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For whatever reason, the harlequins are swimming normally now. And the cory seems to be okay for now... I'm really not sure what's going on in that tank but I'll go back to daily water changes for a week or so. If the harlequins ever do that again, I'll be sure to get a video.

Tank size: 10 Gallon pH: ~ 7.4 ammonia: 0 nitrite: ~1 nitrate: ~5 kH: can't remember gH: ~300 tank temp: 78F Fish Symptoms: I noticed when I fed the fish tonight that my cory was acting weird. She was almost motionless - at first I thought she wasn't breathing. Her color was wrong... the top of...

Alright, good to know. It doesn't have a support strip. It's just about 20 inches long, 12 inches wide, 12 inches tall. I don't know how thick the glass is. I could measure it but I'm not currently at home. I'll do that later today. I've had the tank for over 3 years, and it's done this since a...

I cleaned the filter today. It took a few tries to start up, but it works now. I've noticed bowing since the second or third month of having this tank but recently I feel like it's been worse. Is there anything I can do about it, or should do to avoid it potentially bursting? (I'll try to...

Been a bit since I found time to update. I've changed the water almost every day the last week (2 weeks?) and it's really starting to look cleaner. The fish seem a lot happier. I got pretty sick on Monday, so I missed Monday and Tuesday, but I did change it on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday...

They're looking a lot more active and have much better colors than they did a week ago. I haven't checked their gills yet today to see if they're red or not, they probably still are but not as bad. Also, is it fine to skip a single day of vacuuming? Or should I push through and vacuum it? Does...

Sixth (I think) 10% water change complete. I think I'm going to do one more 10% tomorrow then start 20% changes.

Cleaned today! I went ahead and replaced the carbon filter, since I haven't been able to get the round sponge yet, and the filter wasn't letting anything through it. So it SHOULD be another month or two before I gotta replace it again.. hopefully. I'm getting to the point that I can't afford the...

I cleaned it again on Saturday (I missed Friday due to an unforseen personal issue, which did get resolved but made it impossible to vacuum on Friday), I'm about to go vacuum it again today. The fish look happier, certainly, and the gravel looks a lot cleaner. The water is gradually getting...

Ahh, I never thought about the filter (though in the back of my brain I did think about it... subconsciously), that's definitely a better option than what I was gonna do. I'll keep doing what I'm doing with the snails (picking them out by hand). I'll look into snail traps for when I get the...

Third water change is complete. The spots I vacuumed yesterday already have a ton of filth in them, though not as much as before. I tried vacuuming the roots of the plants, but the stuff I thought was just general poop and stuff wouldn't vacuum off. I suspect it would come off if I rinsed them...

Second water change completed! I was able to vacuum a bit deeper into the gravel this time. The cory is sitting right over where I just vacuumed, she doesn't usually sit there.. maybe it's a bit fresher right there?

I put the air stone in, and now they're acting a little more normal. Though they do seem intrigued by the air stone. I'm gonna try to get another water change in tomorrow, maybe I'll be able to vacuum quite a bit of the substrate.

Ooh, yikes, I'll see what I can do about aeration. I have a pump that's intended for 30+ gallon tanks that puts out WAY too much air (that I used when the filter died)... Will this be good or just stress the fish too much? And yes, I did dechlorinate the water before adding it.

First change complete! 10-15% (I may have gotten a little carried away...) water change (I did vacuum the gravel as well, that's why I got carried away.. it's satisfying to see the filth sucked away into a bucket), I cleaned the light as it had a ton of algae on it, and I rinsed the filter pad...

Hey, I appreciate the response! Filter is a HOB filter (Marineland Penguin 100, I believe), it was recently replaced due to storms ruining the old one. (Power flickered one too many times for the old 75...) It's currently working properly, however I don't want to turn it off and let it drain...

It's been a while. I could write a long paragraph about my year but suffice it to say, the last year and a half has been not so great. A lot of things ended up neglected, and my fish did not escape that. I'm trying to get my life back together and pick up neglected things where I left them...

Sorry it's been so long. I got busy. I think that might have been a burn or something -- his heater broke, keeping the tank at 89° F. I bought a new one. He's been doing better since I got it in, but he's still got ich. I'm going to let him settle a bit then start the ich treatment.

The temperature settled out at about 76 degrees. I'm maintaining it fairly well with the light as well as utilizing my fan. I doubt I'm going to be able to buy a heater today, but I am definitely going to order one ASAP. Tilly still has ich, though it's really not that bad. I'm thinking that...

Oh also, I unplugged the heater and am going to buy a heater later today or tomorrow. Hopefully today, but it's possible it'll be tomorrow.

I did not have a thermometer, but I bought one a few hours ago and dropped it in. It was around 87 degrees. That's supposed to kill the ich, though, so why did it reappear? Stress, maybe?

Okay, he's redeveloped ich. I've been falling behind on water changes, so I'm 90% sure that's why. But, when I went to turn up the heater for the treatment, I reached my hand into the water and it's definitely at LEAST 85 degrees. It's supposed to be 78. I'm going to grab a thermometer whenever...

So sorry about the quality, this was the best I could get on my phone with a very unphotogenic betta. You can barely see it. It's just above his eye and slightly behind. No, that's not a bubble.

Hello again! It's been a while since I've been on here, but I have another question. In late March, my first betta died, leaving me with an empty tank to fill. About a week later, I bought a dragonscale betta I named Tilly. He had ich the day I bought him, but I didn't notice until he broke out...

I forgot to mention why I think it's a swim bladder problem. He sometimes backs up, swims straight up and down, and sometimes ends up sideways on the floating plants. I think he just has trouble getting over the plants, though, and that's how he gets over it. I did notice that he's a little...

Two tanks means tons of sick fish, I guess... first my betta Finn, who died a while ago, then Max, my guppy, and now my other betta Tilly. I think he has a swim bladder issue, but I wanted to check with you guys before trying to treat it. After his ich, his stomach started swelling. At first...

He is dead. I found him against the filter intake, not breathing. Just in case, we put him in a bag in the freezer, but I'm 100% sure he's dead. R.I.P. Max, Feb 2, 2016 -- May 28, 2017. You were my first fish, my first choice, and the last of your friends to die. You were always the healthy...

Over the past month, my old guppy Max has been constantly sick. Last week he had parasites, which I took care of and he recovered from. Today, however, I woke up to half of his tail missing. After looking closer, I found out that the tip is black and between the black and the orange (normal...

Alright, so I started the treatment. It looks like that natural spider-killing sandy stuff my mom has... come to think of it, it might actually be the same thing, because that stuff is used for tapeworms in humans too. Now I have white dust all over my tank. It looks dirty. Yay.

He has new blood-red tips on his tail. If I didn't know better, I'd say his tail was bleeding, but that's not possible. The end is a bit clear, too. At this point, I'm thinking he's probably getting old. But, I am still going to start his medicine tomorrow. I put it off today because he wasn't...

I don't think this is dropsy. Usually dropsy is symmetrical and the scales look like a pinecone when you look at the fish from the top. I would say lymphocistus (is that how it's spelled?), but this looks a lot different from the lymphocistus I have seen. It might be something similar. I could...

I got the medicine. I'm a bit weary of putting my hands in there, if it's a tapeworm... I got a few pics of him while he was pooping. He was far more bloated than this earlier this week. The pink is poop, though it's a bit redder than usual. The trail is thin and white. I REALLY don't want a...

You said he was a veiltail, and that's what he looks like to me. He's a gorgeous veiltail, too... I normally disapprove of fishbowls, but 4 gallons seems reasonable, and 20% daily water changes should be adequate. Good luck with your new fish!