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About the same. He's not straining to breathe, but still struggling to swim, it looks like one of his fins is torn somehow in some way I didn't notice before. He's just kind of swimming around slowly then rests in the corner and repeats the process over. I think he'll be okay, but I don't know...

The two bigger ones do. The one chasing is the smallest one, no rounded belly.

:shout: What do I do now? He was chasing both of them, so does that mean both of them have eggs to lay? God, I feel so retarded.

I can't take them back. I bought them over 4 months ago at Petsmart. I'm not asking whether I should return them. I get that I made a stupid mistake and I didn't do enough homework. Not only that but every LFS I've been to gives me different information. It's hard to know who to believe. I'm...

It sounds exactly like what you're describing. His balance is terrible. It looks like he might have a bit of bleeding underneath the skin. He's breathing fine, it looks like, as of right now. I had to do a water change though because trying to catch that danio rustled up a lot of debris from the...

Yeah, I realized I messed up the stocking for my first tank. I got caught in a cycle of ####ty knowledge local fish stores and I didn't do enough homework. The injured danio is trying to swim more and not cowering in the corner since I took out the aggressive one. He can't swim that well, looks...

Yeah, I realized I messed up with my first tank, but I really do love the fish I have and I want to do anything I can to make it better for them while I do have them. I have learned my lesson. But the thing is, I'm asking what do I do with the situation at hand now?

Sorry, I posted this in the Tropical Discussion before I figured out it should probably go here. Thanks for your patience in dealing with newbies. Anyways, So I wake up to find my biggest Danio barely swimming and sulking in the corner and my smallest Danio picking on the other one too! He...

So I wake up to find my biggest Danio barely swimming and sulking in the corner and my smallest Danio picking on the other one too! He would chase the other one around and around the tank, and then stop and try to chase that one, but he's injured that one. All of my tetras are fine and schooling...

My filter has a component that is never removed, it's called bio-something. I feel kind of stupid for not knowing exactly what it is called, but hey I guess we all started somewhere. It definitely has one of those components though, I've done enough research to at least know that you would never...

What is the difference between that type of filter and the filter I have now, the one I have know hangs off the back of the tank, if that helps. Also, what is the cost/where would I get it?

This was really helpful. I have one of those crappy filters that came in one of the 10 gallon sets that you get at Wal-Mart all together. As you might have read above, my filter was making funny noises and eventually (it didn't look like) it was working right and once I took out that half of the...

I love your tanks. :fun:

No, it's a whole cartridge thing. I also took out the other half of another piece of pad that my friend gave me when I first got started because my filter was making a weird noise, and it wasn't supposed to be in there anyway and I'd figured that the bacteria had time to grow on the part of the...

After doing 35-45% water change, siphoning the sand, AND changing the filter cartridge, my water is STILL cloudy. I don't know if I'm either seeing things because I don't think it was ever this cloudy unless I just did a water change or messed with the sand in some way, in which the filter...