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Well, no luck on the video.  Don't have what I need to take and upload it.  But, the tilting seems to have improved.  Although two now appear bloated and one still skinny.   The gravel really is small stones I guess, don't know the exact brand/name, but made for freshwater aquariums.  The...

I only have aquarium gravel and rocks in the tank and some plastic plants.  The only other thing I can think of is the addition of water that came with the fish from the store that got mixed in.  But this was not very much and I have done water changes since so it would be very diluted.   I will...

Some answers to your questions and an update below.   Using an API test kit, the tank water has the following: pH ~7.5 ammonia = 0 nitrite = 0 water hardness ~80 ppm I am not able to test for nitrate, my mistake before.   from the tap: pH ~7.2 ammonia = 0 nitrite = 0 water hardness ~60 ppm  ...

Oops, sorry, it is a blue dwarf gourami.   Private well.  I have it tested annually by the health dept. and they say it is fine for us, but I think they mostly just look for bacteria.  Perhaps I can look into the other minerals but not sure how at the moment.  Will keep testing everything I can...

Thank you, Byron.  That is helpful.    I was concerned it was getting too warm which is why I wanted more experienced opinions. I will lower it again.  And I only left the light on for the sake of the brief experiment and will not do that again.    If the water continues to test within normal...

What I can add now is that ammonia = 0.  The other info I don't recall exactly and will need to get when I am home.   I attempted to cycle my tank by getting filter media from another established tank prior to adding any fish.  After ~3-4 weeks I got the pleco and neons and didn't seem to have...

I set up a 20 gal. tank in April.  pH is ~7.5, no ammonia or nitrate issues. I have a pleco, 6 neons, a clown loach and a gourami all acting healthy.  But, I have 4 lemon tetras that sometimes tilt to one side and/or tilt nose down or swim in a spiral.  Only the lemons.  It gets worse when I...