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Ah yes that looks much more like it SuperColey. It can't be the CO2 levels or water circulation because they havn't changed since I got the tank, and the staghorn is very recent. I will reduce feeding, change filters, vacuum the substrate and purchase some of this "Flourish Excel", of which I...

Ah right thanks - the concensus seems to be that it's very hard to elimate unfortunately :(.

It's like a forest of thick black hairs growing on the leaves of all my plants, like a kind of host/parasite situation. This isn't an emergency because all the fish are healthy, and the plants are still in good condition other than having this stuff growing on them. Water stats are all perfect...

OK thanks, I'll go and buy some bacterial medicine tommorow and see how it goes. Is there a serious risk of my other fish becoming infected? Do I need to somehow isolate this one?

It's like loads of little blobs of white slime on the scales, not really the gills or fins. I took a picture but you can't see the white stuff. Is there a treatment I can buy from my LFS?

One of my platies (I think it's a Sunset Variatus) has suddenly developed strange white things all over his body, but not on the fins. It doesn't look like Ich though, I've seen that before, and he's not flicking or rubbing against things. They appear to be small white globules, and it looks as...

Ok will do, I didn't want to post there and then get flamed because it wasn't an emergency.

One of my platies (I think it's a Sunset Variatus) has suddenly developed strange white things all over his body, but not on the fins. It doesn't look like Ich though, I've seen that before, and he's not flicking or rubbing against things. They appear to be small white globules, and it looks as...

I defrosted it on a plate, then put it in the water. It sank to the bottom and none of the fish looked at it.

Hmm mixed opinions, thanks to all of you, I think I'll take backtotropical's advice though because I don't want to risk harming the fish.

I just bought some frozen food for my fish, but I need to know, does it have to be defrosted before feeding it to them? The packaging doesn't say, which suggests that it doesn't need to be, but I wanted to be sure. Thanks in advance.

But why would it only be one fish being affected?

Hi there, my tank is 6 weeks old, and 2 weeks ago I added 6 Platies (3 Different species). They all looked healthy when I got them, but one became weak quickly - it is skinny and spends most of the time resting on the substrate. The water stats were described as "perfect" at my LFS, and all...

I know the cycling isn't quite complete - these were recommended as hardy fish that would help the process. I was told water changing would slow down the cycling - mixed opinions make things even more confusing. What do you mean "what kind of water tests"? It's just a Nurafin test kit I bought...

The tank is about a month old, and I have had 6 fish in there for about a week (3 species of Platy). Water stats: Ammonia < 0.1 Nitrite < 0.1 Nitrate < 5 pH ~8.0 They occasionally rub and flick against a plant or rock, most of the time is spent seemingly trying to swim through the glass (not...

96 Litres (~20 Gallons) 6 small Platy (3 different species; two of each; don't know their names). Don't know water stats, but that can't be the problem because all but one of the fish are perfectly healthy. It's about half a centimetre thinner than the others, and a bit shorter lenthways as...

I have a month-old aquarium set up, with 6 platys in it, a mixture of species. 5 of them are perfectly happy and healthy, but one is much slimmer than the others. I noticed it was ingesting flake food then spitting it straight back out, and now it will not touch food at all. It appears to be a...

My aquarium is about a week old (no fish in it yet), and currently in the Nitrite stage of cycling. A couple of days after set-up, a cloudiness arose, which has now disappeared. Now, though, there are billions of little white particles suspended in the water, and all the plants have dying...

I only touched the gravel when planting all my plants at the start. The thing is, the problem has been getting gradually worse every day; I can't work out what the source is. Ok thanks Mrs Wiggle. I'll also try getting a polyester filter as recommended by Helen - do I just sit it on top of all...

I don't know - at the start the water went cloudy and then settled. Is that a cycle?

Hi there. I bought a 96 litre tank about a week ago (this is my second tank), and filled it with water (with the correct water treatment). I added some gravel, plants and wood ornaments. One of the plants died, and a couple of leaves have gone from some others, but for the most part they are in...