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Can attest to the black background and black substrate with black fish bit, I have a neon black red tail platy and I have the hardest time finding her in my tank unless she’s right by the glass because its not all black background and substrate, it has small bits of color just like her and she...

She’s a betta😁 but I agree she’s very pretty, nice fish OP!

I wouldn't mind a zoom meeting, although I would have to ask my parents and I would probably only participate in the chat, but if they say yes I'll be game as long as I'm able to make the time!

I spoke to a couple of employees at a couple different fish stores and the general agreement seems to be that she (and my other two that died after having the same symptoms) had some sort of internal infection/disease that I couldn’t have prevented. Because the fish were from different stores...

Awesome, thank you! Do you think I should do another gravel vac today or tomorrow to make sureI have all the bad bacteria from the fish out or is it ok?

I’m not sure when I’ll be able to get the fish, I was going to call the fish store today and see if they had them/could order them. Should I go and get a nerite snail now just to have some source of ammonia?

Yes, the tank has been up and running for around 6 months

I’m not sure if this is the right sub forum to post this question on, but I couldn’t figure out one better. I almost completely re-did my 10g quarantine/hospital tank yesterday because I accidentally left a dead fish in it for almost a week (I feel terrible about it :sick:.) The tank was sitting...

I’ve bought both my current tanks secondhand off of Facebook Marketplace, and I haven’t had any trouble. They both came with filters, heaters, and substrate and one came with fake plants. I washed everything with hot water and let them soak overnight and everything was fine. Of course, there...

So before you guys get really steamed about this, just know that I feel absolutely terrible about what happened and I take full responsibility. I think I killed my nerite. I put a sick fish into my 10 gallon quarantine/hospital tank, and the fish ended up dying. This was my favorite fish...

Ok, thank you so much. I don’t have the option to feed them all the fancy foods, I can probably get one other thing to feed them. What do you recommend? I’m trying to do a water change/gravel vac every week, but sometimes it’s two weeks. Other than that, I really don’t know what else to do.

Ok so, Please don’t blame me for this. I’m under a ton of stress right now and coming home to her laying on her side behind a plant kinda broke me down. She’s still alive, a fact which I discovered while going to get her out. But she’s pretty bad. I don’t think she’ll make it until morning...

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The original three were together for over a year. The first one to die like this had been added around 6 months later. Yes my tank is fully cycled, it’s been running for just around a year. I do water changes once every week-two weeks, I test every week and vacuum the substrate. I just don’t...

This is the third goldfish I’ve lost to this. Please, someone help me figure this out so I don’t lose my last one.

She’s dead. I don’t know why all my fish keep dying like this. Exactly like this. I don’t know what to do. I’m so incredibly sad, she was my favorite fish 😭😭. I don’t know what to do. How do I stop this.

Right! I wasn't talking about meds, I was talking about the fasting regime that I'm doing with the other fish :)

UPDATE: Video was taken just before I moved her into the small tank around 1:45 pm CST yesterday. She seemed to be swimming better then, and seems to be swimming better now as well. I will post a video of her in the small tank once it's uploaded. While we're on the subject of treating "swim...

I've been having swim bladder problems with my fish for a while, and it's come to my attention that it is most likely caused by the way I'm feeding them. They get tropical flakes once a day, fast on Sundays, and occasional peas (I know they need more plant matter, I'm growing duckweed for them...

She was eating fine yesterday, but she didn’t come up to eat today. Yes, I am going to move her to the other tank as soon as possible. I want to test the parameters to make sure they are still ok, and match the temp as close as I can.

Thank you! After reading that, it looks like I might have better results by moving her to the smaller tank so I don't have to fast my other three as well. Do you recommend starting with the fasting first or the peas first?

Oh gosh, I completely forgot to mention this until now. Two out of the three goldfish that have died have gone to this corner of the tank before passing away. One was directly behind a plant, which is where she is now, and one was in the corner. This is part of why I'm freaking out. One had what...

This was taken around 7 am this morning CST.

I’ve had to leave for school, but a video I took this morning showed me trying to nudge her with the net and her just kind of drifting away. She also was laying behind the pirate barrel instead of in the corner, and she didn’t eat this morning. I’m stumped.

You're right, that does kinda look like what shes doing. Thing is, why is she doing it now? Shes been in this tank for just over a year, and the platies have been in for at least two months. If she is panicking, what can I do to help her? I have an empty (except for a nerite) cycled 10g tank...

This was taken last night around 6:20 pm CST

I don't think it is, she's worse this morning. Trying to upload videos, will post when I can

Yes just slightly. Was consistently at 74.5, now is at 75.5 do I need to bump it up more?

Bumping because I’m starting to get seriously concerned, this has been happening for over a day now. She’s my favorite fish, I don’t want her to die

My goodness, that’s quite the accomplishment! Good for her!

Our target age range is 10-70, but we are allowing older and younger to walk/run the course :D whoever wants to walk it sure can!

To whoever voted no, could you explain why? I want to know what would turn people off from running the race :) thank you!

Thank you to the mod who moved it! (edited to fix punctuation)

@Fishmanic @Essjay @WhistlingBadger @emeraldking can one of you guys move this to the emergency section please? She hasn't gotten any better and I want more opinions on what might be wrong. Thanks.

We haven't quite figured that out yet, we're still in the very very beginning stages lol. Thinking maybe around 7-12ish dollars? Very unsure on that point ATM.

I agree, and that’s what the adults who moderate us were saying as well. I thought I would ask here just to get an idea, since it’ll be strangers signing up for it and everyone here is strangers too lol. And thank you! We are really excited to get it up and running next spring :D

I’ve edited my main post to clarify some points lol, forgot to add it’s for a charity, etc.

So I thought I would ask this here, just to get a wide variety of people answering. I’m in a group that is putting on a 5k, and we were wondering whether or not to prominently display that we are “kids”. Without knowing me or my friends, would you run a 5k put on by us? EDIT: We are planning on...

Problem here is, I don’t really have enough to cover the tank. Might have to buy more

The thing is, she doesn't act sick, she's eating, swimming, and pooping just fine. She just is laying on the substrate under the heater a lot. My line of thought was that she was cold? The tank temp dropped maybe .5-1 degrees over the course of the last couple days because it just got cold where...