Recent content by Stumpjumper

Actually yes, the molly is dying... She's been laying on the bottom of the tank for a few days now, very disoriented and when she tries to swim she just flashes in a tight circle... Keep hoping she pulls out of it but I don't think she will. The rest of the fish are fine. Unbelievably today I...

Thanks, I haven't done anything differently with it then I have done with my 55g and that is running strong and healthy.. it is a 55g with 21 Mbuna's in it so it is overstocked and I still have no problems with it.

I have a 20g that has been up and running over 3 months now and it will not cycle. I used superbac initially and set it up with fish, it cycled within 2 weeks but I had an ich outbreak and had to treat with Ridich and the stuff killed my beneficial bacteria. Since then I used carbon to remove...

My favorite blue Mbuna is my Cobalt Blue Zebra.. He is very vivid blue, almost glows. So far he is nowhere near as agressive as my red zebras.

It's actually not slate. believe it is a metamorphic rock called Schist. It is very flakey and has quite a bit of Mica in it, also some nice veins of fools gold in a lot of the chunks. I bought it at a local landscaping supply for .32 cents per pound.. Much cheaper than buying it from a...

I actually have the rocks on both sides stacked twice as high than what is in the pic. There are plenty of caves in there, the castle is also big caves.. I might eventually switch it up though and put the castle in a new community tank.

Umm yeah, no... We like the castle. So do the fish. Thanks.

No that stuff has land based bacteria. It will work if you want to add it every week, forever. That's not what you want to do though. You want a natural cycle that will work on it's own. That land based crap will compete with the real bacteria and your tank will never truly cycle. Superbac...

I used a product called SuperBac in my 55g, just pour it in, add fish and it was insta-cycled. Another good product is Tetra Safe Start. Both are aquatic based bacteria, stay away from any other products though. Those are the only two that actually work. The rest have a land based bacteria that...

I have a molly in my 20g, we have had him for a little over a week. I didn't want him, my wife did so I didn't pay a whle lot of attention to it. I noticed about 4 days ago that the fish's last two sets of anal fins are all crimped up and he is scratching on the deco a lot. I have noticed no...

Golden Gouramis. Sorry

I added some driftwood yesterday. We'll see how that works. I'm out of PH tester but my new kit should be here tomorrow. My only concern with doing to much to lower the ph is if I get it low in the tank, any time I do a waterchange I'll have to add in high PH water again and could possible...

Don't feel bad for having glofish... THere was nothing cruel done to them like a tattoo.. Glofish eggs were artifially introduced that color gene. Now that color gene is passed on from parents to babies.. I don't see anything cruel going on there nor is there any reason to corelate a tattood...

I currently have a 55g and a 20g the 55g has a lone male G. Gourami and I have a juvenile G. Gourami F in my 20g so eventually she's going to have to move in to the 55. I didn't really want to stck the 55 around gouramis. I bought it used and they had the gourami so I took him. He's not a...