Recent content by westside

Hi, I just got back from the lfs, sometimes i feel like they have idiots working there sometimes i dont... What do you want from highschoolers, they are probably just looking for some cash... I called another store and they put me with the mgr of the fishes there so i feel they knew a little...

I had picked up two more neons to round out my numbers, one either started dieing on the way home or as soon as i put him in because he never veered away from the top and was swimming like a football spiral. so i took him out and put him in a bowl with tank water in it and he passed mere miutes...

how do you tell if a snail is dead

I dont have a quarantine tank, I had trouble enough getting this one started since christmas :crazy: I have one fish that seems to be kind of violent, would he respond to a "time out" I figured I could put in either an isolation chamber in the main tank, or put in some kind of jar? How long...

Just noticed this in my tank... no idea what caused it... Everyone used to be peaceful, now neons are divebombing neons and everyone else is getting in on it... I was hoping they were playing with each other... Bleeding heart, neon, orange whatchmasomethings (i know bad boy should have written...

Spine didnt appear bent at the end either. Gills werent clogged they all appear about the same coloration... nobody is plumping up or thining down as far as i can see. They seem to be breathing fine, havent seen anyone poo recently. left out a couple things. i keep the tank at 78 f i feed a...

So i took water in to the lfs. At least now I know I can operate a water test kit. Now the search for a cause

Went to check on the bent spine..... he is gone. Third fish in a week... At least there was a reason for this one... The others are still a mystery, no miscoloration or sores. nitrite 0 ammonia 0 nitrate ~30 hardness 120 alk 120 ph 7.6 30 gal hex. Lost a guppy and a red tetra (not sure the...

I didnt see anything wrong before heading to dinner tonight. We got back, put the kids to bed and came down to feed the fish. The molly was stuck to the side of the filter intake (whisper 30i) which is large so at least the fish was straight, not wrapped around the intake. Didnt seem like he...

Okay so i did notice yesterday that my mollie was resting in the vertical position. She would swim normally, but when she stopped her back end would dip down. I was concerned about her being either pregnant or being not that well. I tried searching online, but didnt see much of anyting about it...

I went nto the lfs last night where i bought my live plants and the initial fish from. I thanked them for infesting my tank with snails, suggested either they should rinse the plants very well when they sell them or stop keeping the snails the sell in the same tanks as the plants, I know it will...

< I am adding this disclaimer after i typed this, this rambles and you may find it pointless or not, either way I feel I have sufficiently warned you :hyper: > I found this forum after setting up my tank as prescribed by my lfs. Set up tank (decorations, gravel silk plants), put in...

I dont have anyone I know with a tank to get gravel/filter media from. I do have a couple of like plants, but the cycle doc says potted, These were from the LFS in a tank no pot, they do have roots that were in the gravel, is this what was meant? Of course i already have a snail problem, paid...

Live in NY. Just want to dispose of the test tube worth of chemical/tested water, not the entire bottle of chemical. This almost seems like too much of a hassle for testing purposes, no wonder why the strips came out, I figured this would be more accurate but i didnt realize i was going to need...

I did a search and dont see any discussions on this. Got a freshwater master test kit to check the ammonia/nitrite/nitrate/ph I didnt realize the caustic nature of the chmicals this thing uses... sodium hydrozide, sodium hydrochlorite, hydrochloric acid... how do i dispose of the test material...