Search results

Could be anything but if the customer bought it as such, then it probably is a taeniatus. Don't know about the green part tho. It's not happy where it is and if it's a Pelvicachromis taeniatus, it's probably wild caught and wants soft acid water. Unlike the rainbowfish it's in with that prefer...

Probably just a common kribensis considering it's in a mixed shop tank.

Your hair looks a bit like Chers did back in the 70s. Your becoming a hippy :) How's life treating you besides the art, you manage to get to Spain for treatment yet?

He has blood in his fins, which is a bacterial infection. The Kanamycin should help. If it doesn't the fish might have a drug resistant bacterial infection. The stringy white poop can be from intestinal worms, an internal bacterial infection, or an internal protozoan infection. The internal...

You can try doing bigger water changes. I like 75% water changes because they dilute disease organisms more effectively than smaller water changes. Apart from that you seem to be doing everything right. This would suggest a possible disease is causing the problem. When fish go off their food...

Does the fish go to the surface a lot and gasp for air? If yes, she might have air in her intestine, which is causing her to have buoyancy problems. Increasing aeration/ surface turbulence can increase the oxygen level in the water and reduce the need for the fish to go to the surface for air...

If you read the article (section 3) that I posted about stringy white poop, it shows medications for the UK. In the UK look for: eSHa gdex contains praziquantel that treats tapeworm and gill flukes. eSHa-ndx contains levamisole and treats thread/ round worms. NT Labs Anti-fluke and Wormer...

I have never seen rainbowfish kill other rainbowfish at home or at shops but I have always had them in groups of 10 or more per tank. However, I have had people come onto forums and they have had a male rainbowfish (normally Glossolepis incisus) kill other fish. It's not common and it's just...

If you kept the old filter media wet, you can put that in the new filter so the tank doesn't cycle again. If you aren't feeding a lot of food the nitrates won't go up that quickly. And if you have all new filter media (materials) then you will need to cycle the tank and it will take a few days...

You can be worried about drug resistant bacteria, which are appearing on more and more fish. However, the fact it appears to be slightly better is a good sign. Monitor the damaged areas (dorsal fin and top of his tail) for red areas and white fluffy stuff. The red areas (not always easy to see...

How long has the tank been set up for? How long have you had the fish for? What is the ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH of the water? What sort of filter is on the aquarium? How often and how do you clean the filter? What sort of filter media/ materials are in the filter? How often do you do...

Did you transfer the old filter into the new tank? If yes you don't need to cycle it because the beneficial filter bacteria is already in the filter. You can start doing water changes now, 50-75% water change and gravel clean the substrate once a week. Make sure any new water is free of...

How long have you had him for (8 months)? Was he full grown when you got him? What sort of filter is on the aquarium? How often and how do you clean the filter? Do you gravel clean the substrate when you do a water change each week? Do you dechlorinate the new water before adding it to the...

Intestinal worms don't stop or reduce fish from eating. If fish don't eat as much and do a stringy white poop, they have an internal protozoan infection. https://www.fishforums.net/threads/what-to-do-if-your-fish-has-stringy-white-poop.466276/

rock salt for food is fine to use

It looks about the same to me, maybe slightly better but not majorly better. Keep treating for another week and it should have healed by then if it's going to. To add rooibos tea you just add a small amount to the aquarium. You can add as much as you like (within reason) but the more you add...

The lemon tetra looks like it has been bashed. If there's no fish in the tank that would do that, it might have gotten caught under or behind something and panicked, and was injured during that. Clean water should allow it to recover, which you have been doing. You can add some salt if you like...

A video of the fish rubbing on things will provide info too. Upload video to YouTube, then copy & paste the link here. If you use a mobile phone to film the fish, hold the phone horizontally (landscape mode) so the footage fills the entire screen and doesn't have black bars on either end.

SALT You can add rock salt (often sold as aquarium salt), swimming pool salt, or any non iodised salt (sodium chloride) to the aquarium at the dose rate of 1 heaped tablespoon per 20 litres (5 gallons) of water. If there is no improvement after 48 hours you can double that dose rate so there is...

Post another picture of the blue ram? It appears to have a bend in the spine and doesn't look like a good quality fish. You might be better off taking that one back if it's a dud (deformed).

