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Thanks for both of your suggestions. It's a terrible feeling to not know which illness you are fighting. wish my girl could talk to me and tell me

Hello everyone. I am having a lot of trouble figuring out what may be wrong with my betta and any ideas would be really helpful. She is bulging out from both of her sides and a little bit underneath so I thought it might be dropsy but I'm not sure. Her scales seem raised but they aren't out...

I have airline tubing attached to my air pump and then I have the airline tubing going onto the gang valve and the other piece from the gang valve going into the sponge filter tube. does that make sense?? if so, is there anything wrong with this?

Hello All!! Another silly question to ask. I just bought a gang valve because I want to lessen the flow from my sponge filter. It isn't working and I read reviews online and apparently I bought the worst brand possible and everyone is complaining that they don't work. I just want to make sure...

I recommend New Life Spectrum also. My betta loves those pellets. If you are looking for a pellet alternative, I bought seachem nutridiet fly larvae and my little girl also loves those. (Even more than her pellets) It's nice to feed as a treat, not as an everyday thing.

Thanks for all your help. I love Missah so much and I would hate to unintentionally harm her in any way. I will move the filter today and keep testing the water like a mom with a newborn!!

Okay, another dumb question. Since the bacteria live in the filter, would it be okay for me to just move my filter to the non-cloudy tank without making my fish go through a cycle? I did a fishless cycle and I don't want to make a mistake and cause her to go through a mini-cycle or anything. If...

As far as I know, my tank has been cycled for 3 or 4 weeks. My filter is an aqua-tech 5-15 gallon HOB. Now that I'm writing why I want to move the fish I realize its a silly question. I was told NOT to change the water for 3 weeks after cycling so I thought I could change tanks instead to get...

I have two five gallon tanks. One of the tanks has been cycled and the other tank has never been cycled. Don't worry== my betta is in the cycled tank. The cycled tank has been cloudy for two weeks and I believe it may be a bacterial bloom. The LFS told me not to change too much water because my...

I am really interested in having a sorority of bettas. Would it be okay to have 3 female bettas in a 5 gallon tank or is that too small for them. I currently have one betta in a 5 gallon but I would like to rescue some more bettas since I have an empty 5 gallon sitting around.

OK, thanks for your help. I do use the API liquid tests so I will stop letting them sit for the 5 mins. My betta and I thank you!!

I am confused about testing my water for ammonia. I use Prime as a water conditioner and I just read that it will give a false reading for ammonia. So how do you know if the ammonia level is at zero or if it is too high? I am a newbie and any info you can give me will be much appreciated. I just...