Recent content by outofwater

You'll find 10 different answers from 10 different people. I personally have decided that if I get fish from a chain store, I first go at least twice in a week, check the fish and tank they're in, and if the water is clean, the fish are healthy and there are no dead bodies, only then l buy...

That's how it looks now.

I finally went to the local aquarium club meeting last month, and last week they had one of their big semi annual auctions. I missed on some nice cories and kuhli loaches, although those probably would uproot all the plants every day... and I got a few good bunches of plants for the big tank...

thank you for the note. the serpae were returned as soon as my second loach was killed. I have yet to replace them, I've noticed that stocks at both chains and local stores are very meager these days, and every place I visited does not have the dojo/weather loaches. heck, even petco online...

hi Essjay, please change it to 55 gallon journal thank you.

hi everyone, I'm wanting to post a couple of updates to this tank/thread. ADMIN team, is it possible to rename a thread/post? at this point it's not about identifying fish anymore, but the journey of this tank. thank you in advance!!

Image-searched for these... the bottom right is a serpae, isn't it?

I'll look for them around the stores. I have both chains and local stores around me, but they all seem to stock more or less the same fish. I just found out that there is some sort of hobby club that meets monthly in the local aquarium, I'm going to join that. I've been thinking for a while...

They're gone. No ill will, they're animals... just sad about my two dojos and the one black skirt. I thought I did my homework, should've read more and asked here first.

Thank you... I guess thank you for editing the language too 😁 After your comment, and witnessing that in fact they are going after the other fish, I will return them. I'm most annoyed at losing the dojos. Hard to get them around here, and expensive (by my modest standards, compared to all the...

Just to add that neither of the dojos showed any sign of being physically hurt. No nipped fins, nothing that would tell they had been hurt by other fish. However, just as I hit "post" i did see one of the serpaes try to go after one of the black skirts, and another one is literally hiding under...

Did I mess up here? An update. I think I've got the algae/bacteria under control after months of tweaking the artificial and natural light, hand cleaning and pruning the affected plants and adding more plants. A week ago I added 4 serpae tetra. A day after one of my dojo loaches was dead...

This wasn't an issue on this tank before moving, but moving implied basically restarting it. I last cleaned it (including the leaf scrubbing) 2 weeks ago, and here's a picture of it as of today. One of the ferns actually grew a brand new leaf and it's gunk-free so far. I took the wood out last...