Recent content by Channti

So, this algae started growing in my tank two years ago when I first started my setup.  It's continued through three completely different stocking changes, and while I actually enjoyed the appearance of it to begin with (and didn't notice any issues in water quality while it was growing), it's...

When I got my first tank, I spent hours combing google image searches looking at beautiful fish.  Apistogramma Cacatuoides were on my list of fish I fell in love with but didn't think I'd ever get to own.   They're hard to find in my area... exceptionally so.   Last summer, I found two females...

I started out with three Apistogramma Cacatuoides; a fish I rarely see in stores in my area.  Two females, one male, and things went great for a good six months.  Over Christmas, my male passed away while I was away for a few days, cause of death unknown (tank conditions were right where they...

The tank itself is 46 gallons, and there's plenty of territory in the tank between the driftwood and plants.  Overcrowding doesn't seem to be an issue here; the only bottom dwellers in the tank are the loaches and the Pleco.  Other inhabitants are an Angel fish and some serpae tetras.   If it...

I've got a group of about 8 yoyo loaches (my best estimate, never see them all at the same time for a 100% correct count).  All were purchased over the same two month time frame.  All of them came from the same pet store, same store supplier, and were kept in the same tanks from LFS to my house...

I've bought off a couple ebay sellers, one in particular sells a lot of mosses (especially marimo moss balls), but also deals in Java fern, anubias and crypts, as well as a lot of other plants.  The one user Im thinking of (I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to name them directly) I bought Java...

I started out with three Apistogramma Cacatuoides; a fish I rarely see in my area.  Two females, one male, and things went great for a good six months.  Over Christmas, my male passed away while I was away for a few days, cause of death unknown (tank conditions were right where they should have...

My tank is 46 gallons. It's home to a yoyo loach school, serpae tetra school, and DipShiz, my Angelfish. Dip has been on her (don't actually know gender, but have always referred to her as a her) own as a solitary angel in my tank for close to two years. My friend's tank broke last night, and...

The tank is 12 high, 12 wide, 24 long. (inches)

To be honest, I'm not too sure what they are. I just knew they were pretty. I'm going to guess orangey-red, based on the colours I'm seeing so far. I took some really awesome pictures tonight on my crazy-slow cellphone camera. I'll post them tomorrow after work. Both have really coloured...

The male seems to pick on her quite a bit. But I was told that I can't have any more than a pair in a 15 gallon tank. Is this going to work out okay? or should I get another female?

The tank itself already has lots of hiding places as it has oto cats and corydoras. But I'm thinking I'm going to need to add some more. Despite the largest corys being a good chunk larger than these little guys, I watched the male push one out of the way to eat a shrimp pellet. I watched...

I'm not going to lie. I've wanted a pair of these since the first time I spotted them in a pet store, years ago. But at the time, I was new to fish keeping and didn't have a suitable tank. I've been running a 15 gallon tank with a few cories and some glowlight tetras, just waiting on the...

Unfortunately, I've had a few horror stories... here's a couple of them. My 46 gallon tank had a number of yoyo loaches in it, and a couple large pieces of drift wood. The loaches would tunnel under the driftwood to make their own entrances to the "caves" that I'd made with the wood. One of...

Hiya Guys & Gals. I've got a 5 gallon tank that's been sat empty in my room for a few months now. It's play-sand substrate, filtered with two Red-Sea Nano filters (rated 2.5 gallons each) although I've also got an AquaClear20 and a few other filters kicking around in my spare equipment bin...