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100% positive it's nitrAtes.

A friend of mine has a tank with nitrates out of control. It is a 10g tank that is down to having just a painted glass fish (big no no, yes we know), a leopard danio and a large apple snail. The fish have been dying and the nitrates are the problem from what I can tell. It's very high (gaah! I...

I don't have pics - I'm at work right now but they look like someone took a black fine point marker and sort of drew a little short line on them (in the neighborhood of 1 - 2 mm, maybe?). I looked at them this morning and the blue girl with a grey belly has no more black spots - she was the...

I just noticed some spots on some of the girls in my 10 gallon cycled female tank. The spots are black. I have found some information online about black spot disease but haven't found anything really conclusive. One of the girls has them all over her belly and back. One of the girls also has...