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Thanks everyone for the replies! I had no idea the gourami's were capable of such color changes. Very glad to hear they aren't sick...I was getting really worried for awhile....whew!

I purchased a set of 5 golden gourami's a few months ago. Over the last six weeks, their skin seems to becoming darker..and I've become concerned they have fungus or some other disease... Can someone diagnose? I've tried to move them to a seperate tank w/ high salt and medicine for a week at a...

Unfortunately, things aren't going too well.... I went several days w/o any ammo lock and continued to make regular water changes w/ three 15% changes spaced 6hrs apart in the last 18hrs. The fish were fed yesterday, but not today - light has also been minimal. Still, the ammonia level...

I gradually raised the tank temperature to 77 degrees and performed a 4G water change tonight. As for my source of water, for most of the last month, I have been using: a) large reverse osmosis mechanical filter by aquarium pharm. You connect it to a faucet and it pumps out supposively...

here are the latest water test results taken approx 24hrs since the major water change/gravel cleaning last night and approx 30hrs since the last and final dosage of ammo-lock: Jungle Strips: ---------------- pH: 7.2 Akalinity: 60 GH: 150 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: ~10 Marine Labs: ---------------...

yep, I apply a "stress" something or another which has a dechlorination agent whenever water is changed.. I'm not sure if its required though since its reverse osmosis water, which I believe has already been dechlorinated. The anti-ammo stuff I've also been using has a dechlorination agent...

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Just to provide a little bit of gratitude for everyone's help and also to ensure that I've been completely clear about the tank, here are some pictures - taken from different angles and distances.....

even if both of the test kits were somehow misreading ammonia because of prior water conditioners and ammo lock, that wouldn't explain the water being cloudy and there being a smell after 24hrs from water change? I do have a third kit ( the jungle freshwater test strips ) but it doesn't seem to...

I thought about that - that the ammonia readings might be a false positive. However, I actually hvae two test kits - one from aquarium pharm and the other from marinelabs. The aquarium pharm seems to be the better of the two, and uses two bottles. However, both show high readings for ammonia...

yes, the gravel might be a problem....when I added the plants, I put in some finer gravel on top of the original which was very coarse. I did try to keep it as small as possible, but if it could be causing the ammonia to be so wild, I should definitly fix it....

I did test both nitrates and nitrites a few days ago, and redid the nitrite test this morning. The nitrates were slight, .10 or so I think...the nitrites seem to be stuck at 0. I don't think I've ever seen them move. If the ammo-lock is indeed getting in the way of the cycle, than that...

I have a 2yr old son, and in mid june, my wife suggested we buy a fishtank for our son so that he would have something to excite his interest and curiosity.. So, went out and got a 45G tank from petco w/ a moderate power filter. We let the system run for two weeks before adding fish (because...