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. . . That go on the inside glass of the aquarium. What should I put in them. It can't really be something that will grow out of the water, I was thinking of something that cascades. Or maybe not. Has anyone tried these in their aquascaping?

Thanks for the suggestions. I don't really scrub the wood very hard, and I have in addition to the biological filtration in my filter, I have a suction cup soap dish under the filter stream output that that water polishing cloth and media in it, I never clean everything at once. I just hate...

When I do my weekly (or more) water changes I take out the driftwood, rocks, anything that can be easily removed so I can vacuum the gravel. But most of the debris is on top of the gravel and this routine seems labor intensive. I actually left the spider wood out of two tanks because it's too...

Welp, little Patty's eyes are improving. I switched to a different food, not sure if that had an effect or just a coincidence. She never stopped being a super active chowhound. She's my most personable fish, I'm glad she's healing. I'm thinking maybe it was an injury, she does like to squirm...

I'm doing some water changes but also using "cuprasorb" made by the same company that makes cupramine (seachem) The cupramine is supposed to be better because it stays in solution instead of binding to the substrate and wood and stuff. I tested and confirmed that the level stayed the same...

Well my shiney little babies are back to normal! :). They are shoaling, they are back to eating like pigs, they come to the front of the tank and look at me, they swim all over the tank like they are comfortable, curious and healthy and I haven't seen them flash in days. I'm now in the...

I use the soap dish, but line the bottom with water polishing membrane, then I put biofilter rock stuff on top of that.

I also tried 2 different ich meds with malichite green and formalin but neither worked. In the olden days when I had a few aquariums I don't remember having this much trouble getting rid of ich, maybe I have a poor memory but it seemed pretty resistant to everything. I'm using the lowest...

Welp, after trying various recommendations with no success I tried the seachem cuper (copper) stuff. I took the mystery snail out first, I hate that it's probably going to harm the cute little bladder snails. For the first time I see no spots! Even the little one that looked the worst has no...

I didn't bother in my 10 gallon, mostly because I didn't have as much information about tank cycling. But I added nh3 to the 20, along with the bacteria. By the end of week 2 I could add enough ammonia to get it to 2ppm and the next day it all would be zero, except for maybe a trace of...

I know some people think it's snake oil but I've had great success adding bacteria. I used fritz turbo start and Fritz fishless fuel. My substrate supposedly has beneficial bacteria in it as well. I also have plants and driftwood. My 20G cycled in less than 2 weeks. I would never have ammonia...

I researched more and found a similar product from seachem, I ordered the copper test too.

The fish is now deceased. If you do a search on epistylis, it looked like that. I thought for awhile that's what it was but it's not looking that way. I had looked for copper based stuff but was not successful. I saw a brand on Amazon but it came from the UK and would have taken a long time to...

The only copper based treatment I can find online comes from UK and would take a month for me to get it. Is there a brand available in the US?

Some had fin rot either from the ich or the stress of the salt and heat. The kanaplex fixed my bettas mouth and fins, I already had it on hand.

I've been battling ich for weeks now in my 20G with neons. I tried the salt and heat and it only made the neons sick, I lost a few. I tried ich-X, after several treatments most of them look good, two look really bad. I wanted to cull them but they weren't so sick they were slow, I couldn't...

I have quite a few, my nitrates are always zero. I plant dragon stone with java ferns, they are small but growing. Also 2 Amazon swords, Anubis, more java ferns, hornwort, and that other stem plant who's name escapes me at the moment. I have a tub of stem plants I prune. I can give them light...

Mine had ich, I tried heat and salt and lost 4 neons. Two I think have a secondary infection of epistylis. It's hard to catch tiny fish in a planted tank so I'm taking their evasive prowess as not being sick enough yet. The others finally seem cured. I had success with ich-X and kanaplex. I'm...

Anytime I tried to do that I wound up with wild fluctuations. I might try peat in the filter. Other bettas eyes are fine.

I have a Betta hammock, she never uses it that I can see. She's active and a little chubby to be honest. If it weren't for her zombie eyes I wouldn't know anything was wrong.

My water is pristine. Zero ammonia, zero nitrates and nitrites. I think my plants and substrate keep the nitrates from accumulating. pH is from 7.4-7.8 I have a hard time reading the API tubes. I have a notebook where I record all my maintenance and stuff. This particular Betta had what I...

Here is a pic I just took of my poor little zombie fish. Acts perfectly normal though.

I forgot, my two "real" tanks have zero nh3, nitrites, and rarely a trace of nitrates. I figure it's the growing plants. I have a really hard time reading the API pH tests, the pH looks pretty blue but the high pH seems to be about 7.4. I got the substrate that is supposed to have the...

Between the bettas and the neons I could have rescued a puppy and it would have been less work. 😞 I have a 20G, 10G, and 2.5 G. The 2.5 was the hospital tank for Casper the male Betta when something (I'm still not sure what) happened to his pectoral fins. I don't think the left fin is going to...

Well it seems like some of the neons are recovering and going to live. They had gone from happy little piranhas that came to the front when I watched them to timid little things that barely ate. I think the constant water changes and meds stressed them. The salt was an especially bad idea, I...

I just took these. I did some rearranging to help with the cleaning and treatment. My bettas have never shown any signs.