Recent content by rainbowcharmer

Yes the coral does raise it. Mine was too low until I added the coral, now it stays at about 6.8 to 6.9, which is about where I'd like it.

The stats tend to have identical readings at my LFS. I have a "chemist" style test kit at home. When the tank was cycling, I got big readings on all tests throughout the cycle, and the test kit has not passed its expiration date. Before I do a water change, my nitrates do come up. Though...

She's gone and flushed now, so not much we can do to help. My stats are at 0 because I had just done a water change. I also have live plants, which tend to keep my nitrate levels pretty low. The tank is about 8 months old, and yes it's cycled. Believe me, I went through some nasty nitrite...

Well, whatever it is, it's killing her. She's struggling to stay upright now, and though she's still moving constantly, she's starting to swim slower and floats toward the surface whenever she stops swimming. :( Poor thing. I don't know how long she will keep this up before she finally...

That definitely is strange. My dalmation mollies are not at all aggressive, and from what I understand, gouramis are supposed to be semi-aggressive fish... How big is the tank?

Sorry - didn't include this in the 1st post. Tank size: 45 US Gallons pH:6.8-6.9 ammonia:0 nitrite:0 nitrate:0 kH:? gH:? tank temp:80-81 Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): One molly (female) swimming very strangely - barrel rolls is the...

She's swimming in 'barrel rolls' non stop. Any idea what might cause this? She's active, she's swimming quite fast - but it is as though her equillibrium is non-existent now?? Just noticed it about 5 minutes ago when I walked in the door from work. Everyone was fine when I left this...

Source?? No idea. I live in Rhode Island. I use stress coat and stress zyme to treat the water when I do changes.

The rubber plec was getting algae wafers and spirulina flakes every other day. I'm pretty sure he was getting adequate food, though the mollies on occasion would nibble at the wafers if he wasn't nearby. The tank is about 5 months old. It was set up early this summer. I do have my own test...

I'm on city water, yes. The weather has been normal - occasional rain. Right now it's hitting about 45 degrees F during the day. Down to about 20F at night. This has been happening over about a 2 month period. Oh - and on a side note, the death of the kuhli loach, I do not think is...

Yes, the water is clean, and I gravel vac every time I change the water - so every week - 2 weeks, depending on scheduling and how the tank is looking. Is there anything I can test for??

My tank is established, and the levels are about perfect. No ammonia, no nitrites, very little nitrates between water changes (every week to 2 weeks, 15% or so). It seems like all my "algae eating" fish are keeling over. I've lost 2 ottos, 3 bamboo shrimp, my rubber lipped pleco... I had...

So the molly fry that appeared in my tank the day after I brought my mollies home are getting pretty big. I think they are about 5 weeks old now. 3 survived out of the 8 that I originally counted. All three still appear to be female, and both the mollies that I bought at the LFS are female. No...

I know clowns play dead - I experienced that many times in my previous tank with my old clown loach. But do Kuhli loaches play dead?? I woke up this morning to a floating kuhli loach in my tank. I've had the three of them for about 1 week now, and the pet store guarantees 15 days/money back...

I know a lot of people really like sand as a substrate, but I had horrible luck with it. Maybe it was the kind of sand I had?? It became discolored really quickly, and for some reason the water was always cloudy, no matter what I did. So I'm back to gravel. Good luck with whatever you choose.