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thought it looked bad. ive no spare tank so ill just have to put it down. thanks for your help folks.

as the infection seems to be on his spine im guessing thats whats making him bend his body.

he doesnt look great. he has to adjust his vertical plane every second and the infection has twisted his body. sadly im thinking he has had it. come morning i think im going to have to put him in the freezer :-(

i looked on wiki until i found it and it appears to be a pristella tetra although that definately wasnt what it said on the sellers tank....doesnt matter i suppose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristella_maxillaris ill get a pic of the infection tomorrow if he survives that long. i have no way...

hi folks i have a tetra (forget its name...arrow tetra maybe) with a nasty looking infection. i thought i saw something under the skin on his body a while back but it never came to anything. it looked like a bloodclot around the spine area mid way down. now he has what looks like a white...

ive just done a 50% water change and plan to do another tomorrow....maybe less water this time tho its a 100 litre tank i think, with 7 tetras of varying types and four guppys of varying types. the tank has been running for 8+ months now. what kind of medication do you think??

hello everyone, was just having a look at my fish just now and noticed one of my tetras has got popeye and my rainbow guppy has developed severe finrot i changed a 1/4 of the water on tuesday as i always do and the water seems to look a bit funny now. its difficult to describe.....its got a...

that was interesting but some of it was way above my o'grade biology lol....it does say it hates water movement though....think im going to do something about that and maybe get a better filter :D

well i had a good look through a lot of the posts that the search threw up and it looks like cyanobacteria is a real struggle to get rid of. there were a lot of posts about poor water movement accelerating the growth cos they like still dank corners. i notice the growth in my tank always starts...

we only feed them twice a day and they dont seem too hungry in the mornings...they only take a few flakes to lose interest....at night they are like piranas lol.....this guppy seems to get an equal share of the food but i dont think im overfeeding any of them i dont think she had any fry as i...

here she is front on...not the best picture for showing how wide she is.....she doesnt seem to be in any distress and swims around quite calmly...i dont see anything wrong with her scales but she does have adark spot along her back near the tail which appeared some time ago. i will go get a...

Hiya, Just five tetras and three guppies. Not sure what the amonia,nitrate levels are :( Will I need to get a test kit?

hello everyone, me (nick) and janet are new to the site and fish. we have only had our tank for 6 months or so but we are having a few problems. the tank keeps getting gunged up by various algae and everytime i get rid of one another appears...this time we have a black algae that appears very...

Thanks for your response:) The plants are real and I don' tthink that's the problem as it's only recently this has started to happen. Think I'll do a nitrate etc test and see what that says. Trouble is because I don't know much about fish I'm not even sure about what to narrow the possibilities...

Hi there, Bit new to tropical fish keeping (matter of months) and already I'm having problems. The tank (2ftby1ft) is filling up with black furry algae? I clean it out regularly and have tried lessening the hours of light and feeding them less etc. Anyone got any ideas on where I'm going wrong...