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I can't figure out what's wrong! unknown disease! HELP!

ROSEofBLACK21 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:19:59 GMT

So, I recently transferred two of my pregnant guppies to a nursery tank and no sooner did I put her in there that her fins seemed to be torn apart. i think it's fin rot, but also there is, what I think is fungus on her back right by her dorsal fin. So is it a Fungal fin rot? or is it bacterial fin rot and a fungus infection..OR is it fin rot and a parasite?! i just don't know! right now she is still in the nursery tank but is quarantined from the other female. I am also treating her with a type of anti fungal medication (well I at least think it is. It is mainly used for the treatment for ich but the medication also treats other fungus's) please someone help me

Death of my fish by possibly poor maintance, ignorance or just not knowing what I'm doing. So HELP. You may save my last fish.

SRE888 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:54:18 GMT

New 90 gallon, need help, fish dead except for my Parrot Cichlid (?). Mr. Goldburg aka Sidney Greenstreet. He is a cool fish and the last survivor. The tank is about three months old. The biggest problem seems to be ammonia. No other fish, last guy died today. Cannot get the ammonia down. I watch the food, follow the 3-5 min. cycle. a couple of plants. I have two filters one a seventy gallon and the other a forty to sixty gallon. Maintain temp at eighty for Sidney. I am at a loss as to what to do and don't want to get any more fish until I can control the tank.

Three Week Tank Problems

sldriscoll89 — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:41:47 GMT

Hi:I have a 55 gal. tank which I've had set up for about four weeks or so. I've tested my water with test strips before and everything was working great. Yet, i lost two fish in the past week and I don't know why. I tested my water earlier today & my nitrate (NO3) is safe & my nitrite (NO2 ) is high. Hardness level is soft, chlorine 0.5 and alkalinity is low. Ph is 7.0 and ammonia is 1.0. I don't understand why they died. I tested my water before & all was well! I would just like to know if they died because of natural causes, or if I am doing something wrong. I hope someone can help!!

ammonia jumps first week of cycling.

Steveo1981 — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:17:27 GMT

Okay, so I have been poking around on the net alot and figured I wold go ahead an ask because I am brand new to this and do not want to kill my fish. I was given a Koi and small pleco during transit they lost thier home and what a mess that was, but never the less I went out to Wal-mart and bought them a 20 gal home with a filter and a light!!!! "I know spoiled right?" Anyways, I noticed wasnt doing so well an started reading up on new tanks and fish and the cyclng process. So I went out and bought an ammonia test kit, well... to my astonishment it was 7+ did not read any higher. I felt awful. Changed water immiediately. 100% Then I got ready for my cycle. Its been a week, I do PWC twice a day because my ammonia level gets to 2 so I pull 2-3 gal out treat 2-3 gal with decholinator and add it. A few hours later its back up too 2 again. Am doing something wrong? I have a 3inch KOI and a 1inch pleco in a 20 Gal tank two air stones cranked up. I would like to keep my fish happy during the cycle as they had a rough previous week. What can I do? Thank you for opinions and advice. -Steve

Angelfish suddenly stopped eating

Cichlasoma_hollywoodi — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:29:13 GMT

All of a sudden she quit eating completely. She used to accept any food offered and was always ready to eat. The fish get brine shrimp 1-2 times a week, bloodworms once a week, and Tetramin the rest of the time. Her personality also has changed. She used to always be right up front following me around, now she stays in the back in a corner. Her head is tilted slightly up all the time but she has no trouble swimming, although she's very sluggish. Her fins are half folded all the time.

Her fins are also shrinking. She used to have extremely long fins but now they're getting shorter. There's no sign of an infection or fin rot so maybe the tetras are nipping at them because she moves so slowly now. You know how tetras can be. But she's not being bullied. She's about 4 years old, not a hybrid, just a straight angel.

