2 questions

[masterfishes]

first of all...ive herd of chemicles the u use weekly or so and they supposedly prevent ich completely...is this true...the other is r there any places online that i can buy live food in very small amounts

 

[john5748]

Not too sure on the chemicals I have never used any apart from when I do my testing, if you want to feed your fish live food why not buy it in frozen form like I do. The fish still eat it up pretty quick

Oops I forget to mention that I use dechlorinater when I carry out water changes, thanks snowy angel for jogging my fading memory

 

[snowyangel]

The only chemcial i use(and i don't even use it weekly) is my de-chlorinator. I don't throw in all those rubbish chemicals/products thats say you need them to have a perfect setup or to prevent this or that. You're only going to mess up your water chemistry. Don't treat for a disease thats not there or you'll just waste money and stress your fish out. Keep your water as simple as possible. Mess with your water and it's going to mess with your fish imo.

It's much easier to achieve frozen live foods than live foods and your fish will gobble frozen foods up just as easy.

 

[Earthgirl]

The less chemicals that are in your water, the better I think.
Good cleaning and water changes have always been the secrets to my tanks.
Like what snowy said, I normally only use a declorinator.

Wait,......
Maybe we should be using more chemicals! More chemicals for the fish!
Ugh.......
JK

 

[Opcn]

I use a chemical in my tank every week, you have to change it out to prevent ich, its called DihydrogenMonoxide, Its nasty stuff though http/DHMrg http/cowpi.com/journal/2004/04/dangers_o...n_monoxide.html

You can find reasonably small live food cultuers at www.livefoodcultures.com, the sizes aret so big but you wanna keep a culture going, because it gets expensive to keep reordering.

 

[masterfishes]

ok well thanks everyone.....the live foods where gonna be for my dp(she would only eat stuff that was moving) but sadly by tomorrow mornig she may no longer be of this world no more right now she is laying on the bottom in a corner barely breathing.....i had been feeding her snails for the past week(5-6 a day and this was the only thing i could get her to eat) but she didn't gain any wieght....could this be due to worms or parasites??? and yesterday she didnt seem intrested in them anymore

 

[Teelie]

I use a chemical in my tank every week, you have to change it out to prevent ich, its called DihydrogenMonoxide, Its nasty stuff though http/DHMrg http/cowpi.com/journal/2004/04/dangers_o...n_monoxide.html

I won't say anything but that's one of the funniest posts (and linked websites) I've seen in a long time.