, just gave it a quick rinse and stuck it in there, since it was dense enough to sink right away. I don't recall seeing any sap leeching from mine. My frogs liked it well enough to tunnel under, and the only...

All of the advice I've seen is that 78F is the upper limit of what you'd want to keep them at long-term. And they'd be in cooler temps closer to the mid-lower 70's in the wild. So I don't think I'd keep mine at 80F for long periods of time, personally. I normally vent my tank when I see the...

My heater in the tank is set to 76F - but my canister filter sits on a small stand beside the desk where the tank is, which is closer to the actual house heating vent. So when the house heat is running more often, the tank occasionally goes up to around 80F (because the filter is in that warm...

So cute! Congratulations! And yes, terracotta pots are great. I break mine in half so I don't have to bury them...then they just sit on the surface like a little cave. The calls are more like buzzing, but I was pretty stoked to hear at least two different types of calls from my tank earlier...

I do hope your two remaining do well, and that you're eventually able to get a few more. They really are such fun little critters with such personality. :-)