Recent content by Noidstradamus

Hello all, I recently picked up a female Sunset Honey Gourami after reading honeys can be kept in pairs. The male I have now is probably about a year old. The female much younger. Since putting her in the tank, he often chases her if she comes too close to him. He is also aggressive during...

Hello all. Just wondering if anyone can help me diagnose this. I have a honey gourami that has been hugging the bottom of the tank for a couple weeks. He still comes up to greet me and to eat. He also swims to the top and swims around intermittently them returns to the bottom. My water...

Setup: 10 g, moderately planted, 1 honey gourami, one female guppy, 4 oto catfish. been running about 8 months. hello all, i think i am in the beginning stages of something bad happening in my tank and i just dont know what it is. i record water tests weekly before every water change and have...

Also another thing to add, a fish keeping friend of mine with a whole lot more experience than me also has very hard water. So much so that he invested in a whole him softener. His town water report shows very hard water. I'm two towns over and my report doesn't actually list the gh/kh like his...

The color is actually very noticable. On drop 21, the vial is a obvious and vibrant orange, on drop 22 it switches to a light, but still obvious, green.

Hello. I'm fairly new to fishkeeping (6-7 months) and I've been trying to educate myself on water chemistry. There is something very perplexing to me about our tap water in our home in upstate NY. When I use an API GH/KH test kit on our tap water, I get very high GH readings (22 dGH) and very...

Hello everyone, I currently have a 10 Gallon moderately planted aquarium with a male Honey Gourami, 2 female guppies, and 2 Oto Catfish (yes I know, weird mix). Everyone gets along great. My friend is giving me a 20g high and obv I'd like to get some more fish. I'm thinking of getting a couple...

Hello, I currently have a 10g tank that I am in the process of planting with some easy plants (Java Ferns, Java Moss, Anubias, etc.) I would eventually like to introduce a fish as a centerpiece with some nano shoaling fish to compliment. I currently have 4 Otocinclus Catfish. What does...

Ok good. I did. With a Titanium heater this time.

I did get all the glass out yes. Luckily it was a clean break.

Hello, I was a bone head and didn't switch my glass tank heater off during a water change. While pouring water into the tank, the heater shattered into the tank. Should I be concerned about chemicals/substances that were inside the heater poisoning the water? One of my guppies was literally...

I wanted to provide a quick update on my Guppy tank. I have taken the advice of many posts on here (for which I thank you all). Since my post, I have installed a light dimmer and timer, set to be on at about 25% power for 6 hours a day. I installed a background (black) on my tank to ease...

It shall be done. I'll let everyone know how it goes.