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Hello all, I thought I would make a little journal for what I have learned so far with my betta sorority (Has been very successful!) Any tips would also be helpful. I have a lot of experience in the past with male bettas, but first time trying this set up. Planted standard 29 gallon tank (30 x...

I have completed the treatment with the bettas, I will leave the snails out for a few more days but treated in total 5 days, took 2 days to see no more spots but followed the instruction to still treat several days after. What I do notice now is half my bettas seem lethargic while the other half...

Would the snails be ok if I have them in a larger container without a heater? The room with the aquarium is usually around 68-70 degrees so the water would not be too cold for them but not like the heated tank they are currently in which I have at 77/78 F. Also, are those two ingredients safe...

Hello all, I recently set up a betta sorority tank and it looks like one of them (which is who I would say is the dominant one of the group) seems to have a few white spots on her side. It looks like I caught it early but wanted to get a second opinion. I delt with ich before in my larger 75...

He unfortunately passed away shortly after I made the updated post as he was unable to eat. I tried to give him some skinned peas as they are soft and the smallest food I had but it was no use. First time I have seen one of them with a locked jaw like that. I think he likely injured it

Update: he is swimming more and is less lethargic, but he still seems to have rapid breathing and his mouth is still stuck open, did not touch the food I gave him yesterday. I don’t see any mucus around his gills, no gill flukes protruding from his gills though I will take another look, no...

Hello all, Thought I would update the forum as I believe I figured out what the issue was in case someone has a similar incident. So in order to avoid my severum and EBA clashing during feeding time as my severum gets jealous when he seems the EBA eating, I “trained” my severum to go to the...

Hello all, So one of my polar blue parrot convicts has been acting very strange. I first noticed he was not coming up to eat and found him hiding on the floor not moving much and breathing somewhat fast. His mouth looks like it is also stuck open as he cannot close it all the way. Is it...

I will definitely try changing the diet and pick up some brine or blood shrimp at my LFS, if I have some cucumber I’ll prep some for them as well. I do also acknowledge I have not been the best fish keep the past few weeks as I was in a major car accident and was not able to clean the tank for a...

Not any signs that I see, he has a few small marks on his whole body (not open sores but more surface level damage) as him and the severum in the past would have their territory disputes that has died down.

Hello all, I just went to feed my fish in my 75 gallon tank (listed below) 1 red spotted severum 1 Electric blue Acara (EBA) 5 Pb parrot convicts 2 boesemani rainbowfish 1 synodontis catfish I normally first feed the small pellets that the rainbowfish and PBs eat as they cannot fit the larger...

Out of the fish I have kept (not all at same time period/in same tank) Easy: cory catfish, rasboras, dwarf gourami, paradise fish, betta fish, guppies, peacock “goby”, synodontis (though limits tank mates in my experience), zebra danos Medium: Mostly any non dwarf cichlid: severum, acaras...

Hello all, Sorry I have not been very active on the forum as I have been busy with school, but I have not stopped caring and loving my fish. I have posted something similar before, but it looks worse than I thought. So I have a 75 gallon aquarium with 1 synodontis catfish (featherfin) 1 red...

I currently do have 3 bosemani and I did at one point have 4 of them and 1 blue one but turns out that the blue one was attacking the bosemani, I’m glad I caught it he killed one and damaged the fins of the other two badly, the fins have recovered now but I ended up giving the blue one away, so...

I do not know his exact species, I believe he is a featherfin I’ve had him for 10 years but he likes to be alone, he does not like anything that looks like him (ex a red shark I tried early on in the tank). I have moderately soft water (9 DH)

Here is my water currently, about to do my weekly water change so these are parameters after a week (all 0)

Hello all, So my current tank standing is 1 Red spotted severum 1 EBA 1 Synodontis catifsh 3 bosemani Rainbowfish 6 PB parrot convicts (Just picked up two this morning as two disappeared last time I posted, likely died and got cleaned up by my syno) I was wondering, first, would it be possible...

My guess is they were eaten. My entire top is covered besides a small area around the HOB filter. My guess is the catfish cleaned them up before I could notice

Mine has the grates and they were quite large I do not think they could’ve gotten sucked up.

Yeah that’s my conclusion as well, I syphon the gravel every weekend when I clean and move all the decor, since they were small I assume my big syno cleaned up :(

Hello all, So I have a 75g community tank, current stocking is: 1 red spotted severum 1 EBA 1 Synodontis catfish 4 PB parrot convicts 3 bosemani rainbows My prior stocking last week when I was doing a water change was 6 PB convicts and 4 rainbows in addition to the rest. I have not been...

For the crypts the cleaning isn’t the issue, but for the water spirits their leaves are so small and frail its very hard for me to clean. For lighting, I do not have any floating plants, and I have a Aqueon Optibright LED. The Spectrum I have no clue as to what it is but had red blue and white...

I would be cautious with the EBAs. If you get a male and female, they might pair and become territorial and hurt your other fish. If you get two males, make sure they are the same size and in the future, they might have territorial disputes but that is normal for cichlids. I currently have one...

I use I can wipe the algae off with my fingers on any of the surfaces, a little hard with the plants as I’m worried to hurt them. I use seachem Floural tabs that I put in as directed I believe they say to put one in every few months just in the substrate within a few inches of the plant. I...

Here are some pictures on the plants, couldn’t get my camera to focus the best

I think you may have not understood exactly what I was saying. I know it’s my job to clean the algae, which is what I do. I clean the glass, filter parts, heater, hard decorations, but my main issue was the plants. I tried to clean them with my finger but the parts covered in algae are so frail...

Funny enough I just asked if anyone has recommendations for cleaners for brown algae. From what I know, brown algae accumulation is a natural process in planted tanks as a “phase” If its been going on for a while, I would check the Calcium levels in your tank as if it is high, it will cause a...

I would recommend taking the carbon out and having 2 foam and 1 bio layer, or if the flow is bad, 2 bio one foam. It’s debated that having carbon running non stop in the filter is more than beneficial in the long run except for when removing medication. Is the tank planted? Also, I typically...

Hello all, So I currently have a 29 planted tank that has 10 harlequin Rasboras 8 peppered/green cories (had 10 but 2 passed away, do not know why I believe they were too small to eat some of the food :( 1 peacock Gudgeon I have had some issues with Algae in my tank, specifically brown algae...

How often do you clean the filter sponge and media? Also, how do you clean it?

75 Gallon Cichlid Community Tank I’ve had this tank for about 3 years it being my first and so far only large tank. Current stock is 1 Synodontis Catfish (He’s 10 years old and my favorite!) 1 Red Spotted Severum 1 Electric Blue Acara 6 Polar Blue Parrot Convicts 2 Boesemani Rainbowfish (Will...

Sorry for the late picture but update, after removing the blue ones, now the two orange ones are more together and there is no chasing. Here is a picture of how the orange ones fins looked like that the blue one was picking on