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I remineralize my RO water with salty shrimp gh/kh+. My tap water is very hard >15 and high nitrates 40-45, so I had to swap to RO. I keep the light on for 8 hours, but I have turned the tube under the hood so it is not too bright. My hygrophila (corymbosa) has roots. I was planning on starting...

I have a generic tube that came with the tank hood when I bought the tank. I am planning on replacing it with an auto 24/7 light and figure out a way to make a nice glass cover. I dose Seachem Flourish twice a week and follow the instructions on the bottle The gravel is a very cheap black 3-4mm...

I started this tank 9 months ago. Back then as a beginner I did a lot of mistakes and slowly started changing things and is much better now. Issues right now: 1. My plants seem to have stopped growing and my hygrophyla that I kept trimming and replanting now starts having some curled leaves 2...

I might get 6 ember tetras based on the suggestions above and see how my water parameters handle the situation. I will add fish slowly. At the moment I do weekly 20% water changes but honestly, I do it mostly to replenish minerals. The longest I didn't do a water change is 14 days cause my car...

I am not sure what to do, try different brands and then antibacterial/antifungal treatment? Leave it be and try again if it gets really bad? I definitely know that this white thing sometimes is there and sometimes not and I've seen it crawling back in his skin. I don't know if the pet store was...

Update on my poor boy I followed the instructions on the bottle and he got much better, with no signs of that white thing, the lump got smaller so I put him back in his tank. 5 days ago it reappeared, that side of his face was swollen and there was another lump with a white thing next to his...

Mine lay eggs on top of my other nerite snails :lol: :lol: I am too scared to clean their shells.

I have 7.0-72. ph and 7 GH (I remineralize RO water since the local tap water has around 40ppm nitrates and around 16 GH). This was just an idea of what I would like in there but not a definite decision. I also have a big sponge filter that is meant to be for 52gals. Any other fish suggestions...

I got an 18gal(70L) tank with 100+cherry shrimp( 10-12 pregos), a betta and 6 nerite snails. I was planning on getting some nano fish 5-6 ottos/pygmy corys and/or 5-6 endlers/chilli rasboras/galaxy rasboras ( haven't decided which of these yet but I am going for very small fish). I went to...

Omega Sea Betta Buffet Pellets and frozen bloodworms. I don't know if my fish is weird but he prefers the pellets over bloodworms. :lol::lol::lol::lol:

I posted my goldfish that needed to be rehomed on a facebook group Fish Re-homing UK took only a couple of days to find the right home for it.

I have a backup tank ready for him in case he goes on a killing spree but so far he is very laid back and doesn't bother the shrimp and I've seen him flare 2 or 3 times with his reflection (not gonna deny, the first two days he ate a few but now he pretty much ignores them). I wanted to add...

I am interested to know more details too since I want to add endlers in my 70L(18gal) tank that currently has 90+ cherry shrimp nerite snails and a betta. I keep hardness around 7.5 and ph ranges from 7-7.2. The betta is doing great in there so far (rescued from a pet store a month ago) but is...

I used to have a goldfish and I had to do 40-50% water change every week with no overfeeding. No matter how much you feed, they produce a lot of waste. I rehomed it to a pond eventually. IMO they are not fish suitable for aquarium tanks. So much work to clean and they grow so big. If you cleaned...

Update: Day 5. The bump is way smaller now and the white thing inside of it seems to have disappeared, I also noticed scales start growing back on that area. He eats properly but he is super bored in the quarantine tank and mostly sleeps at the bottom so his bottom fin has a very slight...

Don't worry, it is good to know for myself too :D From the bottle description I would assume that protozin is for white spot and myxazin for fin rot and fungal/bacterial infections and I would have bought both, but now I know I can just get myxazin and have treatment for most of the general...

The issue is that he already had these lesions and bumps when I got him (rescued from a pet store 2 weeks ago) and they are not getting better. In fact that one bump with the white thing in it, got bigger. I do water changes every week and test the water. The white thing in that bump goes in and...

I received everything today so he is already in with medicine 30mins now. He doesn't look stressed, just swimming and exploring around. I Will keep an eye on him and let you know how it went and if his head gets better. If it goes well I might buy protozin and myxazin too, for new fish and him.

On the bottle says Acriflavine 340mg/L, Malachite Green 545/mg/L, Piperazine Citrate 2040mg/L, and Formaldehyde as a stabilizer.

I got Waterlife Sterazin that will be delivered tomorrow and I will start treatment on Saturday.

Thank you! I already ordered treatment. Although not any of the brands mentioned in the article, it treats the same things. At least he is still eating and gaining weight, his fins started growing and he is changing colour slowly. I just don't want him to get worse now that we've done some good...

Update: I decided to catch him today and inspect it more closely. It looks like a worm or maggot, once I got close with tweezers (soft edges, don't worry) it went back into his skin. I will set up a quarantine tank and treat for parasites. Any suggestions on what brand would be the best and is...

Not yet. I guess I will get an extra small sponge filter and heater to seed it in my tank and if he gets worse I will set up a quarantine tank and treat him for parasites and fungus. For now, he is eating and is very energetic. I read somewhere that this could happen cause of poor water quality...

It is not a custom-made tank. I got a Juwel Primo 70 tank. The company doesn't sell glass canopies/lids for it and I can't find any on the tank's dimensions. I wish at least it had a rim so I can just put the glass on.

It is hard to take a picture since he doesn't float still, but it's like small holes and around them there are bumps and on one bump there is that white spot. The right side of his head is clean and smooth.

I am talking about his head. The white bump on his gill on picture 2 is not on him. The one next to his eye on both pictures concerns me with all these bumps and lesions there.

I rescued this betta fish 12 days ago from a pet store. I got him with a ripped tail, curled fins, very skinny and lesions surrounded by bumps and a white spot coming out of one of the bumps next to his eye and that area is a bit lighter in colour too. He is not lethargic and eating well. The...

I was planning to leave the water level a couple of inches lower as you advised too. I just wanted to make sure this will be low in, just in case. The tank is 70L so it's not like he will lack space. Now I need to make a new post for some weird lesions/bumps he has on his head with full details...

I am planning on changing my lighting system, which will require removing the standard lid that. How low should the water level be so he can't jump out (I've left 2.5 inches empty from the top)? He is a veiltail, he is not aggressive and hasn't attempted to jump so far and I will add some...

I am living in the UK and had the same issues. The tap water nitrate readings are around 40-45ppm It didn't matter how many water changes I did, it was always reading 80-90ppm. At that point, I had only cherry shrimp (70litre tank) so I knew that it wasn't an overstocking issue. I was really...