Recent content by KMW1954

Thanks everyone. The tank is now broken down. Everything has been bleached and the gravel is being washed. We have not decided if we will reassemble and restock this tank.

Yesterdays routine was no different than any other days routine. Fish were al behaving normally, took their food the way they always do. Wife was in the kitchen peeling potatoes and loudly called in. We could watch them deteriorate in front of us. First the largest, the Golden, then the Tetra's...

Water change and gravel cleaning was done about 4 weeks ago. The food is fresh a couple weeks ago and we have been using this same brand and container size for over a year. The food is shaken out of the container and never touched. It is not scooped or picked up by the fingers. Fish were all...

She was preparing dinner, hands washed. Been feeding the same food since new and been feeding from this same container for weeks. Fish behaved normally when fed. 9 fish dead within 15 min. of being fed. Whatever it is, has to be toxic. Food is Tetra Tropical Flakes in a 200gram container. It is...

30gal tank doing very well, almost 2 years with Gourami,, tetra, pleco, and a golden algae eater. About 4:45 wife fed them as usual and 20min later every one of them was dead! Took all of about 15 min

Two Golden Chinese Algae Eaters.

Well the big tank is almost empty of inhabitants. One one side I have all the substrate removed to form a 5" wide trench that is holding about 2" of water. where it is somewhat clear I can still see a few very tiny shrimp that will have to wait until tomorrow. What a labor intensive ordeal this...

Top tank was the original and the only thing thriving are the Gourami and shrimp. All plants are struggling badly. Water has turned very dark so decided to break it all down and start over. Going to proceed the same way with the major changes being substrate depth with root tabs and now filtered...

or from complete boredom?

So what is this? Just finished setting up a temp tank to house in until I can break down this tank, clean it and rebuild it. Started pulling out the rocks with the ferns and found this in the corner.

Being inexperienced I can't argue but I have seen fish mating before and this did not look like fighting.