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She has now included the tank thermometer in her slapping behaviour. Also, I have noticed on a few occasions that one of the platies swim by her and occasionally pick at her side, but she doesn't react and lets the platy do it. whats that all about?

Hi there...wondering if anyone has seen a fish do this...or know what may be causing it. Just recently bought a female gold gourami. She was being terrorised by my old serial pest Large male three spot, whom I finally re-homed back to the petshop after 2.5 years of trying to find a tank mate he...

Yea - I know!! This meanie has previosuly been kept with danios, dwarf gourami and guppies, with no chasing, nipping or massacre. But I was reading some other posts, and it might be becuase he has matured since then , and become more aggressive. I have had him for over 2 years. I have no idea...

Well, I am bored of looking at my pitiful angry lonely gourami in my work tank. ....he did have a tankmate - a little yellow catfish, and they lived together reasonably happliy for a few months. catfish died...i think parasite? Got all skinny and sat at the bottom of the tank. Any how....before...

Hi there, I have just set up and finished cycling a small (40Litre) tank at work, and yesterday went out and bought 2 fish, that looked nice , but which I knew nothing about - Buenos Aires Tetra Brought them back to work and settled them in - they are psycho (all crazy and nipping each other...

Oh my......... :blush: Came home from work this afternoon to find my Golden Panchax on the floor...lying all still , covered in dust and fluff from the tiles. I didn't pick him up as soon as I saw him because he was "obviously" dead...all black and grey coloured.....gross... so I unpack the...

Okay .... I went to the fish shop last weekend and as per usual the guy blamed "too high ammonia' levels which was causing stress to the fish, resulting in bacterial ulcers. Which would be fine except that my ammonia levels are FINE!! they are consistently at 0 - I have never even seen them...

I don't have a nitrate/nitrite test kit. Ammonia was normal though.. I changed about 1/4 of the water. A little more than usual. But the sores were there before I cleaned the tank.

No...I haven't noticed any flicking or rubbing against things..... what would cause an ulcer?

hi guys, A few days ago I came home from a 3 weeks holiday, in which time my father had been visiting to look after my tank. I think he had been feeding them alot every 2-3 days, and the tank was a bit dirty. When I went to clean it up I notice that Albert, my angel had some open sores on his...

How large exactly should my tank be to safely and happily house my fish? If they were in a larger tank would they leave each other alone, or is it just the personality of the fish?

Hi, I have recently started my first tropical tank. It is about 40L, so only smallish in size First we bought a dwarf gourami and and blue gourami and 2 pakistani loaches to get the tank going. We recently added a small angel fish. I have read that gouramis are usually placid and good natured...