Recent content by syrenie

Sadly, my little girl passed away a few minutes ago. Thank you all for your help and suggestions. At least she's out of pain now. :sad:

My girl took a turn for the worse this morning. I woke up and not only had the water completely clouded over, she was laying on her side, barely breathing. I quickly did a 90% water change and added a small amount of medication. She hasn't moved at all. There was a horrible stink coming from the...

Will do. Thank you!! :good: This is the best picture I was able to get of her today. Unfortunately, I don't own a quality webcam. Sorry. :/ She's looking better than she did yesterday, but still terrible. Her poor skin looks so raw around the fungus area.

She is fighting hard to win over this fungus! She looks raggedy and absolutely dreadful but she really seems to be saying, "I'm going to get better!" I've given her the recommended medication and taken the plants out of the tank so she doesn't reinjure herself. She's swimming around (albeit...

By the way, can anyone tell me if it's better to leave the tank light on or off? I heard from one source that fungus doesn't like light, while another said that it thrives in bright light!!! :unsure:

Hi guys. Thank you for the help and advice. I have done the water change and added some aquarium salt, but unfortunately, my little girl is diminishing. Her colour is very faded now and she's bleeding from the holes in her body where the fungus was. She'd been at the surface of the water for a...

Thank you, Pip. I'll try everything you mentioned. I do realise now that I probably shouldn't have taken her out and tampered with her with the hydrogen peroxide and swab. I was panicking and listened to the first advice I received.

Tank size: 10 gallons, filtered, heated pH: 7.2 ammonia: unknown nitrite: unknown nitrate: unknown kH: unknown gH: unknown tank temp: 82 (slowly raised from 78 over the last 24 hours) Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): Fish was absolutely...