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Hello and thanks btw

Here's also an image of the 3rd fish which was taken just before the second round of chloromine t. If you look carefully non my original image you can just make out a white film on the tail, then the next day this

On the second image you can clearly see a white stripe and a flakey white film. That image was taken after the first dose of chloromine t which started to reveal the pink sore area where the scales are black. After the first dose all rainbow fish lost the majority of the white lips and it looks...

2 3 4 boesmani Managed to get a few images of the fish Sunday evening, what do you reckon it is? Can't get an image of the guys with the white eroded lips, had to cut 75% of my plants down to get a clear view of the fish. Picked up some chloromine t and added 9 grammes to my tank on Sunday and...

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In the UK there's masses of decent live bacteria options, the gel or gel balls seem to work really well and can take a mass of ammonia load, they're used for koi ponds and much cheaper than aquarium specific products. I'd personally choose them over api quick start as I've had better results...

Hi, thanks for getting back to me. The issue I have is that it's in a planted tank, I know that rainbows can have white lips that's why I left without treatment initially but it's becoming more eroded and and flakey it's only happening with one batch of rainbow fish, the males. I bought 2...

Nice Goldie My goldfish will have a nibble of everything apart from dwarf hornwort Lillie's and swords. I wouldn't use dirt, if the plants start to lack nutrients like that sword or echinodorus? You might need to use root tabs and that will be messy. Pleco should be fed, it could be stunted or...

I purchased some boesmani a few weeks ago and developed cotton mouth with in a week of getting them and now 1 has a saddle back. So I'm guessing it's most likely columnaris or a mixture of bacterial and fungal infection. Any way I had the same symptoms maybe 10 years ago and a liquid chloromine...