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Hi All I am trying to identify what fish is producing the egg in the picture. They are round, 1-3mm diameter and have a milky white fluid inside. We keep the following species in the tank; L204 Plec Pearl Gourami Bolivian Ram German Ram Otocinclus Serphae tetra Rummy nose tetra Zebra...

Hi I came home from work today to find one of my zebra danios with an enormous bubble on a fin. Water parameters are all fine, 0ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0 nitrate 4 kh. Regular 25% water changes using ro water treated with marin tropic remineralise. Apologies for poor photo. Any ideas welcome

I would go for the pearls only, the red honeys are also a dwarf species and I have been told are.more susceptible to disease or parasites which is I think was transferred to the pearls.

Thanks for the advice after consultation with my best LFS my current thinking is it was a parasite/bacterial infection that spread from a red honey gourami to a pearl and progressively over a few months was passed from fish to fish, some of the latter deaths actually occurred in a hospital tank...

Interestingly the serpae have never been seen harassing the gouramis and the danios have always pretty much stayed away from the gouramis. Also did a ton of research prior to selecting species and general consensus was they would be OK together so thinking of giving up on the advice from...

The saga of the dying gouramus is reaching its end after Epsom salts, general tonics and a variety of parasite and bacterial treatments, it looks like my journey with keeping honey and pearl gourami is over. In total. 6 fish have been lost to an unidentified disease or parasite. All other fish...

Have tried general tonic without any noticeable change after 3 days, unfortunately impossible to get Seachem general cure atm. In the UK

Thanks for the diagnosis, should I euthanized her to end her suffering

Hi we have a female pearl gourami which appears to be carrying a ton of eggs and has been doing so for 3weeks or so, I need some advice please. How long can she stay in this condition as we are cycling a breeder tank before introducing her and the male to it? Existing water parameters...

You are correct Byron, assuming tap water and possibly something in the tank is causing the high values, RO will still help reduce the levels in the short term whilst further investigation is undertaken