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.

Thank you and it is nice to meet you.

I put this on my welcome but thought I might put it here as well. My name is Michele and I'm a newbie here. I have a 60 gallon fish tank that was given to me. It was a established 5 year tank and the lady moved and gave me all her fish about 6 months ago now. I had to set the tank all up and from scratch again. I have bala sharks, angels, mollies and tetras. They seem to get along great but lately my fish have been dying. I noticed this morning that two of my fish have white around their mouth and along their body and it is eating away at their mouth. It is not "ICK" Could this be some sort of fungus? My nitrates were up high but I fixed that problem. I recently did the 25% water change, cleaned the plants, gravel, etc and then a few days later my fish got this? Any suggestions? Thank you!

Hi my name is Michele and I am also new to this board so, be patient with me everyone. :lol: Welcome!!!!

It is nice to find a site of others interested in tropical and other fish. I have a new 60 gallon tank that is filled with bala Sharks, angels, catfish, mollies and tetras. I have had it established now for 6 months but lately have been having some problems with fish dying all of the sudden. I did the test strip and the nitrates were a little high which I fixed. I think my fish have some sort of fungus growing on them. It is eating away at their mouth and they have small puffy white stuff on their side. It is not "ICK" any suggestions? By the way, my name is Michele and I am a stay at home mom to a 4 yr old boy named John. He is the one very interested in fish and that is also what made me get started and I just love it. I hope to meet alot of you and hear stories about your fish, tanks, etc.