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Are the other fish acting like the or only just her?

This can mean a lot of things but first How often do you do water changes? How much of the water do you take out? Ammonia levels? Nitrite levels? Nitrate levels? Ph? Gh? Kh? How long has the tank been set up? Did you cycle your tank? How long ago did you purchase your Pearl Gourami? We need to...

Yes I believe you will be able to house 6 of them since they are really small, but you will be reaching your limit as far as stocking levels go. I would not add anything else in your aquarium after you add the 6 pygmy Corydoras. I would say if you are getting plants to get fast growing plants...

I use a 15 gallon rubbermaid tub as my quarantine tank, I bought it at dollarama for like 5$ a lot less compared to buying an actual tank. I only had to buy a filter and a heater the total cost was probably around 30-50$ C'ant remember

Most of the cycling they are talking about are taking account you are going to be adding fish in the tank, For an invert tank you do not have to cycle your tank unless you are going to have shrimp, crabs,crawfish. you can cycle your tank to be on the safe side but it is not needed since the...

No problem. Im glad all of your plants have been growing really good and are healthy! I can not really tell you what exactly well work, and the exact intensity needed to grow your plants since there are way too many factors involve within your aquarium that can affect the right intensity. for...

That does not really look like a tumor to me, it looks more like some disease or external infection in my oppinion, could you possibly provide a better photo? That area looks to discoloured to me to be a tumor but I am not exactly sure.

Most aquariums when first set up are clear and look beautiful. after a couple weeks they usually go into different phases before it becomes an established system. They can start getting algae blooms, bb bloom, cloudiness. In general they do not look their best during this phase. Overtime your...

Your honey gourami's gills seem a little red to me, which means he could have possibly been exposed to some levels of ammonia or nitrite. You can try feeding your gourami peas for 1 week to see if that helps, fast for 2 days, feed peas on third day, fast for another 2 days and then feed peas...

You should test your tap water for ammonia using the same test kit, your tap water should always be 0 ppm of ammonia since ammonia is toxic to humans also, you can also test another water source that you know definitely has 0 ppm of ammonia. I do not have many experience with the tetra ammonia...

The only bottom feeders I can think of are possibly pigmy cories and Otocinclus catfish Otocinclus catfish are really sensitive to any changes in water chemistry, they are mostly kept by more experienced fish keepers. If you want to keep them you have to make sure your aquarium is really stable...

If the cherry shrimp are a male and a female they will breed naturally and very easily. In a couple months you will have lots of cherry shrimp babies. Make sure you have enough cover for your cherry shrimp to escape too or hide. It is more important for the babies since they are more vulnerable...

In my experience: My betta was aggressive towards my cherry shrimp and would sometimes would hunt for my cherry shrimp. When I first added the cherry shrimp to my tank my Betta relentlessly hunted for them for hours and hours. Even when my betta would catch a couple of the shrimp, my shrimp...

Nice tank you got there!!

Nice! Just make sure you watch the water quality. Hope everything goes well!

You could add them to your tank. just know There are some diseases that do not show up at the 2 week mark and show up later. Even if you wait the 4 week mark there is no guarantee that your fish will be disease free. But the chances of them transmitting or getting a disease to your tank is...

Your nitrate levels are good! Make sure you keep nitrate below 40 ppm, nitrate levels above 40 ppm is toxic to fish Nitrite should be at 0 ppm at all times, any level above 0 is toxic to fish and can kill Ammonia should be at 0ppm at all times, any level above 0 is toxic to fish and can kill

For the most part if amazon sword leaves are ripped or cut they will not repair themselves, the leaf might not die but it will not change or regrow. if you check the photo that I sent there is a amazon sword leaf at the bottom that is cut it was there for around a month, since I wanted to see if...

Looks like the plant you bought was grown immersed most of its leaves look immersed. the immersed leaves will all eventually die off since they are not made to be submersed under water there made to be outside of water, you can leave them for now just cut off all the ones that start to die...

