Recent content by parrotfish53102

I'm new with betta's. I have had a lot of success with keeping them, but tonight i decided to get a female betta and try to breed it with my male. i know that it is recomended to have two females with one male. but they only had one female, and for some reason i have a hard time coming...

We decided to put the fish out of his/her misery. Where the skin was peeling, it was turning red and it looked like the muscle under the skin was showing. It was starting to lay on its side too. When I put the net in the water, the fish didn't even make an attempt to get away. It was really...

we are going to do a partial water change tonight. I looked on this site here : http://www.klsnet.com/files/fishchart.htm for help on what the problem could be. It resembles Fish Tuberculosis but the other fish are fine and the color loss in only on the bottom half of the fish. Its not...

I am experiencing some problems with one of my Oscars. For the last few days it hasn't been eating much of anything and just sits on the bottom between two rocks. His head is sunken in just a little, the abdomen is smaller from no food, turning white and starting to peel a little bit. The bottom...

we have a red oscar, and the past couple of days he has been wanting to lay on the bottom, doesn't come up when it is feeding time like the other oscars do. there are no spots or fungus growing on him. the other two oscars are fine and act normal along with the other two parrot fish in the tank...

we have a few oscars and two parrot fish. just wondering how you tell which ones are male and which ones are female?

thank you all for the help. everything seems to be going good. both oscars are back to looking normal. i did get some of that melafix and have been using that in both tanks. thank you again

update, here is what we did and so far it seems to be working. we have two tanks, the 15 which there was two small oscars and one parrot fish and a alge eater. then we have a 55gallong tank which had some mickey mouses and a few other platies. basically what i did was switch tanks and clean...

we had removed teh carbon when we treated for ick. I have done a 25% water change every day and was wondering if i should do more than that, maybe an almost complete change. i have also been using kanacyn? we have done two treatments.

my two oscars have developed this cloudy film over their eyes and their eyes are poping out of their head. we also have a parrot fish in with them and he seems to be fine. the oscars have just gotten over ick. ammonia levels are .50ppm-1.0. ph is 7.2 nitrates are 5.0ppm. we have been doing...