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Your photos were plenty clear enough, don't worry. To my eye, it is rather obviously ich. And, while providing info on your setup and water parameters is important, in this case it isn't necessarily needed for a diagnosis and your setup would most likely have not been the cause of the ich...

Looks like ich to me, yeah. Salt and increased temps will only get you so far, by the way. It may work as a treatment if you're lucky, but by the time you can see any ich cysts at all, let alone this many, the disease is already fairly advanced. Some people find that the higher temps get rid of...

Huh. I'm surprised you haven't noticed this in your neons before. Did you feed them a different sort of food before you noticed this? I see this "lumpy belly" in my neons all the time when I feed them dry foods. It's just their bellies getting full of food, and sometimes it creates lumps and...

Out of curiosity, has anyone used a simple 5gal bucket as a QT "tank"? I have actual 10-20gal tanks that I could access and set up if need be (I do keep an extra filter running in my display tank in case I need an instant cycle), but a bucket is even more accessible since I keep a few around my...

The best way to introduce any invertebrate is drip acclimation. Invertebrates are much more sensitive to water parameter changes than fish are, and so their introduction to a new tank has to be much more gentle and gradual. If you decide to get more shrimp and would like to try this method, it's...

The rubber toys made by the brand KONG are very good. They have different hardness levels, so maybe go for one of the medium strength toys. All the dogs in my life have loved them. Their classic toy shape is hollow and can be filled with treats, but they make rubber toys in other shapes if Max...

I use an old soft-bristled toothbrush. It's a bit more work than a magic eraser might be (those work really well too), but it's what I had on hand and I don't worry about it scratching the glass at all. One plus side to the toothbrush being smaller than a pad though is that it can reach around...

No, these ones were advertising... love spells? That's the best way I can describe it. Spiritual power to make someone love you and to keep your spouse from leaving you etc etc. And a dash of "wonderful job opportunity, great pay and benefits" on the side for good measure. I wonder how I'd like...

By "the same", do you mean the glowing genetic alteration, or being pushed to extinction? The genetic alteration technology is the exact same for the glofish and the axolotl. "Glowing" isn't really the right term. The green fluorescent protein does what it says on the bottle—it fluoresces, under...

The axolotl is an endangered species in the wild, on the brink of extinction. No capture of wild axolotl is permitted and they are heavily protected by the Mexican government. The "wild" notation on that listing is misleading, but it simply means that aside from the GFP alteration, the axolotl's...

Agree with Colin. They aren't pets that can be handled and their care is much more similar to fish than it is to other amphibians. 40gal is the absolute minimum tank size, and it's likely that they will outgrow that tank too. I think a lot of people keep them in 55s or 125s. They have a high...

Thank you. I think I'm done winning monthly contests for a while, honestly 😂 But I'm happy to have won twice from the same tank. It's one that I'm really very pleased with.

Thank you! Your dog is beautiful and it sounds like you're doing a lot of good training work with him. I hope to see him in the next POTM contest!

Last minute entry! This is my 6gal ADF+shrimp tank. Don't tell my 20gal, but it's my favorite of the two. I'm very pleased with how it's been growing and developing. Tank is a Top Fin(?) 6gal corner tank with built-in LEDs (which I don't love, but I have to live with). The substrate is my...

5gal is definitely the bare minimum, and bigger is always better. I have my two frogs in a 6gal which I recognize isn't ideal. My caveat, however, is that they're still young and haven't reached their adult sizes. Or maybe they have and they're just small adults. Either way, they're not as large...

Hi, yeah that's my froggy! And yes, my frogs are currently housed with six amano shrimp! Although I might relocate a couple shrimp to another tank if they outgrow the current one. The frogs don't bother the shrimp much. Sometimes they will lunge after the shrimp, but I've never seen them...

Agreeing with Matt here. Without a better photo it's hard to tell for sure, but the body shape and the fact they're on the glass leads me towards copepods too. Detritus worms are longer and are the same width pretty much all the way down the body. They typically stay in the substrate as well...

