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is this drinking water the filtered, low-ion kind? like, do they remove all the salt and minerals? cuz if so, that's not good for fish. they won't do well in de-ionized water because they need some ions for proper waste exchange, maintaining inner ion balance like in their blood and tissues...

sorry, all. i've been offline for a few days, felt very disconnected from the world. anyway, my goal in posting this topic was to see if anyone could help me identify the nature of this. i had read the freshwater ich article before i posted. it is very good, sound advice, but i don't know...

glasstapper, what happened after the treatment? What's "clout", by the way? I've treated them in the past with RidIch+ when they had visible white dots. it helped for awhile but i thought maybe I didn't get it all the first time because there was still a little flashing. so i did another...

OK, so I posted a topic called "Flashing, but I don't think it's Ich" last week. I've been watching my aquarium and now more fish of several species are flashing. I don't really see any spots, though. Should I do the heat and salt treatment, just in case? The thing is, I've always got a...

hmm, well whatever it was seems to have cleared up. the little guy is almost completely normal now. i don't know if there are diseases that will cause a swimbladder to deflate and not be able to fill with air. maybe he somehow tore it and it gradually healed. i don't know if i'll ever know...

One of my fishies lost his buoyancy completely for awhile. The poor thing had to pump his pectoral fins constantly to keep from sinking. He couldn't even rest at night. His stomach also looked deflated. I figured he was a goner. He looked so thin that I was sure the exhaustion would do him...

Hmm, it is mostly the White Cloud minnows that were doing it. They are kind of show-offy to each other and will often hover side-by-side with all fins held open stiffly. My concern came when I two fish of different species doing it, too, but only a couple times. I have been watching them and...

Cool! I never know what to use as a login name, but yours is very creative and unique. I bet no one already has that name when you register at new forums. I usually end up picking something stupid. "babybetta" has absolutely no significance whatsoever, it was just the first thing I could...

Some of my fish have been flashing. I got really frustrated because they had I had already treated them for ich about a month ago with RidIch. It seemed to work because the dots went away and the itching stopped. Then a few weeks later, some of them are back at it. I just assumed it was...

Ahh, Amquel! I didn't even think of that one. I'm used to letting the biological filter take care of it, rather than relying on chemicals. But for short term, that is not a bad idea at all. I second the over-thinking fish sensitivity thing. I'm probably the most guilty of all. Those...

Oops, sorry about the misspelling of your name, patryuji. That doesn't really count because it's a virtual name and not a real word in the English language. Told you I'm obsessive-compulsive.

Don't worry. I have weird obsessive-compulsive things revolving around grammar and spelling, too. Oh, and pronunciation. I can't stand when people say words incorrectly. Anyway, platyriju, congrats on your 2nd molting! You must be doing something right.

Oh, yeah, and sorry about the green font. I thought I'd highlight the question part. But it just made it hard on the eyes.

You're right. It probably is silt and mud that they dig into in the wild. I will do some more research before I do anything drastic. I've taken the sand box out, by the way, as of this morning. I thought I'd give it a try, though, to see how he'd respond. It wasn't an entirely ecstatic...

Yeah, I've heard them called fan shrimp, too. :uzi: :invasion: Disturbing, huh?