Recent content by wet44

It sounds like you have a good plan set out. If you were to introduce fish I would do it sooner than later so that the bacteria doesn't die out from nothing to feed on in the tank. When you do introduce your fish, I would recommend that you are completely sure that they do not have illness (and...

Thanks for the advice. It's just a Marineland LED strip. I have rotala indica, java fern, anubias, a small crypt, and a dwarf lily plant. They are all mid to low light plants I believe.     I will change the blues to just be half an hour before and after the whites and see how that goes. Not...

Hey all, I recently got a light with a white light setting and a blue light setting. You can hook both of them up to a timer. I currently have the white light set for 7 hours and the blue light set for 9 hours (one extra hour on each side of the white light time)   Does anyone have suggestions...

Probably 3-4.

Hey, so one of my eight serpae tetras has looked a little more pale and ragged than the rest of my serpaes for a while now, and I noticed today that it was going after the food aggressively but would spit it out immediately after trying to eat it. I used the flake food that I give to my serpaes...

Ah. Good luck sexing them and hopefully you'll get some eggs at some point!

They look like they're female because of the large body and more rounded top side. But yeah I'd probably have to see a comparison as well.

They're so pretty! Never seen them before either. 

That, or maybe those test strips are bad. They are known for not being too great, ha. Try to find some drops or another better alternative. That would be a lot more trustworthy.

Hello and welcome to the forum! I would suggest that you wait a good while to add more fish if any more at all. Did you cycle your tank without fish? It seems that you may not have and I would suggest you read...

Love the little fella! I think there are some corys that are bred to have long fins. I know a lot of tetras are bred like that and that could be the case here.

I think it's pretty common for fish to have stringy poop like that. Assuming that's all it is. What do you feed your Congo tetras regularly? What are you water parameters?   For future reference, it is best to know what you are dealing with before trying to cure your fish of something they might...

What do ya know? There is even a page on this forum about the catfish. http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/102528-banjo-catfish/   Hopefully that helps a bunch.

From the quick research I just did, they seem to be a peaceful fish and won't do yours any harm. However, if you can keep one also depends on what your tank looks like. Do you have a sufficient hiding places? Plenty of driftwood? Live plants? Banjo catfish seem to like to blend in with their...

The main problem is the 12 hours of light your tank is getting. I would suspect bringing that down to 6-8 hours a day will get rid of most of your algae problems. Healthy 30-50% water changes weekly is also a must for a tank of that size.