Recent content by O2Breather

My experience with Angelfish has not been entirely happy. If there are only two, one bullies the other. If there are three, one bullies a certain other while the third just tries to keep out of it. I had one bad guy that claimed a corner of the tank all to himself. My last Black Angel was killed...

I live in Maryland too, and I have a well drawing off the Magothy aquifer. That water is very acidic when it comes into the house. We have a water conditioner system in the basement that mixes a weak sodium hydrochloride solution into the water to get it neutral. Curiously, I've discovered that...

Yeah you never know how it will turn out.. After a summer rain recently I found some juicy mosquito larvae swimming in an overturned trash-can lid. I collected about two dozen and dumped them into my 33-gallon tank. They seemed to turn invisible then. I couldn't see them, and my fish (blue...

Treat them as well as your other pets and always keep the water clean and healthy for them.

It's what's in your heart. Personally, I would feel it disrespectful to the little life-form (fish, bird, whatever) that I once knew and whose presence brightened my days if I were to just trash it. I always bury them, usually under the bushes outside so their bodies can serve as food for...

I once had a blue gourami that decided one day to terrorize all the other fish, except the pleco of course, who is big and ugly enough to remain unperturbed. This gourami would hang out in the upper left corner of the tank and make aggressive forays to scatter the other gouramis, a large zebra...

I'll give it a try. I picked up some aquarium salt a while back and forgot about it. Thanks.

Sorry for the late reply; we had an outage. My API test kit showed 0 and 0 for Ammonia and Nitrite, but 10ppm for Nitrate. I only change the filter monthly, after a 30% water change, and I usually clean it once during the month under tap water (well water). I'm intrigued by the protozoa idea...

New guy here. Hi, y'all. I recently placed three American Flag Fish in a 10-gallon tank with a medium-size Black Angelfish and a Blue Gourami, in the hope that the Flag Fish would start chowing down on the blackbeard algae that has spread throughout the tank and all over the live plants' leaves...