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What type of fish is afflicted? In addition, please describe what is wrong with the fish to the best of your ability (i.e. cotton like growth, bloated, etc.).* It's a juvenile julii cory. I have had it in my tank for at least 3 months. It is still active. It looked fine yesterday but I noticed...

Hi everyone, I try to give my tanks a good scrub with my mag float and an aquarium dedicated sponge once a week. Usually this does the trick of staving off any algae build up on the glass. However, today I noticed that the corners of my tank have a green line near the silicone. Does anyone...

Just noticed one of my hatchet fish swimming straight up and down. Any idea what is wrong? Hatchet fish have been in my tank for at least 4 months. Tank has been cycled for at least 6 months. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Aquarium Advice mobile app

So I was gone for 9 days on a road trip. I have three tanks: 5 gallon with a betta and a rabbit snail; 29 gallon community; and 10 gallon with 5 guppies, a mystery snail, a CPO and a small RCS colony. I did water changes on all aquariums right before taking off. All perameters were great: 0...

Hi everyone! I started fish keeping this summer and I have been enjoying it a lot. I have a book on aquarium plants and another book on identifying fish disease. Are there other books that might be useful to me? I don't have a huge budget ( I assume that if law books can get to $700 per book...

I assume everyone approaches building a new planted tank differently. How do you plan for your tank? Do you look at other tanks you like to get ideas? Is it all about the plants? Do you map out a plan or just go with what is on hand? I just started this hobby this year, so much of my tanks...

I bought this little gem from wet spot and received it in the mail this last week. It's been really shy for awhile and not eating much (it would snatch a pellet or two when it thought I wasn't looking). This was the first time I was able to get a decent pic. Any ideas on sex? Also, is the...

So about 2 months ago I bought some blue velvet shrimp online. When I got the shrimp there was duckweed in the water with them. I tried to add the shrimp to the tank without adding duckweed but one or two (or five) must have snuck into the 29 gallon. Now my tank is overrun with it and I don't...

Today while feeding my fish I noticed that one of my cardinal tetras had a small white spot on its head. After about a half an hour of trying, I finally caught the fish and placed it in a small 1/2 gallon container I use to drip acclimate fish. It will have to stay in there because my qt is...

My brother bought me this fish for my birthday. Definitely excited! He will be the most expensive fish I have owned so far. I'll be putting him in a 5 gallon that I had setup for another Betta I recently lost. DRAGON KOI Halfmoon male betta imported from Thailand-Underwater Rainbow-A11

Hi again, I have been a bit absent from the forum lately....life got in the way. Anyway, I lost my favorite fish (a Betta) to dropsy yesterday. He lived in a 5 gallon tank with a CPO and a rabbit snail. I did 50% water changes weekly and my parameters were always fine so I don't really know...

Hi everyone, I have had a planted tank for a few months and I have just now gotten to the point where I need to trim the plants in the tank. Every time I trim I am unsure of the best way to go about it. Are there any rules of thumb to pay attention to or is it mostly trial and error? I want to...

I have an Aquaclear 70 filter that I use on my 29 gallon tank. Lately, I have been having trouble with the flow output of the filter. I have taken it apart and cleaned it multiple times and it still doesn't put out much flow at all. It is a steady trickle at best, at maximum flow. I've also...

I noticed a string of feces almost as long as the fish coming out of one of my female guppies today. What on earth is going on?

Does anyone have any tips on selecting a good Bolivian Ram and/or a good place to buy from? There are not many good fish stores around me, so it will probably be an online purchase. I am still a ways away from being ready to add a Ram to my 29 gallon, but I want to get researching. :brows:

This has cropped up on my plants. It is black and can't seem to be scrubbed off of leaves. 2 Questions: 1. What kind of algae is it? 2. How do I get rid of it?

I have been dosing Flourish and Flourish trace biweekly and running co2 on my 29 gallon planted aquarium. Has anyone dosed these daily? I am still very new to this, I'm only a few months in, and I sort of jumped in head first to fish keeping. :whistle: The reason I am asking: I purchased an...

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good relatively affordable co2 regulator for a 29 gallon planted tank? I've been looking at Aquatek stuff on Amazon but I am new to this and don't know what is important to have v. what is superfluous.

I've got it bad. I currently have one 29 freshwater planted community and a planted 5 gallon with a betta and a rabbit snail. Now, I am setting up a ten gallon. It'll be a freshwater but does anyone have any ideas for stocking? I will be doing a fishless cycle, no worries about that. I...

I just noticed today that my Rabbit Snail Bugs has what appears to be a weird growth on his head. Here is a picture. Any idea what this could be? Any tips on treatment? Yes the sand is dirty. I've been trying to siphon it clean but it's hard to get everything. It looks much better than it did...

So, I have added another tank to my possession. It's a five gallon tank I plan to use for a Betta. I'm in the middle of my fishless cycle and my pH has swung. This happened when I was cycling my 29 gallon as well. The difference is that my pH in my 29 gallon dropped significantly from 7.4 to...

I recently completed a fishless cycle and added cardinal tetras, harlequin rasboras and one guppy to my 29 gallon planted tank. All seemed well for a few days but I came home to three dead Cardinals yesterday. The deaths were unexpected. The other fish seemed fine but I noticed last night one...

After fishless cycling with plants my 29 gallon for a month I finally added fish yesterday. I originally wanted 7 cardinals and 9 harlequin rasboras and one guppy but ended up with 9 cardinals and 11 harlequins because the owner of the store gave me some freebies (probably just didn't want to...

Nearing the end of my fishless cycle of my 29 gallon tank. It's pretty densely planted and has some driftwood and lava rock in it. My questions: how many fish should I get at one time? Which ones first? How long between adding new fish? I have been dosing ammonia up to 4 ppm. The only things I...

I am new to fish-keeping and while I have been waiting for my 29 gallon to cycle I bought a 5 gallon on Craigslist to keep a Betta.:whistle: I just finished my hard-scape and have started my fishless cycle as of today. :thumb: However, the glass pieces that go over the top of the tank leave...