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As Gary said, domesticated cichlids of all types regularly eat their eggs and or fry for a few batches before they work out they shouldn't Angelfish are notorious for it and they eat the eggs a couple of times, then the babies as soon as they hatch, then the babies when they start swimming. Then...

White spot can affect cold or warm water fishes but is more commonly seen on tropical fish like clown loaches. We also saw it on common livebearers (mollies, guppies, platies, swordtails), most tetras, some barbs and rasboras and sometimes on Corydoras. Clown loaches were the worst for it and...

Carbon isn't going to do anything in a bag of fish. We used zeolite and a small piece of neutral block when we were shipping fish that were going to spend 24 hours or more in the bag. The zeolite was used to remove ammonia from the water and the neutral block helped stop the pH dropping. We...

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Intestinal worms don't kill fish quickly and most fish carry some all the time. Just get the Flubendazole based medication and use that when it arrives. You might have to work out the amount of medication, I don't know if they have dose rates on the packaging for fish. I'm no good at maths so if...

The blue stuff in the water can be Methylene Blue or any liquid medication that turns the water blue. Other medications can have ingredients like Malachite Green, Formaldehyde/ Formalin, etc. The fish sedative used on jumbo fish is called MS222 and is used on large fish, not adult cardinal...

What are the tank dimensions (length x width x height)? An adult pair of Discus need an aquarium that is at least 4 foot long x 2 foot wide x 2 foot high. ------------------- What is the GH (general hardness), KH (carbonate hardness) and pH of your water supply? This information can usually...

Blurk, gross :( It looks like a tumour. There's no cure for them and due to the area, I would euthanise the fish.

Post a picture of the gourami with the patch on its head. Re the gourami that died, it could be dropsy but could be TB. I would assume the worse and work on that just in case it is TB. Dropsy doesn't always cause the scales to stick out and is normally caused by internal organ failure whereby...

Just use a basic model gravel cleaner (tube and hose) like the one in the following link. There's a picture of one about half way down the page. https://www.about-goldfish.com/aquarium-cleaning.html

Can you pour the used tank water outside on the lawn? I would bleach the bath after pouring aquarium water in it. Pour some liquid bleach over the bath, wait 15-30 minutes and rinse off. Make sure there's plenty of air flow so you don't damage your lungs or sinuses from the bleach. If you...

There's blue green algae (Cyanobacter bacteria) in the substrate caused by nutrients and light. It's not a big issue where it is but you don't want it spreading through the tank.

Sand is usually fine enough to settle and not allow too much stuff through so you normally gravel clean the top 1/2 inch and leave the rest. however, you should do a deep clean about once a month whereby you push the gravel cleaner right down and let the sand circulate in the gravel cleaner...

You can usually keep female bettas with other fish but try to avoid keeping them with similar coloured fish, brightly coloured fish, or fish that live in the upper half of the tank (this is where bettas live, in the top half). You should also try to keep fish that require the same water...

The choice is yours if you try another medication. If you have access to Doxycycline and are willing to buy it, then give it a go, but if they don't improve within a week, then stop medicating and prepare to euthanise. Doxycycline will wipe out beneficial filter bacteria and should be used in a...

time for a cigarette but they don't work underwater

Dwarf gouramis (Colisa lalius) and all their colour forms are regularly infected with the Gourami Iridovirus and or Mycobacteria (Fish Tuberculosis, aka Fish TB). There is no cure for either and once those diseases are in your tank, they are there until you disinfect everything including the...

Fish swim mostly from left to right and vice versa. A bigger surface area (length x width) is much more important than height so a 20 long would be better than a 20 high. If you have a male and female fish in the same tank and they are well fed and cared for, they will usually breed. When this...

Possibly Malaysian livebearing snails (aka Malaysian trumpet snails). If they are, they are the worst snail to get and nearly impossible to kill. They live in the gravel and hide during the day and come out at night. The only way to kill them is to add copper to the tank for a few weeks to take...

Get a solar panel, storage battery and a power inverter and run a normal aquarium water pump.

Normally they have shipping prices on their website.

I used a Bissel carpet shampooer around my tanks and never had an issue. It used a liquid shampoo mixed with water and had a minor perfume odor to it but I never had issue. I did use air pumps to run the filters. My tanks had coverglass. I did have the window open and we used to have the...

Is the fish eating normally? How long has it had stringy white poop? Is it swimming around normally? How long has it been acting unwell? If a fish gets fat overnight, does a stringy white poop and stops eating, it has an internal bacterial infection and the fish usually dies within 24-48 hours...

Swordtails and platies will hybridise

Why are you adding bacteria? The gill cover doesn't normally grow back. It shouldn't affect the fish as long as it doesn't get infected over the next few days. If you do a water change every day for the next week it should allow the gill cover to heal in cleaner water and reduce the chance of...

If they get a green sheen on their body they might be worth trying to find but I think the biggest problem you will have is obtaining the black line tetras.

stop buying fish and breed the ones you have :)

The Canadian dollar must be worth a bit if he can afford to go jet setting for fish eggs. Or did he steal the TFF Learjet :)

When you say replaced filter parts, what parts did you change? I would do more frequent water changes for a few weeks if you can. Try to do a 50% every day if possible or every couple of days. See if it helps. What do you feed the fish? You could try live brineshrimp and see if it eats that...

If you cycled the aquarium correctly there shouldn't be any nitrite. The whole purpose of doing a fishless cycle is so you can add all the fish at once and not have to worry about ammonia or nitrite problems. Post pictures of the fish so we can check them for disease. If you have pictures of...

The sponge or media pad in the filter could have carbon in. If it does, the carbon will remove the fertiliser from the water. This will happen until the carbon is full at which point it will stop removing anything from the water. As a general rule you don't need carbon in the filter. Carbon is a...

Use a gravel cleaner to clean the gravel each week when you do a partial water change. You won't disturb the fish or plants and can clean the gunk out of the substrate without having to take the tank apart. Fish need clean water to reduce the chance of diseases and so they don't suffer from...

We have lots of snakes that can do that, not just one :) The inland taipan is our most dangerous snake. It's highly venomous (1 drop can kill 100 adults), aggressive and bites repeatedly. It also injects a lot of venom each time it bites. All taipans are dangerous and should be left alone and...

Picture of the algae so we can ID it?

I hope your dad isn't one of those train drivers that beeps the horn every time he goes past the station here. Boy that's annoying at 3am :) Red-eye tetras are fin nippers and whilst they shouldn't hassle the silvertips, I wouldn't keep them with anything you value (I don't like them :( )...

The entire country has a housing crisis due to covid causing everyone to come back here to live, and the stupid federal government bringing in over 1 million immigrants last year, and the state governments refusing to build public housing for the last 20 years. Right now there are over 1 million...

If you get bitten by the snakes around here you die unless you get to hospital straight away. If you don't use a pressure bandage on the bite site and get to hospital asap, you can be dead in 15 minutes :( A couple of rules when handling predatory reptiles. 1) Always wash your hands before...

I agree with Archerfish on the 17watt lights being too much for a small aquarium. If you can provide more info on the current set up we might be able to sort out the plant problem without having to get another light. Post a picture showing the entire aquarium with the light on. What are the...

When I read that I thought you might be going to Rio. Then I read the rest. :) It should be nice when done so make sure you post a picture of it when it's finished.

You buy brineshrimp eggs and hatch them in salt water. You can use swimming pool salt to make up the salt water or sea water if you have access to it. There are farms in Western Australia that use salty ground water for their brineshrimp. You might be able to find a microworm culture online and...