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No, they haven't :( I've read that anaerobic antibiotics will work and not affect the filter, does anyone know any that are available in the uk? Thanks

Anyone? Really hoping to try get some meds for it tomorrow really don't want it to get worse! Thanks

Feed frozen daphnia/bloodworm/brineshrimp/whiteworm and flake food / frog pellets. Nothing else coming out doesn't look like camallanus :( can't see any swelling either.

Hi, I suspect there may be some kind of parasite/worm that has infected my female cockatoo dwarf cichlid as her poo is entirely transparent and very long, she's just sitting in a coconut cave constantly but no other symptoms and I can't see anything else online that resembles it! Anyway I...

She just died. Deteriorated ridiculously fast. Extremely sad she was such a cute fish.

Added photo :)

Ok I'll try this then! :) Tank size: 140L pH:7.6 ammonia:0 nitrite:0 nitrate:10 kH: gH:10 tank temp:25 Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior):Fish started showing breeding behaviour and colours and at the same time developed 3 bumps on her...

Hi, I have a female apisto approx 1" in length and the couple of weeks she has been showing breeding behaviour however she also now has 3 bumps growing on the top of her head! It isn't whitespot and have 0 ammonia/nitrite I've checked for hole in the head but I think she's too smalland it...

Ahh well guess I'll just stick with my pair then :), I'll keep a check on how he behaves if they ever actually breed! Does it normally take long for them to breed once theyve showed signs? She's been glowing yellow and tail flicking and hes been flaring and getting territorial for ~5 days now...

Really? I've never heard of that! Theyve been together in the tank ~7 months now had them since they were only ~1-2 cm and theyre my favourite fish! Theyre never aggressive towards each other though? is this only something that occurs after theyve bred? Also do you know if it's possible to...

Fairly sure the female ate them once they got to be wrigglers, theyre still only small though so im almost certain that was her first ever spawn. He can be fairly aggressive sometimes when near the coconut caves but only towards the bottom of the tank, It's fairly heavily planted aswell though :)

Breeding would be nice, they've spawned before and the female is yellow and flicking her tail at him for a few days so hopefully more are on the way? I see youre breeding cacs also is there anyway to help them on their way once they're showing signs of breeding?

Hi! I currently have a 140L tank with: A pair of apisto cacatuoides, Pair of epiplatys dageti, 1 BN pleco, 1 Stiphodon Atropurpur​eus. Looking for a shoal of something quite small, I had 10 Rummy nosed tetra previously and they were nipping the fins off everything in the tank as theyre all...

Theyre pretty much directly in my eye line all the time and no one chases him or even tries to show any form of dominance to him I don't think it can be finrot as the water params are fine, and this has been occurring for quite awhile. Thanks for the reply though! It's good to know the colours...

just thought I'll check in and tell you how it went! I came back from holiday and sunday and everyone was alive. The fin split on the apisto healed but the colouring where it split has gone, still dosing with melafix as now he has a big delve in the same fin, really no idea what's causing it...

I'll give it a go when I get back, seems to have gotten a bit worse, overnight this time though. Which do you think could be the culprits if it is fighting? I've never noticed any especially on him as he's the boss of the tank! I've just done a 50% wc and started dosing melafix a couple of days...

Nothing is ever easy is it! Haha. I'm just hoping they're still okay when I get home from my holidays I thought his fin was starting to heal until I looked over and there was a rip straight through the middle! Thanks for your help though, hope all ends up well in your tank!

#29###! thanks for trying anyway I really appreciate it, I wish I had any idea why this is happening!

You're right I don't, not the apistos anyway they simply dont take it. I have some tropical flakes, pellets, new era cichlid pellets that were really expensive! this pink brine shrimp jelly stuff, Zoo med aquatic frog and tadpole bites and they just wont take it! Can I not solely use the frozen...

Hi, sorry for the shameless plug but something is happening with my apisto at the worst time! I made a thread a while back about finrot/splits even though the tank is 0 0 <25 every single time I test it, anyway I updated it and was just wondering if someone could give me some advice...

