Hi folks, I have what looks like to be a red mark / blood under the eye of my albino corycat. Not sure if it's an injury of an infection of some sort. I couldn't get a picture of it but his eye on the other side of his head is completely black in the pupil. Maybe something ruptured inside his eye ...

Hi Folks, After I installed an upflow algae scrubber my PH went from 6.8 to 7.6. Maybe 8 sometimes. Been running this thing during the day for a year and then shut it off at night. However, over the last 6 months I've been running it all night long (with light off during the night). I had 4 cory ...

Thanks Eric. I just checked on him after a few hours and he was tipped on his side. I flipped him back over and he seems okay. I got to try something though and was thinking maybe it is parasites. I think I'm going to try API General Cure and see if that helps. Either that or PraziPro, although I'm ...

Wondering if you can help me with my peppered corycat. One of his gills are really swollen and I think he might be on death’s door. He’s not eating. He can’t surface anymore and he’s flopping sideways in the tank. I moved him from my 20 gallon into a 3.5 gallon Tupperware container that I float on to ...

1. Water parameters a) Temperature range. b) pH. - c) GH. d) KH e)Ammonia, Nitrate, Nitrite, levels. From API Freshwater Master Test Kit Ammonia: 0 ppm Nitrite: 0 ppm Nitrate: .25 - .50 ppm at end of week on main tank. pH: 7.6 / high range ph is 7.4 f) Water change frequency - one a week either ...

Thanks! I'll go check that thread out right now! :) So will the Malaysian Trumpet Snails eat the black brush algae at all? What do I get them for food? How many should I get for a 20 gallon tank? Right now I have one betta, 4 coreys (melini, emerald, albino, and pepper), and one rubber lipped pleco.

Thanks folks! I got a rubber lipped pleco in there but he doesn't seem to be working on those rocks. He prefers the shrimp pellets, algae wafers and zucchini I give him. :) Not sure if this would make a difference to the analysis with the black stuff on the plants and brown stuff on the rocks, but I ...

Hi Folks, I'm wondering if I can remove all the sand from my tank and just use a glass bottom for my coreys. I got a problem with the sand getting brownish at the bottom of the tank which isn't coming off in spite of water changes. I put the problem up at fishlore but so far no responses. http://www ...

Thanks folks. I just ended up feeding them last night after reading corycorys post. I couldn't see them starve. But I also fed my betta too. Also gave the corys and the pleco a nice piece of blanched squash for them to eat overnight.

Hi Folks,

I have a melini catfish, a peppered catfish, an albino catfish, an emerald catfish, rubber lipped pleco and a betta. I fast the betta one day a week. How long do I fast the corys and the pleco for? Thanks!

Awesome! I'll try some raw zucchini tonight and see how that goes.

I read the link in your post and was confused with this statement, "The aquarist should remove the detritus, not the filter. It does seem paradoxical to prevent your filter from filtering, but it makes real sense. Having a filter blocked up with detritus strongly degrades its ability as a biological ...

Question on the sponge filter and ceramic beads. Should I be washing them? I washed them today and they smelled horrible - like ammonia. Good new is today after vacuuming the tank and cleaning everything, everything is reading 0 ppm (except for PH, which was around 7.4 - 7.6.

Hi Darrel! Thanks for those resources. What else can I do to get those nitrites down besides changing the water? Changing 10 gallons twice a week is a hard since the 5 gallon buckets of water are heavy. If I add more plants will that help? Could it be that I'm not getting up enough sediment off the ...

First post here. My corys were not doing well in my 20 gallon tank so I gave them some aquarium salt and increased the temperature a bit. Symptoms: Emerald cory was swimming sideways. Melini cory was not finding food. Almost looked like he had cataracts over his eyes. Rubber lip pleco had some kind ...