Catfishmichele

Thank you! I guess I will be cleaning rocks tomorrow on saturday. Hee Hee.

I recently had to move my tank and fish over 100 miles away and we put the fish in a cooler with some plants so, they could hide. I got home and set up the tank and they seemed to do just fine.

Good job! looks nice.

I use a long air stone in mine and my fish seem to enjoy it but, I don;t have live plants. Everyone gave you great advice on here. I am just learning so, I love to look at everyone's advice.

Thank you all for your advice. I am now doing the weekly water changes and have not lost one fish. They all seem very healthy and happy now. I was also wondering how often I should syphon out the rocks. Should I do this once a month or every few weeks as well?

Thank you everyone so much. I do syphon the bottom of the rocks to clean them and I have fake plants which I take out and clean with tap water. So, I should then do the water changes once a week? I will start doing that. My fish seem to be doing better now. I put some fungas stuff in their tank and now they seem to be doing just fine this morning. I have to go now and do that water change. Thank you again.

Hi and welcome. My name is Michele.

Welcome. My name is Michele.

Thank you!

Thank you everyone for your wonderful suggestions. I do a water change every 3 weeks and recently just did one. I cleaned all the rocks, plants, etc in the tank and do a test strip on the PH levels, etc every week. It could be I did not clean the gravel well enough and they did get a fungus. I am going to take them down to be looked at today from this tropical fish expert and maybe he can help. I did add more salt to the tank and now the fish are at least swimming around today and not at the bottom of the tank. My tank is not over populated. I have 2 black mollies, two white, 2 orange, one angelfish, 2 small bala sharks and a few bottom feeders.

Beautiful swordfish.

Oh they are so beautiful.

Great advice here. My upside down catfish never changed colors like that before. Did you do a test strip on your tank to make sure the PH levels, etc are alright?

That is the coolest catfish. I would love to find one.

I turn the lights on at around 7am and turn them off before I go to bed.