She's the only angel in the tank. It's a 28g show tank. The other fishes are mostly tetras. There's no ammonia or nitrite in the water, it's about 74F temp, pH about 7.2. It's planted on one side with Vallisneria which is growing well. All the other fishes are perfectly fine and eating well, but the angel hasn't eaten for about a week. I even tried using a pipet to dangle worms or shrimp in front of her face, and she won't take them. In fact, she actually inhaled a couple as she breathes but just spits them out.

I remember a long time ago I read somewhere that angelfish do get loss of appetite, but I can't remember what they said you can do about it, or if they ever start eating again. I don't want to quarantine her for now cuz I'm afraid netting her and the change of scenery will just upset her and stress her out more.

Any thoughts???

Ich, please help

Holls — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:53:29 GMT

Hi I'm fairly new to having fish. I have a 10 gal. With 2 comet goldfish, 1 calico ryuken, and 1 red cap oranada. I know I need a bigger tank, I will be getting one soon. All my fish are showing signs of ich. I believe it is because of the way I did my last partial water change. My oranada was not the original. The first one I had died about a week after I got her. I believe I stressed her out by doing a partial water change right after I put her in the tank. I replaced her the day she died, and all seemed OK. This was about a week ago. I never treated or changed the water because I attributed her death to the new environment plus water change. But now all my fish have ich. I've been researching since yesterday and have treated the water with Jungle brand ick attack, plus aquarium salt. Any suggestions on what else I can do? How long does ich take to clear up? And are my fish out of harms way if they become active at times? The oranada and ryuken have remained active, but it's hit and miss with the comets.

Somthings wrong with my Betta!

MRBLUBS — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:38:30 GMT

Wow, just seems like one emergency after another.... Anyway one of my female bettas has raised scales or like a bump right before her lips and its making it hard for her to eat. and around the lips is this red line so it must be causing some pain. Also her bottom lip seems to have fungus on it and her middle pat of her tail is missing! I dont know what to do because Im leaving tomorrow morning for a week! I cant add my Funggus treatment I have because it will kill my Snails and I have no where to put them! What do I do? I certinatly dont want to add to the death list of my fishtank

and now ... Missing Barbels

Cichlasoma_hollywoodi — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:35:49 GMT

OK so it definitely wasn't the smartest thing I ever did but ...

I was changing up housing arrangements and tried moving 3 glass catfish into a tank with some fish that were a little more rowdy. One of the glass cats got a little banged up and his 2 barbels were kind of tweaked. So I put him back into his original tank, and a few days later the bent-up barbels broke off; he is currently whiskerless but doing fine.

So now I'm wondering how much of the barbels will grow back? Do you guys think they'll grow back to full length, or will he be left with "stubbies" or none at all? I've had the glass cats for about 18 months so they're not babies. His tail also got a little thrashed but it's growing back. I just worry that without barbels he'll have a hard time finding food.

Missing scales?

Coryboy21 — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 08:07:59 GMT

I have this one black skirt tetra that is missing one of its pectoral fins completely. There is also a back area around the base where there are NO SCALES. It been like this for a while and nothing happened but whats the cause? All my water parameters are normal too.

ick treatment with inverts in aquarium?

RELLIK — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:48:07 GMT

I hate to admit that i did this but I need advice. I was at the pet store and seen two awesome little albino bristlenoses and had to have them. They looked very healthy and I took them home and floated the bag. Long story short Instead of getting water out of my aquariums and firing up the quarantine I dumped them in and went about my day.Im a dumb@$$ I know. So my fish have ick in my awesome 29g planted. I have the temp up to 82 now and have put 1tblspn per 5g. I have alot of shrimp and snails I dont want to kill, am I on the right path? Any advice would be greatly appreciated as to safe temps and salinity with the inverts as they are my main concern.

What's wrong with our comet?

shot_z — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:57:43 GMT

We've had some trouble in the beginning and had some losses but except for a stubborn algae problem (which as far as I understand is not dangerous but merely a cosmetic issue)our 10gal tank has now been established for over a year. Our Comet has been the only fish in it b/c of the size and the problems with ammonia & nitrates in the beginning and I was told that goldfish were high polluters and two may be to many for this size tank.

