Recent content by gabrielgalhano

Actually, looking more closely, they dont even look like spots, almost like something's hanging or detaching from the fishes scales

Do these ones help? I don't think I can get any better pictures than these 😅 I first suspected of ich, because I already had a case of ich in my tank about a couple months ago. However I didn't add any new fish to the tank recently and the spots in this swordtail are a little diferent from...

Well, I just got home from the weekend and one of my female swordtails is with a terrible aspect. She has some kind of fungus like material near her anal fin, and it's covered in some kind of white spots (similar to ich). Is this due to the ammonia problem or am I having some other thing going...

I used to have gravel in this tank, but then my corydoras started to appear with wounded whiskers and I read that sand is the best substrate to have with corys.

How long would've been a good period, in your oppinion?

No problem, it's a commum misunderstanding 😅 I'll look into this as soon as I get home! I did not, but I kept the 2 filters running simultaneously for about a week... maybe it was a short period of time for the beneficial bacteria to grow in the new filter(?)

Thanks for the tip. I'll be away from home for the weekend. I'll try to search for them in some new stores where I'm going and if I don't find anything I'll do what you suggested. The plastic wasting really bothers me but oh well, if there's no other option...

I don't think is a dead fish. I keep a close count of the fish in my 2 tanks and all of them are (still) alive.