The Puffer Forum

J-P wrote:If the spot was there before it died, yes it got sick.
If the spot was after, maybe a fish took a bite out of it? Your pleco maybe?

no bit mark i bet it was there postmortem

i got another question when a fish dies and it has a red spot where it never did before what dose that mean?

what is the brown looking stuff forming on the plastic plaints decorations is it bad for the fish what is it

J-P wrote: now is the chance to get a good liquid test set

im plaing on do that here

J-P wrote:ok.. well... someday soon I hope you can get the liquid kit.

What are the readings for:
Ammonia (NH3)
Nitrite (NO2)
Nitrate (NO3)

i dont have any strips left

J-P wrote:next time you go shopping, look for algae chips or wafers. The pleco and the loach will thank you for it

pecoso died this morning 12 am im inclined to think is becuse of the power outages and the power going on and off on and off some times staying out for quit awhile

J-P wrote:I wouldn't worry about it. It is natural for the fish to pick flake food off the bottom of the tank.

hope they leave enough for the bottum feeders>.<

J-P wrote:the fish food falls to the bottom and sometimes they follow that.

You're feeding standard flake food right?

yep thats what they get

ok top feeders are trying to be bottume feeders why?

go ahead and use them and show us your numbers :) REMEMBER, shake the bottles of chemicals for 30 seconds each. And once you get the chemicals and the water in the glass tubes...shake them too and wait 5 minutes. If you need to put more than one chemical in the glass tubes..put the first chemical i...

go ahead and use them and show us your numbers :) REMEMBER, shake the bottles of chemicals for 30 seconds each. And once you get the chemicals and the water in the glass tubes...shake them too and wait 5 minutes. If you need to put more than one chemical in the glass tubes..put the first chemical i...

J-P wrote:very cool Did you order it online?

no i got it from the pet shop

API http://www.bigalsonline.com/Fish_Water-Testing-Equipment_Master-Test-Kits_Freshwater-Master-Test-Kit_8435713_82.html?tc=fish That is a good one. Tetra http://www.bigalsonline.com/Fish_Water-Testing-Equipment_Master-Test-Kits_Laborett-Master-Test-Kit_7556097_82.html?tc=fish This one is also good...

what brand of test would you sujest then

Hi there.. sorry I missed checking in yesterday. My mother was visiting from out of town :( She's gone today to I'll have a lot more free time :D purplecandle is correct. Test strips are only good very a very wide view of what is happening in a tank. Liquid tests that test for Ammonia, Nitrite and ...