Posts by Avery

Do you know how long that is has been like this by chance? Have you tested any of the water parameters, and if there are any other fish in the tank, are they showing similar symptoms or are they still looking healthy?

Most people tend to feed them food that they feed their fish, but ideally worms (smaller worms that can fit in their mouth), pellets that can sink, sometimes flakes, but ideally anything that can fit in their mouth easily without them having to struggle to find the food or fight it (or fight for it with other species in the same tank).

I've found that keeping African Clawed Frogs tends to be a species only tank (due to their size, and fast movement to catch any smaller fish that move around/above them) unless you have a large long tank. In terms of keeping them with goldfish, I've seen it done, although they come from totally two different habitats in the wild, so their care requirements are different and may result in one species suffering a tad more than the other.

I tend to buy an automatic feeder and place various food in it, but making sure my vacation isn’t longer than a week and a half up to 2 weeks (many of the automatic feeders on market can only supply enough food for about a week). If I need to take longer than 2 weeks, then I try to have a family member or someone I know feed them.

For their diet, it’s always highly recommended to feed a variety of food per week in order to make sure that they aren’t lacking anything from one specific food source. As far as growth, that is normally tied to the temperature of the water (warmer water will result in a faster metabolism which means faster growing compared to colder water).

Keeping up with the past 2 years now, the event has always ended around March/April, and started again on July. Therefore we predict the same, with it stating the first week of July and ironically ending the last week of July.

Do you just leave any new SPS frags upright and leave them on the frag plugs, do you remove them from the plugs and lay them down, in order to allow them to spread across the rock faster and at the same time while allowing for more natural like growth pattern inside of your aquarium?

Clearly, one thing to highlight is that tissue on polyps will invariably die so we don't want to lay down down incorrectly of having them faced any specific manner that may cause for them to not get any nutrients (or enough).

How do you decide how tall that you want your specific tank in your room, and what do you do to make sure it reaches that specific height? I've seen stands have options that can raise/lower, or people use DIY methods to build their own tank stand to make it that given height.

Can you ask your friend is the frog was always like this, or if after they added it to their tank, it lost it's webbed aspect on it's hand? If anything I'd watch for signs of the infection that you noted, since it's very very common and can lead to a loss of an arm/leg (and then be fatal). I'd also ask if they have any fish in the tank, or other decorations that might have caused for it to loose it over time (such as that SpongeBob Krusty Krab decoration in the photo if the individual webbed hands were caught in multiple times and ripped).

I'd recommend using boiling water, in order to kill anything that could be living or possibly might come alive (ex; eggs from any snails, bugs that have nested within, and even terminates if the wood has been left out for so long without any water touching it).

You could also dip it within white vinegar for a day to make sure anything on the outside is cleaned up (or the vinegar that soaks within the wood, is treated).

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Thank you for the dark themes! Can’t wait to see more!

We're slowly adding more and more in, so please let me know any specific colors you would want to see added!

Since hitchhikers can come not only from buying and adding new plants into your tank, but also from decorations, substrate, and even adding other fish in - what is the most interesting story you have from a hitchhiker making its way into your tank? Did you end up keeping the hitchhiker, or were they a pest and you removed them?

Since it is always is highly recommended to rinse any substrate that should be added to a tank, whether new or not, many don't do this since it can save time, or if the substrate is clean enough, might not be worth the overall time taken to wash out buckets and buckets of substrate. Ranging from pebbles, to gravel, to sand, do you personally wash your substrate - and if not, what is your reasoning behind it?

Have you ever had a filter that even on the lowest setting, that it was just far too strong for your tank setup/layout? What did you do in order to reduce the flow, or make sure that it wasn't just directed at a given specific point that would toss fish around inside of the tank?

Was your method something of a DIY with household items, or were you able to purchase something that fit your filter which was able to disperse the water output?

Do you feel as if you are testing your aquarium water enough, or are you more or less doing it more frequently than needed or far less frequently? If you would compare yourself to other aquarium owners who test, where do you think that you would be on a scale?

Great idea, I've actually just implemented this (it's more of a black + grey style), but can now be found by going to Settings > General > Style and select the dark colored option. We're still going to add in a few other colorations as well, so stay tuned for those as they are slowly released!

Ironically, we have a Shoutbox that is at the bottom of all pages. It's linked right here; https://aquariu.ms/shoutbox/

I'm still debating on adding this onto the sidebar possibly of the forum (at least), but for right now it'll stay there until we can get a bunch of other things moved around and done.

Since there are a ton of items that are normally labeled as being aquatic/fish safe for aquarium usage, what are some of the items that you have in your tank that didn't come from a fish store or that you have made fish safe? Some examples of items that I've seen include people siliconing hot wheels cars, legos, or other things that normally aren't fish safe but are made fish safe in their usage.

Do you always buy all of your fish from the same store (since you know their quality levels, care levels, and know that the water isn't dirty/bad), or do you just buy fish wherever they have a good deal on the given species you are looking to get?

Do you always dip your corals to make sure that it removes any hitchhikers or other pests when you get them from the store, or do you skip that? If you do skip, what are your reasons (is it time, money for getting the dip, not seeing any positive results from doing so, etc.)?