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Melanotaenia praecox were smuggled into Australia back in the early 90s and all the fish in the country originated from 6 individuals. They only cost $50 each back then and weren't being mass produced by companies like Aquarium Glaser in Germany. They were being bred by a few backyard...

Is the light still under warranty? Even if it's not, maybe contact the manufacturer and let them know what is going on. They might send you a replacement power box and you can use it as a back up or on a smaller tank.

It's only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. In my opinion it's a rip off even if it is a holy grail fish. It's not wild caught from the deepest darkest places in the Amazon with no air or road access and where it takes 6 months to get it back to civilisation. It's bred in...

If you did a full treatment of medication and were waiting a week to add more, then don't bother adding more. To remove medications from the water just do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week. You can clean the filter too. That will remove the medication and...

Did you do anything to the aquarium a couple of days ago just before this started? Did you have visitors during that time? Is the fish still eating? What does its poop look like? Does it appear fat/ bloated?

A broad spectrum medication is one that treats bacteria, fungus and protozoan infections. Anything that treats bacteria and fungus should do the job. API General Cure contains Praziquantel and Metronidazole and probably won't do anything for this. Praziquantel treats tapeworm and gill flukes...

Why do you need to change the lights? If you are using LED lights, they don't lose temperature (Kelvin) over time like fluorescent lights do. The only reason you need to change LED lights is when the LEDs stop working because of deliberate manufacturing defects that stop them lasting forever.

Short fin danios have normal size fins and tail. Long fin danios have longer fins and a longer tail. It's quite noticeable if you see the 2 types together. If all the danios have the same length fins they are fine. Your tank has too much water movement for the tetras. The fish are being moved...

good stuff, well done :)

Get a basic model gravel cleaner like the one in the following link and use it each week when you do a water change. the coloured gravel will get mixed up with the sand but at least the sand will be clean. https://www.about-goldfish.com/aquarium-cleaning.html

It could be breeding. Any chance of a video of the fish? Upload videos 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. If...

Something in your aquarium is increasing the pH, GH & KH. Do you have shells, limestone or dead coral in the tank? You should get 2 buckets of tap water. Add some gravel to one bucket and leave the other bucket with only tap water. have the two buckets next to each other for a few days and see...

Unfortunately when fish stop eating and start breathing heavily/ rapidly, it's generally over and the fish normally dies within 24 hours of doing that. I'm not sure what the medication is that requires a week between treatments but if you have a spare container, you could move her into it and...

Any stagnant water will encourage mozzies to lay their eggs there so you have to lift the plant/s out and change the water regularly or scoop the mozzie larvae out with a fine mesh fish net. Mozzie larvae make great fish food :) There's probably not enough room for fish in the under bed storage...

You should do a 75% water change each week due to the volume of water. An established filter should be cleaned at least once a month. Wasting disease (Fish TB) doesn't normally produce sores in that area. It's more likely to be a wound that isn't healing due to a dirty environment allowing...

Make sure you don't overdose. To work out the volume of water in the tank: measure length x width x height in cm. divide by 1000. = volume in litres. When you measure the height, measure from the top of the substrate to the top of the water level. If you have big rocks or driftwood in the...

If the fish poop is coloured (not white) then fish can poop a lot if they eat a lot and it's perfectly normal. However, if the poop is white, it's an issue. https://www.fishforums.net/threads/what-to-do-if-your-fish-has-stringy-white-poop.466276/ I doubt the general hardness (GH) is causing...

Was the aquarium and filter cycled before you added the fish? If yes, how did you do it? Did you do anything to the aquarium a couple of days ago just before this started? Did you have visitors during that time? Is the fish still eating? What does its poop look like? Does it appear fat/...

Which country/ state are you in? What about putting them outside in a tub of water and leaving them to their own devices? Aren't you growing plants for sale now? How is that going? Or is that a dumb question considering you are throwing plants away :)

You can get large plastic storage containers that go under beds, they are about 6 inches high x 2-3 feet long x 2 feet wide. You put a few inches of water in them and have the plants in pots sitting on bricks or something that keeps them out of the water (or partially in it depending on the...

What's a moppy? You don't need the lights on for 12 hours a day if you have artificial plants. You can have the light on in the afternoon till before you go to bed so you can see the fish but without live plants you don't need light except to see the fish. What symptoms (if any) do the fish...

