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I isolated him, but he didn't make it through the night. The two females are doing better. I live in a very high pH city, (8.2) and I'm beginning to think that the store is not doing more than temp acclimating when they get fish in. Time to look for a new store.

lays on side unless disturbed, quickly returns to side shallow breathing - was sure he was dead at first no swelling

Yes, it completed a fishless cycle and qualifying week No cuts that I can see Leafzone is a plant fertilzer - hasn't been added since before I added him His lips seem to be turning yellow, with a gap between his upper lip (or object) and the front of his face

ank size: 55gal pH: 7.4 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 10 kH: gH: tank temp: 76 Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): Male swordtail koi, appears to have a yellow object jammed in his mouth, hard to tell if it is an object or his lips are...

4 tanks: 2.5 gallon - Betta - recovered well from bout of fin rot 10 gallon - 8 platys and 1 danio, waiting out their month of quarantine following ich (I've had most of these a few months, they survived in the fish in cycle tank) 26 gallon - 3 dwarf platys, 3 harlequin rasbora, 6 zebra danio, 7...

Oops, I did mean Stress Coat, which says on the bottle that it's a water conditioner.

Did the nitrite drops turns purple when they hit the water, and then end up blue? Your nitrites may be off the chart, not 0...

I thought API Stress Zyme was okay on it's own as a tap water conditioner. Is that wrong?

my husband got some of that clear thinwall tubing from petsmart and ran all the air tubes and heater cord through it. Not too noticable over in the corner, plus a plant in front

We got the one that looks like stacked brown stone and a few plants.

What about True Value hardware - aren't they the same? I checked Target, Fry's, Walmart, Walgreens, Safeway, home depot...

I had this go on, too. Once my ammonia was processing, I started checking nitrites. I had 3, then 4, then 5 a couple of days, then it was blue, just like the color of 0, but the drops had turned purple first. (I ran the test on another tank to check, and the drops in that one stayed blue the...

Do you have Ace hardware near you? They have janitorial strength ammonia, doesn't like ingredients, but no bubbles when shaken. It was the only one we found after trying 6 stores.

Hopefully the pics work. This is the new 55 with the stand we built. It is mostly made up of 2x4s and 4x4s for legs. Close up of the tank. The tank now has a background and you can't see the electrical cords. One more fake plant added - real ones seem like too much extra work. We were...

We moved all the fish to the 10 to be able to do water changes easier and swapped to fishless on the 26. Well, we let the filter refills just sit inside the 26 for two weeks, during which time the 26 began to process ammonia quickly (still waiting on the nitrite). The 55 was set up last Sunday...