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Haha thanks Ros! I wish you were closer! If I put him on gumtree he'd be gone in a heartbeat but I wanted to try here first because I know people really care about their fish.

I am wanting to get out of fish keeping. I love my fighter fish but I feel like I don't have the time to properly care for him. He recently jumped out of his tank and is doing ok, but one of his pelvic fins looks a little short. He would just need a bit of extra care till he recovered from...

Hi Ros, I thought my heater was more than enough for my tank size. I'll have to double check when I get back home. I have an analog stick on calculator and it's a bit hard to read.

I feed him about 5 betta bio gold pellets every day but sometimes I don't feed him for 2 days in a row. The med was Wardley Promethyasul and it shouldn't be harmful to him from what I understand.

Hi guys, I've had my betta almost a year now. He's pretty much always been a happy, energetic guy.   A couple of months back he was in a tank with some pygmy cory I had. They kept dying off, I think because I didn't do a gravel vac often enough and they got a bacterial infection. I have since...

Hello! I have always had trouble doing gravel vacs in my tank as it's so hard to start the flow. I had a normal gravel vac and couldn't get it started so then I got a TOM battery operated one which is USELESS. It does pretty much nothing. My betta has a white patch under him and I think it may...

Your guppies are beautiful!   And your whole tank seems so vibrant!  Well done! :D

Lock man - thanks. Is 6-8 hours is all I need?    And there is no point using CO2 with my 11W? What if I switched to an 18W?      Eagles - thank you. I'm not sure what that means, that it's meant to stay in solution for 24 hours? 

Hi there!   I have a 12 gallon 40cm x 40cm x 40cm tank with one betta in it.   The live plants I have are java fern, crypt balansae, lilaeopsis, and bacopa.   I have an 11W light. Is this bright enough?    I am going to have an electric timer to turn the lights on/off each day even if I'm not...

I don't know, I've heard of the Whisper filter which apparently makes next to no noise. This is a common problem that people have, having the tank near where they sleep. Surely there is a way to reduce the noise.

The impeller on my Aquanano 40 hums a bit and since it is in my bedroom, it bothers me at night. It's not very loud but when everything is quiet it becomes pretty noticeable. Is it possible to get another kind of impeller that will work the same but be a little quieter?

Okay thanks :) Should I be worried about the red vertical lines on his cheeks?

Yeah I know about the beard haha :) I got him to flare before. It kind if looks like his gills are a bit... Blistered? And maybe a bit of white fuzz on one side of them? I don't know maybe it's paranoia... But he does seem to be moving his gills rapidly

Those photos don't really show his gills. Also he has 2 red lines on his cheeks.

Okay, here are some photos of him. . .

Okay thanks Wildbetta. I will try when I'm home tonight. Tank temperature is set to 28 Celsius but my thermometer reads 25. Water stats were normal when I last checked about 5 days ago, ph 7.6, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrates about 10. Water change of about 30% every 1.5 weeks but I'm...

So here's the history... Over the past month I had three Pygmy Cory die from what I think was a bacterial infection. Kasai, the betta, used to be in the same tank as them until two weeks ago when I moved him into his own 5 gallon tank. The other day I decided I could no longer look after the...

I was worried he had ich, he seemed to have a couple of white spots on him, though I may have just been paranoid. I treated him with a broad anti fungal/parasitical/bacterial med, Wardley Promethyasul. He is acting normal enough. I thought I noticed strange white rings around his eyes but it...

Hello, and thank you so much everyone who made a post here.   Someone is arriving at my house shortly to pick up the corydoras and shrimp.   I put an ad on gumtree this morning and got overwhelmed by responses!   I appreciate everyone's input and reassurance :) thank you for being so supportive.

Thank you guys :)

Chad... Thank you so much for your post. It is great to have understanding and from someone who clearly has seen this before or has been through it before. And I think it's a great idea to keep everything on hand. Maybe one day when I have more time I will come back to it. It's true that it's...

Yes I do. I checked the other day, ph7.6, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate about 10 from memory. Anyway that's not really the point. I'm just tired of messing up with this.

I've had my betta for about 9 months and my catfish for about 6. I'm having so many problems with my tanks lately and my Cory are dying from a bacterial infection. I believe this is because I rarely gravel vacuumed because I found it hard to do with the plants in the tank. Now I have to get...

So sorry about your fish :( Unfortunately these things happen and all you can do is make sure it doesn't happen again - even though it wasn't your fault at all. I hope you feel better soon!

I have so many questions :/ 1. How big should the hospital tank be for my 7 red cherry shrimp? 2. Do I need to have a filter or a heater? 3. If no filter what do I do in terms if water changes? 4. How long will it take to treat the cory tank? That is how long till I can move the shrimp back? 5...

Yeah I don't have another tank for them. Guess I will have to buy one. This is so totally overwhelming :( Please reassure me I'm not the only one going through this frustrating and upsetting process! Thanks on the dechlorifier - I have Prime now which is great but may need to get some soon...

Thank you Spencer! I've made a couple of calls and it seems hard to find. Any alternatives perhaps?

Hello folks, I have some serious problems in my 12 gallon tank. My Pygmy Cory seem to have a bacterial infection which had killed 3 and is looking like it will kill a 4th just in the past month. I need to get hold of a good internal bacterial medication that will not harm the shrimp in the...

Okay thank you very much for your help, I really appreciate it!

Thank you it does help! Do you know the names of any internal bacteria medication? It would have to be shrimp safe since they are in the tank too

Thanks I will see if I can get Esha here! There are 7 Cory left as far as I know (I can only see 5 but you know they hide pretty well). One guy looks sick, maybe another too. So should I avoid medication then and just gravel vac? I put some salt in the tank last night by the way.

Hello, tank is 12 gallons. I've had the cories for over 6 months. The sick one has worn down barbels and although he isn't just yet, the others that died turned very pale. He is leaning on one side when he rests on the bottom, yes. I think that because I have not regularly gravel vacuumed...

Thanks so much for your help and support :) I am now noticing that the Cory has worn down barbels. The healthy ones do not. I read that is because of bacterial infection. Apparently one of the causes is a dirty substrate. Now am I getting worried because I very rarely vacuum my sand. I find it...

Okay thank you! I will do that right now!

Hm, I have table salt but it has anti-caking agent.   I also have sea salt, could I use that instead? 

Okay I will do all of that, thank you!   It may have to wait till Tuesday though :/ Hope that he hangs on.