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They are a week and a day old. I have 9, about 3-4 are showing black on their tails and a couple have black on all fins. I thought they weren't suppose to show color for another couple weeks? And are these most likely males?
They are in their own 5gal, temp is a steady 80. Filter is on the...
Have a 16gal with Marineland LED light bar. It was on for 6 hours but I had to cut back to 4 1/2 hours because of algae. I have plants that are thriving with this amount of light and don't want to cut back again, but the algae is also thriving... I can rub it off with my fingers but it just...
Yeah. I've used about 3/4 of the 4oz bottle of Melafix and she is not getting better at all. Predicting she will die within a week. She's sitting on the bottom. Struggling to swim as she has absolutely no tail left. Her color has also darkened quite a bit. I wish I could do something else. She...
Glad it worked for you, I will have to try those if melafix doesn't work. I just bought it and dosed my tank. She looks A LOT worse today. I really don't know how she's still alive.
I originally got 7 guppy/Endler hybrids and added to my new tank. The biggest pregnant female's tail fin started to disappear and turn white (pictures in my album). And another died; this was a month ago.
Since then I've done weekly 50% water changes and added salt. (Tablespoon per 5gallons)...
I meant it's good to do that if you pick the pieces from the creek or lake.... If you bought them from a store it should be fine.
The purpose of soaking it is so it will sink in your tank and the tannins leach out before you stick it in there.
To give you an idea, I got white sand, real driftwood from the beach, and bought live plants. Also I really like black backgrounds with white sand. Here are my tanks.
The second one is a rock I found on a hike and some natural looking gravel from petsmart.
If you get real driftwood it's fine...