Recent content by marcetaylor

OK, the floating plant will work and some small tiles may work. However the ground needs to be gravel to make the tank easy to clean. The fish will probably like the floating plant as it adds a hiding space, but again not so much the tiles. I would cover the whole bottom in gravel and add small...

Thank you for the advice. My than is 55 gal. and I have no idea what the water parameters and substrate means. I hope this helps.

I recently got a rope fish from my pet store and I am worried about it. It usually sits on the ground and doesn't move much. Yesterday it was very active and swimming around, but today it has hardly moved. I also don't know what to feed it, and have been giving it flakes and freeze dried blood...

If I were you I would return the fish and clean out the tank and gravel really good and remove all the decorations and plants in it. Then I would run the tank as if there were fish in it for a month (or add bacteria to the tank) and then get one small, cheap fish that you like but are okay with...

Ok thanks. What should I do with the surviving tetra though?

What do you mean by a clear slime?

cycling your tank is when you wait for bacteria to get into your tank that turn ammonia (the main source of ammonia is fish excrement) into nitrites which require some different bacteria to turn the nitrites into nitrates. Ammonia and nitrites are toxic to fish, but nitrates are only toxic in...

I am not entirely sure how to help you, but could you tell me how many fish you have (if any), what fish you have, if you disturbed the gravel, and if the filter started to "overflow" when you took out the cartridge.

The tank is new - I just set up in the last month and it cycled already. I purchased one of the black skirt tetras yesterday, One about a week ago, and one about a year a go but transferred it from a 10 gal to my 55 gal with the one I bought yesterday. The 5 neon tetras went in with the 3 black...

Hello, I have a 55 gallon aquarium with 3 black skirt tetras and got 5 neon tetras. I put in the neon tetras and they acted okay, and all day the fish were in the tank with no problem. At night I turned off the lights and went to sleep. When I woke up I checked mt tank and saw one neon tetra...