Recent content by Mcostas

I had trouble with neons at first too. I finally have a stable batch of tetras in my 20 gallon. I have glolight tetras, black tetras and neons, the most being the neons. It took me about 4 batches to get 13 sturdy ones that either didn't get sick and die, or at least responded to the...

Yeah, luckily they are easy to find and remove, which is what I'll be doing until I need more snails which won't be anytime soon.

Because mine seem smarter than some of my other aquatic pets. I had a couple of mystery snails and was rewarded with an egg sack, that I saw right before I stepped on mom, who apparently crawled out of the tank after laying the eggs. I wanted a couple snails in each of my tanks and this was an...

I've only seen berries on one shrimp, and she dropped them, so there haven't been any babies. But everything seems stable now, I haven't seen any more dead shrimp and I see the ones that I recognize. The ones that were tiny when I got them are growing. I guess I'll nurture the ones I have...

One of my aquaclears broke where the impeller motor screwed on, I went to get a replacement and the topfin pro 30 filters were less expensive so I got one of those. I really like it. It's similar to the aquaclear in that you can hot rod it because it doesn't take a cartridge but it has an intake...

I only give them bacterAE a couple times a week, they seem more active when I put it in. I had read about using RO water and adding the minerals but I was hoping not to have to fuss that much.

I can (could) actually see the biological film on the driftwood. I occasionally add bacterAE, I don't use the recommended dose on my small tank. I also can see little cocopods jerking around on the glass, I understand that's a good sign. I suspect the number of snails I temporarily have in the...

GH 12. KH 4. Don't know the tds.

I was starting to suspect the snails were killing them as they slept but my search revealed that wouldn't happen. I think it has something to do with failed molting but I don't know why it would. I saw a successful molt a little while ago, I hope it leads to babies but if not I'm going back to...

NH3 is ammonia. It's zero. It's always zero. It's a well established cycled tank.

I have 3 aquariums, the one I'm asking about is the10 gallon aquarium. My little koi betta lived there until she got stuck under a rock and died. It was heartbreaking, she was my favorite fish. The store had red cherry neocaridinas when I went back to pick up something or other and I decided to...

I was just doing my weekly water changes and the moss ball I had in my Betta tank spread (engulfed) a piece of hydrilla. It was course and tangly, like the moss ball. The shrimp seemed to like picking at the stuff on the driftwood but they aren't eating the actual algae. I'm removing moss...

I had a Marino moss balls in my tanks and where the one moss ball was I started getting that hair algae too, it was only on the driftwood that the moss ball was next to. I have since taken moss balls out of that tank. It reminds me of black beard algae in that there are tufts of it on the...