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  1. NatCardiff88

    Help! Discus not eating,hiding and ball hanging out of anus - unsure if prolapse or disease

    Hi There Please can someone help and advise to treatment with my one discus. Sheā€™s been hiding and not eating tried using entice but no joy. She hasnā€™t showed any symptoms but now has a ball hanging out of anus. I want to treat straightway but unsure if this is a prolapse, hexamita or worms...
  2. NatCardiff88

    Help!! Angel fish has a small hole increasing in size rapidly!!

    Hi There Can anyone help with me with my angel fish please? She has holes in her abdomen and has a poor appetite. About 3weeks ago she began hiding and not eating. I was unsure what was wrong so started wit Melafix no improvement. Then one of my discus also stopped eating. I treated tank...
  3. J

    Whirly Disease or Swim Bladder

    I have a 3 yr old Rainbow shark. I believe it's a male but not 100% positive. He is refusing to eat unless handfed via a small syringe. I noticed this about 2 days ago when he was out in the tank spinning in a corner. I thought whirly disease or swim bladder but he is not visibly bloated and he...
  4. C

    Quarantine Timeframe for Fungal Infection?

    I have a 36-gallon planted freshwater aquarium. The aquarium has been up and running for years now, and the current stocking is harlequin rasboras, kuhli loaches, shrimp, and a dwarf gourami. About a week ago I noticed one of my rasboras wasn't eating, and after some inspection I noticed he had...
  5. L

    danios aren't eating and swimming frantically

    Hi again. I have 5 Danios and 2 of them aren't eating much... (Either none at all or 1/2 bites) It started yesterday morning. (I feed them 2 times a day) What I did: I've separated them to another tank, put in some decors to make it feel like home. I fed them 5 times today. One of them ate...
  6. bettafishlover86

    Otocinclus not eating!

    Hi guys, I have had an oto for three weeks. I never see him eating but there is never algae in my tank anymore. I feed him 1 algae wafer every other day just to be sure, but it always breaks down and I never see him eat it. What is he eating? How can I get him to eat algae wafers?
  7. E

    Cory fishes not eating, swimming near surface

    Hi, I am quite new to the hobby and slowly built the first tank over the last months and I am a bit concerned with my Julii corys. Since 3/4f days 4 out of the 5 we have started behaving in a really strange way, spending all time either sleeping on the top of leaves (close to the surface) or...
  8. R

    six month old platy frys spitting out food

    hi! i am stocking about 20 platy fry in a planted twenty gallon aquarium. the tank is cycled and the water quality is top notch. about a month ago, one of the fry developed collumanus worms, so i decided to treat the entire tank with levamisole from subquaria. i followed the instructions and did...
  9. C

    BETTA EMERGENCY

    please help! Iā€™ve had my Betta since March and he is in a 6.5 gallon tank, no other fish just him and live plants. The day after Thanksgiving he stopped eating. After 4 days I did a 50% water change, although his water had recently been changed 2 days before Thanksgiving. He has had like one...
  10. luckyfin

    Help, Platy Not Eating

    Not sure what is happening to my platy. Iā€™ve had her for 6 months but for the past month she has not been eating, has been hiding and not looking well. Has white discolouring on her side. Tried putting her in a seperate tank for about a week with API Melafix but I didnā€™t see any change. Iā€™m...
  11. K

    Small zebra fish not eating for over 3 days

    Hello guys! I am new to the hobby and have been educating myself a lot on how to properly care for a tank. I waited to add fish to the tank and have been carefully measuring the water. Iā€™ve had a school of danios in my tank since last Thursday. At first I purchased 2 zebra danios and 2 long fin...
  12. Jan Cavalieri

    Bladder Disease - Is it time to Euthanize? But I don't want to!

    My powder blue dwarf gourami has had this for 4-5 weeks now. First and second time it was a distinct tilt and inability to swim straight, this time it's hanging vertically, with the head at the top. I can snap her out of it for a few minutes by repositioning her. She cab even straighten...
  13. J

    Blood parrot pale, not eating not pooping for at least 1 month.

    Hello. I have a blood parrot fish that has not been eating and is getting worse. I'd been away for a while and my mother was feeding him. When I came back, I saw my parrot fish pale, lethargic and he had pop eye on the left eye and my mom says he hasn't eaten in around a month, maybe even 2, he...
  14. F

    I think my betta is dying?

    ļæ¼Ok I made a post a while back about my betta fish Falkor and him losing parts of his fins, after a while ive pretty much ruled out everything but him being a biter so I just left it and he was fine. Ever since then, everything started to go downhill. I've had three shrimp across like 5 months...
  15. Aisilence

    How to add GREEN FOOD to Black Ghost Knifes diet?

    Hey! So I've read that any fish should have a variety of food in their diet to keep them healthy, including my BGK fish. He is about 3 years old and was always eating just frozen blood worms. Anything else I put in my tank - he completely ignores it. I'm sure frozen blood worms are his favorite...
  16. P

    Friendā€™s sick betta

    My friend has two betta fish. One of them died today. We canā€™t figure out whatā€™s going on so I seek help here. The symptoms are: -not eating (itā€™s been a week now) -swim bladder -stays at the bottom of the tank and only goes up for air My friend has tried everything, epsom salt baths, treated...
  17. E

    Elephant fish not eating need help!

    I recently bought an elephant fish from a local pet store to add to my tank. The woman who worked there said that they will eat freeze dried blood worms and I also read that they may eat flakes as well. My elephant fish is not eating although it shows interest in the worms. Iā€™m worried it starve...
  18. Brendt

    PROBLEMS!! Please help!!

    Hi Guys relatively new to all of this posting in forums and fish tanks. FOREWARNING IM SO SORRY FOR THE LONG READ but here it goes So if Iā€™m not posting this right please let me know where I can and how to post it elsewhere. Now Iā€™ve dabbled in fish tanks before growing up but by no means would...
  19. Rifea

    Elephant Nose Fish Help (not eating!)

    A few days ago I got a small elephant nose fish(~2-3 inches) from my lfs, and thus far, he has not yet eaten. He's currently in a 20 gallon long tank(I am aware he'll outgrow it, but for now he's too small to go into the 55gal) and currently has no tank mates. aka no competition for food...
  20. J

    Corys not eating

    Hi, I have a 20 gallon freshwater tank with two albino corys, one angelfish, two red eyed tetras and a black skirt tetra. The corys have been reacting very strangely in the tank and are constantly swimming up and down the sides of the tank. It looks like they are eating algae but the problem is...
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