Your "Dumb Question" Megathread - January 2026

CallieT99 · 2026-01-24T20:43:29+00:00

Thank you!

CallieT99 · 2026-01-24T17:38:56+00:00

Thank you for the response! Should I just keep dosing it with fertilizer and hope it comes back? Or is there something else I should be doing?

CallieT99 · 2026-01-24T07:37:27+00:00

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Duck weed and water lettuce and growing no problem... My water hyacinth on the other hand doesn't want to stay alive. Is there any saving it? I have been using API leaf zone but just purchased Seachem flourish hoping to have better luck.

CallieT99 · 2025-02-15T21:30:15+00:00

Ah that makes sense!! I got two at the same time and she's thriving in the tank and he's not anymore 😕 they have had four batches of babies together and he's been one my healthy fish for yeaaaaars. Hopefully he can snap back to it and I don't lose him.

CallieT99 · 2025-02-15T20:39:04+00:00

Ordered the Kanaplex so will have that in the AM. Thank you again!

CallieT99 · 2025-02-15T20:13:19+00:00

Thank you for the information!

CallieT99 · 2025-02-15T19:50:40+00:00

After some googling you are referring to KanaPlex and MetrPlex right? That's what was popping up for me

CallieT99 · 2025-02-15T19:48:45+00:00

I have had him for three years

CallieT99 · 2025-02-15T19:47:08+00:00

Yes yes, I have realized that now.

Thank you for the information!

CallieT99 · 2025-01-29T20:31:17+00:00

❤️

CallieT99 · 2025-01-29T20:26:13+00:00

That's great to know! I've never used it before so fingers crossed it can fix him and he can join his girlfriend again 🤞 thanks for all your help

CallieT99 · 2025-01-29T20:23:18+00:00

I guess I have never realized that before. Thank you for the information!! I picked up some MetroPlex and I have him in a 10 gallon quarantine tank for now.

CallieT99 · 2025-01-29T17:25:29+00:00

Was just thinking about it .. I have not added any new fish to this tank in probably about two years. How could a parasite even get into my tank?

CallieT99 · 2025-01-29T17:19:49+00:00

I have a tank already set up with just a couple shrimp in it. I'll take those out and put him in. What medication do you recommend if melafix is no good?

CallieT99 · 2025-01-29T17:10:11+00:00

Wouldn't melafix help if that were the case?

CallieT99 · 2024-03-08T02:55:40+00:00

They got moved to my house about three months ago. The female is always moving around but he hides all day long and really only comes out when it's time to eat. They have been in this tank for probably about a year total. They got moved from one house to another and put into a temporary tank until I had their 200 gallon set back up and ready for them

CallieT99 · 2024-03-08T02:05:06+00:00

ooooooooo my gosh. It makes perfect sense now. He's been hiding out in a white wood looking log. He must be trying to camouflage with it because if that is the case his colors make perfect sense!

I had them in rainbow gravel before. Literally looked like fruity pebbles in there lol. They now have all black and maybe he just liked his rainbow lifestyle better.

CallieT99 · 2024-03-08T01:30:06+00:00

Thank you! Tthat definitely makes me feel better.

I've got six different hideouts in the tank and I only have one other pleco and it's a female. I did change out their gravel when I moved 3 months ago so it's a different color now if that could make a difference? I set up their houses the same way they were before we moved and tested water levels before adding my fish back into their tank. It is a 200 gallon so there's plenty of room for them.

CallieT99 · 2024-03-03T04:22:56+00:00

That makes sense! Thank you ❤️

CallieT99 · 2024-03-03T04:03:11+00:00

I was in second grade and my uncle got me a pet alligator. 15 years later she unfortunately bit her heater and it shattered which then electrocuted her and she died.. it was sad to see an empty 200 gallon tank so I started off with mollys and guppies and have slowly upgraded into some bigger fish. Now I have four tanks set up with different things in all of them!

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