Recent content by squeakyred

The back of my aquarium has green stuff (which I think is algae). I clean (25% partial water change and scrape the inside walls) the aquarium every Thursday. I have had the aquarium setup for 2 months. I just recently started seeing algae over the past 2 weeks. Last week and the week before...

How often (and how much) should I change the water in my freshwater Platy fish aquarium? I have heard that you should change it every week and I heard that you should change it every other week. I also heard that you should change 20%, 25%, and 50% of the water. I have been changing 20% of...

I have a 10 gallon tank with 1 juvenile platy and 4 platy fry (1 month old). I would like to add more fish to the tank, but don't know what would be compatible (and not eat the fry). I am looking for suggestions on types of fish that would go well in my tank and about how many.

I transfered my 9 fry from a one gallon tank (with undergravel filter) to a ten gallon tank (with external 3 stage filter) yesterday evening. Today I noticed that 5 of the fry were sucked up by the filter. Is there something I can do to the filter intake tube to stop fry from being sucked in?

I set up a 10 gallon tank last night and am letting it run (filter, air stone bar, conditioner). I will test the water tomorrow and if the tests turn out good, I plan to transfer the fish over to the 10 gallon tank at that time. When transferring fish from one tank to another do I put them in...

Like I said, the seemingly sick fish died on last Tuesday. I didn't see anything wrong with her fins, scales, body, etc. On early Saturday morning (when cleaning the tank) I noticed I had a fry. On Sunday morning there were 2. Yesterday evening there were 4. So, although I lost 1 fish, so...

I don't know what my tap pH reading is. I use spring water in the aquarium. I will look into getting a test kit. The fish died yesterday morning.

I took a sample of the water to the pet store for them to test it. They said everything was good except the pH was slightly high. I put in some pH down and will get it retested again later today. I clean the test once a week.

I had 3 platies in a one-gallon tank. One of them (a littlesmaller than the other two) died ysterday evening (had for about a month and a half). When I took the dead fish out I noticed one of the other fish (the biggest one) was at the bottom of the tank not moving much and would not go up to...

I have platies. I know you should feed them flakes and dried bloodworms. I have been feeding them flakes once a day and want to begin feedding them bloodworms. Do I feed them a couple of bloodworms in conjunction with some flakes or on the days I feed them bloodworms I shouldn't feed them...