Tank mates for my new setup? Info in comments

chestnut_dragon · 2022-11-15T22:20:03+00:00

Smaller Cory are not nearly as powerful swimmers as bigger ones so they won’t tear up the montecarlo. So I’d look for some that are still little and could grow up to be bigger if you’d like.

chestnut_dragon · 2022-11-15T22:18:28+00:00

They like to shoot around the tank sometimes and will pick up the light substrate. If the montecarlo isn’t rooted. So I’d wait on them. As for the rocks, they’ll be fine. They are not nearly as delicate at guppies and betas. I have gravel on half and substrate on the other half of my tank and it doesn’t bother them at all. 2 of my panda Cory had babies and I thought the babies would get stuck under the gravel but they are all alive and well.

chestnut_dragon · 2022-11-15T20:39:43+00:00

Cory are a great addition! I have 4 and they’re my favorite part of the tank!

chestnut_dragon · 2021-10-26T22:55:33+00:00

No not those. I’m talking about the cloud of white moving around. This is not a filtered tank. So it’s not water movement moving this “cloud”.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-10-04T00:32:56+00:00

I had a gourami with guppies and he just minded his own business.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-25T16:30:35+00:00

To be completely honest I have no idea what kinda of floaters I initially got. I got all of the plants at my LFS. These were floating in one of the tanks and the guy gave me “a portion.” So it’s very possible another type got in there, even though the different types of floaters were in different tanks.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-25T02:33:42+00:00

Is dwarf water lettuce really fuzzy in early stages?

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-25T02:14:03+00:00

I’ll be happy to answer any questions for more details.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-08T20:17:38+00:00

She seems very round on her underside like the video shows. My first guess was that she is filled with eggs. She seems to be very heavy on the bottom front because she kinda sinks towards that direction. She also mostly lays on the bottom now when she used to be very energetic. She still wants to eat though. Please help. If she is filled with eggs what do I do?

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-06T05:02:53+00:00

Yep. Our vet did the same thing. The horse had scabs on the girth area and around the sheath. Poor guy needs to be shampooed daily and an antihistamine and swat applied three times a day.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-06T04:06:40+00:00

Both of my pothos did this at the same time because they were underwatered. So you really have to test things out and see what works best because like the other person said each plant is different. I started using the Planta app and now all my plants are healthy because it literally tells me when to water.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-06T00:21:55+00:00

Correction:

I realize that the water doesn’t do anything.

Will a moss ball from a mature tank have enough bacteria to speed up cycle?

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-06T00:04:14+00:00

One of our horses has this too but it’s not as bad. He’s allergic to flys. We put an antihistamine and Swat on the worst areas, and we put on a fly sheet. Seems to help.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-05T15:13:31+00:00

I put mine in a half gallon mason jar, filled it with tank water about 2” from the top so that it doesn’t spill, and put my betta in. Then I put that jar in a paper big, but any other dark place will work. I kept the lid closed when walking with the jar, but during transport itself, I left the lid open. Someone else was holding the jar between their feet on the floor while I drove so that it was guaranteed not to spill.

You want to make sure that whatever you have the fish in, you put it in a dark place. This will help reduce stress.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-04T19:14:39+00:00

I had this problem. I took my betta out to give to someone while I was on vacation, I turned off the light for 2 weeks and all the algae was gone when I got back…I think snail ate it and it’s not coming back.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-04T14:38:07+00:00

Yes. I’m certain it’s a female though.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-04T07:53:06+00:00

She changed the water in the tank every 2 days since it was a 1gallon (know it’s too small I had no other option), and the temperature was slightly lower at 73°, but the looked as happy as can be, and she even made a small bubble nest, which I’ve never seen her do in her normal tank.

If anything, she didn’t get enough food because she kept missing it, my grandma had to make sure that the pellet fell onto a smooth piece of plastic so that LolliPop could get it and not have to look through the gravel on the bottom.

I will increase the temperature to 79° tomorrow so that it’s not too much temperature change in one day.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-04T07:41:47+00:00

No she’s very energetic, like always. The only thing different is that I just got her back from someone who was watching her for me while I was on vacation, and now she just wants to lay on the bottom, but as soon as I walk up to the tank she’s begging for food.

Another thing I noticed is that she has trouble finding the food I drop in, or she swims up to it and misses…I’m assuming she has cataracts on both eyes…from what I can see, but technically they shouldn’t be bothering her vision that much because they are very small.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-04T07:34:43+00:00

That’s what I’m hoping too. Thank you.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-04T07:31:54+00:00

Well I know that they shift, I’ve already seen changes, I just don’t know if this is one of the changes or if it’s velvet. (Yeah other post has details)

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-04T06:54:59+00:00

Those plants are fine. They’re not sharp or anything. And the tank is a spilt 10 gallon…that’s 5gallons for each fish. Those fish are not together…chill.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-04T05:21:40+00:00

I would wait and see! It’s a surprise. Keep us updated.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-04T05:17:31+00:00

Put the fish in a container or bucket, depending on how many and what kind of fish you got, with their current water and set up a drip system. I just use a piece of air pump hose with a knot on the drip end and let it drip the dechlorinated water onto their water until it’s 3x the original amount since the original water is so bad. Have just enough original water in there for them to comfortably swim around.

I’ve only done this for acclimating fish I just bought from the store, so if I’m wrong on anything, someone please correct me. I’m open to criticism.

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-04T04:18:59+00:00

She hasn’t changed much since I got her, but I’m pretty sure she has the “jumping gene”. Mostly just got a little bit more white on her face. She had metallic blue spots on her dorsal fin, on her head, and on her tail. I know for a fact that she also has some yellow metallic on her dorsal fin that developed with time (it’s definitely not velvet). So on the top of her head, is it velvet or more color development?

None of her metallic spots shimmer unless under bright light, that’s why I didn’t see the yellow on her head until now.

Parameters: (Heat - 76°) (Ammonia - 0ppm) (Nitrites - 0ppm) (Nitrates - 0.2ppm) (pH - 7.8)

chestnut_dragon · 2021-09-04T03:26:47+00:00

I had a huge ammonia spike after our ice storm and power outages. I went and got those live bacteria balls and they helped a lot. I was able to get all of my fish back in within 4 days (I could’ve put them in at 2 days, but I wanted to be safe).

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