Recent content by reda9

2 more dead fish this morning. what's going on? what should i do?

i don't have an ammonia test kit. tank is nearly 4 months old.

no, no salt like grains, no yellowish color or dust, no rubbing. can you describe 'flicking'? they swim around quickly, play in the bubbles and then go to the bottom, breathing rapidly and heavily. the only other thing i see is 1 has a whispy, transparent white 'thing' hanging from her. i...

tank size: 30 gal pH:7.5 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 5-20 tank temp:78 degrees F Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): Most of my guppys are hiding, staying at the bottom of the tank much of the time, breathing heavily/rapidly. 2 died today. 3 last...

hello. we've just returned home from a 3 week vacation. the woman who was housesitting did not do anything with the tank, other than add food. the tank is filthy dirty with black and green muck everywhere. how should i best clean this? i'm afraid that i'll make it even worse! btw - my...

baby snails in you filter box! yuck!

i awoke this morning to find snails in my tank! i guess they were on the plants i put in my tank 3 weeks ago? what do i do with them? will they harm anything in the tank? i have 3 young mollys. thanks

Thank you so very much!

i've just watched 1 of my fish die of dropsy. :-( i didn't realize what was wrong with her till a couple hours ago (thanks to help from this site), as i'm new to this and thought she was heavy with babies. . . . anyway, what about the rest of the fish and the tank? should they be treated...

she is now hiding ~ i actually had to get a mirror to put behind the tank to find her! she is head up, tail down. does this still sound like dropsy? i did another water check and found the nitrite leve too high. did a 50% water change. thanks for your help.

water stats are fine. i don't see any other symptoms ~ i've been doing a lot of reading, trying to figure out what she is experiencing and what to do about it. she does look 'fuller' today & her scales seem to be protruding a bit around her belly. we've had fry one other time and that fish...

hello! i'm new to the group and to fish-keeping. 1 of my mollys is troubling me. she is obviously pregnant, but not huge. she is keeping to herself, mostly at the bottom of the tank in the plants, has not eaten for 2 days & her breathing rapid. is she about to burst, or is she unhappy or...