Recent content by PygmyMitch

I like the plane wreck design you have gone for. What type of fish is the two blue on the left ?

This is my 10 gallon which was originally set up in March 2020, and then I added in my own customised filtration in February 2023, and then finally replanted / decorated in April 2023 to give it the Island look. Filtration / Heater / Lighting: Filtration is made up of mostly sponge and then...

If you are unable to get a bigger tank than the 10gal you already have, then moving the neons to the 10gal and increasing their numbers to 10, with plenty of live plants and a 50% water change every 7 days, they should do well. As for your 5gal tank, i’m assuming this would then have no fish...

Personally I would move them to the 10gallon tank, as the 5gallon is far too small. I have kept 10 neon tetras in my 10gallon, but in the 2 years of having them, they did die off one by one over time. I put this down to the fact that the general health of most neon tetras that are bought in...

What size tank are they currently in ?

@BettaFishGirl I have a 10g Tank, which is moderately planted, I would say and my water is soft water like yours. I have 10 Pygmy Corys, which are great bottom dwellers that are constantly out and about picking through the sand. They do also often swim mid level together, which is interesting to...

From what I know of, some of the fish you have stocked in your 10gal need to be in a school of 10, of their own kind, otherwise they will not thrive, and their health will deteriorate. @Byron will be able to explain this better. Also I once had 10 neons myself, and over time they slowly died...

Hopefully someone else might come across this and have an answer for us both then.

hmm, that is strange. why would the first lot die and then the rest not die. Thats is strange. as for my tank, the only thing I could think of, is the the spider wood did have some fungus growing from it. I took out the main bit of wood that had most of the fungus coming from it, and now all I...

Would the shrimp-specific bacterium come from something in the tank or from the shrimp itself ?

less than a week in and both my cherry shrimp have died. any suggestions to what could of been the cause ? The water perimeters: Ammonia 0ppm Nitrie 0ppm Nitrate 0ppm pH 6.8 GH 3dH KH 1dH Temperature 24c

Thanks Byron, thats what I thought would be the case! I have already been using Flourish Comprehensive Supplement for the Planted Aquarium. I was just making sure I didn’t need anything else.

A few pictures I have just taken..