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Did the Rubbermaid bin with a HOB filter to quarentine. Works well but I think he's too far gone.

I had ick on the used tank I bought during cycling and it was on my common pleco. It didn't look like that so much and had more than one, we caught it when they were very small though. Raised water temp for two weeks, slowly, and it was all good. If I have a pic still i will link so you can...

Fairly certain he's going to die. Since quarantining him he is not doing any better. He can barely swim because his fins have almost no webbing. I just wish I knew what happened. Very frustrating and feel helpless to what could have happened in one night. Assume it was the pleco but he's very...

So I know it's hard to see but he was close enough to the side to take a picture. 40 gallon tank. We only have three fish in it. A common pleco, a comet, and this guy. I've read about pleco eating slime coat off but this all happened in one night and we've never seen him go near the other two...

The heat seemed to work perfect. After the first day of getting it up to temp they were back to normal. Increased water changes and gravel cleaning. Also a corner was turned today. Had my wife run a water test and we have nitrites and nitrates. My work day became a lot better. I completely...

So... figured out why the comet is acting strange. Ich infection. He's now rubbing on rocks and the common pleco pretty obviously has white spots. Everything I read says to add aquarium salt but then says pleco do not do well with salt. I literally cannot win with this tank.

Yes I am using Prime. No idea what the city uses in their water. We don't have our own utilities. The city I live in is technically just the south side of a bigger city.

Another update. Just the big common pleco and comet that got this all started left. BN Plecco probably died because of the drastic PH change that I panicked about, despite reading the articles that said not to. Me and the wife have pretty much become obsessed with the water conditions. Tested...

Just as a update of sorts: no more losses (not that there can be many more) I did start using prime. I've been doing daily water changes though my ammonia number seems stuck where it is. I diluted some PH lowering tablets last night in a small container of the water and put it in after our water...

I've not had it above .5ppm so that shouldn't be an issue. I read the getting started links, al be it after I technically started. I'll check for Prime at the store and if not I'll order it.

The last neon died right after I posted but all others are fine. Tank is now at 70°. We had it at 72° when we still had everyone in there. Feel bad they never had a chance ones that guy gave them to us. Kids took the news pretty well. We have a bacteria supplement the pet store sold us and...

So the fish lived for me to buy my aquaclear 50. The c3 or c4 were not available anywhere near here. (Called everywhere withen an hour of my office). I put it in and got them out of their containers. Tested the water and the ammonia was starting to creep above .5. Kids went to bed, and we...

I know what you were saying but the filter was accumulating pink slime at a crazy rate. I took pics but can't post them yet. The water was crazy cloudy and the plant I'm fairly certain was either dead at this point or beyond bringing back.

So me and the wife did not sleep last night. We bought some large Tupperware containers and put the fish in seperate containers. Threw out all the rocks, the plants, the sand, and the water Scrubbed out the whole tank. Hoping the little (and not so little) guys will be ok till my wife gets home...

The teacher literally gave every student a comet. My kindergartener will freak if I get rid of her fish now. Ran to Wal-mart as all other stores are closed and no good filter options. The filter running is already starting to accumulate more stuff on the feed tube. The wife and I both got to...

Hello, I'm a complete rookie trying to make this work. As it says I've never done this before and got in deep probably too fast. Kids loved fish since they were born and now my wife is really into this tank and making it work too. Other than my failing (hopefully soon to be successful) newly...

I need a lot of help here. My daughter was given a comet at school. So we went to Petsmart to get a bowl and was told how that is a No no. Did reading all weekend (a lot on this forum) and decided to buy a used tank. Found a desperate, moving couple trying to offload their tank and bought it for...