The only thing that changed is about 2 months ago we bought 2 small live freshwater plants, one called Anubias sp. and one called an Onion. About a month ago he showed signs of ammonia burns so I did the water changes and treated w/ Melafix and he was fully recovered and back to normal within a week. Last Sunday morning my daughter comes to tell me he's looking bad. He had some reddish discoloration on the bottom half of the tailfin, a couple of white spots on the top half, clouding in the center of his eyes and a tucked in backfin. He was not swimming around as usual, which was nearly jumping out of the tank and bumping into the front corner whenever someone entered the room, but seemed rather lethargic staying in one place close to the surface but still submerged, and would only swim when reacting to movement or sound.

Thinking it's the water levels again I did another water change and treated with Melafix. First he seemed to get better, the discolorations disappeared and backfin came back up, but still wouldn't swim around. Since yesterday he just sits on the bottom. He seems to be breathing, definitely not gasping, so it couldn't be ammonia or nitrites, right. I'm at a loss. I'll get the water tested at Petsmart tomorrow, it's all I can think of right now...

trouble with red devil ect strange fungus like disease

xilton — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:50:23 GMT

Hi there,

I'm new to these forums and in panic right now. I have a 130 G tank and others. 2 of my tanks have been infested by I have no idea.

It seems like the sick fish, not everyone seems sick, have been doing in sand and dirt is stuck to them.

I have attached a picture. Basically, the disease appears real fast, the pic is 24h after barely seeing anything. Picture is the best I could make.

I thought it was either fungus (velvet) or parasite. But after 3 full treatments of each the last month 1/2. The thing just keeps coming back with 48h or so. I got rid of all bottom rocks sand ect hoping it was a problem with some parasite. Nope, this morning it was back. The disease has spread to my koi/red fish aquarium via the siphone I use. It's the poly common thing between the 2 aquariums and they started maybe 3 weeks after the oscar, red devil ect aquarium.

The problem disappears 24h barely after treating with fungus cure. so it disappears really fast but comes back really fast. It's not Ich, I've seen this before may times. I know my fish and all but this time, I really have no clue and of course, it all started out with a new fish.

If you look t the side pic, you'll notice that every single individual scale has some type of fungus at the end and the body/fins somewhat covered in some type of dust. mostly whitish cotton like threads and more brownish at the top of the body. Absolutely no signs if infections, bruises ect... Tommorow evening, the red devil (which is the one which is more affected then the flowerhorn and my big koi from the other aquarium will be 2x covered and really in bad shape. Like I said before, I can treat with fungus cure and the fish are very happy within less then 48h and I do make the full treatment for roughly 5 days but it comes back really fast. I have never seen this before and it's very costly right now. I've had many aquariums over the years but have never encountered this or at least something that just won't go away.

thanks everyone.

FYI, my red devil is about 11" long and lives in a 130 G with 1 flowerhorn, 2 oscars and a few severums. Only the red devil and flowerhorn are really harmed. the other aquarum ha 2 kois (the 2 mostly hamred) and some red fish with are somewhat harmed but not as fast

German Blue Ram

Ritch — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:00:52 GMT

So I have a 40 gallon breeder that is heavily planted, I sometimes will not see my fish unless it's time to feed because of how heavily planted it is. Well I hadn't really checked too much on my fish since the water change sunday, and at the time I didn't see anything wrong with my pair of GBR's. Well yesterday when I came home and fed them I noticed my male GBR had a bump on the top of his head. Not a pimple or a scratch, but a almost goosebump like knot on his head. Almost like he ran into something.. Well I didnt really think anything of it an just thought maybe he slammed against a rock chasing the female or something.

