Recent content by Jennifer Deleon

I actually don't exactly know the hardness but I use tap water but I condition the water before putting it in my tank. But so far my 4 cardinal tetras and shrimp I first started with as a run after full cycling have been doing great. I looked up san Diegos water hardness and I quote this is what...

Hi everyone I have a 20 gallon long tank heavily planted. I have about 20 cherry shrimp, 3 ammano shrimps, 7 cardinal tetras, 6 rummy nose tetras. I was told I can put about 20-30 tetras in there no problem but I would like to add guppies. I would like to add 6 guppies, and 3 endler guppies all...

Help my fish are riddled with white spots! I just recently got into owning fish and I was unaware about cycling. So 2 days later after tank set up I stocked my tank. I know its cruel and I feel bad already i also didn't know that each required different needs. I am going on 2 weeks now in the...

According to the test strips I have very hard water hardness. They said it's ok because its California water. Yeah see, I didn't know nor did they tell me about the hardness of the water of fish. I gave them all the info about my tank and my goals and those are the fish they told me were good...

Hi guys! I am new to the fish keeping. I recently started. I have a 20 gallon tank long. I have a whisper 40i filter and a preset tank heater 100wt. I have 3 Cory's, 1 beta, 3 balloon rams, 2 mollies, 8 cardinal tetras, 6 platies. I have tested the water I have gotten everything good but the...