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Fry ROCK! :nod:

Wolf-dog, where are you? I'm in Toronto, Canada and would love guppy fry if you're willing to part with about 10 of them. I'm going to be stocking a 10 gallon soon. You can send me an email if you're interested and not too far away.

I went to the lfs the other night and there were a few ghost shrimp trying to catch small cories in their tank. :X It was awful.

Go get em! :lol: Petsmart stinks. Petsmart in my area is way worse than WalMart... in Petsmart they're absolutely tiny 8 oz cups....

Also how big is your tank? If your tank is too small there will normally be 1 very aggressive danio that will take out all the fish until it's the only 1 left. You need at least a 20 gallon for danios.

My dog (lab) can eat just about anything and come through okay, unless it's too big and gets stuck halfway through :lol: glad to hear your dog will be ok. crazy animals :rolleyes:

Thanks. I heard this about plants, I can only hope that mine bring down the ammonia level as well... I've had them in there for about a month now, and I've been cycling for about a week. I suspect that my ammonia level was WAY too high initially, it took several water changes to get it down to...

What kind of dog?

Looks like so as long as your tank won't be overstocked! Wish my tank would cycle... (grumble...)

Hmmm, well my tank isn't heavily planted, but I do have live plants in there. Also, the bacteria comes as a solution... I guess we'll just have to see if it works!

I'm reposting this her ebecause i didn't get an answer in Chit Chat. Does anyone have experience with a product sold at Big Al's called BioSupport?? It's supposed to be like BioSpira, bacteria that will cycle your tank faster. I've been trying to cycle my 10 gal for a week now, just realized...

They'll get way too big for a ten gallon, unless you're planning on upgrading.

anyone?

My family is the same way. I gave up... :rolleyes:

Unless you're planning on getting a larger tank or getting rid of the pleco and angelfish...... :sick: What about getting rid of those fish and adding some guppies? Guppies are pretty :)

Also, I think the suckerfish you are referring to are plecostemus. You can't add these, they'll get WAY too big for that tank.

Ideally, you should add 1 or 2 more tetras if your tank is established (more than a few months old). Tetras are schooling fish. I don't know how big those particular tetras are. I've been told that ghost shrimp are great at eating leftovers, they help to keep a clean tank. As for the cories...

Does anyone have experience with a product sold at Big Al's called BioSupport?? It's supposed to be like BioSpira, bacteria that will cycle your tank faster. I've been trying to cycle my 10 gal for a week now, just realized ammonia was way too high. Maybe because of that I don't have a...

Lovely guppies, can't wait til my tank cycles!

How about a few pygmy cories? THey don't get bigger than 1 inch.

in a 10 gallon? I added ammonia starting 3 days ago. This tank has had fish for two month but I've added a lot of meds recently so I thought it best to take all the fish out and re-cycle it. I'm impatient, I know....

I think paulthegreat is right. My black molly fry are getting fat and the same thing is happening on their tummies.

Try advertising in the buy/sell/swap?? :dunno:

:rip: silver mollie

Bleach is good. You want to kill that nasty white stuff you had. :nod: Although I agree with what someone said about ammonia being a very good cleaner, it does not kill microorganisms like bleach does. After all, the good bacteria feed off it. The only other thing that can kill everything...

Bleach it with repeated rinses in hot water. That is the only way to sterilize anything properly. Should not feel AT ALL slippery when done, really rinse it out well. Then I'd rinse a few times in conditioned water just to make sure all the chlorine is gone.

You say nitrate is 30 and then nitrate is safe. What is your nitrite? Ammonia neutral, do you mean zero?

Wish I could help, I just euthanized a fish with the same symptoms, I have no idea what went down! Good luck.

You can isolate her and try treating with Maracyn-Two. A lot of times these fish don't make it, but if you want to try sometimes you can bring them around. Good luck. I just lost a fish tonight :/

It got worse quickly, I ended up euthanizing her. :( R.I.P. coraly platy girl :/

My poor platy... there are longstanding problems in my tank but here's the gist: I'm treating for ich with CureICk and true fungus (Maroxy). I was treating with Maracyn for a few days but that wasn't hitting the fungal infection because it's cottony. Now the platy is swimming around...

OK, I just decided to recycle the tank all over again. If there's still a base level of ammonia there after the cycle, then I guess something is screwy with my test kit or something....

As many of you know after reading previous threads, I have an ammonia problem in my tap water. Ammonia is always at about 0.25 - 0.5 ppm in my tap water. BTW all my fish have been out of hte tank for 3 days because this level of ammonia stressed them out (I think) and caused ich. Since I...

Mine seem to enjoy it. They swim against it, get pushed along, then go back for more. :)

Hmmm.. it's been running about 6-8 weeks now.

Yikes, take it easy. Lots of experienced people keep bettas with other fish. As for the "you're a newbie or ignorant" you can already see that this person IS a newbie.

Holy cow, I guess the lfs needs to change their "max size" signs from 2.5 inches... Sheeesh!

Good advice. I'm treating the fish in a separate quarantine tank with ich meds. I have mollies and 1 platy. I'm also doing 100% water change daily for them. I know that's drastic but I've been treating for two weeks and can't get rid of it and even under such conditions they seem happier...

Pica Nuttali posted while I was writing... I wasn't ignoring his advice on the airstone, that probably is the best way to go in the short run.

I am not sure how much they increase the oxygen, but I only bought two plants a few weeks ago and they've multiplied like crazy in my ten gallon. My nitrates were only 10ppm to begin with, they're down to 5ppm now. You can go find the "Proven Performers" in the planted tanks section of this...