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My 2 fish are alive but still sick. The yellow gouramy male is also swollen now. The female has deflated and then swelled up and now deflated again. I don't see them eating, but they might still do it when I don't see it. The female had a long stringy white (actually transparent) poop today... I...

I don't have another tank, I have a 15L bucket and another heater, no filtration. How long should the fish be in the salt bath? In case there are other fish that may have an infection and not showing signs, would it make sense to add salt to the main tank? Thank you both!

Hello, I unfortunately have an emergency with 2 honey gouramis... I'm worried that I'm posting this too late. I normally change 40-50% of the water weekly but I have been on vacation for 2 weeks and there were no water changes while I was out. When I returned all my gouramis had Camallanus...

The plants are there for the benefit of the fish, so this is a fish tank. Thank you for the explanation, I appreciate it and it makes sense to me. I will focus on the light to try to address the algae issue. I have Salvinia floating on top and reducing the light to the aquarium. I am also...

I'm thinking that's the plant nutrient that is missing... the drop checker is blue now even with the liquid CO2. I imagine without it, it will get worse. What do you suggest I should be doing instead?

@Byron thanks for clarifying, I wasn't even sure you're replying to me. Obviously nobody wants to dump toxic disinfectants in their aquarium... not even me. I'll stop using the liquid CO2 and now I guess I need a CO2 system...

@Byron I don't have any Excel (except for spreadsheets). I'm exactly working on fixing the light/nutrient balance for dealing with the algae. I'm dosing -liquid CO2: https://www.easylife.eu/products/freshwater/plant-food/easycarbo -plant nutrient...

Sadly, I found a dead oto today. Past couple of day's I couldn't count all 5 otos... they're very good at hiding... Last night I did see this one acting strange and this morning he was dead. I can only count 3 now, so I suspect that another one has passed away. I can't find the body though. I've...

I was doing the positioning, but I cleaned the filter tubes this last maintenance, which increased the filter flow and I failed to do the right positioning again. Tomorrow I will pack more filter media in the filter and slow the flow this way as the more permanent solution. Thanks @Byron !

I have a heavily planted aquarium including rocks and wood... I can't do a proper complete gravel clean as I can only reach a very small portion of the gravel with the gravel cleaner... I can only hope that after doing the treatment 4 times all worms and their eggs are gone... Is there...