Well I get home from work today an notice he is hiding in the plants an lying low to the substrate. I began to feed, and all my fish an shrimp came out to eat and my male just stayed back in the plants and kind of hid from everything. Well when the female was done eating, she came back to the spot the male was hiding and kinda slowly nudged him an he slowly followed her out and the goosebump on his head had grown quite a bit. It was almost like he had internal bleeding underneath the skin and the bump was just growing. I have no clue how this happened and it's really bothering me knowing that my fish is in pain. Im not sure if anyone has ever seen something like this before, but i'll try to post pictures if he comes out of hiding. Im almost 90% positive he is going to pass soon and it's killing me =( I love my GBR's

I Need Help!

guppy girl — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:09:15 GMT

Hi guys. I need help, as my mom and I noticed a strange, thin white line around Bubble's eyes. He's a black and turquoise betta, and with an attitude. This was not like a fungus at all, just a thin line around his eyes, it look weird. I can't do pics now, you wouldn't be able to see it. He's normal right now, eating so much he's fat, and he's crazy active and affectionate too. Can you help????!!! My Mom's pretty worried, he's like a child to her(I'm not jealous at all) but he seems fine and not in pain. Thanks for any advice!

Betta with gray fin base

Bettaaddict — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:01:48 GMT

I just spawned my veiltail betta (last night, in fact) and this morning I found him just sort of hanging at the surface. He's not dead, and he's able to swim jerkily to the surface to breathe, but the bases of all his fins are gray. The gray is also beginning to seep onto his body. He was just fine last night, so obviously this happened in the last 12 hours. I have quarantined him and will attempt to raise the fry on my own, but I need some help figuring out what is wrong with him. Oh, and just in case, I dropped the right dosage of Tetra brand LifeGuard, since it's sort of a cure-all and I hoped it might keep this at bay for awhile. He did spawn, but nowhere near the bubblenest and he has ignored the eggs, as has the female.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

All of my bettas are dying!!

Bettaaddict — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:37:36 GMT

Sorry if this post is confusing, but I'm panicking! As of this morning, three of my male bettas and two of my females have died for no reason! There seemed to be nothing wrong with them whatsoever, they just died. Two males and both of the females had just spawned when they died (the next day or two) and the other male had no stressers, no changes in anything, just died. He was floating with just the tip of his nose at the surface, then the other two males died laying on the bottom. the females died on the botttom too. Someone please help! And one of the males was tending to just-hatched fry! What do I do to keep the rest of the bettas from dying?!

Filter Broke!!!

penguin22 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:43:36 GMT

I Can't get my filter to work! I tried priming it , but it wont start! It just sits there silent. I though that It might of overheated, but when I unplugged it and then put it back in, it STILL wouldn't Start! I'm starting to Panic! PLEASE HELP ME!!!!

New tank, fish keep dying

struggling newbie — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:11:38 GMT

I am a serious newbie, having only kept a betta in a bowl for a few months. 3 weeks ago i bought a very small tank (about 3 gallon). I have put in a corner filter with floss, didnt put charcoal in it. i have treated the water as directed to remove chlorine, ammonia etc and added bacteria. I heated the tank to 25 degrees centergrade and let it cycle for a day. I then added 3 neon tetras and 3 small harlequin rasboras and a tiny albino plecostamus. The tetras died within 12 hours and the rest died about 12 hours after that. I did a full water change and repeated the process, after which I took the water to get tested and was told it is fine. I added 2 small snails (1 inch) who are loving life in the tank and I added 2 small angelfish and a 5cm long plecostomus (i think that is around 2 inches). That was 2 days ago. The angelfish both died last night (they were eating fine before it happened), they appeared to get disorientated and were gasping a little then they just sunk to the bottom and the snails quickly pounced and started eating them. I'm scared the plecostomus goes soon. I don't know what i'm doing wrong and it is getting frustrating. I know that my knowledge is extremely limited so I am hoping one of you guys/gals is able to assist as I want to build my knowledge to the point where I can get a large beautiful tank up and running.

