Recent content by PumpKineTick

We accomplished hand feeding today! B-) I owe all of you a thank you for contributing. I'll try my best to foster a more proactive attitude towards the health of my aquarium. I learned a lot again (especially about stray voltage, like what?), and I strive to improve. Thank you once again, and...

I agree that my water changing schedule's lazy and needs work. The crazy thing is, this is actually the first fish I've ever kept. Little teenager me thought I'd be cool to have a monster fish in a 100 gallon. Just a heads up, for the first year or two, I didn't even do water changes! Then I had...

In my experience, the strips are inaccurate, not because they show false values, but the resolution of the test and the precisiness is lacking. When I've had a problem with high nitrates, the strips showed a 100 ppm+ reading. Last week, it showed me 40 ppm, and after I changed 50%, it showed 20...

I used test strips and I'm confident my nitrates are below 40 at the moment. I'm sorry but I don't know what this about banging the bottles is...

He does normally have his mouth partially open. I don't know, that could be the case.

He ate a healthy amount of food today! Hand feeding's still off limits, but he seems more confident recently. :)

I added the salt dosage to the tank. Now I'm waiting...

I'll try and see if cooling it down to the usual 79 degrees Fahrenheit will do anything. He didn't even touch the frozen food.

Should I do water changes or should I use salt? Should I wait? I honestly have no direction right now. I just don't get what's the problem.

He really is trying to eat the pellets and sticks, but has a hard time swallowing them, often spitting them out. Still won't accept food from my hand. I'm getting a bit desperate. I just can't figure out what's wrong...

He seems overly shy at the moment when it comes to hand-feeding. On the other hand, if the food were to sink to the bottom, it'd be quite a hassle to have to remove it. That's why I'm trying all my floating options. I've proposed to him a mealworm but no reaction. He did somewhat eat the cube of...

Today's ammonia test. I did everything according to the manual and it looks good to me. :) It's feeding time soon, we'll see if he'll eat.