Recent content by The Alchemist

Tank has been set up for almost a year with current staff. Its a fresh water tank 55gals. Regular water changes of atleast 10 gals a week minimum. Usally done 2 times a week. I do use aquarium salt. When I bought my silvers I didnt know that they really should have brackish water, store...

I have 4 of the Silver Shark Cat Fish. And about a week ago, I noticed what seemed to be a pimple growing on one of the fish. Then every day it started to get worse, more and more started to fester around the original one, and the orinigal one popped and now its an open red soare. I have 2...

Ok so I need some advice from board members here. I have two shark catfish. I keep them in my tropical tank, because when I bought them, they were at a chain pet store, and didnt specify they needed brackish water as adults. As a disclaimer, please understand that these fish have a right to...

Ok, so we found him. He was floating at the top of one of the houses. He was all puffy lookin and swollen and bruised. Something looks like it was attaching him. His fins were all torn up. I would like to know why he started acting all erratic like that. The rest of the population is...

Just very curious about this. Past few days one of my pictus catfish had been act erratic, and swimming very hard around the tank. Than yesterday, I noticed that he just disappeared. No traces of anything. I looked everywhere, in the tank, moving the decorations around looking in all the...

I do a few water changes a week now adays since I got a bigger tank. I always feed A little more than I probally should. I like to see the fish eat twice a day. So if I see a fish who doesnt eat I always leave a little more around their area. The color cloud is white not green. If it was...

No i leave the filter alone and rinse it off with tank water. I dont believe that to be the case. I used to change filter catridges once a monthbut founs out that its better to leave the filter in thevtank due to the baterias on it

Hello all, I have had 2 different tanks over the past year. Always the water is always cloudy. Im wondering if Im just feeding them too much or if the chemicals I add into the tank are causeing this. Everytime I do a water change I always add aquarium salt to the water and also the water...

Well to end this thread hear, I believe that we have come up with a solution. I managed to get the hardness levels of both tanks within 30-50 ppms of each other. Than I got a 5 gallon bucket and filled it 50/50 with both tanks water, and threw the heater in the bucket. Put all the fishes in...

I could probably go another year with the current tank before having to upgrade to a larger one. I see that it is recommended for fish that large to have a minimum of 100 gallons. 55 Gallons should be sufficient for at least 6 months to a year. Im probably not going to move any other fish...

Wow if they start getting that big than ill upgrade to a bigger tank. 100 gallon mimimum by then hopefulley I won't need any more "tester fish"

Why would they have to be rehoused?

That is the same conclusion that I have come to as well. And if anyone out there cares, I am from USA, New Jersey.

Ill post a pic when I get home. I almost got 2 balla sharks but we went with these.

They aren't actual sharks they are like a silver tip catfish that they called a shark at the petstore but it looks like a catfish