Recent content by veronica26

Thanks for the info. I'm glad to hear that random neon deaths probably aren't our fault. We would like to keep platies, but we're a little nervous since we got some when we were first starting our tank and they all died. I was sort of wondering if there was another type of small, schooling fish...

The tap water we use for the aquarium has ranged, over the past year, between 7.5 and 8.0.

We finally seem to have our fishtank (15 gallons) up and running. We currently have one zebra danio and five neon tetras. The tetras seem pretty happy, but one was found dead yesterday morning. We have pretty hard, alkaline water, and I am wondering if there are some fish out there that would do...

We put a piece of fishnet over the filter intake, but it was covered in gunk, and we thought the fish were big enough now that it wouldn't matter. Apparently one of them was still too small. If we cover it again, should we just rinse it out every week? Won't it prevent the filter from working as...

Maybe the danio was dead when he got sucked into the filter, I don't know, but it wasn't the first time he ended up in there. He was squished in under the motor, though, and couldn't move, so I think that was what did it. We had our water tested when the platies first started looking unhappy...

We started up a new aquarium recently. We started with 5 zebra danios, but apparently we didn't wait for it to fully cycle before we added three platies (oops). The platies seemed to come down with ich not long after we got them, so we have been treating them for that. After a couple of days of...