Recent content by ray1970

I will try to keep this short. I had two goldfish that I got two years ago. Recently, one of them began floating kind of upside down from time to time. About a week after this behavior began, he died. I promptly removed the remaining fish from the aquarium and placed him in a different aquarium...

Thank you all for the compliments and the suggestion for giving him a name... I have only had him for about four weeks.... if he makes it another four weeks I may consider giving him a name.

here is my betta... he doesn't have a name... I don't name my fish.

black fin tetras, rosey barbs, red eye tetras, and neon tetras I didn't think about that..... my tropical aquarium is a 30 gallon. Thanks for all the advice and opinions! Believe it or not I really don't have room for anything larger than what I have in the room I have it in. I guess if I...

Thank you for the help...... will try to do more frequent water changes and will change 50%.... I really don't have room for another large aquarium which is why I got the betta in the first place.... I thought I could manage to keep one fish happy in a smaller aquarium.... I wonder how he would...

fish has been in his tank three weeks now.... I try to do water changes every three or four days... change approximately 25%

tank size 1.5 gallon.... set up with water from my well established tropical aquarium.... I was assuming this would make my new tank "cycled" not heated not filtered but aerated water temp appx. 70 degrees will test water tomorow no tank mates thank you!

I will do the water tests tomorrow and will post.... last time I checked the PH was 7.2 and the temp is about 70 degrees.... i know the temp is probably a little lower than the fish likes but he is by himself in a small aquarium that does not have a heater.

Here's the story... I got my first betta a few weeks ago and he never would eat and about a week later he was dead.... decided I would try one more betta so I bought another one.... after giving him about an hour to acclimate to his new home I dropped in three Top Fin Betta Bits... he ate them...