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I am on round 4 of my 75 gallon tank for cycling. Am getting very frustrated, particularly the loss of life. It always seems to be our favorite Betta's that die. Something has to be preventing nitrifying bacteria from growing in my set-up, likely actively killing it. One thing that I...

I have 4 betta's in a 5 gallon right now and they are perfectly happy. They were not raised together. But the 5 gallon is the isolation aquarium they stay in for 2 weeks to make sure they are not sick and contagious. We have 10 betta's in our 75 gallon at the moment, and none were raised...

Well, the fish that we thought had dropsy died of something else. SO FAST! The white poop was very consistent translucent white and got thicker as it was expelled, perfectly round, could have been a parasite she was expelling? Parasites? She had a bloated belly. The rest of the fish do not...

The sickness is Ich 2 times now over a period of a month and 2 dropsy victims, although we had another dropsy victim on the original aquarium set-up. We cleared it up once by the 25th January, or so we thought we did (we used the 86 degree aquarium temperature and maintained for 10 days after...

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I have the following setup and want to get my aquarium healthier than it seems right now. Thinking going with RO water might be the path. The base items 75 gallon AQUEON aquarium with a glass canopy. Aqueon Quietflow canister filter 400 Gph (100-150 gallon) Canister filter is filled with bio...

The algae is why the wife wants them changed out... Obsessive compulsive. I will just have to clean them once a month is looks like. We have 4 tubes being fed by a canister filter to help prevent the build up of gunk in the gravel.

Well, we stopped the salt baths, raised the temperature to 86 and the ICK has gone away. The sick female continued to look worse, so we took her out and put her in the hospital tank and raised the temperature to 86 and treated her with Maracyn Oxy but then she developed dropsy and pop eye, so...

I was wondering if they make black or dark smoke colored tubes for the undergravel filters? I have done a search, but have not come up with anything. Anyone know of a source if one exists?

Colin_T Good information, thanks. Odd about the salt baths, lots of places online say to do the salt baths. We can stop doing those. With such a large water change, we will probably need to take the fish out while doing it, since doing it by buckets for 60 gallons will not be reasonable while...

TLDR: Female betta with visible ich for 4 days (4 maximum spots and 1 current spot) is breath fast and has lowered activity. Is it possible a secondary disease and if so, what could it be? Our family is trying to set up a sorority betta tank and have not been having any luck getting the tank...