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Any other ideas? :)

Thank you. I will look into the fish bath. I do hope it is just a deformity or growth though. I'm really growing to like this guy. he is my first pleco

Thank you, thats what I thought. Any other ideas?

Hello, I have a new marble sailfin pleco that I purchased last week from a LFS. He is finally calm/happy enough to start swimming around and sucking on the sides of the tank. Thats when I noticed that he has some small yellow warty-looking growths on his lip. I haven't seen this before and it...

Also: I don't know what happened to one of my previous fish photos, it just changed to something else. :confused: I am planning on taking one of my male platies back to the fish store after this, to prevent any further fighting. I think I may take some others back as well. Would upgrading my...

Update: The Platy has lost another 1/4 of it's tail, alone in it's isolation tank. So I'm ruling out injury (unless it's injuring it'self. ). Although I am accepting of the idea that this could have also stemmed from injury if my male platys were fighting (which I've never seen them do, but...

Those are the water parameters of my cycled tank. The hospital tank is - 6.8 ph (my tap is acidic) 40 alkainity, 0 chlorine, 150 hardness, under 20 ppm nitrate, .5 nitrite. This is the water I just did a 100% water change with. My test kit doesn't include ammonia, but I can get some that do...

I also thought of some other information that may be useful: I had a reticulated hillstream loach in my tank too, but I have not seen it in over a month. I've been having some problems with my amazon swords, anubis and aponogeton plants having transparent leaves. I haven't found the cause of...

Okay, this is my first big tank and my first sick fish. Let me know if I'm missing any information! I have a 6 month old 28 gal bowfront tank, moderatly planted. It has 2 Platies, 5 Rasbora Het, 4 White Clouds, 6 neon green Rasbora, 1 dwarf honey Gourami, 5 kuhli loaches, 3 amano shrimp, and 2...

Thank you! That makes sense to me. :)

Thank you! It does! I'm actually really glad to hear someone say that about LFS. I love hearing from my fish store, but I always like to know more about something then just being told what to do with my fish blindly. I went through a lot of research online before adding fish to my aquarium...

My tank is 3 1/2 months old. I'm pretty sure it cycled at the beginning, I took samples of my water to my local fish store until they told me it was safe to buy a couple of fish. I also fertilize with under gravel tablets, flourish (usually every 1-2 weeks), and an iron supplement (every 2...

Sorry I don't think the photo posted.

Hi, I have been running my aquarium now for 3 1/2 months. Its a 29 gal planted tank with quite a few fish and snails in it. I was cleaning my tank bi-weekly for some time (15-30% water changes w/o vacuuming the gravel) but nitrates were never showing up in my testing. Even after putting in new...