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Great, thanks. Will do this. Actually the room temp during the day goes to 40 deg C and at night to 30degC. So the heater does not need to do much at all.

So I got 2 new glofish tetra about 3 days ago and today one of them had Ich on its fins. The earlier Ich outbreak had just cleared and all fish survived. Now I have the same thing again. Will my older fish again get the disease, having recovered just about a week - 10 days back? Or have they...

After my recent experience, I would vouch for the heat treatment without salt for the tetras. My fish look healthy and happy now.

My fish are surely improving. Its been 10 full days since I first saw the white spots and 8 days since I turned on the heater at 31C. No white spots / mucous etc can be seen now. The reduced / nipped fin on one tetra has improved considerably. As suggested, I will keep the heater on for another...

This may very well be true. The other purple fish has been bullying this one and not even letting him eat food. So today I trapped the dominant one in the net and then the other ate. As you suggested, lets wait and watch.

The yellow ones are the ones that got ich first. Both look quite fine now. One purple fish has some creamy stuff on its fins and the other one doesnt have that creamy stuff but its fins have reduced quite a lot. Should I add normal iodised or non iodised salt? Do I add any salt again or just...

Doing that. Also did 50% water change and gravel vacuum yesterday

Out of the 4 tetras, 3 (2 new ones and 1 older one) look better today. Cant see white spots anywhere on the fish, only some (much reduced) creamy stuff / mucous on their fins. The fish that still does not look good has its fins reduced. I am still keeping the water temperature above 30C.

Okay thanks. Will do today

Today I see fin rot starting in some fish

Today the fish were looking a bit different and the older ones (deep pink / purple ones) also looked a bit different. It's clear that the disease has affected the older 2 fish as well. The white spots are not that clear any longer. The fins have a smudged look... like mould growing on them...

I have a 20g planted tank with some glofish tetras in it. I want to add 2 nerite snails just because they are interesting creatures and help with cleaning and algae. The water parameters of my source water / tank water are as below: Ammonia: 0/0 Nitrite: 0/0 Nitrate: Not tested / <10 PH: 7.2 /...

So lets try with heat first. What I am worried about is that the day temperature here has been reaching 40 deg C in the day and my tank temperature has been 30 / 31C since last 1 week. Maybe at night it goes to 29C. Should I turn on the heater at 30C just for precaution? Its possible that the...

I am unable to get malachite green here. The shops sell the bottled medicines for ich. The liquid is mostly light blue (contents not mentioned) or dark blue (I think that is methylene blue). Can anybody suggest any branded medicine that I can try to get?

How would I know whether to treat with malachite green or not?

Done. Thanks

I had 2 healthy glofish tetra in my 20g planted tank without any problems since several weeks. Got 2 more new glofish tetras Thursday late evening. This tank at the fish store in which these tetras were kept had slightly dirty water but my pervious experience with this store has been fine, so I...

It may be possible that my tank has low levels of phosphate and nitrogen at this time since I had 8-9 fish but now left with only 2 glofish tetras. I plan to get more fish and stock upto 8-9 fish soon. Hence I got this fertilizer without N & P. In long term N & P deficiency should not be a...

Some photos of the leaves before and after cleaning.

Today I cleaned the leaves of the sword plant with my fingers. The stuff on it was brownish greenish. Certainly not BBA and did not feel or look like cyanobacteria that I had on anubias leaves. While removing the stuff with my fingers, the colour disappeared in the water immediately. Algae...

Can anybody give me suggestion whether this is good or I should change to Flourish Comprehensive?

The water changes are going on. However, today I tried rubbing a leaf of the sword plant with my fingers as it looked dirty so just wanted to confirm whether its the leaf itself or some coating. The blackish color came off while I rubbed the leaf between my fingers and the leaf turned green and...

I could easily remove them from the ornaments and anubias leaves. But the suction did not seem to remove it from the substrate. Maybe rubbing would be required to remove the Cyanobacteria?