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the danios are small and the plec is small and they aren't going to grow...crowding is not an issue i've had these fish in these conditions for months with no problems until i moved. what is the antibiotic called?

Ok I just moved and my fish have been doing fine for a good month now...i have a ten gal with a piece of bogwood, anacharis, 2 flame gouramis, 2 striped danios, 3 shrimp, a small pleco (wont grow over 4 to 5 inches), and 2 cories. The flame gouramis appear to have some missing scales, which i...

We are moving into a new house, and with that I am upgrading to a 45 gallon tank...it has the base perimeter/dimensions of a 30 gallon tank, it's just taller. I need you guys to help me design it. What type of substrate, plants, and good well sized fish. If you have any good suggestions just...

Yeah but I think most people believe a popularly distributed magazine written by a longtime fish expert over some random person on the internet.

What are you talking about? Corys are actually very hardy fish, in no way sensitive. There is even an entire article in Aquarium USA magazine describing the whole tank starting and cycling process, and it clearly states that nitrification can be started with hardy fish, including guppies...

i would cycle with some live plants, corys, and maybe some amano shrimp, great combo, it got my system set up perfectly and i've had no problems, except maybe a little hair algae.

i usually keep lights on from about 7:15 AM to about 9 or 10 at night. It seems to be more bushy or hairy, its darkish green-grayish. It also has started growing on my mag-float algae scraper, which i keep in the tank on the glass.

I have a 10 gal tank with a few live anachris plants, 3 ghost shrimps, 2 corys, 2 dwarf gouramis, 3 zebra danios, and a plec that grows to 3 or 4 inches. Conditions have been pretty nice overall, the fish are healthy, and swim happily. I recently treated for a fungal cottony rot in my pleco...

by the way mate, its not a common plec, this one grows to only 4-5 in nice try tho

Well, I just got my first pleco, and he was looking pretty healthy day 1, but now, 4 or days after introducing him to the tank, he seems extremely shy. The only way to get a good look at him is to slowly approach the tank and not make any sudden movements. If anybody goes too fast, he flies to...

still no idea of what to do, im not sure if he's sick or diseased, or anything. need help.

After observing the white spots, they seem more like white bubbles in the tissue, but they do not look fuzzy, or hairy or anything, just bubbles in the fin. The one that really stands out is on the edge of one of his fins. He also seems to be getting one on the edge of his dorsal fin.

never mind then, that is not it...oh man ive seen that before though, in NJ Pets, there was a 10 gal tank that they put fish for sale in, full of mollys. All but one were DEAD! how horrible is that. There was even a clump of 2 fish dead, and being washed around the tank. What a disgusting...

Yeah he def has ich i read its a common illness, and yes he does swim away awkwardly when i come near the tank, which is a symptom, but is there any other way i can be sure of it.

not at all, the are like on his swimming fins next to his dorsal, just a few random white spots, which actually do appear to be coming offf a tiny bit, like dead skin.

sounds great, i love zebra danios, they're so lively

tank has been up for a while, at least 6 or 7 months, nitrite is really low, nitrate could be lower, but its decent, ph is is a bit more acidic, hardness is slightly high. Well it depends on what you defenition of grains of salt is...like table salt, no its bigger than that, but like smaller...

lets see...10 gal with live anacharis plants, 2 corys, 2 dwarf gouramis, 3 striped danios, 3 ghost shrimp, and that 1 pleco the spots seem to be.. well i cant really tell if they protrude, but they kind of look like little blisters.

Just want to make sure my pleco isnt suffering from finrot or some other sickness...on either of his swimming fins he has a few white spots, each being pretty small, but easily visible, like a little bigger than the tip of a ball point pen. He has a few, and i'm worried it could be ich or...

come on!

let him adjust and get used to the tank...id wait a few days before wondering. If hes breathing and acts alright, then he should be fine. My first mollies tended to do the same, and im already taking care of 3rd generation ones, so it sohuld be ok.

Ok, so first i came home today to find my hillstream loach, dead and white floating around. After cleaning him out of the tank, I noticed my molly was acting extremely lethargic, barely moving, but fins still waving every couple of seconds, gills moving. He could swim upright, but his tail...

molly fry...they are about 2 weeks-3 weeks old, about 2 or 3 are safe from being eaten, the rest are small enough.

id get a dwarf g. or 2. Incredible fish, they are supposed to be shy i think, but mine is really not, he eats straight from my hand, even nips my fingers sometimes.

if the goldfish is loosing scales, i might think its getting bullied by other fish...is it alone, what tankmates?

most likely nematodes...yeah i would starve the tank for a little while to improve water conditions, my fish are perfectly healthy, and plus my gouramis looking a little chubby :P , i probably do overfeed so ill cut down on that. But back to my point. I would put the tank on a fast for a few...

keep an eye out for eggs...strands of gelly on objects hanging off, gellied eggs to the glass...clean all of that out, i use an algae scrubber, but try not to just destroy the gelly and distribute the eggs, try to pick up everything. Also, place an upside down saucer on the floor of your tank...

Unfortunately i slept until 3:00 today (rough night), so my fish were overdue for feeding, so i quickly popped on the light and peered into my tank. I counted my fry. 1 down again. Not that big of a deal, but still sad. I started with 14, then moved to baby tank. Slowly it dropped to 8...

i have two separate fry from two separate mollies, one of them being silver, so all i can tell you is there there will be some that shoot up and grow, and some that grow slowly...only about two of my 8 total surviving fry are pretty big at three weeks old. keep going with it...also...what tank...

i think it would be great to let your pleco grow huge and then throw him in the 125 gallon...but id throw some cool plants in there, make it look good, and then maybe throw a few red oscars and maybe a few other larger growing fish...cool stuff man :band:

im looking at him, i decided to put him asleep, tried to fish him out, and he is really fighting to not get caught...honestly, im going to let him relax for a few days, he might have been pretty stressed. I cleaned out my tank, which used to be heavily planted, not too many organisms in there...

about 1.5 inches, 2 inches

what do you think about a garbage disposal...very quick spinning blades very quick and painless or might that be bad, it seems kind of sick, but my friend suggested it, just need your opinion. ????

any more suggestions for euthenization?

dont have clove oil, dont know if i have the heart to decapitate or crush him...any other suggestions, or must i destroy his brain?

unfortunately i dont have an operational camera on hand, but i can say that the slime is like a white film covering his body completely under his dorsal fin, his tail fins are clamped as are most of his other fins.

honestly, the poor thing looks terrible...he looks like he has some sort of white slime covering portions of his body, his tail fin is started to be affected by finrot, his feces have become white and stringy, and im afraid i may have to put him down...any suggestions for fish euthenization?

did you keep your mollies and goldfish together?

its not for hole in the head disease only: Fish-Zole; For treatment of infectious organisims of fish.

uh metronidazole is for internal parasites man