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No doesn't look like ich - not dandruffy or progressing from her tail base - she is fine none of the fish are flicking or hiding and all eating normally. Although the other platy is slow at coming out to feed and not herself

I have a sunrise platy (who doesn't appear sick) which has had white like fluff to length of base of tail fin for approx 3 months and has not responded to treatment: melafix, primafix and most recently 4 weeks treatment with interpret treatment anti fungus and finrot. Another platy has now...

Thanks all for the help, comments and support - its been really apreciated i can tell you! At the moment - things are looking up - the remaining fishies are, how can i say this looking perkier than they have done in a long time, but who knows what the cause of them getting better is, the...

Thanks for all the support - woke up this morning to another dead tetra with no fins left at all :-( We have now taken 2 hours and given the tank a thorough going over to get rid of the brown algae - and done our usual 20% water change. Have boosted the tank temps to 24-25 as they were around...

We bought our fish tank only about 2 months ago, as the wifey has always wanted to keep fish. We bought a 120l tank and were off, we cycled the tank according to all the guides - and bought 4x mollies and 3 platties and gave the little blighters their freedom. Everything seemed ok - weekly...

Thanks folks.... Ill take back the heater today :-)

Hi, We have a 125L tank that came with a 100W heater - and its been getting the water temps to 22-24 deg's during the day - wake up in the morning at 22 - by the time sleepy time comes its 24. We heard that this stresses the fish of its fluctuating too much, so asked at the pet shop. They...

Hi, a few weeks back we bought some new fish and added them to tank that was working well. They must have brought whitespot with them, as in a week all the fish had whitespot. We treated the tank, lost one fish but all the others recovered and no whitespots left. Now on to the emergency bit...

Hi, Thanks for the info, we are trying to be good - dont want to cause any unsessecary upset to the the little things... Just had a look at the agressive mollie, and she looks all bloated. Theres no males in the tank after checking for those fin things, so she hopefully not pregnant...could...

Hi, We added the bacterial stuff to the water while we were cycling. Ta

Hi, Ph is 7 Ammonia is at 0 Nitrate is around 15, Niterite is 0.1 Tank was cycled for 3 weeks before i added any fish. If it was constipation, can they die from that?

Ok then, Just started with this whole tropical fish lark, and somethings gone Fishy! We bought a 120l tank, cycled it, and went ahead and bought 4 marble molly's and 3 sunset platty's (i think thats what they were) Everything was fine - doing all of the normal water changes, weekly checks on...