NP. Its really common in bettas since they never know when to stop eating and they're always begging for food even when they are not hungry. Because of this a lot of beginners fall victim to overfeeding their bettas thinking that they are hungry. I have fallen victim to their tricks also...

When I had my led light I was too inpatient and turned up the intensity way too quick. I turned it all the way up to 80% when I had newly purchased plants and my tank was covered in string algae from top to bottom it was a mess. Afterwards I turned it all the way down to 40% and have waited a...

This has happened to my betta when he started to become more elderly, Make sure you keep an eye on him to see any signs of disease. For now just keep on top on water changes and keep his environment clean, It is also possible he could have some disease. keep an eye on him and see if he has any...

Could you send a photo? If your amazon sword leaves are more round in form, then that is the immersed form leaves those types will not survive underwater, they will eventually die. immersed growth are when the leaves of plants are grown outside of water and the roots are underwater. They are...

I think its is natural bacterial film growing on the wood, it usually happens the newly purchased or introduced wood to your tank. No harmful effects to your plants or fish. Overtime it well eventually go away naturally.

Great information and advice has already been said. I would just like to add that Information can be confusing, contradicting and overwhelming at times. Try your best to just have fun taking care of fish and do not stress yourself too much about it.

Anything that is rotting will cause ammonia the beneficial bacteria in your tank will convert the ammonia to nitrite and then to nitrates. Since your nitrates are still high later on during the day the sooner the better do another 75% water change to bring the nitrates down to 40ppm, and then...

Yes np anytime! I am not familiar with any of the uk products since I do not have them available over here where I live, so I would have to let someone else who his familiar with UK medication products to help you sorry. sounds good! Hopefully you can find someone to help you with finding a...

No question is stupid don't worry! Yes every fish will eat the garlic soaked fish food and will not do any harm. Actually Garlic is commonly used to encourage fish who are not eating to eat and also encourage fish to eat food they never ate before. Fish are really attracted to the smell of...

I advise you to do water changes once a week 25-50% for the first month to have an idea of how much nitrates will be entering your tank on a weekly bases with your bio-load, since your tank is new and you have not had the aquarium for long. Also you should test your water(nitrates...

Np, I would recommend to do daily water changes and see how the fish is, if he starts improving and acting normal or the fungus starts decreasing I would continue doing daily water changes and feeding the fish food with garlic until it is all gone, after the fungus is gone do 1 more 50-75% water...

It looks like fungus to me. You should immediately do a water change. try soaking the food you feed him in garlic, garlic helps improve the immune system of fish. Also you should do daily 50-75% water changes daily while feeding your fish garlic soaked food and see if that helps. Clean water...

You should immediately do a large water change. and then test the water 30 mins later after the water change to see what your nitrate levels are at. Try to get the nitrates to at least 40ppm and lower. Ideally 20ppm and lower. How often do you do water changes? Are your nitrates normally high...

I first starting kepping fish when I was 10 years old in 2016,my first tank was a betta fish in a bowl?, I did not know anything about keeping fish at all. Later on over the years I learned more about fish and realized that I was pretty cruel to the bettas I kept. So in 2018 I bought my first...

It seems like shell erosion to me. Shell erosion happens when their is a defiecency of calcium in the aquarium, not enough calcium in the aquarium for the nerite. Calcium helps keep the shells of snails looking nice, hard and healthy. When there is not enough calcium the shell starts to kind of...

No I do not think they can see the algae, I think they do sense the algae tho For the most part they don't seem to hunt for algae they scavenge more. They will go all over your tank every corner, glass, substrate, plants. and eat whatever food they stumble upon they will eat that is edible. I...

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He is pro He was probably still adjusting to your tank. When I first added my nerite snail he barely moved for the first couple of days. Also when they sleep they usually sleep for a full day for me. Leave the algae he well eventually eat the algae and they do not really eat much other food...