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I have some mostly good news. The "crust" is all but gone practically overnight. The evening prior I decided to add a half dose of Seachem Paraguard (so as to try and not harm my snails) and when I looked in this morning the afflicted angels looked about as good as new with maybe the slightest...

Considering it's only a couple angelfish that are affected and most others have been in the setup since January with no issues, I doubt it has anything to do with the source water. I can think of one other thing. About a week, two weeks ago? I added some Controsoil to the substrate in the hopes...

I checked the water parameters, everything is 0 across the board and PH is around 7.8-8.0 (a bit high I'm aware but all the fish present haven't been bothered by it, it's just a couple of the angels). And the water is from a well, it never has any chemicals to begin with (and even then it's...

I've had a group of angelfish for a little under a month. They went through quarantine just fine but within the past couple days I noticed a gray sheen on a couple of their bodies. Wasn't sure what it was but now it's developed into a full crusty growth, and I'm not sure what it is. To make...

I ordered some Ich-X as I've read it doesn't harm plants or invertebrates, but it won't get here until Monday and I'm afraid the heat treatment did more damage than the parasite... Woke up this morning to a dead neon tetra and corydoras, and all the neon tetras in general look about ready to...

Fixed the siphon problem (I need to use a solid hose and not those stretchy ones as they don't add enough pressure), completed the water change, temperature is hovering around 82F and I added a cup's worth of salt while installing a sponge filter both for extra bio filtration plus it adds some...

I'm genuinely regretting having set up this giant fish tank. It's been disaster after disaster and now everything's on the verge of falling apart. Even as I'm trying to service it with a water change the siphon isn't working properly despite me just yesterday getting a new connection part...

I do have Seachem Paraguard, but idk if I have enough as I already used half the bottle trying to get rid of ich that was on quarantined fish that went through treatment for an entire month and SOMEHOW wasn't fully eradicated as I've come to find out. I'm convinced I'm dealing with the most...

All I have is a 10 gallon, which would not work for 50+ fish. No other extra tank for snails either.

Despite all my efforts, all my quarantining, all my careful planning, ich got into my main 125 gallon tank. It's full of snails and live plants so I can't use any sort of medication so I started cranking up the heat and basically have to pray that my months of work and hundreds of dollars worth...

There is. It's a bright cream color with black dots scattered throughout and bright red streaks on either side. Considering it was a random offspring from a store tank though, he's most definitely a mutt. But a gorgeous one all the same.

Upfront, I know these pics aren't the best but all I have is a mediocre phone camera that doesn't track moving objects well before I get any "Post better pictures" comments. Anyway, this guy ended up in my tank as a stowaway when I bought a couple mystery snails. Yhey were in a tank with tons...