Recent content by Tim95

I got some red wrigglers(Worms) He is eating them happily, thank goodness!

A little over a week, and yes, seems it is not completely cycled as of yet

It's been cycling for the past couple months. I did a 50% water change yesterday. Sand substrate, lightly planted, nitrite is 0

It is a 55g long, temp is 78 degrees, Ph is about 7.5, ammonia levels are just above zero. 

My new ropefish will not eat, it's been about a week. He is alone for now, looking for more friends. I've tried feeding him wafers, mealworms, freeze dried blood worms, ham, recently dead fish. He's about 10'' long, need help!

Soft water, what are some other large species of tetra?

Unless you are using a Co2 system, fertilizers won't be very beneficial. I suggest plant tabs, a small tab of nutrients that you place under the roots of the plant while planting it. Fertilizers tend to spawn string algea on plants.

55 gallon is a very common size, where as the 50g isn't common, if you were to replace the hood, you would probably have some difficulties, you would probably have to contact Top Fin and have them send you one, or search for one, or even have a custom wooden one made. 

Most shaoling fish tend to nip each other because they get bored, and since one is smaller then the rest it would make a great "toy" for them, try added 4 or 5 more and it should help with the bullying, though it will never disappear. It helps them to build a pecking order, but with more of...

Sand tends to look more natural then gravel does,and yes you could try the effect, without the divider, I did it with my tank ending with a large rock overhanging (Made a nice cave for my ropefish) If you do it right, it can look really good, I used play sand, river rocks for a hobby store, and...

If you want some plants that don't require any of the above (Special Substrate, Co2 system, or fertilizers) Many species of Amazon Swords work, Anubis Nana work well, and most fish don't like to eat them (Bonus) Wisteria work, Java Fern work, if you anchor them to something (A rock or driftwood)...

I'm looking for advise on a shoaling fish for my aquarium, that will not be eaten by my Rope fish, the tank is 55g at the moment. Something that gets 4-4.5'' in length would work best, nothing that is too aggressive towards other tankmates Planted, sand substrate, any information will help.

Okay I'll look into it, thank you. The affinis are very nice looknig fish, if I had a bigger tank I would definitely go for them,

No, no better pictures, and okay thanks, I'l do some research and see if I can confirm it

Can anybody help to identify it?