Flowerhorn_K

I sometimes will throw the whole cube in the tank. Or usually get a small container add some tank water and let the bloodworms melt and then drain off the ''dirty bloodworm water juice'' so only the bloodworms go into the tank.

Small update, I ended up getting some angelfish because I absolutely fell in love with them and their personalities. Also a lil apistogramma cause he's so cute and my mam liked him too. Added some bucephalandra and monte carlo too. Ammonia 0, Nitrites 0, Nitrates 10-20ppm but doing regular small water changes to keep it at 10ppm till everything settles in some more.

Hi, I've seen some lovely angelfish at the lfs, I'm just wondering if angelfish will eat repashy food?

thanks! was thinking about crypt parva too!

Update, I've moved substrate to fill out the back section. I got Cryptocoryne Beckettii and Undulata to plant into that section. And also some salvinia as floaters. A store has some beautiful male guppies which I want to get in a few weeks time as well as some females to make some babies in the future. I'd like to add some more plants around the front of the wood and between the rocks in future. Also need to clean the heater and intake sponge - looking nasty!

I don't think I've ever seen spiralis in person before, but I like the look of them too. Love the broad leaf crypts though so might go with them but definitely will keep an eye out for spiralis!

Thanks! it's actuually a large piece and small piece that I placed together! Thanks! love java fern too! I was thinking of taking out the smaller piece of driftwood and add more substrate to the back and planting some crypts there

Hi all, So I thought I'd try creating a journal on the progress of my tank for the first time. Before I lost my goldfish in this tank due to columnaris and so was forced to restart. I've decided to do a community style tank again after a long time. I found an online store with a sale on panda cories and I thought I would take advantage and do a group of them. Originally, I was think a large group but will probably stick to around 15 to 20, accounting for DOAs. And I love me some guppies so definetly will add some eventually too. I don't know if I want to breed a specific strain or just do a mixed ''mutt guppy'' tank. I plant on adding some anubias to the driftwood and some salvinia. Also a powerhead for more circulation.

Hi, I want to stock some panda cories into my tank. The dimensions are 40 x 20 x 20 inches (100x50x50cm), how many panda cories could go into it? If I were to stock the cories only (create a panda topia lol)

How much hydrogen peroxide would I need to add to the tank? Thanks I'll look into the Sera baktopur!

Ireland. Update, I came home and unfortunately my last oranda passed away too. He had a white slimy film on him so I do indeed believe its Columnaris. I'm not sure what to do with the tank, will I treat it with meds anyways to kill off any remaining disease? Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the info, unfortunately I can't get those here. The oranda which did have columnaris passed away a few days ago. I just have one oranda left in my tank, he doesn't appear to have any symptoms of disease.

Hi, yeah it was like patches of white/grey. The parameteres were 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites and 20ppm nitrates. When I first got them home from the lfs, they seemed to be quite well adjusted? like they weren't stressed from what I could tell. But yeah, I'm thinking it was something else in the tank, just no idea what though.

Hi everyone, So the past week or so, I've been losing my oranda goldfish one by one. My tank is 70 gallons. I keep it at 74F (23C). About 1.5 to 2 weeks ago, I noticed a spike in nitrates (I think from overfeeding - my bad). So I did a large water change and kept testing the water every other day to keep it around 20ppm or less. I had 4 orandas in the tank around 3 inches. I noticed one developed a white slimy looking growth on his body and had what i believe was anchor worm so I took him out for meds and QT for a week. He got better and looked fine but a day later he died. At this point I had treated the whole tank for anchor worm too. Yesterday, I noticed two of my other orandas breathing fast and not being active. This morning I found them both dead, one was floating upside down and the other laying on the substrate. I currently still have one in the tank, who's still swimming around but seems spooked when I come near the tank I don't have any pictures unfortunately. Anyone any ideas what happened? Is there some disease in the tank that would require me to bleach the system and start all over?