Thanks for reading the long post

Stephen

need help with ick problem

robbiejaegle — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:20:00 GMT

hey im new to this web site i just got into fish i bought a 75 gallon aquarium a month ago i have 2 baby tiger Oscar a albino channel cat just a baby a regular channel cat also a baby and a eclipse cat witch is a baby i noticed 3 days ago there was white specks on my albino catfish so i went to walmart an bought the ick stuff to treat the fish it said to take filters out put stuff in water then if by the next day it is not fixed drain 25% water and re treat . the first day it did not do anything so i drained water and treated again this morning it looked like the fish were stressed out and the catfishes eyes were clouded up and he was not hiding under the rock like he usually does water looked cloudy also so i put filters back in i have 2 filters on the tank so i could have more filtration that is recomended beacuse they are dirty fish does anyone have any advice for me and what i should do ? thanks

Unhappy Kribensis

stephyykinss — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:23:28 GMT

Shivers is a female (pretty sure) Kribensis that I've had for almost a year.

She's in a 10gallon that is very well established, AquaClear filter, fake plants, caves, pH of 7, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 10 ppm nitrate.

She used to be so active! She would rush out of the cave to snatch her food when she saw me coming.

Lately (the last 2 months) she has lost the brightness of her normally red stomach, and hides almost all the time.

She no longer rushes to get her food, for a while I wasn't even sure she was eating! I've tried sinking, gel, and even floating food. I have her eating a little sinking blood worm gel now. She will only eat in hiding.

I'm very good with my water changes. I haven't changed anything that I can think of to trigger this change. However, she has grown some.

What can I do to help my unhappy Kribensis.. please help!

Not sure which of 3 meds I should give?

LadyChiChi — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:52:04 GMT

I will try to make this as short and to the point as possible. My oranda has
fin rot and ich and I don't know what I should even treat anymore.
29 gal tank
1 dwarf gourami
1 oranda
1 new koi (which brought the ich and has already died)
ammonia: 0.25 ppm (I know this should be 0 but I don't want to add even
more chemicals while I am medicating )
nitrate: 5.0 ppm
nitrite: 0
ph: 7.6

Oranda had red streaks (which I thought was from new color enhancing
food) for almost a week, and a few white spots on its tail as well. The koi
had ich for about a week before I knew what it was. Decided to treat ich.
Dec 8 Day 1: Treated 29 gal tank with Coppersafe (7 teaspoons which I put IN THE FILTER bcuz Petco guy told me to, which I found out later is
incorrect, and left the carbon filter in {dumb}). Koi died. (I know heaters will kill ich faster but I have read my oranda can't stand those high temps, same with aquarium salt, so I have attempted to treat with no heater and no aquarium salt)
Day 2: 25% water change (against packing instructions). Through research, I realize I should also be treating for fin rot and read it's good to treat both at the same time. So I get some API E.M. Erythromycin (same active ingredients as Maracyn 2) do 1 treatment, and also put in 3 more teaspoons of Coppersafe to compensate for the new water.
Day 3: Oranda is unable to swim down, dorsal fin is very red and maybe
light burnt...? Seeing white spots on eyes 50% water change, 3 more
teaspoons of Coppersafe, 1 treatment of E.M. Realize the gourami is eating the oranda's fins, so I quarantined the gourami. Noticed 3 white spots on gourami's tail.
Day 4: Oranda, although naturally white, looks pale, more white spots on
gills, and eyes. Finally took out carbon filter of main tank. Treated main tank with StressCoat (heard this works best). Realized with the diff stages of ich, getting my oranda out of main tank would be best, so got hospital tank (9 gal, aeration going, no filter, same stats as main tank above) Since I don't have time to cycle it, took water from the main tank (while still contaminated, doesn't have nearly as many parasites as the rocks and decorations). 10% new water in hosp tank and more StressCoat. SO HERE IS MY QUESTION. What do I put in the hospital tank now?! Coppersafe which will kill the ich, E.M. which will help the fin rot, or just stick with StressCoat?! I am embarrassed to even post his picture, he looks horrible.
(P.S. gourami is in his quarantine tank, a lil rapid breathing but not bad and I put a heater in there and will continue with the Coppersafe as he is still in the very early stages)

