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Hello, I have a tropical fresh water 55 gallon tank and it has been running since the middle of August. I let it cycle for a week then added 3 Cory's, 2 farawella cats, and 2 ray loaches (I think that's what they are called but I'm not sure), and 2 turquoise gourami's. My tank was doing great...

I bought a bi-color angelfish from Petco last Tuesday. My tank parameters were fine and I acclimated it as recommended. A few days later (last Friday), I woke up and the angelfish had a few "white" spots on its back. Naturally, I suspected it was ich so I went to Petco that same afternoon and...

Dear all (please excuse the typo in the title - new, as I am, to this forum, I can't find where to edit the title!),   I am new to this forum and came across it while looking for more details on how to deal with elephantnose fish issues (I read a couple of Neale Monks' comments; I dearly hope he...

Hi ok, I have had this tank for about a month and some days not. Here are the specs and readings NOW, it was not always like this I used to have ammonia issues:   Ammonia 0 pH 7.6 Nitrate 10 Nitrite o  Chlorine 0    Ok so I just go the tank to where it looks like it is cycling now , I was doing...

So I believe I have the beginnings of an ich outbreak in my tank, nothing seems to be terrible and all the fish seem to be happy, but I would like to treat the ich if it truly is starting to develop in my tank, so there wont be any major outbreaks.    The only problem is that I have 5 platy fry...

Hi everyone, I am in need of major help. I have a 18 gallon tank with 8 neon tetras, 1 betta and 1 pleco. Yesterday I noticed that they had ich and I rushed to add treatment to the water (EXIT is the name of the medicine). Today I also realised that the betta has fungus so I added medicin for...

My beautiful sunset/wagtail platy is at wits end..    I came home from an all day outing to find my male platy drained of color (black tail now white/clear..red faded on body) and hovering near the top of the tank.  i believe i spotted some ich on his mouth, so my husband and i tested the pH...

I'm new here and I'm having a lot of problems setting up my tank.  I have a lot of questions.  LOL I was given a 5 gallon GLOFISH aquarium for Christmas. I set it up according to the instructions that came with the tank. I have a whisper bio filter, small heater and air stone.  I'm using gravel...

Is this Ich or not?   My tank: 20g, 5-6 weeks old, established in about two weeks with material from my 36 g tank. Water is fine (was fine yesterday, today ammonia/nitrites around .25). Water: - temperature 76-78F - pH 7.6 - ammonia/nitrites 0 (today about .25, after new batch of fish in tank...

I got a fish a few days ago all ammonia level and nitrite is good and so is nitrate however one of my mollies has a white dryisish spot near its tail here it is 

I came home 1 night and my fish had 3 white spots so I took the carbon out of the filter. Cleaned it all in hot water. Added pimafix and melafix. Turned the heat up and added some salt. Then it got worse the next day and I cleaned the tank out more and removed the plants. Then this morning I...

I have been breeding angelfish for a fair while now. I have a 55g with 2 plecos, 2 dojos and 7 angels. 3 just little juvies. I had 2 others in before but I sold the one as his mate got with 2 other males in the tank and he got beat up. Then a few days later I come home to see the pleco eating my...

Okay so, I have been struggling with Ammonia for about a month and I think I know what I want but I need to be sure so this wont happen again. I have a 28gallon (roughly 106 litres), currently I have 8 neon tetras and 4 cherry barbs but they will be gone by next week. I first noticed my ammonia...

Should I take everything out of the tank (like fake plants, caves and such) and boil them in hot water? I've read that some where but I wasn't sure if that is the best course of action. I put aquarium salt in both 10 and 15 gallon tanks (realized both were infested). 

Sorry, this is not a tropical fish problem, but I couldn't find another active board for goldfish.   So maybe a half year ago, one of my comet goldfish developed white spots on its gill covers. I thought they were breeding tubercles. However, it developed more white spots on its tailfin, and a...

Hello   I am halfway through treating white spot on my aquarium with fish in, using interpet White Spot Treatment (contains Formaldehyde and Malachite Green Oxalate - Not copper) .  I removed the snails and shrimp to a quarantine tank temporarily but am clearly concerned they have taken some ICH...

So about a week and a half ago My spotty platy looked a little ragged. and since he was known to be bullied by my other fish, I moved him to my 10g to recoup with the guppies.   Well Ive had 1guppy die and in my75g Ive had a danio and a swordtail die (in the last day).   I was horrified to...

:,( Hypnos has succumbed to ich :( :( :( he developed little white spots on his tail fin about a week ago, then he started to lose his red colour :( I transferred him straight into my hospital tank, treated him with bettafix and salt and kept up my water changes in the hospital tank all week! He...

Hey guys Re post from general topics but really need help. Bit of a newbie and not having a good week with my cories after mysteriously loosing one of them. But noticed on one of the albinos a single white spot on the tail. No spots on any other fish or anywhere else on this fish. Sorry the...

I have recently started keeping fish maybe 4-5 months. I had a problem with the first few i had. Now it seems to have come back. I had two rope fish one iridescent shark one black fin shark a crawfish gold fish and a kuhilli looca?sorry for the misspelled words. So today my one rope fish died...