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One year ago I used meth blue in my tank as I had sick fish and I accidently killed off my apple snails not knowing that they would be poisoned by it. So a year later I am hoping to add a couple giant ramshorn snails but some odd bits of gravel are still stained blue. Will this affect the...

What would be the best to feed my fish - at the moment I have 4 Tetras, 1 Platy and 2 Platy fry. I feed them flakes and peas at the moment, but I don't think the fry are getting enough nutrition. What is the best food to feed them and does anyone know what's the cheapest I can pay for it...

I feed flakes to my fish and have used algea flakes when I had apple snails - when I bought the snails I did not know anything about how they bred but the shop suggested I have 2 so when all the little snails appeared I looked it up. I no longer have the snails so I won't have that problem again.

Ok cheers for the advice, saves me making a mess haha! Will the fry be ok with meth b ?

I'll look up pond etc. snails And they are about 3 months old but still tiny, I have no intention of keeping more than two. I suck up as many as I can during water changes anyway. My tank being a small 37l would never be able to handle so many haha.

A sort of muddy orange brown slighly seethrough =]

I have not got a spare hospital tank unfortunatly. I've tried for months with the water changes and the water is crystal clear so I asked for advice from the fish shop and he told me to use methyline blue - i'm using a bath because it can kill bacteria in the tank and stain decor blue. I also...

Yup I always get them mixed up.

My tank is 37l with 4 neon tetras and 1 platy. It's 24c. Ph: 7.5 amm: 0 nitrates:0 nitrites: 40. I have had some very sick tetras for a couple of months now, bent tails on one, very skinny and white ragged fins etc. I tried large water changes and they were just getting worse so I took them...

When I first had my Golden Apple snails I noticed after a few weeks a stain from a clutch of eggs and hundreds of babies roaming my tank - unfortunately my snails died when I medicated my fish as I was not aware that it would affect them (silly me). But it's now been about 4 months and although...

Anyone live in this area with any recommendation of local fish shops that are both good for the quality of the fish and prices? At the moment I'm having to get fish from Pets at Home but I'm not sure that they are entirely the best places to get good quality fish.

My female platy seems to be thriving now but i've been keeping a close eye on the neon tetras and they seem to be extremly aggressive and chasing eachother and nipping. Also the tetra with the deformed mouth seems to be the most agressive. could this be causing the damage on fins and how could I...

Yeah you were right the poor little devil didn't make it. I've done a 60% water change. My female still looks healthy - will she be ok on her own or should I introduce another female sooner?

Here are some pictures - just to see if anything stand outs. The platy looks dead but he swims quite a bit but then runs out of puff.

Yup, a typo - I was on my phone at the time. I've also decided to remove my carbon foam pad and I'm going to get just a normal pad for it.