Recent content by moonmist

I’m sorry to hear your fish died ): I was going to say that 2 days ago I noticed one of my ember tetras was pale just like in your photo and they died the next day. So sad

Wow thank you for sharing your story! You put a lot of thought into your response and I really appreciate your time. I’ll honestly have to reread it a few times to understand it completely 😅 but I really like your explanation for the RO systems. I’ll look at your recommendations and see how I...

Yeah I’m in white bear lake area!

Thank you very much for the info I’ll give this a read :)

Yes I am

I had a similar problem a while back when I was keeping cherry shrimp, my water is really soft and I added wonder shells which fixed the problem but unfortunately I rescaped the tank about a month later and I lost all my shrimp from the plants being contaminated with pesticides. I guess you...

Unfortunately no I haven’t added anything new to the tank in months. I suspect whatever it is happened very recently because my fish only began acting stressed about 2-3 days ago. The only things that I’ve found that are out of the norm is the kH is very high as well as the pH. That’s how I...

Hi everyone. So I have a 17 gallon freshwater tank with 10 ember tetras and about 2 days ago I noticed them acting, well, not normal. They were hiding a lot more than usual. And this morning I wake up to one of them passed away ): I tested my tap water and tank water and the ph is extremely...

Ugh that is terrible I'm sorry that happened to you. Makes me so scared to buy plants now! I feel awful. But oh well, you live and you learn

Thank you so much for the information. I should’ve done my research but now I know! I will look into these. I was always under the impression that “oh there might be snails in here but that’s ok” never did I think that they could be treated with pesticides. I’ll be extra diligent in the future...

Tanks been running about 5 months now. I’ve had the cherry shrimp in there for about a month and a half with no problems. That is until I added new plants.

As you can see by the title, I did something really dumb ): I ordered some plants from Buceplant and I did not rinse them off/quarantine them. I’ve learned my lesson. Anyways I can’t tell if the massive shrimp die off is from a pesticide on the new plants, or from an ammonia spike from digging...

i love the groot

yes i use CO2, but i use the DYI Neo CO2 kit, not the pressurized stuff. i havent had any issues..(yet)

so cute! I love your plants too!!