Honestly, at this point I'd rather it just die because the stress it's causing me is giving ME ich! :S He seems to want to fight, so I am going to let him-- I can't bare to put him down after all his effort. I've appropriately named him, Trooper, because he is stickin in there like a trooper!

puffer beak trimming

Rabid Puffer — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:52:10 GMT

Hello. Earlier today I trimmed my figure 8 puffer's beak. However this was my first time doing so and I believe I did not trim off enough for fear of hurting him, however I can not get a good look at his teeth because he shys away if I try and get a look. Now he still will not eat. I heard that trimming beaks less than once a year was bad because the clove oil used to sedate them can cumulate and be harmful. Is this true or can I just try the procedure again to trim more beak? The puffer is getting very skinny and I fear he may starve to death if I don't do something soon.

I do not know if my LFS still sells them, but if they do tomorrow I can try feeding him life blackworms which would be much easier for him to eat than pieces of frozen krill.

EDIT: I finally got a good look at him, and it looks like I did a really bad job. I apparently did not get his bottom beak at all and his top beak looks like the mouth of someone who has been punched in the teeth and had some knocked out. Would using the eugenol (clove oil( anesthetic again tomorrow be harmful? If he does not even eat blackworms, I will be forced to because it cannot be worse than him starving to death.

I've got Ich...... am i doing this right?

rhbama3 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:09:42 GMT

Well, my not having a quarantine tank finally got me.

I came in Sunday from hunting and noticed that 3 of the rummy nose tetra's have the dreaded white dots on their fins and sides. I did some reading and decided to go with the salt and heat method. But there are a LOT of opinions on how much salt is required.

This is a 29 gallon tank. I have 6 rummy noses, 5 serpae tetra's, 5 platies, 4 cory cats, and 2 zebra danio's.

I did a 20 gallon water change yesterday and added 2 tablespoons of salt to the new water. New water is poured in a 30 gallon trash can and airstone and heater are added to treated water till temp is the same as in the aquarium. Raised the temp to 82 in the tank and thoroughly vacuumed all the substrate. I also added an airstone.

I just checked the tank, and during the night, almost all of the infected fish now show no signs of the parasite. I saw one white dot on one of the RNT's, so am i right in assuming the parasites have dropped off and are now vulnerable? I plan to do another water change Saturday with the same amount of salt and water.

I really didn't see anything about whether the anubius, cobomba, or sword plants are afftected by the treatment and temps.

Sooo....... am i doing this right? Thanks, Robert

Help identifying odd (skin tag) looking growth near gill

MJPease — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:35:23 GMT

Hello All, Maybe you could help me figure out what's wrong with one of our goldfish A.K.A Calico Jack. He has developed a human skin like tag that is hanging off the flap of one of his gills. It looks like I could just snip it off for him and he wouldn't mind if I did, but of course I wouldn't do that with out knowing what it was. Does any one have any thoughts on what's going on with this situation? The fish is not acting strange at all. Thanks and Take Care

camallanus worms!?

lilviton — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:50:43 GMT

I have a 29 gallon tropical aquarium with a lot of healthy live plants and fish. I have various tetras, 2 blue rams, 2 Bolivian rams, and a couple catfish. I haven't added fish in months! All of a sudden I noticed my male Bolivian ram with an extremely swollen anus with some redness too. Then my female Bolivian ram clamped down and sat on the ground, now it won't get up. Finally two phantom tetras died when I discovered the universal issue, red, threadlike worms protruding from the anus. It is worsening, leaving multiple fish sitting at the bottom all clamped down, reluctant to eat. I can't find treatments at petsmart/petco with the right chemicals I have been told to use. What do i do before all of my fish die?!

Fish can't swim

bettasrcool — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:56:44 GMT

What disease or ailment is it when a fish is having trouble swimming and is pointing its head toward the surface like it can't stay level? I have had a couple of fish get this and they soon die. Is this a bladder issue or something else?

