Recent content by 8o8GTR

thanks  guys for the awesome tips!

Thanks! how frequent should i do the water changes to aid in recovery?  normally i just do it once a week 25% and test the water 3 days after the  water was changed.

Sorry i'll clarify a little better....  The most of the  fish started off with a gill infection, it was very very red...  only 1 fish at a time had issues swimming...As of this weekend the water has been changed 25% every few hours.  All the fish are swimming normally now except the one fish...

Thanks neonflux, havent actually had this tank up for that long yet.  Is it possible that the 2 females that died recently and this one are just a bad batch?  I noticed that all the males i got from somewhere else are healthy and doing well.  Will quarantining help the fish?  A local petstore...

Anyone have any tips to try to get it to eat?

1 of my 10 cherry barbs is not eating.  One recently died due to some unknown illness and the rest started exhibiting the same syptoms of lack of appetite and swim bladder disease.   A person at the local petstore here suggest i treat the tank with Furan -2.  So after 2-4 day cycles of Furan 2...