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Any ideas please?!?!

It should heal, aslong as the tank is healthy. Iv had this on one or two of my platys but they have survived fine.

Need desperate help!! Ok my tank has been up and running for about 12 months and everyone was living fine. On sunday we added 2 new aluminium catfish and 2 other catfish (dont know there names) from PetsatHome (I know that was probably the reason) Monday - 1 new catfish died, but couldnt...

Captured 1 more fry this morning - found the little bugger hiding in a corner! Thats 9 captured now!

Got home yesterday and one of the platies had lost part of his tail fin - fin rot i was informed. Took a water sample to the local Fish store and they told me that the Ammonia was at a dangerous level. So last night i got a sucker thing to reove dirt from the gravel and i also did a 60 litre...

How do I “stablise conditions in the tank & mature the filterâ€￾? Does that stuff that you can put into your tank that speeds up the efficieny of your filter work?

Sounds like your short of Oxygen in that tank – I was having the same problem a couple of days ago. If there is a Pets At Home near you – they will test your oxygen in the water. Have you got a pump in there pumping in oxygen via an air stone or air bubble? Or have you just got your...

5 of the 7 guppies have now died. So left with 2 and both seem to be getting a tinge of yellow/ green colour within their body – any ideas? The last one found floating was cloudy in colour and even the eyes had gone like a frosty cloud over them – any further ideas to whats happening? All...

Have 2 orange and black tuxedo platies and 1 yellow platy. The little fry seem to be like a pale orange colour, and they will freely swim around the tank without a care in the world. They are also a nightmare to try and catch to get into the breeding net. So far we have managed to capture 8 and...

Anybody else agree with that? Does any1 have any pictures of fry? Is there any differences between the two types of fry do you know? Im not sure they have much colour either but if any then id say its like an orange colour.

Yesterday got home to find a shock. 2 fish had died, however all of a sudden Fry started appearing from hiding places. In the end I managed to net 6 of them and get them into a breeding Net, with some Baby fry food for them. There are still 1 or 2 knocking around the tank too, however as yet im...

I have 3 platys, 3 guppies + 6 baby fry and also 4 dwarf frogs. Will the marine salt be ok with these? Wont the slat effect any further fish I get in the future?

2 more were dead when i returned home yesterday. Checked my levels with a standard kit. Comes out at: Ammonia - 0.8mg/l Nitrates - 0 mg/l Ph - approx 7 Any further ideas to the deaths now?

Wanted to get some green scat for my tropical community however i was originally informed that they live in brackish conditions. I went to the LFS last night and there they had them in a tropical tank. Confused i asked why and they informed me that they live fine in tropical freshwater tanks -...

Only some of them were hanging around the top, some of them are still full of beans and whizzing around all over the tank – therefore if it was a problem with the tank would all the guppies act in the same way? The one that died was just constantly at the top and he would often go off into a...