Recent content by Oman

The tank has been set up for 6 months. I don’t have nitrate test but nitrite and ammonia are both at 0 and pH is 6.7 which is standard. have had the shrimp in there for 5 months and not added/ changed anything recently. the worms are free swimming aswell, they don’t go on the glass, when I...

Hi guys, I had a tank of 9 yellow cherry shrimp and over the last week they have all died, there was one left but it died last night. Whilst inspecting the corpse of the final one I have noticed small red markings and circles, does anyone know what this is from? Maybe a parasite? The tank also...

Oh sweet, thank you! I’ll keep the filterturned off in the shrimp tank

Hi guys, the other day I noticed my blue cherry shrimp was pregnant, a few days later on the piece of Amazon Frogbit she had been on when I noticed her pregnancy, had about 15 small brown pellets on. I assumed these were the eggs and moved them to my yellow cherry shrimp tank as the tank with...

Thanks guys, I don’t have a test for nitrate atm, so wouldn’t be able to tell you. I agree thinking it was a bacterial infection. And yeah foolishly I didn’t quarantine the new fish but they were from the same shop and my room is a bit small for another tank, I’ve got another tank now I could do...

Both ammonia and nitrite were both basically 0 and ph was 6.7 but it had been that since I first set the tank up

Hi guys, pretty sad day, my male fighter (bean) who was just starting get some really cool koi patterns just died, I only noticed him acting lethargic and not eating a day or 2 ago. And the redness pictured has slowly developed, since yesterday, getting really big today. pH, ammonia and nitrite...

Thanks for the reply! And I’ll pass on your compliments to him. That will be really cool if he does change like that, looking forward to seeing how he develops

I really appreciate the kind comments guys, this is one of my first posts and it’s such a nice and welcoming community. Here are some pics without the blue LEDs on