Cranial Dump

My Mystery Snail, Gary (named by an 11 year old) is floating around in my aquarium quite a bit since I upped the temp* to discourage disease after giving the aquarium a thorough cleaning a couple of weeks ago.  So, I went to the web to find out if my snail was sick or something [...]

Last month, I had to rescue Frogalina, the Dwarf African Frog living in our aquarium, from the intake tube on the aquarium 3 times.  Twice she had her legs caught in the tube, and finding that frog with its legs stuck in the filter tube was distressing because the poor thing was flailing about, trying [...]

Along with the algae eaters, we also bought a Golden Mystery Snail this weekend to help withe algae control. So far the snail is being rather elusive. I had treated the water with an antibiotic for a few days last week in case the Pleco that died so soon was sick. I [...]

I bought two cute little algae eaters this weekend at PetSmart. They will not grow bigger than 1.5″, which is very small for this type of fish, but I purposes chose these little guys from among the several algae eaters available. I made the 45 mile round trip to a pet store that [...]

I woke up this morning to find that the Pleco algae eater I just bought four days ago had died. I haven’t had a fatality in this aquarium before, so I think the fish was not well when I bought it.
Will head out to buy the smaller type of algae eater I found while [...]

I went looking for an algae eater for my aquarium at the pet store today, but foolishly did not do any research before making my purchase. I expected to find smaller, gold algae eaters at the pet store but they only had 3″ Plecos, which grow to be 18″ long. I told the [...]