Have a bucket of tank water and if the shrimp or snail looks stressed, move them into the bucket of tank water.

Aquarium backings can be bought from any pet shop or online (ebay). You can also use a plastic bin liner, piece of material or black card. It just gets taped to the back on the outside of the tank. Some people even paint the back but you need the tank empty and outdoors when you do that so not...

Stringy white poop has 3 main causes, internal bacterial infection, internal protozoan infection, and intestinal worms. If the fish is eating normally and only doing stringy white poop occasionally, it's most likely intestinal worms. Internal protozoan and bacterial infections tend to kill the...

Weird one. Scales look too big for a guppy or Gambusia and look more like platy scales. The body shape is wrong for Gambusia but colouration is correct. Calling our resident livebearer expert Dr @emeraldking. He's probably getting drunk with his fish, they like his 0% alcohol beer :)

If you have 15% humidity, it is extremely low and you definitely do not need a dehumidifier, which wouldn't work anyway because they only reduce humidity to about 40%. You could by a humidifier to increase humidity but they are a waste of money and you get the same results from having a couple...

Cabomba either grows in the tank or it doesn't. You can have two tanks set up exactly the same and it will thrive in one and fall apart in the other. It's a pita plant. Ambulia looks similar but is much easier to grow. Cabomba is normally planted in the substrate but you need to take care not...

Did he have the black head and black patch on the side of the body when you got him? The shop might have medicated him (overdosed) or chlorinated him and this could be bruising from chemical poisoning and should clear up over a month if the water is clean.

The black guppy is a male. If it got fat overnight then it's fluid build up in the abdominal cavity. This is normally dropsy but the position of the lump is not in the normal position for dropsy. Dropsy normally stops the fish from eating and they die within a few days of developing symptoms...

How long has it had the sore for? What other fish are in the tank? If you used doxycycline in the aquarium, you probably wiped out the beneficial filter bacteria so you need to monitor ammonia and nitrite levels for the next month. If you have any ammonia or nitrite in the water, or the...

They both look like females. Males have a longer more pointed dorsal (top) and anal (bottom) fins. Females have a shorter more rounded dorsal and anal fin. This species of gourami (Trichogaster trichopterus) is highly territorial and should only be kept on their own or in pairs (1 male & 1...

The Gourami Iridovirus is a stress virus and is common in dwarf gouramis but is also found in all labyrinth fishes (Bettas & gouramis). The fact the fish was fine for a few months before it developed the sore would suggest it's unlikely to be the Iridovirus, which normally affects fish that are...

Fish don't get age spots. On one side it looks like a wound that has become infected by bacteria. On the other side it looks a little raised and could be a tumour or growth of some sort. I am pretty sure it's a bacterial infection that is eroding one side and raised/ inflamed on the other...

The first thing I would do is put a picture on the back of the tank. If you want fish that aren't black to stand out, then use a black background. If you like plants then use a planted background. If you want black fish, use a blue or green background. You could grow Vallis, Ambulia or...

You could put a coverglass on top of the tanks and use a LED spotlight from a hardware or lighting store. Any LED light with a 6500K rated globe will be fine for plants. For small tanks a 10-20watt globe would be adequate but you could have more light if you like.

A 40 gallon container isn't that big and the temperature in the water could vary a bit throughout the day and night. Insulating the outside of the container with 4 inch polystyrene or polyurethane foam rubber would reduce the fluctuations. A bigger container would also fluctuate less. We put...

Post a picture of the fish so we can confirm white spot. Have you added anything to the tank in the 2 weeks before this started? You don't need to remove plants when treating fish. You can treat white spot with heat (30C for 2 weeks) or use chemical based medications that contain copper or...

make sure the water is clean have a dark substrate on the bottom of the container have floating plants to provide shelter give it a few weeks so the fish can get use to the new habitat

Cats are highly territorial and don't like other cats coming into their territory. Your original cat might settle down after time but it's probably never going to be 100% happy with an intruder. Having two cats in the same place is less of an issue if they are siblings and or have been kept...

It has something major going on and doesn't appear to have white spot, which looks like grains of salt sprinkled over the body and fins. How long have you had the fish? How long has it been bent for? How long has it been skinny for? Is it eating normally? Is it swimming normally or in a head...