Meet Hannibal & Slaughter!

TheFishMama13 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:42:29 GMT

Coming up on the 3rd week without my baby Pizza, and first week without my little PingPong, I decided to add 2 new fishy friends to my family , a sarasa comet named Slaughter, and a red ryukin named Hannibal.

Slaughter

Hannibal

HELP!!! i cant get my PLECO OUT!!!

voy120 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:16:59 GMT

I bought a rubber nose pleco two days ago and he has hid in this rootted tree stump decoration with alot of small root like struckures i have i cant get him to come out for anything i have tryed to slowly empty it by taking it out and he just sticks shook it inside the tank he wont move im very worried because idk if he will get sufficent food i have tryed dropping an alge wafer in there an hour after light out this behavior just worries me i dont want to have to break open the decoration it was expencive i also dont ant him to starve or whatever i have limited knowlage on this species and i have had little luck finding help on what to do on the web what can i do how should i handle this etc to prevent the loss of this fish help!!!!!!!!!

Fish tumor-possible?

emilnajeeb — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:26:49 GMT

My fish has black rounded thing at the end of the tail and i am worried about it

White Cloudy Eyes in Discus Tank

caliswift — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:50:06 GMT

I did a 60% water change on Saturday morning and everything has been fine. Fish were eating, no water cloudiness or heavy breathing. This morning I come down to 3 of 4 of my siamese algae eaters dead and 1 listless barely breathing at the surface. All seemed to be shaped perfectly fine, no discoloration or physical damage. They all had white, cloudy eyes which I thought was just because they were deceased. There also seems to be a thing films along their fins. I fed the 7 Discus and one of the older fish has a large "chunk" of white over one eye. I did see all 7 eat though.

I've had ich before, doesn't seem to look the same. It's only on one fish and not little dots all over the body. Anyone have ideas? All the cardinal tetras seem fine. I've started treatment for ich just in case.

Before anyone asks:
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 0
Nitirite 0
pH 7.8 (I don't attempt to mess with it)
Temp 83
18 month old planted 100gallon

Help! My fish's tail keeps getting stuck to the filter!

TheFishMama13 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:16:07 GMT

I have a pearlscale goldfish, named PingPong, in one of those 2.5 gallon mini bow aquariums, and lately his tail has been getting sucked into the filter, we're able to easily get him unstuck by unplugging the filter but it's happened 3 times now so we're afraid to leave his filter plugged in while we're gone. Is there any kind of netting or something I can buy to put around the filter to keep this from happening? Any advice would be great!

Ammonia Spike!!

MRBLUBS — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:04:56 GMT

I used to have 41 guppies in my twenty gallon but i got rid of 36 of them. They have caused my tank to crash! The Ph is 6.5 which is suppose to be at 7.0 and the worst of all is the Ammonia is at 4.3! I have already lost one male guppy and my Rubber lipped plecostomus because of the ammonia. I have added the cuttle bone to ump the Ph to 7.0 and added a double dose of Prime for the ammonia. I just did a 50% water change but the ammonia reads the same. My guppies and neons are gasping at the surface and i dont want any of them to die! What do I do? I really dont want to lose any more fish!

sick blood parrot?!?

ginger777 — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:13:48 GMT

So I have a blood parrot cichlid that I "adopted" when I bought my tank off Craigslist. The woman told me that she has had her for around 12 years. I have had her for about 5 months and last week all of a sudden she started sitting on the bottom of the tank. you could tap on the glass and she would swim around and then go right back to the bottom. A couple days ago she stopped eating and doesnt even try to be very responsive when you tap on the glass. Her color is good and no cloudy eyes or external signs of illness. I have asked some people at a local aquatic pet store and they seem to think shes dying of old age...is this it or could it be an internal bacterial infection or something else?

Ph to low!

