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small cold water fish..
Comments (3)You done been steared wrong. Firstly a bowl isnt the place to keep a fish,there isnt much surface area and fish without lungs suffer as a result (dont worry, not your fault, you didn't know) I'll bet that your water quality wasnt good either, I'm sure petsmart didnt tell you that because they want you to keep coming back and buying more fish to die. What you need to do is find a real LFS (local fish shop) and support them by buying a small aquarium, say 5-20 gallons (seems big now, but its tiny trust me) and a heater and a filter and some gravel for the bottom, just a little. Then theres something that needs to be done called cycling, where you build up bacterial colonys Via one or more of several methods, Traditionally you would start with one or two small fish and keep them for a month then add another fish and wait two weeks then add two more fish and wait and then two more and keep going till your tank is full, Alternatively you can start out with a handful of gravel or an old filter cartrige from a healthy tank and cut the first 4 weeks down to about 2 or so, If you want to cut that initial time down more you can use a cycle aid, first generatioin cycle aids can be found on the shelves of most LFS's but with a second generation cycle aid (biospira) retrieved from a refridgerator at some LFS's you can cuty that time down to one day. Also if you want to save the initial fish and not expose them to the amonia that is present in a precycle tank you canuse fishfood to generate ammonia or even clear amonia from a department store (no scents or sufocants BTW). Now, on to small coldwater fish, if you really dont want to spring for a heater and increse your options in a 10 gallon tank you could keep a school (they dont like to be alone) of white cloud mountain minnows or one or two bitterlings (a very sharp looking fish) or if you keep just them some mosquitoe fish. Goldfish are dirty dirty animals and if you keep them you have to do more waterchanges than you normally would. Also if you have cycled your tank you must be sure that the water changes that you do (every 1 to 2 weaks) are done with spring or well water or carbon filtered water or water that has been treated with a dechlorinating agent. I hope that this helps and that I've not scared you away from this fascinating hoby....See MoreFeed your koi garden snails and they'll eat them up, yum!
Comments (1)Woo-hoo! Here in snail capitol USA that sounds like a great plan. I'll give them some today when I get home. Cold tomorrow so they won't get fed again until it warms up. Tally HO!...See MoreHelp! Rooted Cuttings are looking Yellow. Do I Feed them? Plant them?
Comments (2)My cuttings usually lose their leaves. Sounds like you had good success on rooting them. Do not feed them until they have started putting on "grown up" leaves. I just uncover mine a little more every couple of days until they are more than half uncovered. You can leave them in the cups until the cups are full of roots. then I pot them in larger pots. I am afraid to put them straight in the ground with it so hot. I would keep them in the same place where you have them now....See MoreIndoor colors, flowers and plants, please let’s see them, March 2021)
Comments (18)I just shot an image of this for another thread for 'cactus care (it's a Thanksgiving Cactus). It's not in bloom, but it's one of my Home Office Friends. A bit bronzed by excess light, slightly south of western window, its friend is a baby tropical hibiscus with a slight cyanobacteria problem at the moment... :-) Oh, it's in 2/3 Miracle Gro Moisture Control and 1/3 sand. Dash of Perlite....See Moreken-n.ga.mts
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