Greetings!
I joined the AC last weekend in a desperate attempt to get some help for our betta who is having some health issues. I've come back and again for advice and information for probably over a year, but never took the time to join.
I'm very thankful to all those who have already responded to my other post, and apologize that I didn't introduce myself first - I was at wits end for our fish and just wanted to get something out there.
We jumped into the game without enough research first, and wish we had started with a larger tank. But, alas, we did not. Though we talk constantly about moving to a 55 or 75 gallon tank, we keep going back and forth on it (a good amount of discussion as to whether we have the room!).
We started out with a 10 gallon tank and 2 ADFs, hoping to add some compatible fish eventually. Well, we came to realize quickly that any fish we put in would beat the frogs to their dinner easily, so we got a 2.5 gallon tank for just the frogs. Unfortunately that tank/filter turned out to be a bad place for them (dangerous), and they didn't last long after we transferred them (both broke arms - one snapped the other's arm thinking it was food, we actually saw it happen, and the other broke its arm somehow, possibly in the filter - they didn't seem to have trouble swimming from it, but we don't know how else it could have happened. I added nylon around it after that, but he just kept going downhill).
After that we got four dannios (glowfish) and a mystery snail for the 10 gallon tank, and got a betta for the 2.5 gallon. The snail escaped the covers I made for the holes in the tank though, and didn't survive a night on the floor - nor the fall :-(. We added another dannio to the tank after that.
We read that 2.5 gallons might be a bit small for the betta, but we had the tank, wanted a solitary fish, and thought that 2.5 gallons was probably better than the cup at the store or the tiny little non-filtered, water-never-changed, no-hiding-places, miserable little bowl that many bettas end up in.
We've had all right luck so far, with couple early outbreaks of planaria (new fish owners - we were overfeeding), one issue of fin rot, a completely strange infection on one of the dannios (that my wife thinks may have been fish tuberculosis?, and which I am/was at a loss to explain), and now our betta issue. http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171759
Our fish are very fun to watch, especially with the lamp on as the glowfish... well, they glow.
And the betta is a trip to feed, as he will jump out of the water a little and strike at the turkey baster we use to feed bloodworms, and crunches his other food pretty loudly.
Hope this wasn't too rambly. Thanks again for all the help and information in my pre-member days, and for the help I've already gotten since joining!
-FacelessMasses
I joined the AC last weekend in a desperate attempt to get some help for our betta who is having some health issues. I've come back and again for advice and information for probably over a year, but never took the time to join.
I'm very thankful to all those who have already responded to my other post, and apologize that I didn't introduce myself first - I was at wits end for our fish and just wanted to get something out there.
We jumped into the game without enough research first, and wish we had started with a larger tank. But, alas, we did not. Though we talk constantly about moving to a 55 or 75 gallon tank, we keep going back and forth on it (a good amount of discussion as to whether we have the room!).
We started out with a 10 gallon tank and 2 ADFs, hoping to add some compatible fish eventually. Well, we came to realize quickly that any fish we put in would beat the frogs to their dinner easily, so we got a 2.5 gallon tank for just the frogs. Unfortunately that tank/filter turned out to be a bad place for them (dangerous), and they didn't last long after we transferred them (both broke arms - one snapped the other's arm thinking it was food, we actually saw it happen, and the other broke its arm somehow, possibly in the filter - they didn't seem to have trouble swimming from it, but we don't know how else it could have happened. I added nylon around it after that, but he just kept going downhill).
After that we got four dannios (glowfish) and a mystery snail for the 10 gallon tank, and got a betta for the 2.5 gallon. The snail escaped the covers I made for the holes in the tank though, and didn't survive a night on the floor - nor the fall :-(. We added another dannio to the tank after that.
We read that 2.5 gallons might be a bit small for the betta, but we had the tank, wanted a solitary fish, and thought that 2.5 gallons was probably better than the cup at the store or the tiny little non-filtered, water-never-changed, no-hiding-places, miserable little bowl that many bettas end up in.
We've had all right luck so far, with couple early outbreaks of planaria (new fish owners - we were overfeeding), one issue of fin rot, a completely strange infection on one of the dannios (that my wife thinks may have been fish tuberculosis?, and which I am/was at a loss to explain), and now our betta issue. http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171759
Our fish are very fun to watch, especially with the lamp on as the glowfish... well, they glow.
And the betta is a trip to feed, as he will jump out of the water a little and strike at the turkey baster we use to feed bloodworms, and crunches his other food pretty loudly.Hope this wasn't too rambly. Thanks again for all the help and information in my pre-member days, and for the help I've already gotten since joining!
-FacelessMasses
