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I know that they do the exploring sometimes, but the reason for the original concern is that they were doing it much more frequently than normal. Like, for these fish in this tank, it is a behavioral change - which then led to that other fish getting far worse and worse, then dying. So that and...

OK so mostly, they still are swimming around normally on the bottom. I sat by the tank for like 30min waiting to get a "good"/bad clip. This one the one guy like actually nose dives real hard. I haven't seen that before or after this video thankfully. (so I'm apparently old, and this is the...

oh boy..... now the other two fish are swimming up and down like the first one did a few days ago. (I'm trying to figure out how to get a video on here), but they don't go all the way to the top, just like up the wall a ways and back down. AND I was looking at one of them and his little...

update: That one fish didn't make it overnight. The tank I keep pretty clean, the water is always clear and like I said regular water changes. I only feed the fish every 3 days or so, and only so much as they eat it all within like half an hour or so. There were 3 cory's in the 10G tank...

Hey All, Question about my cory's and aquarium salt. Background info: 10G tank with a handful of corys. I do regular water changes and have had a very stable tank with the same fish in it for years. It has play-sand as a substrate and they eat hikari sinking wafers (the orange bag). Sorry this...

haha I guess mine are quite spoilt then. Because I used to have other fish in the tank and occasionally would give them freeze dried brine shrimp, and when that eventually fell to the bottom they really didn't eat that either haha. What a bunch of brats :-P

sinkers would be the - "sinking wafers"? there are several sinking options by this brand. Just trying to learn and educate myself here. I had thought that in general you were supposed to avoid foods that have ingredients with "meal" in them. and this one seems to have a bunch of that - fish...

I have some sterbai corys, and I need to buy them some more food. I've read differing things about whether they should have mostly shrimp/protein pellets, or have some vegetable stuff mixed in. The only thing in the tank right now is the cory's. They have been eating the API sinking shrimp...

Alright, so I did another 20% water change on Sunday. The water has stayed clear, and the fish are all looking healthy. I still struggle with the pictures, I'm too old, idk what the deal is. but here are all the questions that I can answer. I am still nervous that I am on a strange delicate...

So just a general update here. First, thank you everyone who has chimed in, it has been very helpful for me already knowing what direction to head in. I did an approximate 70-75% water change this afternoon after scrubbing down the walls, plants and filter parts (just with the water that was in...

I can order some more test strips (that have the other stuff besides ammonia on them, because I do have ammonia only strips) I will test that in just a bit and post results. But when I did the last big water change ammonia was at 0 before the change. For the other test strips should I get the...

This is the brand of filter I have https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084QK8XXQ/?tag=ff0d01-20 There are two layers of a like, poly fiberfil type material, and then there are charcoal bits sealed in between the two layers. What I did was on the back of it (the side where the water goes into the filter...

edit to remove emoji that showed up.. ? Yes I am in the midwest, Franklin county ohio, so we are a covid "hotspot" and still have a lot of restrictions on where we can go and what we can do. Plus my family has high risk conditions so we have to be extra cautious about going out at all and...