I don't think so I haven't had any readable ammonia or nitrite in a long time even with the treatment, I didn't use a full dose though. Try checking the active ingredient in it on google (some kind of alcohol i think it was) and see if you can find anything more on it than I could but I don't...

Okay, so a bit of an update: I don't think this was fin rot at all. His tail recovered in places and then just split in others, it got better for a long time but this last few days it's gotten worse again and I have no idea why. Water params are 0-0-10. Same tank inhabitants and haven't added...

Because apparently I'm not clever enough to think of that haha! Fish are so stressful!

Thanks for the quick replys and sorry I forgot to mention that my Apistos/Rams won't touch flake food for some reason. Never have ever since I got them from being young (Which is why I actually started using frozen food) I have about 5-8 differant types of dried food and they wont touch any of...

Hi, I'm going on holiday for 2 weeks on saturday and was initially going to defrost some frozen food and put them in those little pill box things which have the days of the week on them for people on medication, however I've read that you're not supposed to refrost the frozen food. My parents...

Thanks everyone for your help :) I'll try not to rush into meds next time but I did check to see if it was safe for the fish and filter, which i've done for malchite green in the past. Just to let you know he seems fine now and his tail is growing back already! All other fish are perfectly...

Okay so just did a 75% change and theyre all perking up abit although I'm always worried the temp fluctuates alot when I change the water, especially when it gets high because of my gobys. Just praying no-one dies tonight now no idea what I should do with the apisto if the problem continues...

80x35x50.3cm current temp is 29oc which is way higher than normal, usually ~24-25. Ive just opened my window to try and cool it off abit, should I do a pwc?dosage is 1ml per 5l

It recommended 25ml for my tank so I added 20. The meds were interpet fungus and finrot.

So after a bit of research on the active ingredient "phenoxyethanol" it seems its a tranquiliser! right now I'm panicing i have no idea what to do!

Okay so I put some of the interpet finrot treatment in and noticed the treatment contained some form of ethanol, It's been about 30 mins and now all the fish have just gone almost lifeless, just asif theyre asleep apart from my honey gourami (I think he's quite old anyway) whos layed on the...

Okay so I've done about a 66-75% waterchange and just bought some anti fungal/finrot stuff just incase, water params still at 0 0 10 hope he doesn't lose anymore finage he's such a beautiful fish!

Wow I feel stupid now if I wasn't changing enough water! I have a box of aquarium salt for these exact moments, should I add any of that? Thanks for replying so fast :)

Also it's 6 months old which I cycled before adding any fish

I changed 30% a couple of days ago and I noticed it was quite bad today. theres no other fish in the tank with it and there is nothing white or cloudy on the tips of his fins. I'm extremely sad about this as he's the most beautiful apisto ive seen so far and I dont know whats up with him! I...

Hi, I have a pair of apistos and the male one is beginning to lose his tail, however I'm not sure if someone is nipping it or what it is, it has lost a bit of only his back tail with the top quarter split off from the rest of the tail, I've had them for a few months and never really had any...

I remember testing it back when I was even more of a newbie and it was still off the scale of my test kit. I've checked the waterboard website and it says my postcode and most of england infact have extremely hard water, I also have test strips i bought with my first tank and even though I know...

Nope, no effervescence. Is there any other way to lower the pH that doesn't come with the tea stained look? My girlfriend likes it in the 60L but I really dont! So want something Ill be able to slowly lower the pH and hardness of the tank without the drastic colour change.

6, but currently theres only those 2 ADFs, and a few kuhlis in the tank anyway and it's 60L! I've also seen a few wrigglers in there which I assume were from the CPDs but I don't see how thats possible! I was going to up the number to 10 but they sell for £3.50 each where I am and thats alot for...

I have 2 tanks, both with the argos playsand people use here with one of them having a quite large piece of bogwood in it and the other with a couple of stones but nothing too flashy. I have celestial pearl danio in the tank with the bogwood and they just sit under the same plant 24/7 not...