Recent content by Danny12224

Help please, My female platy is excreting an intermittent stream of dark almost brown liquid that distorts the water like an oil. She seems fine, parameters normal. Should I be concerned?

I am currently using test strips to conduct my water tests and even though they showed good paramters one of my fish died yesterday and it has been suggested that it was because of bad water quality. What is so much better about the liquid test kits instead of the test strips, what makes one...

Ok. So your recommendation is the addition of salt and purchase or a more accurate testing kit??

I have read good information and have followed the instructions for newbies well. I'm not sure what's wrong. Can you remove salt if you intend to add salt sensitive fish later?

Hi there, the LFS conducted a water test prior to selling me the first and were happy with the result. I am unable to tell if she was pregnant although her stomach did look quite big but unfortunately I'm unable to tell. I have conducted a 20% water change. What further percentage needs to...

Hi! Not at all, don't apologise I'm grateful for any advice. I use test strips, not liquid. The only symptom I noticed was her trying to hide away today. I assumed she may have been trying to give birth. The tank has been setup for just over 2 weeks. Yes she did seem to find balance...

Hi all, I have a female platy that died today. I have 2 outstanding, a male and a female and they seem ok but I would like to diagnose the cause of her death. The platies have been in the tank for approximately 3/4 days. The tank is quite new but is cycling well and has no nitrite or...