Recent content by Lcc86

It appears both tanks are probably overstocked, and the stocking is a bit of a mess tbh. Your tetra and cory all prefer bigger numbers, but you don't have the space to provide that. I'd return either all the cories or all the tetra and just keep to one species. Your ADF will be lonely without...

Sorry he passed. Keep an eye on your remaining cory. Cories do need to be in groups though so ideally you'd want to move him to a bigger tank and get him some friends after a suitably long monitoring period.

You say he's in a 5 gallon with some cories - how many exactly? 5 gallons is small for one fish let alone a bunch. Finrot could be a sign of poor water quality, which would be exacerbated if the tank is overstocked. It may be that he's just weaker or has some kind of illness which will limit his...

Weirdly I just went on ebay and they're still selling them on there, just type in neocaridina shrimp and they come up.

Plants help but they don't do everything, you need to remove waste as well. If you post a pic of your whole tank people might be able to give some pointers.

I use a bamboo toothbrush but I only have small tanks, might be a bit too much work with a 20g!

A 5 gallon is probably too small for most shoaling fish tbh as to get a proper size of shoal without overstocking you need a bigger tank, you'd be better off considering something that can live alone like a betta (depending on your water hardness) or similar. I keep nano tanks and they are...

Hmmmm my frog tank I would describe as static, as for some reason I don't like changing things round in there. I think because their eyesight is poor so I don't like to confuse them! My scarlet badis tank is more dynamic, he's a smart little guy so I sometimes mix things up in there during a...

We do wait longer on average over here but we don't get declined care because an arbitrary company has decided we don't need it even if a doctor has said we do. We have private care over here too if people want to go down that route, the NHS is sadly underfunded which causes delays (my tin foil...

I still class myself very much as a beginner even after keeping fish for a few years now. Completely agree with you that it can be very confusing and tbh depending on what search terms you put in you'll find an answer that backs up what you're asking but if you reword it you'll find an answer...

Speaking of jumping, I was wandering around my local LFS when one of these landed from nowhere on my foot! They really can jump! Luckily for him he landed on me so I could get the staff to net him back in before he dried up. Awesome looking fish.

Oh wow that looks so painful MagnumMan, I hope you're resting up! I used to ride horses until last year, I've got arthritis in my back, I'd find that I was scared because of the pain, which would scare the horse, which would then scare me.... it was a vicious cycle wherein I lost all my...

No experience of this but commenting to bump your post

Wow I've never heard of a vet x-raying a fish before, did you get a picture?! No advice here but just wanted to say it's very impressive. Also just wondering if you can get hold of any live or frozen food? Might help fatten your betta up, live food is also good enrichment if you can find good...

Haha I thought so! Deffo don't have any of those in my tank lol.