Recent content by Linda N

I live in the high desert of NM and have large 30 gallon trash cans here and there throughout my yard. They are filled with water so I can use that water to fill bird baths and hand water individual plants if needed, without having to fire up my irrigation pump. After a year or so, the one in...

I first washed my sand a day or two ahead of the switch. I left it wet in a bucket. I had gravel and switched to black sand for my dwarf cory catfish. I siphoned out a few gallons of tank water into a bucket and put all of the décor and plants in there. I siphoned the remaining tank water into...

Do you have any frogbit? I've had terrible luck with what I ordered off Amazon. I would be willing to send you some $$$$ if you feel like mailing to NM.

Thanks for all of the input. I do have sleep apnea and use a CPap and have for years. I also have rheumatoid arthritis which causes a lot of joint pain. Pat of the problem is related to a change in my body geometry because over the last 2 years I have lost 160 plus pounds. I can't lay down for...

Thank you for all of the replies. I will discontinue leaving it on all night. I have only left it on occasionally. According to my fitbit I average 3 1/2 hours of sleep a night last week so not like I need the night light. I just like the blue color. I can see them swimming around in there with...

Hello all - I have read that the fish like and/or need some real darkness at night. During the day I usually have the tank light on but the tank also has a blue night light option. Would that seem like dark to the fish? I often sleep in the living room in my recliner due to health issues and...

That's a bunch of shrimp. I have a few, hoping to have babies but the males either aren't surviving or they are hiding so well I can't see them. I want some more - they are so fun to watch.

It's funny that the two yellow ones hang with each other and the other 5 original Endlers hang with the original group. No interaction between the two batches. But the dwarf rasboras hang with the original batch of Endlers. The two yellow ones are always together.

It helps to use a siphon to clean the gravel, like you are vacuuming it. Lots of crud settles in there - fish waste, uneaten food. If you stir it up would probably surprise you how much can be in there.

I apologize for the poor picture quality - probably too poor to make an identification. The 2 yellow fish were sold to me as Endlers - I have 5 other Endlers in this 10 gallon tank, along with some Pygmy cories, dwarf Rasboras, at least 1 red cherry shrimp (could be others that I just never see)...

I got my new filter installed - crammed the media from the old filter into the compartment with the new filter media. I also got 2 more Endlers and 3 more pygmy cories so now a total of 7 endlers and 9 pygmy cories. There's also 8 dwarf rasboras in there - it's a busy little place with all of...

I'm on the mend - usually changing out the water in my two tanks - 10 gallon half round and conventional 20 gallon - is something I have to spread out over 2 days but I was able to do both of them in just a few hours, which is progress. I will get a new filter for that tank this weekend and...