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I got new fish 5 days ago. All (including original fish) seem healthy apart from one red eye neon It has developed two raised white lumps overnight. (I was only able to capture 1 of the spots in the photos) Is this fungus? (I've never had any fish diseases in my year keeping fish, so I'm...

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Edit: left of the rumynose tetra. Not minnow Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

I got quite a few new fish all at once and can't remember 2 of the names (swapped out my cichlid tank back to a community tank) The first is a 0.5cm grey dotted fish Fish at the bottom of this photo The second is slightly smaller than a guppy. To the left of the minnow in this photo Many...

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I have an internal filter in my existing tank. The sponge filters are arranged one on top of the other. But there isnt any more room in the enclosure for filters for me to put an extra new filter So I was going to just hang the new filter in the tank for it to seed Sent from my iPhone using...

Ok Thanks I don't have any room in my existing filter stack for the new filter Will it seed if I just hang it in the tank? Or does it need to be in with the other filters? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

I have an established tank. I'm going to get another tank & I don't want to have to cycle it. If I put the brand new filters from the new tank in the existing tank, how long would it take to 'seed' the new filter? I was going to hand some of the new media in the existing tank also. Many...

Just a thought Because it's a cichlid tank, they destroy the plants regularly & I have to replace them Would it speed things up (or make things worse) if I removed all the plants and turned the lights off completely for 3 or 4 days ? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Thanks both for your suggestions I'll let you know how it goes Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

I only cleaned the tank yesterday ;( But it'll be back in a day or 2 Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Thanks all for advise so far My usual PWC schedule was 50% a week. I'm now doing twice weekly PWC, again 50% My nitrates would be 5 on the day I changed the water My kit doesn't have a phosphate test Ammonia & nitrite are always 0 It's a cichlid tank (I know I shouldn't have plants in there...

Agghhh- I've just cleaned the tank, so there's no algae to show at the minute The LFS said it was caused by low light. Would the 'light-on, light-off' method not make this worse? I'm only asking- I'm completely out of my depth with this problem Thanks Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Lights on for 9hrs a day I have an internal + ext filter so I have plenty of surface agitation I haven't had this problem in a year. Nothing else has changed in the past year apart from low light prior to it failing Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Sorry. Phone corrected LFS to LFC Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice