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my platy has always been super active, but for the past week and a half hes been hiding behind a moss ball with clamped fins and ive only really seen him swimming around when its time to eat or if its right before i turn the light off. Ive noticed his color isnt as vibrant and im getting really...

in the near future i am planning on getting 5 or 6 galaxy rasboras, the thing is i personally do not like how the females look compared to the beautiful males. i know the best ratio is 1:3 but im wondering if an all male or all male and one female tank would be okay? i dont know if it would...

ive had a guppy in quarantine for a week now and i was planning on putting him in my main tank next sunday if hes still looking good. my question is that im getting 3 pygmy corys tomorrow and im wondering if i restart his time in the QT because im adding new fish, or if i should just remove him...

ive decided to just use a plastic tub as a quarantine tank but its quite old and dirty, ive been rinsing and rinsing but the water still seems kind of murky, what should i do?

okay thank you

if i were to invest in a tank, do i need to get a filter? i know its ideal, but i cant afford to buy a filter right now. could i get by with just daily water changes?

if i were to use a tub i have as a qt, can i get by just changing the water every day instead of having to buy a filter? i really dont have the money

Thank you soooo much! ive been worrying since i got him. ive gone through a whole bottle of melafix trying to treat him:ermm:

On wednesday im getting 3 pygmy cories from my LFS. i know you should always quarantine new fish but im going to be getting them before the store puts them in their tanks, so theyre straight from wherever they come from. i dont have a quarantine tank so im wondering if you think they will come...

thank you so much for all your help, i really appreciate it

okay ill definitely look into it, thank you

i have had them for about 2 months, i started off with 5 and i now have 3. one disappeared and the other died, he wasnt opaque until after he died though.

the thing about the totes is that i cant see the fish to see if he is developing finrot, because theyre all opaque, so im not sure if i would want to do that. also im going to be changing the water every day to avoid ammonia buildup.

and i treat my water with Prime

i dont have a good filter, topfin 10 power filter, but my water stays clean and clear so im assuming its working well. i perform at least 2 water changes a week, sometimes every day because my platy has a little finrot from when i got him at the store and it goes away and then comes back. i dont...

my perimeters are amm- 0ppm nitrates- 0ppm nitrites 40ppm. i know my nitrites are high but it comes out of the tap like that so im kind of stuck on that. temp stays at 80 degrees because thats the room temperature of my house so my heater isnt even on

some of my shrimp are turning opaque white or yellow, so im assuming theres disease or something im doing wrong, i would love to figure out whats going on. shes not opaque but do you think the sickness in the tank itself would cause her to drop them?

I just got a fancy guppy from a lfs that i previously had problems with (fin rot). i dont want to put him into my main tank in fear that hes got fin rot. im keeping him in a little half gallon fish bowl currently, i know its not ideal and its sad but would he be okay in there for only a week or...

i considered that, however they disappeared the day after she developed them. doesnt it take 3 weeks for her to release them?

also thought i should add that he isnt missing any part of his fin, its just transparent

i woke up one morning and checked my tank and noticed one of my ghost shrimp had a couple of eggs, this was a first for me but i was prepared to put the shrimp in a separate tank when it was close to hatching time because i wouldn't want them to be sucked up by my HOB filter or eaten by my...

when i got him from the pet store (about 2 months ago), him and a guppy i bought came in with what im assuming to be finrot (the guppy died 2 days after purchase). the tip of his caudal fin is transparent and some days the transparency takes up more of his fin than others. his dorsal fin is...

how can i add more light? the lights are implemented into the hood itself so im not sure how i could do it

I have a TopFin 10 gallon starter kit, the kit doesnt show the wattage of the LED lights but im almost positive its bad. i had a plant in there and it died in a couple of weeks. i was wondering if, even with the bad lights, i would be able to grow plants. i want to grow all low light plants...

thank you so much!! i was really worried that i was doing something wrong or having fish previously in my tank messed up the cycle :lol: