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It can be hard for a pleco to compete for food if your cichlids eat everything you put in there. I would try putting vegetables like cucumber in there because the pleco should go to town on it while the other fish will most likely not eat it. If that doesn’t help I recommend putting it in the...

Here’s some pics of the puffer and his fin. I’m currently treating the water with artemiss. I’m going to move him and the other 2 puffers to quarantine until I have it sorted out. I’ll try adding salt to the water and see if that helps too.

I got a group of 3 pea puffers today from a store that’s pretty far from where I live because they were doing a deal 3 for 10$. After I got the fish home and put them in a tank I realized one of them has a pectoral fin that is entirely white. I think it’s fin rot but I’m not sure. Have any of...

The algae was brought into my aquarium on New plants I got. But since it’s in my tank now it’s spreading. I’ll try leaving my lights on for 8 hours instead of 10 but the lights in my 55 I feel is barely enough for the plants so I’m worried it might kill my plants

My 55 has an Oscar and Jaguar cichlid in it so all plants are removable so I’ll definitely try the hydrogen peroxide out and I may just have to buy some excel

The lights on my 55 are just two clip on led lights that I have no idea what wattage they are and on my 20 gallon I have a 15 watt planted aquarium light from China

I recently added a few plants to both of my tanks and they were all free so I didn’t mind that they had some algae on them but it’s getting pretty bad now because all my plants have algae growing on them now. I believe it’s hair algae but I’m not sure. How should I go about removing it? I had...

You’re probably correct. The guys tank was in his backyard with nothing but a hang on back filter and a bunch of plants. The tank was very dirty looking and it seemed like he rarely did water changes so that’s probably why they were stressed. Out of all the fish he gave me just the sharks and...

The fish were in a tank in a guy’s backyard before I got them and the tank had nothing running except a hang on back filter so I assume his temperature during the day was also around 78 degrees seeing how that’s how mine get just in my room. I do use heaters but they only turn on if the water...

My PH is naturally about 7.0-7.2 and i had two of them, the first one that died was laying on his side the first night and then died. The other one showed no signs of stress like I said until randomly today. He was even fine this morning. That’s what I meant by everything

They were only about 5-6 inches. They were in a 55 gallon tank because I wanted to grow them out before moving them into a pond I have outside. They were Chinese highfin banded sharks and I knew they were gonna reach a length of up to 4 feet

My tank was already established and I gravel vac and do water changes every week. None of my other fish that are in there look like they’re doing bad. My ammonia and nitrite are 0 and my nitrate is only 5 ppm. I can’t return the fish because a guy gave them to me for free because he was getting...

Ah I didn’t know they needed a higher PH. He could have done that. I didn’t hear anything but I left my house to get food and noticed he was like that when I got back so it’s definitely possible. It’s super sad that I lost them because I loved the way they looked and I even have a pond that I...

He just died about 30 minutes ago. He never jumped or showed any indication of stress. He was in a tank with a redtail tiger shovelnose hybrid and an Oscar but both fish are much smaller than he was and didn’t bother him much. I keep my ph at 7 and I tested my water and everything looks good. My...

My highfin banded shark Keeps laying sideways. He has been fine since I got him 2 days ago and even earlier this morning but now he looks like he’s not doing so well. I got two and the first one started laying upside down as soon as I got him but I was saving these fish so I still took him. He...

I’ve heard cholla wood is pretty cheap and it works well in many tanks. Some pieces are even hollow in the center and can be used as caves

I would of quarantined the sick fish instantly but they all came from the same tank and I wanted to be safe so I’ve been treating the whole tank for 2 days with medication.

Ok I’ll try that. Do you think that the other fish that don’t look sick need treatment? I just don’t want to risk one of the fish having the same thing and it just not showing yet

Ok I’ll continue to treat them. Two of the tetras can’t eat but 3 others have growths on their face but they’re small

Ok thanks for letting me know not what I wanted to have to do obviously but i don’t want to risk the health of my other fish or let the ones that can’t eat suffer. Should I still continue a 7 day treatment in the tank just to make sure no other fish are sick?

Ok thanks I didn’t want to end up overpopulating my tank and risking the fishes health

Thank you so much for helping me identify those fish I thought they were tetras so that’s why I couldn’t find out what they were. A lot of the fish looked skinny so I’ve been feeding them blood worms and died brine shrimp. A couple of the tetras do have growth on their mouths so I’ve been...

I saved about 40 fish from a guy who was shutting down his tank. He gave me some neon tetras, rummy nose tetras, guppies, halfbeaks, and then two species of tetras I don’t know the name of and the guy at the pet store also didn’t know what they were. Some of them also look like they may be...