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I do believe one of my angelfish has hole in the head. She has popeye and white pimple-like dots scattered in between and around her eyes. On her side she has a red sore. I recently had a swordtail die of dropsy, so i'm thinking this may be related. So, my question is, since hole in the head is...

Thank you so much for responding. I will try everything you suggested and see how it goes.

I have three butterfly koi that are all under a year old. When winter came around, I attempted to keep them outside, but after some pretty bad freezes and the beginning of hibernation, i brought them inside. (One koi is only four inches, another seven-eight, and the biggest ten so they are being...

I tried searching the forums and couldn't find anything on my question. So say you were to upgrade an already existing and well established aquarium to a much larger one. To "skip" the cycling process, could you simply transfer everything (all the water, substrate, decorations, plants, filter...

I have a tank that is about twenty-five gallons (approximately nintey-five litres?) that i am going to turn into a breeding tank for my angels. Outside of breedings, i am wanting to keep the tank setup as simply planted. Being that i've never tried plants -correctly- before, i have some...

Alright cool, thanks for the advice :)

Well i just tried really hard to pick out the ones that i like, but they all pretty much look the same though, so it's hard for me to keep track of who's who. So i just bagged up a really energetic one, but my camera couldnt take a good picture, even when the fish was still. Would it be...

Oh i hope they dont breed, i got them last night and i'm probably going to be taking them to the fish store tomorrow. So hopefully that's not enough time for them to make babies, hahaa. Well with the sexing, that's the problem. Only two are full grown, and they're males. The three that are...

I have recently aquired seventeen convict cichlids as a rescue case. The conditions they were being kept in were absolutely horrid! All seventeen (plus three more that have already found a loving home) were being kept in a twenty gallon tank filled with only a few inches of putrid water. It...

Oh i'm terribly sorry for not being clear there, i spray the water from my tap's HOSE into my bucket. Completely by passes the sink altogether :)

Yea, i know that i dont need to let it sit, i just let it sit over night so that the water will become room temperature (water comes out of my tap ice cold) And i usually make my water late at night before bed then i do my water changes the next day. I was just wondering if there was anything...

How long does water have to sit out to be considered stagnant? And what exactly is so bad about stagnant water? When i make new water for water changes, i add the dechlorinator/etc. and then spray the water from my sink into my bucket. I know you're -supposed- to circulate the water while you...

Oh, knoxville is a city in the US. Tennessee.

Well dang, i definately cannot kill off my bacteria. I'll just do lots of water changes. Thanks for all the advice :)

I read up on septicemia and i do believe that that is exactly what my loach has died from. He exhibited all of the symptoms, even before i knew anything was wrong. But i do have a concern, since i didnt isolate him from the rest of my tank until a couple of nights ago, can the infection be...