MRBLUBS — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:58:21 GMT

I tested my aquarium water today and was pretty shocked with the results! My ammonia was 1.23 and Ph 6.0! The ammonia im sure is from the guppies but iam gladly getting rid of tomorrow morning but thePh makes no sense to me. It always use to be 7.0 and even my tap water ph is 7.6! What is making my Ph so low! I use Seachem Prime, Flourish Comprehensive supplements for the planted aquarium, and top fin water conditioner. Whats causing it to go to 6.0?

Unknown Algae

Marmillian — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:02:03 GMT

Hello one and all. I am a newbie to aquaria but am doing as much research as possible. My 55 gal is a week old and i have been monitoring levels every day.

An algae that I cannot identify has been propagating on my Mapani driftwood but only on the lighter surfaces. The algae has also began on a food wafer as well as on a algae wafer. I feed very slightly every day crushed flake for my two hatchetfish.

Here are some pics

Extended Gill cover on Neon..

MRBLUBS — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:54:51 GMT

One of my Neons has an extended gill cover and im not sure what to do... How do I treat it? And if i have to use somthing with copper in it where can i put my snails? Im soo confused!!!!!!!!!!

Black Ich?

spritestyle — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:16:53 GMT

I've notice that some of my platties are rubbing against my plants. Upon closer look, some seems to have small (barely noticeable) black specks. Not sure what it is, but currently on a regiment treatment of Melafix by API.

Q: Will this help fix any ailment that's currently in my tank? Will I need stronger treatment? Should I just have a wait and see attitude?

HELP!!!!! I think my Opaline Goriami is SICK?

voy120 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:06:28 GMT

I need help and advice.. i just got an opaline goriami yesterday from my LFS and he is acting strangely.. he seems slow and sluggish compared to his LFS tank mate a gold gori.. anyways he doesn't really move around the tank a lot.. seem to sit in the one corner.. additionally he seems to swim in place in circles as if he is chasing his tail.. this worry's me i have never seen a fish do this before.. and he has got caught in the draft of the filter return water before and he seem to not want to fight it he just gets blown and toppled over etc.. his breathing rates seem normal to me.. what could possibly be wrong is there something i am missing.. i had my water checked yesterday and my ammonia was a bit high so i took care of that... when he was in the dealer tank he seemed to be sluggish and i wonder did i get a bad fish or is he just that way by species any help would be greatly valued i am just so worried the only other thing i notice is a bit of very light damage to his back tail fin but it seems to be caused by nipping no visible signs externally of infection or illness PLEASE help!

my aquarium died

Brett Stiefel — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:37:57 GMT

Help
Over the past week or two I have lost most of my fish. I started with 5 rasbora hets, 6 tiger barbs, 6 danio, 1 dwarf guarami and two angelica botia in a 29 gallon tank. Some fish started dying. I replaced them but things just got worse. I have two danio, the dwarf and one anglicus left. I tested my water and had the lfs test my water. Everything was good except the water was hard. It has always been hard. I have changed the water several times. I cleaned the filter. I can find nothing wrong. If the load was two heavy to start it is certainly not now. The other weird thing is that the plants were doing poorly and had lots of cynobacteria. Now the cyno is gone and the plants are doing well. What should I do. I am afraid to transfer the fish to my other aquarium for fear of contamination even though I don't see any disease. I am afraid to leave them since all the others died. When I restart should I kill all the plants and steralize the tank?

Betta with indented lip!

MRBLUBS — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:06:54 GMT

When i got my femlae bettas they all seemed fine and healthy and they still are but today during my water change the betta i calll Boss (ya odd nickname for a girl betta but she is the biggest and the one in charge) On her top lip there is a tiny triangle of lip missing! Its soo weird.. She still eats and swims normally but what caused this? and will it grow back? Because I do plan on breeding her in the future when i get my male betta and dont want her to get turned down or pass somthing to the male betta or infact my other females!

Can someone help Me?

I hope its not any type of disease or anything because that would make today even more worse! I cant find my Mystery snail and School also started today and Now this?!