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My female guppy gave birth to about 15 babies over several weeks, popping out just a few at a time. I found it weird, but decided it was probably normal. However, her gravid spot never went away. All my female guppies have had large dark gravid spots for many months now. One is shaped like a...

She died, but her tail did not fall off. I think there is some misunderstanding about her tail. "Paralyzed" means motionless. After she died I studied her body and saw nothing out of the ordinary. Her tail, by the way, remained fully fanned and colourful the entire time, she just wasn't using...

Now I just have to figure out where to find those in Australia ...

Wow, fast eh? Thanks

okay ... I don't want to hide anything. I am looking for help. :blink: I do 50 - 75% water changes every 2 weeks. Today's water tested at: ammonia: 0 pH: 7.0 nitrite: 0 I have 3 neons, 4 phantoms, 10 guppies (100L tank) She hasn't lost her tail. Her tail is full, no tears but it is limp...

My female guppy has just become very sick. Her tail seems to be paralysed, she is barely moving at the top of the tank because she isn't very mobile without moving her tail. My water stats are perfect, I had them professionally tested, so no problem there. She hasn't recently given birth. The...

Moving things is a good idea. I have neon tetras, phantom tetras and guppies. I am understocked in neons because a few died and now I only have 3, so if they are stressed I can understand, but actually the neons seem to handle it ok. How do you gravel vac a tank without completely submerging...

Gosh this is really tough for me to get right! When I move a sick fish to a hospital tank, they usually end up so stressed by the move that they get instantly sicker and promptly die. I've tried to minimise stress as best I can, I don't even use a net to move them (I use a large plastic cup)...

I'm not exactly a newbie, and when I do water changes I always leave my buckets of water overnight. However, sometimes when I do a big water change I don't have enough buckets of water ready. So my question is, how long does it take a conditioning dechlorinator to do its intended job (ie...

For new fish introduced to a new environment, I would go with stress and probably lack of proper biological filtration in the tank. It sounds like they died a bit too quickly to blame NTD. I cycled my tank for a week before introducing new fish, but I have to admit i didn't cycle, re-cycle and...

That sounds pretty mysterious and really awful. I'm sorry for your loss. I can't help but think there was a serious imbalance in the small bowl. I would clean it out completely and sterilise it before using it again. but my question to you really is ... Why did you move them out of the 3 or 4...

I searched and searched through this forum for more answers to my neon's problem and I found two more threads about the exact same symptons: http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=200417 and http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=197819 The commonality here is that these...

I think you're right, but unfortunately I only have 5 neons at the moment. I don't have enough left for a proper school, but I don't want to buy any more until know they wont get sick anymore. All this time I've been wanting to get more neons but the guppys keep multiplying and I didn't want to...

Now you mention it, one of the other tetras has quite patchy colouration, like it is molting. I don't see any black outlines. I don't know if the bent spine came before the bloating, I think it might be caused by the bloating. Can you tell me more about epson salt baths? Where do I buy epson...

It's been about a week and there have been no changes in my tank. No one has died, no one has got worse or better. I keep looking at that poor neon tetra and I have no idea what to do. I feel like I could help it if I just knew how, I mean how often do you get a chance to see your fish sick but...

I feed them HBH brand flakes called: "Rainbow Colour" for all tropical fish with ChromaColour for better health and colour I bought it from an aquarium store. I think it's pretty normal fish food and the fish like it.

I don't really know how long it's been because I don't have a very good perception of time, but I'd say the fish has been getting bigger over 2 weeks. Yeah, it's spine is a bit bent I suppose (I don't think the other tetras have bent spines, maybe it looks like it in the photos). I guess that's...

But the fish is more active than I would expect from a neon tetra with such an advanced stage of TB. TB sounds very hard to diagnose, what makes you think it is TB?

I have a Neon Tetra which has become extremely bloated. It is still eating and it sometimes attempts to join in games with the other neons, but it really can't swim very well being so huge. I think it might be getting less active now and it's hanging out in the corner more. It doesn't look...