If there's a water quality problem you can re-test the tank water an hour after a water change. Post a picture of the fish showing the red side. It might be a bacterial infection. How long has it been rubbing on things? rubbing on objects can be an external protozoan infection like white spot...

A lot of fish photographers do that. Gerald Allen used to carry a small photographic tank with him and put fish in that after he caught them. The tank was only about 10 inches long x 4 inches wide x 8 inches high. They use small narrow tanks so the fish has to stay in the area and can't really...

Most professional wildlife photographers crop pictures. They use a high resolution (24MB) and take a decent picture then crop the part they want.

sorry, that was me farting :blush:

It's excess mucous produced by the fish, probably to cover an injury. The fish also has a layer of excess mucous over its entire body and fins (the creamy film). The fish has a damaged tail and is sitting on the bottom of the aquarium. ------------------- How long has the tank been set up...

Not sure if those pumps have an air filter but if they do, maybe clean it and see if it helps. I used to port normal air pumps and it let them pump more air through, which kept them cooler but they made more noise. I just made the intake and outlet holes bigger and the holes in the air chamber...

It just looks like they have eaten a lot. If fish get dropsy they don't eat, they just swell up and get really fat, much fatter than yours. Then they die. With newly imported fish that are skinny, you should feed them 3-5 times a day and give them frozen food each day after they have eaten the...

I tried to send rainbowfish and eggs over to the US years ago but the government wanted too much info and paperwork done. We can only send them out if they have been captive bred for at least 10 generations and there is no way to prove that. People do sometimes get eggs out of here and they used...

What symptoms did you come up with that match your fish? Most people on the internet have never dealt with or had TB confirmed in their fish so a lot of the information isn't always correct. Mycobacteria normally cause problems to the internal organs of the fish. The bacteria grow slowly over...

Freshwater crayfish similar to the Yabby, Gilgie or Marron found in Australia. According to the internet there are two species of freshwater crayfish there. Paranephrops zealandicus and Paranephrops planifrons. It could also be an introduced species if someone nearby is farming something from...

The fish farmers don't care if a fish dies 6 months after they sell it. It means they can sell more. The more fish they sell, the more money they make. Fish have no rights and most fish farmers don't care if their fish have intestinal worms, external protozoan infections, Columnaris or TB. As...

Try not to zoom in. The more you zoom in the more camera shake you get and the crappier the picture will be. Most cameras also have 2 types of zoom (normal and digital). Normal zoom will extend a lens a short way and digital zoom tends to crop the outside of the picture and stretches the image...

Fish TB (Mycobacteria) is very common now thanks to various fish farms in Asia sending out infected fish. Mycobacteria is found in virtually every pet shop, importer and exporter around the world. Most fish do die from other causes before TB kills them but many die from TB. Dwarf gouramis...

Did you quarantine the new fish for a month before adding them to the main display tank? When the pH is 8.2, any ammonia will be toxic to fish. If you have an ammonia reading of 1ppm and a pH above 7.0, you should do a 75% water change every day until the level is 0ppm. Need pictures and video...

Guppies and common livebearers (mollies, swordtails, platies) used to be good beginner fishes about 50 years ago. Since then they have become inbred and weak. they are also riddled with intestinal worms and regularly carry external protozoa and bacteria that can kill them within days to weeks of...

I don't know what fish you have. What conflicting info are you concerned about? Rainbowfish are normally peaceful but some big males (especially Glossolepis incisus) can get aggressive and bully smaller males and have been known to kill males and females. This normally occurs if you have 1 male...

Normally you add the medication to the water and let it do its job. The problem with feeding fish medication is you don't know how much each fish needs or how much each one gets. Some fish might eat a lot and others eat none, there's no way to accurately dose each fish, hence the reason you add...

The pair tried to breed and failed 2 times. The male blamed the female and drove her out of the area. He would have tried with another female if another came into his territory but that doesn't happen in an aquarium unless you swap females. The female could have been stressed to death or died...

Yeah that's fine and what I did. I had rainbows outdoors in tubs and when the temperature dropped I scooped out any they slowed down or looked stressed and left the others there. The ones remaining outdoors that survived the first winter went on to produce a coldwater strain of fish that could...

Prolapse intestine (part of the intestine sticking out the butt) is caused by inbreeding and weak fish. Keep feeding the fish a varied diet and hope it goes back in by itself. If it doesn't the fish usually dies within a few days.