Recent content by Jan Cavalieri

Yeah I think if my assistant continues to be unreliable I would hire an aquarium maintenance service - of course that doesn't help the the issue I had tonight - after my Birthday party (which was very nice) I went in to feed the fish, check the filters and heaters like I do every day and the...

Today, just after feeding the fish in my larger tank I walked in to turn off their light for the night and that entire tank had suddenly turned cloudy too. Luckily no funky odor and as far as I could tell all the fish appear to be alive. I do not understand what is going on. The food is...

Well I'll bump this up - anybody have any ideas what might have happened so I don't do this again?

clamber1122 - do you have a 3D printer? If you do then I'm surprised you don't know the names of the materials used - the manual usually tells you the name and they usually have a customer service line that you can call. If you don't - they are really expensive ($200-500 for a low end model)...

The fish lost were all my genetically engineered colored Tetras. Love the colors. Anyway - my assistant was gone this week due to illness so I had to do 70-80% water changes on both my tanks (one is 50 gallon, the problem one is 29 gallon) - If I haven't mentioned before I'm disabled and on...

Right now I have one 30 gallon tank and one 50 gallon tanks each with three golden Dojo loaches in them. At one time I had 4 tanks but have slowly downsized because the maintenance was killing me. I used to have 7 - so in over a year I've only lost one loach. They appear to be very hardy...

He looks just like my beta (other than perhaps being sick and all). Since it's winter (especially in Maine I'm sure) - I would pick up a 50 watt heater for his tank and keep it on 78-80 degrees. Technically they aren't suppose to need heaters but they don't naturally live in Maine either...

I have both acrylic and glass tanks (2 of each). The acrylic tanks are wonderful to be able to clean because they are so lightweight (even their 50 gallon) and the water is very clear. The downside is that they usually have a structural support at the top that can make it difficult to get...

I'm used to seeing low levels of Nitrates in my water, I'm used to seeing low levels of ammonia in my water (not lately thankfully), but I've never seen nitrites in my water unless they were accompanied by ammonia (indication an uncycled tank). I my case just one of two tanks is showing any...

Sounds good Colin I will give it a try.

Should I just keep adding capfuls of Prime every 2-3 days tp get rid of the nitrites = seems expensive.

Try adding another bottle of Tetra Safe Start Plus = it is a water purifier and adds more bacteria to the tank. You keep adding fish and they keep dying. Could be not enough bacteria in the tank. Also NEVER put fish in a tank until it's cycled - that's just asking for deathl If you have...

my brown algae started like yours and now looks like the pictures below, they clog the sponge on my filter and basket the sponge comes in so no water can get through they clog the inside of the uptake to the point of having to clean it several times a day. We finally removed everything from...

I LOVE dwarf Gourami. They do die a little more frequently than other fish (most of mine have lasted 1-2 years) but they are by far the most colorful of the live fish. I always get two of the same species, never had a fight just an occaasional bumping around one time by one set of them...

If you want fish with mutiple colors in a 10 gallon tank then I think Gourami are the way to go. I've lost mine mainly to swim bladder disease and there is nothing you can do about it. Swim bladders help the fish navigate up and down, and in air breathing gourami's they NEED to get to the top...