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  1. AlexTheGreat

    Coral bleaching? Or STN/RTN

    Hey guys my Coral started to lose its color and I can't tell if it is bleached or experiencing STN/RTN. My parameters are in the picture and so are some images of the coral. Algea seems to be growing on top of it but I still see the purple polyps of the coral. I hope I can do something before I...
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    Deresa clam mantle hole?

    I recently noticed a small hole in my clams mantle in between the siphon and slit. This does not seem normal. All my water parameters are perfect and there is not anything in my tank that likes to pick at the mantle, the only thing I can think of maybe the turbo snail that sometimes moves over...
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    Ocellaris aggression?

    Hey guys I just bought a new Gold lightning Maroon clownfish becuase I saw him mixed with some ocellaris at the store. I know they have a reputation of being the most aggresive clowns but when I put the bag into my tank my smaller ocellaris went straight after looking for a fight. Was he...
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    Sick leather and zoanthid corals

    So it has been over a week now and I have been trying to bring my leather coral back to good health since the polyps havent been popping up lately but nothing has changed and now my zoanthid corals are looking pretty unhealthy when i came back home I took a picture of my test results from a...
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    Candy Cane Coral

    I bought a Candy cane coral recently and wanted to know if it was normal for the polyp to look like this. I dont know if they should be more out then this.
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    Halfmoon king betta suddenly died!

    Its just what the title says its las te and I came into my room hearing my tank making splash noises and i went to check to find my betta swimming iradically then suddenly dieing! He was doing fine no signs of stress or anything. Here are my parameters: Ph- 7.2-7.6 Ammonia-0 Nitrite-0...
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    Betta fin deterioration

    So I have had a problem with some neon tetras becoking aggresive and ive been working on trying to isolate them becuase they have been nipping everyone in the tank but they are fast and are alot harder to catch then a betta. So i decided to fish the betta out first becuase he had some of his...
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    Neon tetra hierarchy?

    I have been keeping my neon tetras in a 20g high with some of my other fish and they dont seem to bother the others but when it comes to themselves they chase each other around and try to nip at there tails. I have like two neon tetras whose fins seem to be rip apart and i can only assume it...
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    Snail can’t come out of shell

    So I medicated my tank a while back with microbe lift herbtana becuase my fish had some cotton mouth. It said it was safe for plants and inverts but after it cleared up all my fish recovered but I had one of my snails die and one seems to be trying to come out of the shell but cant while the...
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    Single white dot on betta?

    So I have noticed my betta fish having a single white dot on his side and the scales around it be a shade darker then the others. I know its not ich becuase Ive delt with it before and he is acting perfectly healthy and is showing no signs of being unhealthy Im just curious as to what it is?
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    Excessive snail waste

    So about yesterday to make a long story short i go a gold inca snail and it looked quite large but I didnt know the previous tank he was in and what conditions he had so i have him in a qt tank right now and i have noticed that he is pooping alot i dont know if this is normal for him becuase my...
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    Badis badis and betta compatability?

    I have a community tank with 7 neon tetras 3 cory catfish 2 peacock gudgeons 1 african banded barb 1 gold inca snail 1 trap door snail And 1 dragonscale betta They are all in a 20g planted tank and I was wondering if a badis badis would be compatible with any of the fish. The one fish that...
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    Trap door snail hasn't moved in 3 days

    So I recently bought a trap door snail and 2 peacock gudgeons from my lfs and ive been quaranting them for 4 days now. The fish seem fine but the first day that I put my snail in he didnt seem very active and found one of the pbc pipes I have in there and just stayed there he hasnt moved from...
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    Bullied barb

    I have an African banded barb that has been bullied by another one and is weak and does not want to eat I bought him around 3 months ago and only recently have noticed he looked weak and scared. I have a 20g tank with an aqeuon quiteflow 20 filter has sponges and filter floose instead of the...
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    Blue barred barb bully?

    I bought two blue barred barbs a couple of months ago and they got along great with each other and there was chaseing but I thought it was typical behavior of barbs but i noticed today that one of the barbs isnt as big and looks stressed out. I only have two of them and read they need at least...
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    Blue barred barb stressed out by other barb?

    I have a 20 gallon tank that is heavily planted and has plenty of hiding places. So when i bought the two blue barred barbs I didnt think much of it when they started chaseing each other it would alwasy go back and forth and the owner told me that they do that usually that it was just somethings...
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    Lone neon tetra?

    I have a 20g tank with 7 neon tetras in it at the moment. My tank caught some ick but I managed to fix it and before that I had 13 neon tetras. After all that i have this one neon that seems to hang around on his own and chase away some of the other tetras so he has the whole front of the tank...
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    Black algea?

    I cant tell if this is black algea or something else like fungus? Please help
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    Wait or water change

    So recently ive been trying to cycle my tank with live plants in it and ive had the ammonia drop before but i made a mistake of trying to let it drop to zero before adding in more ammonia which would starve my bacteria. So i added ammonia again to around 4ppm and its been about two weeks with...
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    Different plant growth rates

    So I bought two of the same plants and one of them seems to be growing much faster and taller then the other. I was wondering why that could be becuase the larger one has already reached the surface of the water and I need to trim it down while the smaller one is just growing at a slower and...
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    Weird dots on plant leaves

    So I bought a plant a while back when i started my tank and its been growing ne and healthy leaves for a while but i just notoced these weird dots on the leaves that seem to be making it unhealthy. Its on two of my plants and idk what to make of it. Here are some pictures and the last one is a...
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    Weird markings all over glass

    So I woke up this morning to find little marking on the glass of the tank that were not noticable at first but after a while looking at them seem strange. At first i thought maybe im just getting a layer of algae but as I looked closer these marksing all seem to start at a point and spread out...
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    Weird things on plant leaves

    Hello everyone I'm a new aquarist and I've been trying to study on keeping a new aquarium. So I've put some new plants in my aquarium but one of the plants has weird markings and strange vines looking things on it. I came here hope i could learn if these things are harmful or not for fish, i...
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