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The rummynose tetras look like a bad batch that just came in and haven't had a chance to recover from being transported from the fish farm. They have minor damage to the tail and are skinny (as you already noticed). Just feed them well and give them a month in quarantine before moving them. Same...

You should avoid keeping platies and swordtails together because they hybridise. Keep one species per tank not both. If you want a group of swordtails but no babies, get 4 or 5 males and no females.

You need at least 10 Serpae tetras to stop them biting fins. Serpae tetras come from soft acid water. Common Livebearers (swordtails, mollies, platies, guppies) come from harder water with a pH above 7.0. It's preferable not to mix the 2 groups of fish because they require different water...

Does it matter if I see my guppies poo? That depends on if your guppies mind you watching them while they use the bathroom :) Most people don't see their fish poop but sometimes they do. Stringy white poop on livebearers usually means intestinal worms. Section 3 of the following link has...

You need a picture on the back of each tank to make the fish feel more secure. Anubias and Java Fern do best with their rhizome above the substrate. Most people attach them to rocks or wood and let their roots grow down into the substrate. Make sure you can see under and behind any rock piles...

Yes, have a 1/2 to 1 inch thick sheet of polystyrene foam between the tank and table. You can also put polystyrene foam sheets on the back and sides to help insulate the tank and reduce heating costs in winter. Mind you it might not be an issue in Qld.

It's a very open tank without much cover for tetras. There's lots of rocks for the cichlids but nothing for the tetras. Floating plants would help them feel more secure and more plants in general would help. Even if you put a pile of plants in one corner, the fish could hide in that if they felt...

The medication you are using isn't doing the job so you need something stronger (probably antibiotics). However, finding a vet that can treat the fish is probably not going to happen. You can give it a couple more days and if it hasn't improved, then I would euthanise. Sorry if that sounds bad...

Most fish won't take freeze dried foods unless the fish are surface feeders like rainbowfish. Angelfish are not surface feeders. You could try frozen or live brineshrimp and frozen bloodworms.

Are you sure it's iron and if yes, what is the concentration (ppm or mg/L)? Most aquarium plants love iron and will use it to grow. Fish can tolerate 1ppm (or 1mg/L) and will be fine. They can tolerate 2ppm for a few weeks too. If you want it gone I normally recommend doing a big water change...

Looks a lot like colouration. Gold algae eaters don't always stay gold and can develop black, brown or grey markings.

They eat anything. Just let some algae grow on the back and or sides of the tank and they will graze on that and eat any leftover fish food. Some people put a sinking pellet/ wafer in the tank a couple of times a week and let the snails eat that. Remove the pellet/ wafer after 30-60 minutes so...

If the final dose is due tomorrow just wait until 24 hours after that before you do a water change. The medication doesn't appear to be working. The bacterial infection is getting worse and has eroded the fin rays. If you want to save him it will probably mean a trip to a vet for antibiotics...

go for apple or mystery snails, they won't harm plants unless hungry and don't breed out of control. If they do lay a cluster of eggs on the coverglass you can easily see ad remove them if you don't want them.

To my knowledge all Corydoras catfish are sexually mature and capable of breeding at 2 years of age and many can breed when 1 year old. The females also produce more than 6-15 eggs and many females shed 50+ eggs per spawning. Companies like Aquarium Glaser know how to breed fish and Corydoras...

I can't view the page, it says my country is blocked from that site :)

For most medications you can do a water change before adding more medication but some medications add a bit each day and build the levels up. If you are adding the same amount each time you treat the tank then it's fine to do a water change and gravel clean just before adding another dose of...

Picture showing the entire tank? They want more fish in their group, which is why they are hanging out with the cichlids. If you have lots of floating plants or low light on the tank, it will encourage them into more open water. But most fish don't like being in brightly lit tanks especially...

If you haven't already done so, you should contact the company you got the fish from and let them know what is going on. Send them pictures of the dead and sick fish.

When was the last time you did a water change on the main tank? How often do you do water changes and how much do you change? Do you gravel clean the substrate when you do a water change? Do you dechlorinate the new water before adding it to the aquarium? Do you have chlorine or chloramine in...

need pictures where the dots are in focus.

Don't leave food in the water for more than 30 minutes or it will cause ammonia problems.

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What sort of brineshrimp did you try (live, freeze dried or frozen)? It's been over a month and they should be eating. They might have an infection in their mouth that is stopping them or the food you are offering isn't good (it might be old or fungussy). Post some pictures and a video of them...

They do it to make the picture look good and to suck in people who don't know any better.

They are expensive because people selling them are greedy. full stop.

We used to in several of the shops I worked at back in the 90s. One of the shops had about 12 rows of tanks and 1 row was salt water. There were 4? that were livebearer, and Rift Lake cichlids, they had mineral salts added to them when water changes were done. The remaining tanks were just...

You could take it back to the shop where you got it from or get more of them. They need to be in groups of at least 6 (preferably 10) or more. Depending on the tank size (length x width x height) and water chemistry (pH, GH, KH) will determine if you can keep that species in the aquarium. They...

How long have you had the angelfish for? What's the water temperature? If they are new to the tank they might still be settling in. The water chemistry (pH, GH, KH) might not be the same as what they were in before. The water quality (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate) might be a bit off. They might...

There's nothing you can do to help the shrimp molt except make sure the water quality (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate) is good and nothing attacks the shrimp while it's molting and for a few hours after it has molted. Normally when they molt, they absorb the minerals form the old shell and it splits...

looks like a young female emperor tetra (Hyphessobrycon palmeri) but could be a young kerri tetra (Inpaichthys kerri)

Get the other species of fish and the shrimp and any snails out of the white cloud tank because they will be eating the eggs. Same deal with all the tanks. You only want 1 species of fish per tank for breeding and no shrimp or snails because they all eat fish eggs. The Pseudomugils either lay...

much better :)

The length of the hose shouldn't make any difference. If there is air in the system, it is leaking in from something and hoses don't normally leak. It's normally at the joiners or o-rings around the motor.

M. praecox rainbows were going for $50 ea when they first made it onto the market. Those cories are being bred by Aquarium Glaser, a huge German fish farm. They would have hundreds of fish breeding and someone is making a lot of money from people who are silly enough to pay that price. Aquarium...

If the fish hasn't eaten for a few days then it's usually a bad sign and can be due to an internal bacterial infection or poor water quality. However, your water is fine so I'm inclined to think it's an internal infection, which are notoriously hard to treat and in most cases the fish dies...

The GH doesn't normally change in 24 hours of coming out of the tap. However, the pH can change 24 hours after being out of the tap.

You don't need original hoses, you just need to get the air out of the system. It might have a slight leak where the hose clamps are, or the air could be coming in from somewhere else.

You can make a backing for the aquarium out of coloured card, plastic bin liner, black fabric or a sheet of black plastic that builders use or people use to line fish ponds. Anything black and waterproof that can be taped to the outside of the tank will do. I recently saw a material backing that...