Recent content by Lisbeth Oden

Good to know. I’m gonna be gone close to two months. I’ll go with that then - I think I can probably get my roomie do it once or twice a week. And I hopefully have a fish tank care person coming by a couple of times to do some water changes and a cleaning. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hello all - I’m going to be away for a while and want to make sure my fish are fed (unreliable roommate). I’ve been using sinking wafers/pellets for the Cory’s and the baby guppies love them too! Any suggestions for auto feeders that can handle them? Suggestions on good regular auto feeder...

Thanks All! I appreciate the feedback. For clarity at the moment I do not have any plecos. These were the tablets that my local fish store recommended for Coreys (see photo above). But maybe they basically the same food and I’m just being obtuse. Thanks for your patience and feedback. Sent...

I bought these and they floated on the top of the tank and the guppies enjoyed it. When I woke up this morning the remaining pieces were attached to the filter intake [emoji2372] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hello fellow fish lovers! I’m hoping I finally have my tank woes under control… knocks wood a few times for good measure… My question is this. What is the best way to feed Cory’s? The Aqueon bottom feeder tablets that I have float at the top of the tank for the longest time and then...

How do you get it to the right temperature before adding it to the tank? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you. The soft and low alkalinity water was coming from the reverse osmosis dispenser at the grocery store because I thought my cistern had gone bad and my counter top filter needed to be replaced. My home water when filtered is nearly perfect but it has 1 ppm nitrates. So I have been...

I was concerned because even though when I started this tank and cycled it and my test strips said perfect but yet every single fish I put in there died. I also run everything through a counter filter that is just not designed for the amount of water changing I’ve been doing because of various...

I will have to ask the city for that but what complicates it further is that I am not directly on the water line so it is delivered every month and sits in a cistern. I just tested the water that came through my filter and it’s perfect on all levels except that it has between .5 & 1 ppm nitrates...

Cool a but a bit hard to do when I’m doing all these water changes to get my tank healthy again [emoji3064] I’ve been using water from the store and Tetra Safe “Aqua Safe” added to it. What else can I do to help the water be better? What do you think the best average pH, KH and GH are for a...

Hello all! Curious to know - For water changes - do you use tap water, distilled water, water from the water machines @ the market, or...? (Water straight out of my tap is not good) What water testing system do you use? Are there smart phone apps for testing that you use and like? Thanks...

Thank you. Water is on the soft side. I get my water from one of those water dispensers at the market because it would take too long to filter the water for all these water changes. The first test strip photo was water that had been adjusted. The second had not. I will get better at adjusting...

Ok - thanks. Should I worry about what looks like ich on the babies? I will balance the PH and raise the temperature. Big water change - 75%? When I replace the water, do I add any salt to it? The test strip key was in an earlier post in this thread so I didn’t repost but have done so...

Good morning Colin and all - sadly that fish didn’t make it :( And I think it also got ich in the end and I may see 1 spot of it on a couple of my guppy babies. Not sure what I’m doing wrong in this tank. I’ve always been very successful with tanks in the past. The fish I started it with have...

OK I have a 29 gallon tank. I have added five heaping tablespoons of aquarium salt. I can add more just wanted to start slowly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk