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how do you cycle a new aquarium while already having fish in the tank? How to make sure the fish don’t die with the fluctuating of the tank getting established again?

I had done two water changes. In a few days to get rid of this green hue my tank has gotten the last week. I lost one Angel a few days ago. It started swimming strange. Now this one has that mucus. Would it be a good idea Trying to wipe the mucus off the fish in a seperate containers? Also I...

My coi Angel fish has a milky clear film on one side of its body I just noticed because the other angels were pecking at him like they do when one is sick and doing. But I don’t know what the plea on him is or how to treat it. Anyone have ideas? I posted a picture below to try and help diagnose...

Alright. Which brand of water conditioner works best? I did the api one and followed directions but it hasn’t seemed to remove the chlorine when I test.

I my kh is really low. I did water changes and it did not seem to bring it up at all. What product can I use to bring it up to the right level? Is using api PH up sufficient?

I have a 20 gallon aquarium of platys that have a bunch of babies of various stages of development. My fish came down with ick. Is it safe to do the full dosage of api ick treatment or should I do a half dose? I already did a half dose because I ran out of meds yesterday. Should I do a full dose...

So Ick is not fatal?

It’s presently at 78 f. So I should not add the treatment then?

I just bought new fish and realized one of them has ick. But I did not do the quarantine in a seperate container before adding the fish, so the fish that is effected is in the main community. Should I take the fish and put it in a 5 gallon to treat it or would it be best to treat the entire...

Thank you. I thought something was up.

I bought an altum Angel fish online, it’s still fairly small but looks nothing like the ones in the photo? Do all the babies lack the bright stripes of the adults, or is the baby going to look how he is colored now as an adult?

I have some Angel fish with a killifish. They don’t bother each other but I put a new rainbow fish in and my killifish won’t stop following them around and flaring his fins out and occasionally gills. He hasn’t bitten the rainbow fish but he will stay within a few inches of it sometimes just...

I wonder why I’m struggling with this now. I finally got the nitrates under control the last week from over feeding. How could it be the water off I didn’t have a problem before in the last two years?

Okay thank you that is helpful. I do as salt to my aquarium because of one having a cotton like stuff sprout in my tank floor and started growing on my fish. The treatment and prevention recommended was too as aquarium salt so maybe that would explain how it’s about to survive in a fresh water...

Does the black bearded algae feed on living plants? It seems to be growing on the edges of my live plants.

I’ve had a 45 gallon fresh water tank set up for about a year. Recently though I’ve had this green spike of a bright green algae growing on a sea shell that’s been used in fresh water tanks for two years but only recently started growing this green algae. The snails and Lexi both tried chewing...

What do you use to get the kg and gh in the correct zones? I started using the api calcium. Will that help get the kg up if it’s low?

No one angel fish bullies the other. The loach minds it’s own business. And none of them have shown aggression to any of my plates. Oh and I forgot about two weeks ago I added my cichlids from my ten gallon aquarium into the 45 so I could get ember tetras. So far he seems to not be aggressive...

Thank you so much. I have 4 platy. two angels.one killifish. 4 coradoras. And one yo-yo loach. And a pleco. It’s a 45 gallon tank.

Here’s the ammonia testing

Yes it WAS CYCLED. but did too large of a water Change a week or so ago and I think it’s destabilized the tank. Been having problems sense. I did a max change of 50% because I had let the tank go without a change and over fed. So nitrates got high. So did the 50% change. But as I was adding new...

Is it okay to just have one loach?

The nitrates were low a few days ago when I tested and did a water change. Now they’re spiking again.