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I noticed two spots on one neon 8 days ago. Previously there was some occasional flashing but no spots. I ordered ich-X, which took a few days to get here. I do weekly or more water changes and bumped it up until meds got here. By that time there were more spots. I guess I should mention...

Originally the soap dish was just supposed to break up the current, I put attractive rocks in it but they were too heavy. The smaller media was too small and fell through the holes so I put the filter material on the bottom and the "biomedia" over that. I didn't think of using the sponge, I...

The aquaclear has a foam block on the bottom, a filter cloth on that (100), bilomedia next, a filter block on top that's cut in half with a finer filter cloth (50). I'll probably reach a point where I remove the filter cloth eventually. It clogs rather quickly. Does a great job though.

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So I do the soap dish trick. It attaches with suction cups and has big holes on the bottom. I cut a piece of water polishing membrane (size 100) and fluval bio media in it. As it is now the water is completely still. When the filter material gets clogged it will overflow a little. 100 pore...

He can't swim as well, I put him in his smaller first temp tank and he actually swims more, he's back to making a bubble nest, flaring, and posing. But he can't swim well. He makes use of his leaf hammock now. He never acted sick, just started swimming funny, I didn't know why at first, he...

Is there a chance the fungus could be biofilm? I'm just wondering because I get a white film on my wood and leaves but the snails keep it in check.

I may have posted this elsewhere but here's where we are now. I moved Casper to the smaller 2.5 hospital tank and did salt/Betta fix treatment. His demeanor has changed back to normal, he's making a bubble nest, swimming around as best he can, eating (he never stopped eating) But his left fin...

According to many sources the time to change the water is when the nitrates get high. My parameters barely change, they are always zero except trace nitrates at most. My 20long is a little overstocked, I have 18 tetras, mostly neons but 2 glo tetras. It was only supposed to be 15 neons but I...

I wonder If that pic was right before they were added. It's hard to find the right pic out of all the ones I take, and everytime I do maintenance things get rearranged.

I had the sponge filter in the front because the shrimp grazed on it and we liked to watch that. Then I moved it to the back because the shrimp died but the neons didn't seem to like it there. I've since removed it altogether.

Awhile back one of my fellow aquarium friends said he enjoyed his saltwater fish because unlike freshwater fish they had personalities. And they did, my all of mine have personalities too. But the ones that amazed me were the neons. I like little schooling fish and have 17 in my 20 long...

That was the most fun when I was a kid. I had a little microscope to look at the organisms. Now I'm a retired medical microbiologist, which has very little to do with protozoa. I decided to try and culture them again, which led to my getting a Betta, just one fish, I can quit anytime I want. I...

But it's 1am and it would be rude to turn on the light so I'm here looking at pics. I have my lights on timers and in the evening I frequently stop what I'm doing to watch the fish before the lights go out. 🤣

Still see one living. Don't see any bodies. One reason I wanted shrimp is I need a cleaner upper. The nerite snail sticks more eggs on everything than she's worth. The mystery snail is active and entertaining (he's in a different tank) but does a poor job of cleaning. I researched various...

I'll try that. I actually had leaf litter and the cholla wood had visible biofilm as did most of the driftwood. I thought that would be good enough. Welp, off to see if I need to fish out the remaining bodies. Maybe if my Betta ever dies I'll try to turn my 10 gallon into a shrimp tank.

You can't see them very well but I have hornwort and another stem plant. After the tank cleaning I put all the cholla wood in one side, like a pile. You also can't tell but there is some java Fern babies on the one dragon stone. I've since taken the sponge filter out and all but one cholla.

Vacuum the gravel, not vaccine the gravel. Here is a shot of the whole tank, the light was dim so the color is off but you can see how it was stocked.

I set up a 20 long tank. I stocked it with gravel, substrate, driftwood, plants, cholla wood . . . there was algae and biofilm, I actually had the cholla wood in my 10 gallon for quite some time. I used fritz fishless fuel and turbo start. I tested and tested, it got to where 3ppm nh3 was...