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Sorry, it wasn't the filter. It was the air pump that was loud.

I'm not forgetting anything. I'm purposefully leaving it out. "not including the tank itself."  

is it that he can't swim from the bottom of the tank, or won't swim from the bottom of the tank? I have fifteen neons, and they don't ever swim up from the top of the tank. They like to stay near the bottom. We really need more information then that to make a diagnoses...

Yes, I did wash it. When I thought I had rinsed it enough I rinsed it three more times, just to be certain. They where Julli cories. The ones I lost where named Juliet, Julius, and Julianna. The remaining cory is named Julien.

1 gallon = about 8.34 pounds that means a ten gallon is 83.4 pounds. not including the tank itself

I have a tank in my bedroom, and I used to have a filter that was somewhat loud. Obviously it bugged me for the first few nights, but then I got used to it. When I got a quieter filter it was actually hard to sleep at first, because my room was too quiet.

Those are awesome pictures. I know how hard it can be to get good pictures of fish! It looks like he is wearing a black mask over his pink head.

He will probably darken as he gets older. Its perfectly natural and healthy.

What brand are the granules you're feeding him? Do they say that they're for bettas on them? My betta did that at first too, but then he figured out how to eat what I was feeding him. I decided that he probably ate flakes all his life, and didn't know how to eat the pellets I was giving him. He...

Oh, I wish I had read that before now. Unfortunately another cory just died. I'm worried about my last remaining cory. When I changed the gravel I used filter media from another tank, and thought that it would be good enough. I guess I was wrong. I'm going to do a water change right now. Thanks...

I'm talking about the parent's at the museum, not about the parents of your niece, Tonym.

I don't really think that a fish is going to be stressed by too much space. In the wild isn't there a whole lot more space per fish than in the average tank? Why would a fish be stressed in 30 gallons because of too much space, when there could be over twice that much space for him by himself in...

Welcome to the forum. Do you have a testing kit? If so, what are your water parameters? I'm a little worried that you only cycled your tank for a week. Did you actually cycle it for that week, or are you doing a "fish in" cycle? I'm also a bit worried that you added nine fish immediately. On the...

What tanks and fish do you have?

Babies are cute, and people don't think about them growing up. They also see parents who have angelic children due to good parenting, and assume that is how all children are.

Why not exceed 20 gallons? I thought there was a minimum (I've heard five, and I've heard ten gallons) but no maximum. You worry that if a betta gets sick, the other one will get it too, but isn't that the same for all fish? If its only two fish, you should probably be fine, right? I mean...

I used to go to a discovery/play/museum place when I was young, and would see all kinds of bad parenting. Letting their kids mess stuff up, while I'm trying to keep it orderly so we can play, and then just leaving without making their children cleaning it up. I once heard a suggestion from a...

Wait, are you cycling this tank? 

My ammonia is still at 0, though nitrite is up to 0.25 ppm. I do a weekly water change, and its tomorrow morning, so I'm just waiting until then. I've had the cories since last black Friday. I'm really hoping that it had something to do with the stress caused by the gravel change, and not a...

another catfish is acting the same. I don't even know if he's still alive. The tank temperature was a little low today (72 instead of 78) because I accidentally left the heater off, but its still in the green range on the thermometer. Is this also because of the netting, or is it time to start...

I don't know that anyone can tell you based on the picture. Often colors in pictures are really distorted.

Welcome to the forum.

He is dead now. :(

Okay, thanks.

I have four cory catfish, and recently noticed that some of them lost their whiskers because my substrate was too rough, so yesterday I changed the substrate to sand. My fish where netted and put into buckets while I changed the sand, and then poured back into my tank when I was done. Today I...

I just took out the old substrate and replaced it with sand. Because sand won't work with an undergravel filter, I replaced it with a filter that hangs onto the back. I understand that I've really disturbed the nitrogen cycle, so I have some media from another tank at the bottom to replenish the...

The first ingredient on the algae wafers is fish meal, and my catfish do get the occasional betta pellet that the betta doesn't eat, so I think that my catfish do get protein. Thanks for your help everybody.

He is still young, if that will effect weather his barbels will grow back or not.   The product name of the food is Algae Wafers, and the brand name is Hikari Tropical. I always put the wafers in the same spot in the tank, that might help him to find the food.   I am looking into getting better...

That makes sense, my substrate is kind of rough. I will look into getting something better. Thank you very much for your help.

tank size: 10 gallons pH: I don't know ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: between 0 and 5 gH: I don't know kH: I don't know tank temp: 78 F fish symptoms: My cory lost his little whiskers on his face. Where they used to be is now a red spot, that makes me think he's bleeding a little bit. He also...

Are you doing a fish-in cycle? Up near the top of the screen it says "cycling a tank." click on it, and read it. The fishless cycle is a way more humane way of cycling your tank.

I know that if I were a fish I would rather live a happy life in a tank big enough that was cleaned regularly and then die painlessly than live a bad life. I've heard horror stories about people seeing tons of rotting dead fish in tanks at some stores that don't care, and the other fish eating...

Yes, but isn't it easier just to put something between two tanks if they are next to one another then having to worry about stressing them?

Also, I've seen on fish store websites half gallon bowls that they advocate you keep two bettas in. The two bettas are each in a quarter of a gallon of water, and can't really move much! The provided divider with the tank is see through, so the bettas can see one another! Any bettta living in...

Do you have a testing kit so you can monitor your nitrite, nitrate, and amonea levels?

I love the variety of fish. I really like saltwater fish.

Media is the bag in the filter, right? The bag that holds the bacteria? I don't have that because I have an under gravel filter. I'm told that with an under gravel filter the bacteria is living in the gravel. I put the filter bag back in my Mom's tank about a week ago.

 There is a popular set up where you have a Betta fish in a tank with a plant. The Betta fish eats the plant roots, and the fish waste is taken care of by the plant. DO NOT DO THAT! Bettas are insect eaters, so they have to eat meat. A betta may nibble on the plants when he's starving enough to...

My betta turned from a white to blue in a few weeks when I first got him. I think your betta is fine.

With two ten gallon aquariums you still want to make sure that they can't see one another, if the tanks are next to each other. Seeing another betta all day every day can cause a betta to be stressed out. Just because a betta isn't flaring doesn't mean he's comfortable, it may mean he's tired.