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What??!! I just went to Chewy’s website and searched for essential oils, and saw nothing for birds. I have been a parrot keeper since the 1990s and I have over a dozen parrots of my own. I’ve been in BirdTalk magazine several times, written many parrot related articles, was the online editor...

Plants usually involve a little bit of maintenance…thinning them out when they spread, removing yellowing leaves, keeping bits out of your filter, etc. I love heavily planted underwater jungles and tend to lean to the easy plants (no CO2, can grow in gravel substrate, floating/fast growers)...

The manufacturer’s site had all sorts of interesting articles about hydrogen peroxide, like mixing it with essential oils, using it to treat fungus on terrestrial plants, using it in aquariums, cleaning your ears, purifying water, taking playdough out of clothes, ……. I doubt there is any...

I’ve kept cories for over 20 years and while mine will eat any foods the fish in the tank miss, I do make sure to give them their own food a few times a week. Usually this is TetraMin tropical tablets (used to say “Rich Mix” on the container in years past). They are easy to break into smaller...

According to an article I found online at a Hydrogen Peroxide producer, this is what they recommend when treating the aquarium: ~~~~~~~~~~~ The agreeable amount of hydrogen peroxide is 1 ml per gallon of water of 3% hydrogen peroxide solution. In addition to that, you must do a significant...

In my opinion, the reason nobody can respond is the pictures aren’t showing anyone an obvious illness. What is shows is that the fish is having a problem, but what is anyone’s guess as illnesses in fish can be difficult to diagnose in the first place. Are these fish in the same tank? If so...

Their drive to mate is strong and for some reason this male has fixated on this one particular female.

I love my electric blue acara cichlid in my 38 gallon tank. It would be a beautiful eye catching flash of color in your new tank and they are relatively peaceful making them good for community aquariums as long as their tank mates aren’t too small. Maybe add a hill stream loach or bristlenose...

Love it. I never get tired of looking at fish and aquariums.

They arrived a few hours ago and have been acclimated as per the instructions that came from the vendor. They are now enjoying their new home amongst the red cherry shrimp, snails and amphipods, and are definitely shy little ones. I’m attaching some pics I took during the acclimatization...

Great! I do have that food here and I will make sure they get their share of that. I hope I get to watch them eat it. Oh how I wish they were coming today. I ordered from The Shrimp Farm and I just checked, they are not sold out yet. Did you ever notice them escaping their tank, find them...

I’ve never used a background for any of my tanks in all my fish keeping years.

I am anxiously awaiting delivery tomorrow of 10 micro crabs for my shrimp and amphipod tank which also has pond snails and ramshorn snails. Does anyone else here keep these little micro crabs? If so, let me hear from you. Share some pics, tips, what yours like to eat, where they like to hang...

Just a quick update. The shrimp is doing great and is back to normal.

I don’t believe your plant will flower if leaves do not reach the surface. I want to keep mine bushy and I do not want leaves reaching the surface, so I trim a leaf at the base every time it starts to grow taller than I want the plant to stay. I also keep mine in a 4 inch plastic pot submerged...

Yesterday I gave the shrimp in question a little break. I took her picture and it is the one under the leaf. This morning as soon as the lights came on I checked in on her and while it is definitely improving, it is not 100% gone yet. The two pictures in the hornwort are from this morning. I...

Nitrates are not “pretty high”, in my opinion, but you are correct about fast growing floating plants especially being helpful at keeping those values low. A nitrate reading of 20 and under does not require a water change and the water is considered safe for fish. Any reading of nitrites...

I agree that the pH is likely the issue. What kind of fish are you continuing to lose and are trying to keep in that tank? Different fish have different needs. You need to determine the water parameters necessary for that particular fish. My well water also has high pH so I use RO water on...

Thank you Slaphpp7, I have treated the tank with Prazipro earlier this week and with this 2nd salt bath, I’m hoping that I will be winning this battle soon. I will keep the thread updated with any progress as time passes.

If what I am battling here is Scutariella Japonica the nematode lays eggs under the shell of the shrimp and it is the adults you see hanging off the shrimp. A salt bath usually aids in the demise of the adults but when the affected shrimp molts, the eggs are left on the molt. So if the molt is...