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Sorry I'm confused, how does one treat septicaemia? I know I clearly have a lot of problems at the moment in my tank, I feel really stupid and frustrated that I didn't consider that my tank might mini cycle. I have interpret 9 for internal bacteria, can I use that? I have an airstone going and I...

Thanks Wilder, that's great. I forgot to say that the poorly neon has some small, feint red marks on him (like blood under the scales) - is there any point in using Melafix? if so, can i use it with the ich meds?

Well this is the thing, I have lost several fish in a matter of days. Most of the remaining ones look OK, except one guppy with some whitespot, and one neon tetra that looks generally poorly. Basically I don't know if this is fungal, fin rot, etc, but one of my guppies that died had fluffy...

Thanks talleyrand, I have one danio left who is one of the very first fish I got in this tank. He seems totally unaffected by everything, he's great. I am treating with half doses of WS3 and am going to change the water in between the 48 hr doses even though not directed. I've been thinking...

Great. I've started using it as my lfs didn't have coppersafe anyway. Fingers crossed eh... I've increased the temp to 27C, is that good?

I called my lfs and they said they stock something called WS3. Anyone used it before?

yes, those fish died and so did one of the female guppies. I don't know what happened bit I guess my water has gone bad. I think one of them might have a fungal infection too. I don't have a quarantine tank but someone said in another forum that I can't treat my whole tank, eg. with coppersafe...

Hello, I would be really grateful for some advice... Last night I noticed that all of a sudden one of my zebra danios was swimming upside down, breathing fast. I thought he had injured himself as he had a mark on one side. He died overnight. But this morning another danio (white one?) is doing...

Hello, I've had some problems in my community tank over the last couple of weeks, which involved two dwarf gourami dying and I think my remaining one is sick too. All having different symptoms. Anyway last week when my second gourami died i discovered that my female guppy had given birth in my...

Thank you so much for your replies, I really appreciate it. I will, probably like many people, stay away from dwarves from now on. I thought it was a water quality problem but like you said Stang, I do change the water each week and only feed once a day, with frozen bloodworms every few days for...

Hi, if anyone can help me i'd really appreciate it. first off, i don't have a full water testing kit right now, i will go to the shop tomorrow and get as much as i can for the problem. i'm really sorry. My nitrites are 0. I usually do a 15% water change once a week. I have had two dwarf gourami...

Germ, I am really sorry I have been offline for ages, and could not reply, thank you so much for responding. I can't tell if his spine is bent but his tail is misshapen - it is closed and 'square' rather than open and fan-shaped. He has not put his top fin up for a while either. I'm really...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me... One of my blue dwarfs got sick a few months ago, I medicated and all symptoms seemed to disappear. However he never regained his colour from that time and I have noticed that he hasn't really been retaining or putting on weight. He used to be the second in...

Hi Wilder. Came back to say thankyou very much for your help. I continued to treat with octozin but it's just really hard to tell if it is working or whether the fish were suffering from a less serious condition than internal parasites and are maybe just healing anyway. The guppy that seemed to...

hi, I posted the other day on the gourami forum as one of my dwarfs injured himself on some bogwood about a week ago and I did a course of melafix which seems to have healed the cuts but then I saw him do a long white poo a couple of days ago. I was told this was likely to be an internal...

Hi Wolf thanks for asking about my gourami. Actually I came back to post on the emergency forum but maybe here will do? My gourami's missing scales seem to have almost healed which is good, I have been treating him with melafix, but I just noticed he was doing a stringy white poo. I hear this...

Hi Gill, congrats on all the nests. just quickly, can you tell me how you vacuum your gravel when it's so fine without sucking it all up? I have the same stuff...

Hi again, thank you for your help everyone. I'm a bit worried about him now because I haven't been able to get any medicine as my local lfs is closed and i am incredibly busy, deadlines coming up tuesday! i will change his water now. feel a bit helpless til tomorrow, he has lost his colour a bit...

Hey thanks very much for your help. :good:

thanks Wolf, do you know whether I should try and get some now or can i wait till tomorrow morning?

Hi, I thought maybe you guys could give me some advice, I thought it would be better to post here as it isn't an emergency, but if you think it would be better there it can be moved... One of my blue dwarfs swam into a hole/tunnel that runs across a piece of bogwood, but with one opening at the...

Ok... I have started thinking about trying to return this fish to my LFS... I know this sounds a bit radical but his aggressiveness towards my other fish is definitely getting worse and he has started 'guarding' the food I give my catfish, and will not stop chasing the other gourami when there...

thankyou guys for your advice. i will try catfish pellets. i managed to get them eating algae wafers yesterday for the first time which is good but i still have this problematic gourami who tries to eat them all himself. i think feeding frozen and live foods sometimes might be an answer too as...

Hi sylvia, thanks for your response. You're probably right that they are eating too much, I will try and reduce the amount and feed more regularly. It isn't dropsy I don't think. I'm not sure it's bloating either, he has been like this a while and seems healthy. is there anything i can do to...

Hi! I know this might sound stupid but I have a dwarf gourami who is incredibly greedy and is getting quite fat I think. I assume this is not really that healthy? The problem is he is in a communal tank and I also can't really quarantine him... I have to feed flake food for my other fish so...

Hi! I just got two tiny feather fin catfish yesterday and I was hoping someone could give me some advice on feeding them - what to feed, how often etc. They are both about 1 inch. I have a small gold nugget pleco in the tank too - he's about 2 inches. Will the synos eat the vegetables I give my...