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No, I cleaned the tank and used water from the same source as I get water for the other tanks. I'm aware of isolation techniques and not cross-contaminating tanks with fish/items from others, and would never consider putting a diseased animal into an undiseased tank. Thanks for the advice on...

The pH is 7.0-7.2; I'm unsure the ammonia, etc., values, though - the water is fairly new, as I cleaned out the tank earlier this week, and the quality itself isn't something I would question as I use the same water source for four tanks, and while there appears to be some kind of illness in the...

I have a male killifish whose pectoral fins have become "clumped" - as in, instead of being splayed out in their normal circular shape, they have grown dull and tapered, and are largely useless as they are unusable. My question is, does this sound like fin rot? The condition, whatever it is...

Hm, well killifish while distantly related to liverbearers like guppies (hence my comparison) aren't the so-called livebearing toothcarps but egg laying ones. I don't think it's worms at any rate - the mothers of the young haven't been affected. The only female adult to die has been one that...

One of my adult male killifish has become prone to settling on the bottom - not a lot, but enough to cause me concern. Associated, I'm sure, is the fact that both of his pectoral fins - normally rounded, with red spots and white/blue edges - have become "contracted" - he seems to be holding them...

Unfortunately she died. However, I still have sick babies - I took a couple and some water into the pet shop in a bottle and they did a water test - all values were apparently normal, except the pH was low - about 6. So I bought some pH raising solution, and went home and did another pH test...

I'm in New Zealand. Thanks for the link, I'll have a look at it. Right now, though, the fish with the mucus/stringy faeces has taken to floating just under the surface, the right way up, with her mouth open. Her belly doesn't look distended or bloated, but for the amount she hasn't eaten over...

Thanks. What would you suggest I do about the situation?

I'm not in the habit of frequenting these forums so I apologise in advance and in retrospect to those who help(ed) if I don't reply immediately (or worse, at all...), BUT...yet again, my fish are in peril. I have several young killifish of the F. gardneri variety and all was going reasonably...

8 litres; nine <1cm Fundulopanchax gardneri killifish; I'm uncertain as to what the stats are (I know, it isn't necessarily the most professional method of keeping fish but right now I haven't got the resources for doing the tests). The babies affected aren't bloated, but they certainly do seem...

Hey, I've got a small collection of young killifish right now, and recently one of the larger ones (all are less than a centimetre in length) seems to have developed a swimbladder disorder; it can maintain its balance in the water column, but unlike its siblings cannot maintain bouyancy unless...

Hey, Thanks for the advice. The fish actually appears to be doing better now, but yeah, I know, the reason I got the second loach was because the first one needed company. I'm not exactly sure what the problem was or is, but at any rate hopefully the upward trend in spirits it seems to be...

I do apologise if this is a relatively common problem and I aggravate anyone by asking about it, but I have a problem with one of my dwarf loaches (there doesn't appear to be a species listing for it in the species subforum). Basically, the fish in question is juvenile, and at first I put its...

I've got a borneo sucker in my tank; I'm not sure whether they're related to catfish or not, as they only bear the slightest similarities to sucking species of them, and they use their entire bodies, which are shaped a bit like a marine skate or flat-bodied shark, to cling to the glass, somewhat...

I'm not sure exactly how much syphoning was being done (my neighbour wrote out the last reply just up there but I personally can't give you exact details). The problem with it being a bacterial problem based on syphoning is that I believe she's only recently purchased the syphon - that is, she...