Recent content by Damiri

Thanks! I will do frequent water changes.

i noticed that one of my synos has that film over his eyes. They look cloudy. I dont think he is seeing well, if at all. The other one's eyes are better but he seems to be developing the same issue. What could it be and what can i do to help them? some background. They used to live in a 120 gal...

hmmm.... hopefully i am not missing any fish but something rotting would help explain the readings. I checked my water supply and there were no nitrates so they must come from something in the tank. I will try to feed my fish less. It is possible i am overfeeding.

we have 5 mollies, 4 platys, 4 swordtails, 5 guppies, 6 cories, 6 plecos, 2 synodontis and 2 other catfish that i am not sure what they are, and 6 zebra barbs. Ah and 12 neon tetras... Most of them are still small i change about 25% of water weekly but when i discovered high nitrates few weeks...

I have been battling very high nitrates in our 120gal tank. At one point they were at least 160ppm, now they hover between 40 and 80 - hard to tell which exact shade on the scale the sample matches but it seems a shade lighter than 80. So this is still high. I am vacuuming, doing water changes...

our beautiful guy developed a twisted fin early on. He lives in a 5 gal tank with a heater and a filter and i took great pains to keep his water in good condition. Aside from algae issue the water has been good and our Jean-Luc is happy and healthy but his twisted fin remains twisted. It seems...

I just rinsed the gunk out of the media in the water taken from the tank. Basically I just swished it around in a big bowl of tank water and put them back.

so after a cleanup, filter cleaning and 3 water changes i got nitrates down to about 40-80 (hard to tell, the colors are so similar). Still higher than they should be but much better. I lost one more fish but now the rest are behaving much more like normal. They are not as lethargic, especially...

Thank you. I vacuumed the substrate and changed about 50% of water. I will do another water change tomorrow and the day after. In the meantime we lost a young pleco and a swordtail. I hope there will be no more casualties. I had no idea the nitrate levels can climb so fast. The last time i...

120 gal tank with plants, cories, platys, mollies, barbs and gouramis. Everything seemed fine until a couple of days ago when i found a barb has died. We have been testing for ammonia and nitrites regularly and both are at 0. Between yesterday and this morning we have lost a gourami, a catfish...

I definitely think the excess of light is part of the problem. The tank doesnt get much direct sunlight, maybe an hour or so and this also thru partially closed blinds but the tank lights are on for 10 hours a day as well. I am gonna cut the time the lights are on in half and see if that helps...

I have a serious hair algae problem in my betta tank. It is growing like crazy and taking over everything. The tank is 5 gal with a live plant and a silk plant. I am doing water changes and cleaning and it still grows! On Friday i did a 50 % water change and gave the tank a good cleaning and...

https://youtu.be/KE5xO6w56jI let's see if this works

I posted before about my ich fish. I had my ich fish quarantined in a hospital tank and dosed with three doses of ich treatment. After about 2.5 weeks all the fish were clean and moved back to the main tank and are doing well except my four tetras. They had very few ich spots to begin with but...

Yes, i prefer not to use meds if i dont have to. Ok, so i will raise the temperature in my 'hospital' and change water and clean up the main tank. Do you think it is safe to move the fish which look cured back to the main tank in a few days (they have been in the hospital for about a week now)...