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I'm wondering if I place the choicest caves on one side of the tank and he gaurds the babies, maybe I could put a divider in so no other fish can get near and I wouldn't have to move his cave?

Oh it's not the male I'm worried about, its my female. The first male I had and added to the tank they bred in under 2 days, so I was very surprised. My new male is nearly her same size, give or take a centimeter. I'm worried I have a black widow BN pleco :eek:

My male pleco is finally two inches in length, nearly the same size as my female BN pleco in my 65 gallon main tank. I bought him with the intention to breed them since she seems to get gravid quite often despite only ever breeding once... then she ate the father. He was only half her size so...

Just be sure to rinse it very well, it has a lot of fine dust that will keep your tank cloudy for days!

She ate a little today but I came home from work to find she died :-( Thanks for your help, I'll just go about treating my main tank now

She's still swimming but her colors are faded a bit. No labored breathing yet. I'll try once again to feed before lights out

You have very nice looking amazon swords, how do you get them so tall?

Thanks for the info. Herbtana is for external issues with bacteria/parasites. I know garlic isnt a cure-all, I'm trying to get her to eat like you suggested. She's refusing, short of taking her out of the water and shoving it in her mouth I'm unsure what to do. I tried using the pippette I use...

Nitrates were at about 5.0ppm, I did another water change of 15 gallons and I'm waiting for things to settle before testing again. More water waiting to be changed out if the readings don't lower.

I just got back from two pet stores near me and bought some seachem tropical pellets with garlic, hopefully this gets her interested as I tried to hand feed her and even used a pippete and she wouldn't eat. I have only two straight medications on hand API general cure and api E.M Erthromycin...

I've tried feeding her vegetables but she refuses, I've soaked deshelled raw peas and tiny pieces of spinach in garlic and she'll grab them and spit them out, or shred them. Every now and again she'll chase my BN pleco off her zucchini or spinach leaf pieces but she never eats them. The closest...

Reading my first post I see I wasn't clear on the foods I feed, sorry if I got a bit snippy.

I feed my fish every three days with fluval bug bites and omega one flakes/omega one shrimp pellets for my cories/omega one and fluval pleco bites for my BN pleco/ Omega One frozen Blood worms/Carnivore Entree/frozen mysis shrimp. My fish are well fed. Also I already performed the large water...

Came home tonight to find these white spots on my girl. They don't appear fuzzy, just slightly raised from the skin. My male has no similar marks or defensive wounds so I'm thinking they didn't fight, they aren't a bonded pair though. I also noticed her colors were very vibrant in a way that...

I'd already looked into that, but similar to paints it would warp the design on the card board and cause it to crease and bubble. This is a cutout from my favorite movie and it's from an in store display that can't be replaced. Thank you for the suggestion though.

unfortunately my local LFS only sells three types of wood safe for freshwater, mopani, malaysian, and cholla wood. Cholla wood gets very soft and sort of gummy on the inside as it becomes water logged and creates a lot of debris in the tank. Especially since my pleco starts eating on it, so I...

We don't have rozewood unfortunately. Just grape wood, mopani, cork, and spiderwood :(

:):D:):D:)Sup:D:):D:):D Was there a contaminated supply or something or is the wood in general likely to have this fungus? In Was really hoping to do a sort ofnunderwater bonsai with java moss and spider wood. Any other wood suggestions that are somewhat more unique than a lump of mopani...

I'm having an issue and need to discuss something with an unbiased moderator. Does anyone know how to contact one? The mobile version of the site isn't letting me load the help option at the bottom of the page.

Is spider wood safe for two large angelfish? They aren't veiltails but are fairly large and I don't want then to get injured.

I wasn't the least bit intending to be offensive. If they took it as such not much I can do to change their perception. Have a lovely night :)

If you choose to take offense that's your prerogative. Although I'm sorry your perception is of the nature to take what I say personally, I was merely trying to get information so we could help you, so I won't apologize for being blunt. I hope you have a good day and don't get offended easily...

Tetra quick start, stress coat, and a random ick medication in what should be clean water? You know that the dosing instructions on those products is meant to go INTO a tank, not to be tossed at random like some witches brew into the new water for water changes. I'd suggest you take a step back...

I didn't think of that. I kept thinking it had to be laminated somehow but due to its odd shape an office store might not be able to do that. Thanks I'll look into some local businesses.

Money would be an issue in the sense of if it was more than thirty bucks. I thought of plastic wrap but because of the high amount of humidity in my house it could still get wet and warp the card board. Plus plastic wrap wouldn't let me see the design.

NO. Do not use driftwood from a local river and think its safe just because you boil it. ONE you need to identify the wood as some of the sap/tannins from the wood are poisonous to fish depending on the species of tree. Two, you have NO IDEA what could have soaked into that wood from things...

I intend to put it on the rear glass and use velcro clings for easy removal, however here in arizona we have a swamp cooler, not AC (basically a giant humidifier with a fan) and it can make the cardboard moist over time. Not to mention I'm very hands-on when cleaning and rearranging driftwood...

I personally stopped using the heat and salt method for ick once I discovered this beauty right here. I have very limited space for quarantine tanks and I've used this product with success for treating parasitic infections (outer infections, not inner) on my fish and especially as a...

Using egg yolk is fairly messy and not fun at all, if you have a petco/big box pet store nearby that sells fish they should have a frozen fishfood section/cooler. They have frozen baby brine shrimp which you can thaw in a cup of tank water and use a turkey baster to sort of shoot it into the...

How do you keep your fish from bothering your frogbit? I tried getting some from a local fish store here in town and I did something similar with a bit of tubing tied from the filter to the heater chord coming out of the tank. My angels kept pulling them underwater by the roots and spit them out...

I recently got a hold of a cardboard cutout of one my favorite movies and I'm wanting to convert it into an aquarium background, but my issue is that its not waterproof! Does anyone know a way to waterproof cardboard without painting over the design? I read online using waterbased...