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If hes acting fine do you think hes in pain? Thankyou for all your help i mean i think i will just leave him and hope itll all be fine in the end. Cheers again!

He poops small amounts which look normal and white, there doesnt seem to be anything attached to him and he is a normal color everywhere, no red? Theres no change, shall i keep giving them peas?

Was very hard to do but it feels hard, very like the rest of him, not liquidy at all. I added some more stress zyme to the tank afterwards it was very stressfull for both of us! :) I remembered i thought i saw a grey leach about an inch in the tank, it was kind of dead i believe it came into the...

Hes acting fine?!?!?! Is touching it going to stress him out?? I have never held my fish before is it safe?

Havent seen him poop and will feed them peas now this is a picture of him, his right side is much more bloated than the left which is hardly any bigger or which looks bigger because of the angle He is acting fine if a bit more agressive is there anything to worry about?

My male dwarf blue gourami is really bloated? His scales arent raised and it doesnt really look like dropsy, he is swimming normal although a little slow and is feeding fine? What could be wrong with him? I fed them blood worm yesterday could he have over eaten?

Cheers all the fish look fine i can tell you i wont forget it again!

I did my weekly 10lt water change for my REKORD 96lt but forgot to add the dechlorinator. I remembered about 2mins after and added it straight to the tank and went overboard and added like 4times as much because i thought the water might have dispursed. Will this have any bad effects? Will the...

Cheers simonbrown403 that guide was very helpful i think ill do this on the weekend!

Well having bought a fair few plants for my aquarium, they have started to go yellow. From reading around I think it is because they arent getting enough light. The tank is a Jewel Rekord 96 and i have been told the lighting system is rubbish so if i want to have beautiful healthy plants ill...

Well I bought a 15g aquarium 4 months ago now. Not knowing to much about fish I first bought 4 zebra danios. These became very agressive towards each other so I was advised by the LFS to add some larger fish to distract them. So I got 2 black tetras and one scissortail and one lemon tetra on...

Thanks everyone cant wait to see them all swiming in their new home!

Will keep the 15g but not up and running, just in case i need it for emergencys. Then once i move house i may start it up again. So its best to use the gravel and all the decorations in the new tank. Should i run the old filter and the new one at the same time to get the new one bacterialised...

Have an established 15g and am buying a new 25g on the weekend, whats the best way to swap?

Thankyou for all you help but Mango died today. I guess he couldnt be cured, but his memory will stay alive in my avatar! Rest in piece Chief Tiki Tiki...

Thats what i got told, that and something like kidney faliure, he does kind of look like the scales are out and hes a bit bloaty, I was told that a treatment of salt would make it better but if he dies they would replace him for me.

I went to my LFS with him and they told me he had dropsy. I now have some medcine and hopefully he will get better!

Do you think he could just be hiding? And not ill?

I think it is at 0 but the test colours only go as low as 0.3

Test came today results are pH= 7.5 Nitrite= 0mg/l Ammonia= <o.3mg/l This is all fine isnt it? Whats my next step? Should i take him to the lfs that i got him from?

Thankyou! Lets hope i have enough money on my card, man money goes so fast i can hardly remember where half of it went!

Tank has been set up for 4months now it is 16gallons with the male the female, 4 zebra danios and 2 black widows. I do weekly water changes of 20% and use dechlorinator each time i change the water and i weekly add stress zyme and stress coat using the information on the bottles label. Are there...

Hes about 3weeks since i added him and hes the last one to be added. I dont know whether he is sinking or he is just choosing to stay at the bottom. As far as i can see there are is nothing wrong but that otherwise he looks healthy. The other fish are all fine and swimming around ok. I have to...

Have changed the water, and I changed the layout so that he has some bogwood caves to hide in, which he was done. I’m really worried, I have seen him eat which requires him to come to the surface but then he just sinks to the bottom. I gave the tank some bloodworm a few days ago which he ate the...

I dont know about the water stats as i have run out of tests and cant get another till the weekend. The other fish are all fine and my female is acting normal. I took him out of the water and nothing looked wrong. He just lets himself sink to the bottom and stays there looking helpless. Is there...

My male Apistogramma viejita is gasping for air at the bottom of the tank? Do you think he has somehting stuck in his throat? I gave him some peas today they were cut up but one might have been too big. He can swim fine but is at the bottom opening and lcosing his mouth all the time?

Wow I didnt think this would cause so much disgusion, I will put up a picture of my female as she is starting to change from pinkish to orangy. I am very confused with this!

Thankyou i dont think he is a female as i have two and the other one is slightly more dull and pink!! Thank you very much! :)

Im not sure if he is a Bolivian ram or not?? The colour on his head is very different

Thanks ill start picking them out and cut back on the food!

Now I have an extremely large number of snails roaming around my 15g tank. How much damage to snails do? My plants are all intact but do they create a lot more waste? Am I going to be overrun soon? Do they upset the balance, or can I just leave them be? :unsure:

Hey I have lots of plastic sheets available so I put one of these into the tank to divide it into two. I know this cut off the heat supply and filter flow to the quarantine but every now and then I let a bit of water though, and I woke up this morning to find she was ALOT better! I’ve had to let...

I wouldnt know how to isolate her. I have a small tank, only 15g, with just a few starter fish to get me going. But im worried that the other fish are starting to pick on her? I dont really have any other tanks or heaters or filters but I could check in the attic as I had some terripins a while...

During a vacuuming and water change I think I must have acidently knocked my biggest and fanciest finned danio. She is now swimming funny and doesnt seem to be able to keep her body weight up? Is there anything I can do? She is still swimming and keeps to the middle of the tank but she is...

Thanks! I got told when buying the fish that the widows, tetra and scissor tail would be ok on their own as they were kept in the same tank in the shop. Oh well. I wonder what the proper dimensions are ill have to get my tape measure out and do it properly. Thankyou any way

My tank is 1m by 30cm by 33cm, I allready have 4 zebra danios, 2 black widows, 1 lemon tetra and 1 scissor tail. Would it ok if I was to get 2 Dwarf Gouramis? I dont want to overstock and I dont want there to be any problems between the fish, so I thought I better check first. Help much...

Hello thank you!! Im more of a lurker than a poster I enjoy reading peoples fish diaries! Well it is sort of grey small bits like when you get a lot of dust. The substrate its gravel from a fish shop. None of it is floating around its just over the plants and looks horrible! Should I clean it...

Hey i have just recently noticed that over all of my plants there seems to be a thin layer of dirt? Is this because the filters not fast enough? Tank is 55lts with normal water stats and with only 4 zebra danios and 2 black widows?

Hey I have just upgraded from keeping goldfish to tropical. I have a 55litre tank with 4 zebra danios, down from 5 one died last night, I hope just because they are new in, but it could be from the stupid wood I have just put in. I bought it from a specialist fish shop and boiled it for 8 hours...