Yep, can confirm limpet! I see limpets every day, although they're all the saltwater variety (never actually seen any freshwater limpets), but they're pretty distinctive. Turn them over and you'll see a large muscular foot and maybe even a little face with tiny antennae and a mouth. They're...

There are plenty of freshwater harpacticoids, although I'm not sure how many of them are cultured for sale within the hobby. I'll be honest with you, if it were me, I'd just go down to a local pond or stream and harvest copepods for a starter culture myself. If you have access to a cheap...

From what I understand, amanos will breed just fine in tanks. I've seen berried amanos in pure freshwater. It's just that their larvae require brackish water to survive, which is why you never actually get any babies.

I zip-tied small rocks to the sticks in one of my tanks. They were too small and skinny to do any sort of drilling/attaching to slate, so I had to improvise. After a month or two (don't remember exactly how long), I cut away the zip ties and nothing floated. Depending on the piece of wood, it...

I feel like I'm half cheating here, given this is a fully aquatic pet, but it definitely isn't a fish! This is Soup, one of my two African dwarf frogs. Soup says hi! I got her not all that long ago, towards the beginning of March earlier this year, so it's been just a couple months, but she's...

Wow, lucky find! We don't get many morels in my immediate area. I typically get chanterelles, boletes, and the occasional lobster mushroom.

You definitely are not the first person this has happened to. The last time I was at the LFS, a guy came in with a bucket that had 3 dead goldfish in it. He said most of the other fish in his pond also died. Tried blaming it on the LFS's guppies that he added to the pond, but then mentioned he'd...

I might, as a very last resort. I hear people have had luck with it for very advanced fin rot, but kanamycin doesn't appear to target any of the bacteria that commonly cause fin rot. It's also a very powerful antibiotic in general. In humans, it's generally only used for very serious bacterial...

No, it's not mucous. It doesn't look like excess mucous in person. The lower lobe of this neon's caudal fin is shorter than the upper lobe, which indicates to me that it is indeed actually rotting. And, respectfully, just because the site isn't red, doesn't mean it isn't a bacterial infection...

One word of caution regarding the moss: if you have native frogs/other amphibians that frequent the areas you collected the moss from, there's a chance (a slim chance, but still a chance) of spreading chytrid to your FBTs. Not meant to cause alarm, but wanted to mention that it is a risk. There...

Not an emergency, per se, but definitely something I've been concerned about. When I moved this tank and its inhabitants a few weeks back, I noticed one of my neon tetras had sustained an injury to its tail fin. I wasn't terribly worried at the time, since I've had a neon injure a fin in the...

Very nice! I hope these little froggies grow up nice and big. Froglets are always adorable little things. Out of curiosity, where did you end up deciding to get them from?

Well, right, I think that's the root of the high variation in care advice for these critters. They seem to do well at higher temperatures too. At least well enough that any detrimental effects are minor and therefore aren't easily noticed. My tank was at 78-80F/25-26C when I was using the spare...

This is something I had been thinking about too. I had been meaning to try to find information and environmental data on their natural habitats, but the chaos of life kept thwarting that. But I did know they were from equatorial Africa in forested streams and the like, so I had suspected they...

I wish I could've seen it! It sounds like such a goofy endeavor. Fitting for inherently goofy creatures. They get on with the shrimp pretty well, honestly. Occasionally they'll take a lunge at one, but they're so bad at aiming and slow enough that the shrimp can always dart out of the way well...

This tank is honestly struggling with algae/diatom/cyanobacteria growth and for the life of me I cannot figure out why. I know normally it's due to excess nutrients/ammonia in newly set-up tanks, but ammonia's essentially zero and nitrates are low too (although it's been a bit longer since I've...

A built-in dark mode for TFF would be much appreciated. It definitely hurts a bit to look at the website late at night when I can't sleep or accidentally open the tab

Agree with everything Gary has said. But on top of that, I could see this going wrong very, very quickly. There almost certainly aren't any dosing guides for treating fish with Xanax (alprazolam) so you would be shooting in the dark for a safe dosage, and that's a very dangerous game to play...