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Hello. I have a small, heavily planted 6 gallon tank which I have been using to keep some endlers while deciding whether to divide them into my separate sex guppy tanks. I realise they are slightly over stocked, with two males and six females. In just over 3 months none have developed round...

Unfortunately I can only easily buy fish online, so I don’t get to see the conditions or pick out specific fish when I order them. I have another strain that has lovely colours and a sturdier looking tail. I might mix them and see it helps.

That does look possible. The problem guppies are all very slender with heavy tails, while my endlers have much straighter backs and greater swimming ability. This one has a delta tail, and never looked like he enjoyed swimming much.

I’m always overly optimistic that this time it will be better, that my fish won’t **** themselves inside out and die horribly with their intestines wrapped around a plant. I once tried crossing the two breeds to see if I could get a bit of hybrid vigour, but all the offspring had crooked spines...

My guppy has a bad prolapse. I treated him for a milder one a couple of weeks ago, which resolved quickly. This one is worse and he is looking thinner and very weak. I have isolated him for the time being. To me he looks a bit far gone, but guppies can be resilient. How can I prevent this in...

Thanks. She will be moved to her private apartment immediately. She is a real git of a fish.

Can she live alone happily in a 2 gallon for a while? I have some spare decor and bit of guppy grass in to make it more interesting. She is quite problematic as when the other female was giving birth she chased her around the tank eating every fry the moment it was born. Now she attacks the...

I have two tanks the same size. I have a trio of guppies in each tank. One male and two females, with a small number of fry. The biggest female is chasing the other two fish relentlessly, and nipping fins of the male who can’t swim as fast. She never seems to stop. I have a small, cycled, bare...

Wouldn’t it make more sense to pronounce it a bit like Italian?

Thanks. My brief investigation seemed to say that Ndx wasn’t snail safe, but rechecking that’s in marine tanks and the Esha website states it should be safe if dosed correctly.

I have recently bought a trio of guppies, and have some noticed the predicted white stringy poop. The new fish are already showing signs of environmental stress that I have treated with phenoxyethanol and water changes. My tank was cycled, planted, mature and had no fish in before adding them...

I have water with a gh of 17, hornwort dies every time I try it.

I didn’t even pick her out! I bought her on eBay, so she came as a pleasant surprise.

My new guppy! She dropped some fry today but unfortunately perceived the moment of each birth as snack time. Luckily a few escaped. Her tail is larger then the male she is with, I’ve not seen a female with fins so big before.

I had hoped people would be experimenting with breeding wild stock into the population to relieve the inbreeding depression, or playing with hybrid vigor with similar species to make the gouramis stronger and less likely to die. It must be very much cheaper to just keep selling poorly fish...

Thankyou. I’m sad to hear the iridovirus is still such a problem, I was hoping some headway would have been made developing resistant strains by now. I’ll look into getting some really nice guppies instead. One day I will get gouramis and Bettas again but I’m going wait until I have a reverse...

I have just revamped my tanks, two 10 gallons and a 6 gallon. They were overgrown with plants and snails, but now they are sorted I am looking into stocking ideas. With these water parameters I know my options are limited. Have any of you managed to make a dwarf gouramis tank a success in such...

I actually had so many issues with floating plants dying that I introduced duckweed several times only for it to die completely. I thought it was indestructible until kept dying, but now it’s back to being indestructible.

If only that were really simple…

For over a year every floating plant I bought for any of my three nano aquariums died, I tried every species I could. My lights started to fail so I gradually replaced the all with similar spec ones and put tonnes of extra plants in the tanks. This introduced duckweed in one of the tanks. For a...

I guessed (wrongly) that they would need a supply of protein to reproduce successfully. The only food going into the tank is 1/2 - 1 algae wafers every 2 or 3 days. I suppose I could cut back on that, the endlers don’t seem to need much.

I had no idea that my original trio had been reproducing successfully. I now have at least 6 baby ones. The only food they get is algae wafers which they seem to like, all pest snails have been eradicated for a year. So far my three nerites have been undamaged by them. Can I slow the breeding...

Yeah, sorry I had t realised my reply last night didn’t send. It’s an AllPondSolutions 400HO, it was cheap but had good reviews. There are a lot of good sounding suggestions here now but most would need to be ordered from the US.

It sounds internal, the sound doesn’t change when I hold or remove the lid so I don’t think it’s vibrations

Hello. I have just added a new hob filter to my 10 gallon planted tank to try and help with my algae problems, I have been running an air driven sponge filter and figured some extra movement might help. It is deafening! I primed it according to the extremely limited instructions and assembled as...

Nerite snails can be really pretty, they don’t breed but they do sometimes leave eggs around the place. They come in some lovely shapes and patterns.

Thanks, I’ll go for it.

Hello. I went to fit a new light on my low light tank and I noticed that the Anubias has sent up a flower bud. I assume that means the tank is good and stable. Will adding a better light with a dimmer disrupt the balance? The current light is a single T8 with the cheapest 6500k bulb I could...

I just got a new nerite that cleaned every leaf within a week of brown algae, I have another nerite that only eats algae off glass so a couple of them make a nice tank addition, they also don’t breed which is handy

Some months ago I put some potting compost and gravel and water in a table jug to see if I could keep some rotala rotundifolia alive long enough to replant. It was wrapped in a mystery plant. I left it in a sunny window, algae came and then went and a ramshorn snail hitcher found it tolerable...

Thanks, I will do what I can and try some salt in his aquarium. Oddly the infection really got worse when I started adding the treatment for it.

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The tank had been set up for 5 months, it has a sponge filter that was taken from a cycled tank. It gets cleaned in tank water. The betta I got on December, he was 5 months old. The fin rot had been at low levels for several weeks but recently increased, I hoped that keeping up the water changes...