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I removed the ghost shrimp from the tank and after transferring a few times to clean water, they were placed into the 10gL frog tank, and they've been doing fine.

After the first sick glowlight died, the rest of the glowlights went downhill very quickly. They stopped eating and were all looking very ill. To spare them a slow agonizing death I had hubby put them out of their misery by placing them in a bucket of icy water. RIP little glowlights. :( I've...

Still undecided on how to set the tanks up and the stand isn't completed yet, either. He's now pretty sure about doing a faux sandbed in the main display tank that will contain live rock and corals. The other tank will be a refugium for plants and may still end up with a plenum or DSB.

One glowlight tetra was dead this am. Pretty sure it's NTD.

I do realize how much water testing helps when figuring out what went wrong and we do test on a pretty regular basis. But we were so preoccupied with the new 75g that this one got away from us for a few days. We obviously suspect it was stress from an ammonia spike, we only caught the nitrates...

Perhaps photos may help? I'm pretty sure this is Neon Tetra Disease, from other photos of it I've found online. You can see the little guy with the white area above his eye on some of these, also the yellowing inside the body cavity. So far the 5 ghost shrimp appear to be unaffected and are...

Fish do jump, whether they get spooked by outside noise or movement, other fish, they jump. Ever been to a lake, river, pond, ocean, fish are jumping all the time for one reason or another. Sometimes in our hobby they actually manage to jump out of the tank, it happens to most everyone. In my...

Nobody has any info on this? I'd really like to know what I should do for these poor fish and what will become of the shrimp ASAP, please?

Here's more info on the situation. 20gH tank, there are 6 glowlight tetras and 5 ghost shrimp currently in this tank. The glowlights have been in one tank or another for about 5 months now with no prior signs of illness. About 2 weeks prior to the stress point, I had purchased the last 2...

Thank you, stezatois. I know I used to buy them years ago and the pet shops sold them as apple snails, now they are called mystery snails...they sure look like the same snail to me.

Thank you, jbradt. I'll add that plant to my list. This tank is 24" long x 8 1/2" wide x 12 1/2" tall, it has a full hood with a T8 fluorescent light strip that fits just perfectly over the glass insert. It's my original tank, I got used way back in 1994 and it's still holding water! :)

Are mystery snail eggs hard when you touch them? We had what looked like a small chunk of styrofoam in the back corner of the tank on the bottom, but of course, styrofoam wouldn't sink like that. My husband thought the kids tossed something in the tank so he picked it up and it felt more like a...

Thank you very much for the suggestions, dbosman. I didn't have cabomba or bacopa on my list of plants at all, thanks! I'm going to try and stay with a low-light setup for this tank since I've never done one and I really want to try it out and see how it goes. :)

I have a 10g long tank that currently has 2 African dwarf frogs and a few ghost shrimp. I intend to add a school of neons at some point. I'd like to make this tank more natural-looking and add live plants. I need to change the T8 fluorescent bulb (18 inches, 15 watts) to something that will...

Thank you, ppetropulo. Just a peaceful community for this tank. The kids will ultimately pick out the fish at the petstore, but I want to put together a list of fish to select from before we do that. So far, I know they want a few of the bright green glofish tetras. My friend just bought some...

The tank measures 24" x 12 1/2" x 16". It is totally bare and is fishless cycling at the moment. This tank is going to be for my two little girls, so I'm looking for some ideas of small fish that are colorful, pretty and interesting to watch. The kids want dark blue sand for the substrate and...

We're still not sure which way to go with it, my husband is reading a lot of books and taking notes. He's still in the process of making the tank stand, too, so it's nowhere near ready to set up yet, just researching for now. Thanks for the help!

I did say that this is just my opinion and my experience and everyone can use their OWN judgement on cycling and adding fish. I'm simply saying that cycling a tank isn't brain surgery and shouldn't cause so much anxiety for new fish keepers. The cycle will happen however you choose to do it and...

To the OP, I would simply add a couple of fish. Begin with the hardiest fish that you intend to keep. The tank will cycle in it's own sweet time whether you attempt to force it by adding chemicals or if you begin the process by adding a couple of fish. I don't place much stock in hitting all...

http://www.aquariumguys.com/biozyme8g.html I'm curious...if beneficial, nitrifying bacteria require ammonia, oxygen and such just to "survive" for any length of time...how do you explain this product? Beneficial nitrifying bacteria in a dry, powdered form with an unlimited shelf life and they...