Recent content by DreamsInaBox

I wasn't talking about O2 depletion though, I was just talking about CO2 poisoning. It's definitely possible to have too little O2 in your tank and suffocate your fish, but getting too much CO2 in the water is quite hard. And while a betta won't die from O2 depletion because they can breathe...

Is she swimming in little short bursts upwards? That's usually a sign of a swim bladder infection.

Despite my hardships with this tank, I just spotted the first baby blue pearl shrimp that I've ever had!

I don't think that's necessary. Beast is right, you have to really try hard in order to gas your fish. It is possible, especially in planted tanks with high CO2 dosing because plants start releasing CO2 at night when they rely solely on cellular respiration, but in most tanks that won't happen...

Now that you mention it, you're right. That would have created a drastic drop in pH, I forgot about that. Well that just raises further questions! 2 of my shrimp have died since my last post too, but I still don't know why. My parameters are still perfect. I don't know what to do :(

Breathing from the surface allows them to utilize that air, but they are still swimming in the water. If CO2 is too high it will poison them. I just wish I'd have known what it was. There's a chance I could have saved him

Oh my god I wish I could take him. He is stunning! But I don't have room for a fish that big either. Great camera work too btw. It's a very flattering image

Ok, went down to my lfs today because the 6 exclamation point rasboras I had in the tank also started dying. I had them test the water and they got the same results I did, everything was good. So I started talking with the owner about what might have gone wrong and at first he suggested the...

For some reason I've never had good success with danios and I don't know why.

Well he died. He looked completely normal, he just wouldn't move and he was breathing very shallowly. The shrimp and 6 exclamation point rasboras I have in the tank are still fine. The nitrogenous waste is still insignificant. I have no clue why he died.

I have a 5 gallon planted tank with a betta and shrimp and I just came home to him laying on the bottom with all my shrimp picking at him. He's not quite dead but he doesn't look good. It's not my levels, because that would effect the shrimp first, not my betta. He was perfectly fine yesterday...

Thanks Beast! I'm enjoying the forum so far :)

I considered them too, but my lfs charges $8 for each of them and I thought that was way too much to pay for them. Which is unfortunate because I really like them.