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The platy has now died. Also a couple of the others have white poo and earlier there was some poo floating in the tank with what looked like quite a large egg attached to it?

Hi, the tank is 175 litre. We did a fishless cycle by adding ammonia to keep it at 4ppm, we did that until we had a nitrite spike and the ammonia and nitrites were dropping to 0 within a 12 hour period. We done a water change to get the nitrates down to an acceptable level, let the tank settle...

Im guna move him tomorrow and see if he improves once he's away from the other fish. Thank you

yes we have another tank which could be used so i think we will have to move him out of there but if its TB will my other fish be infected already? Someone said that its common for them to have a genetic defect due to inter breeding so hopefully its that rather than TB. We think we have seen one...

yes, have checked it using liquid tests  ammonia 0 nitrites 0 nitrates around 20 temp 79 ph 7.4 other fish seem fine so im very confused, wondering if the other fish have been bullying him as his fins look very raggy

I have recently put fish in my newly cycled tank, 2 fish died the first night and now 6 days later, 1 of my platys has become deformed, it has a curved spine and its fins are jagged, he/she is eating fine and is swimming about plenty and the rest of my fish seem fine. Does this sound like some...