Recent content by Henry Weldon

That is the odd thing. It started in a tank that has been cycled and perfectly fine for 2+ years. It is a pain, and that is fine, but something caused the water to get cloudy and the O2 to get sucked out of the water.

Here it is. It only appears to be on the glass, but then the water got cloudy too. One is the tank that I had to remove the remaining live fish. The other one you can see it starting in another tank.

We have had a stubborn white growth on the glass. You have to look at it really close to see that it is like a hairy, wavy growth. We scrub it off and it comes back faster and faster. The water parameters were fine. 50% water change weekly and not heavily stocked. I notice the fish seemed...

Nope, she won't eat anything, but seems to get very excited when food is dropping. She'll rush up to it, but then stops short. She will not eat anything. For not eating for what seems like almost 2 weeks, she seems oddly healthy. Hangs near one spot, but will wonder off, will even chase...

A variety of small cichlid pellets. blood worms, brine shrimp, cichlid flakes.

If I didn't know better I would say she is carrying eggs, but she is very small. She literally has not eaten in over a week, but seems healthy otherwise. Will dart out when I put food in the tank and rush right up to it, but not eat. She seems to hover near the same spot, but will swim around...

I have a 125 gallon with 2 Oscars, 3 yellow labs, a red tail shark, and pleco. All very small. They all are doing great except for 1 of the oscars. White stringy poo pretty much hanging their 100% of the time. General malaise, shows interest in food, but will not eat. Gasping for air. No...

That was my first reaction too. I just don't know what could have happened to case an injury that bad. When you looked really close it did not seem like it was something growing on the outside, so it was confusing. In any case she died already. The other 4 remain fine. Still a mystery.

I thought that too. I did just turn the heater down a few degrees.

There are 4 females and 1 male. The male is doing pretty typical harassing. The 4 females all are pretty aggressive, but nothing that would cause something like that.

Her fin is always that dark color, but the rest of her is usually uniformly orange. The red is the concern. She is breathing pretty fast. Lying on the bottom. Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 20, Temp 79.3. I do add a little salt each time I do a water change. 4 other swordtails in the tank...

I just noticed one of my swordtail females lying on the bottom. Shen she turned to the left I noticed her tail. Yikes. I sit right in front of this tank all day long. This happened really fast. Thoughts?