Recent content by toomie

He is awesome! As soon as I saw him, I thought for sure you got him from Aquabid or one of those sites! I have a lfs Delta tail who was pretty much the same color as yours on the body when I got him. Actually, mine was almost white. It looked like someone had taken a paintbrush and painted...

I have a 5 gallon tank that housed a male betta several months ago. The betta became ill while in this tank, so I moved him to a hospital tank, where he later died. I believe he had fin rot (he had it when I got him and I think he never got completely over it) but there may have been something...

I don`t have any planted tanks as of yet, just a couple of potted plants in my tanks, but I was looking at some of the set ups you all have (SOOO many beautiful tanks, btw!) and I was wondering how you go about cleaning around all those plants? I`m having a hard enough time trying to vacuum a...

He is in a one gallon bowl right now, not filtered. I have plans to get him into a cycled aquarium, but haven`t been able to do that as of yet. The bottle directions said to treat him for 10 days, but I have treated him longer than that.

I have a male betta that had gotten finrot, and he looked like he was on the verge of really going downhill when I started treating him. I have been treating with ampicillin, and the rot has stopped progressing and has actually started to recede somewhat. My question is, how long do I treat? He...

I guess the only reason I didn`t run a second filter in the established tank is because it is only a 5 gallon, and I have a male betta in it, and I was afraid of the pull from 2 filters being too much for him, especially since the other filters are for 10 to 30 gallon tanks. I`m not sure if the...

....and I was wondering how long until I can add a fish (a betta?) The media is actually the filter media for the new tank. I have had it floating in an established tank for over 2 months now. So when I set up the new tank, is it still going to cycle? Am I still going to have to check the water...

I lost a betta on Friday to what I believe to be a bacerial infection. I had him for about 3 months. Yesterday I lost another male betta who had only been in his new tank (cycled) for a week. He was very little and sickly looking when I got him, so I didn`t expect him to last, but that was 2...

If I keep the same filter media, couldn`t there still be some nasty bacteria in the filter as well? I suspect my fish died from some sort of bacterial infection.

One of my bettas died today. My only guess is he had some sort of bacterial infection, but don`t really know what it was. I was treating him for it, but he passed. :( So now I have the 5 gallon tank he was in, and need to know how to go about sterilizing it for another betta.There is one live...

:rip: Joe died today. This morning he looked even worse, even had his nose out of the water trying to breathe. Last night I noticed he was beginning to pinecone, so I knew there was pretty much no chance of saving him after that. :( I don`t know what killed him, but now I have an empty 5...

I gave him 2 doses so far, the bottle says to give for at least 5 and not more than 10. It also says to stop treatment if no improvement is seen after 5 days. Today will be his 3rd dose. I just ordered this stuff about a month ago from Medi-vet.com. The expiration date is June of 2010.

Update on my betta: He is doing much worse, I have come to the conclusion that he has advanced fin rot. I had thought his fin rot cleared up after I got him, as I treated him for it and his fins weren`t crumbling anymore, but I guess I didn`t treat him long enough. His fins have pinholes all...

I am treating my betta for what I think (but desperately HOPE is not) columnaris. The reading I did the other night says the bacteria likes very warm water (I had temp at 80 F, have since turned it down to about 76F) and hard PH (we have very hard water and the tank he is in reads 8.4 PH). He...

Ok, gave this a few tries last night with no luck. It was late, and I was tired and frustrated from a long day at work anyway so I just gave up and went to bed. Tried a few times this morning, still no luck, but I`ll keep trying.