Recent content by sharkweek178

I have sort of a weird approach. I think of different categories of foods for fish and try to provide a variety of those. Plant based. Which means vegetables or spirulina, not grains. Then different animal types. Fish, crustacean, insect or worm. So I vary the prepared foods between...

I specifically avoid fish or shrimp meal myself and look for whole ingredients. But when dealing with insect based foods, I'm not too concerned about the meal. It's not like they're using byproduct like they do with fish meal.

The bacopa monnieri and water sprite died. I think that was my fault. I think I pinched the plant weights around the bases too hard. So I got some new plants and did some planting yesterday. I got some Bacopa caroliniana, water wisteria and limnophila indica. I can't get these things to...

Disaster happened this past weekend. After getting something out of the freezer, my ADHD brain forgot to close my freezer door. So it was open for a few hours. All my frozen fish food and the mosquito larvae that I had collected thawed. I don't care as much about the frozen food. I can just...

I've been neglecting my cycling tank. Time to get serious about it. It works out. I can let the plants grow in while the filter cycles.

As tempting as it can be, using fish to manage a maintenance problem doesn't usually work out too well. Plecos eat algae but they are a very heavy bioload fish. Which can lead to more algae. Algae is the result of imbalance in a tank. Excess nutrients in the water and/or excess light...

A couple months ago, I got some bacopa caroliniana yellow flame variety from Dustin's Fish tanks. I love it. I won't get those yellow red tips in my regular tanks. But it grows strong. Maybe I could in this one with this substrate and higher lighting.

2-3 inches.

To answer that question; will the fry fit in their mouths?

Congratulations.

Now it cleared up.

River rock is pH neutral. Don't buy it at fish stores though. Go to a home and garden center and get it there. Much cheaper that way.

Less cloudy picture.