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Sadly, or thankfully, things escalated quickly and she's gone. The eye cleared up on its own almost completely, but noticed some other white spots on her side, almost a small bulge under the skin. Also a dark spot on the forehead, and a lot of her orange had faded significantly. Tank mates are...

My blood parrot is having issues. Been in tank for at least 6 months. She's been pretty inactive lately, not eating much, and hanging out at the bottom of the tank. Today noticed abnormality on the right eye. Pics attached w normal left eye for comparison. Tank mates acting normally. 4 silver...

This is my most recent pic, exploring their new holiday deco This is my blood parrot napping. Apparently it's a thing. And a peek-a-boo

So I got this guy maybe 6 weeks ago, and he's done well since day one. One day I walk in though and find him apparently napping. I thought he was a goner, but there was gill movement, and very slight fin movement. 10-15 minutes later he wakes up and was fine. I've observed this behavior one...

Well, it's been a while, but the tank has cycled nicely, and no further fish loss. Even added a blood parrot cichlid about a month ago, and she's doing great, no issues with the other fish. Thanks everyone for all the help.

My tank is still cycling, and had few drop off initially, but haven't had a dead one for at last 8 weeks. This phantom tetra looks like it may have had some fin nipping going on. I've been taking a daily count of 4 silver dollars and 4 phantom, and the previous morning all were accounted for a...

So since last post I visited my LFS and was recommended Brightwell Microbacter7. Been adding 5ml/day for the last 3 weeks. Been doing 50% pwc's 3 times a week. My ammonia had been testing in the 0.25/0.50ppm range consistently. 2 weeks ago I started to see some nitrates in the 0.25ppm range, and...

Yes, that was a typo. Reading is 0.25 ppm. I have added a few doses of API Quick Start in the past, but was also getting zero ammonia readings until recently. If I'm understanding correctly, good bacteria won't develop if there is no ammonia for them to eat, so I'm assuming any bacteria I added...

Got a master test kit last week. Did my first test and appears that I have some ammonia starting. 2.5ppm or so. No Nitrites or Nitrates yet. If the ammonia begins to spike before enough good bacteria develop to munch on it, how should I manage that? With partial water changes? Thanks for the...

Is this something harmful to the fish that should be addressed, other than vacuuming the substrate? I don't see anything growing on the fish.

Got one more down today. Also noticed this in bottom of tank. Do I have a fungus? Fish themselves look clean far as I can tell.

Haven't seen anything like this. Any idea what this is and should I be concerned? Typical aquarium gravel for scale.

Thank you, for sure:thumb: Want to make sure the water is good first. Just thinking forward. Would like to have more fish variety, but don't want to create the same stressful situation.

I'm expecting the 2 greens that are left not to make it. One of them is already going in to hiding on occasion, and the other will find him and bully him a bit. That would leave 4 phantoms and 4 silver dollars that all appear happy. I'm considering getting 4 more phantoms and silvers and have 2...

They were in bag maybe 30 minutes tops. I acclimated the bags to temp by setting in top of tank for bit, used instant read thermometer to make sure temp was equalized. Then poured into tank. I've since learned that's not the best way. All fish have been in there for 6 days now. I had the tank...

Thanks for reply. Attached test strips below. Ph looks neutral. Hardness reads 150 I'd say. Alkalinity looks moderate. Nitrite/nitrate/chlorine all zero. Ammonia was zero also. Will be investing in a master test kit soon. The 4 silvers and 4 phantoms look happy right now, no acting wierd, the...

I have a fairly new setup 37 gallon tank. Looks like everything has cycled well, at least all the test strips have looked good. Started off with 5 tiger barbs, 2 a little smaller than the others. The 2 smaller ones died off in a week or so, figured they were bullied by the larger ones. One of...

So 2 years ago my wife had started a 6 gallon tank with a handful of very colorful guppies and a snail. These guppies multiplied like crazy, quickly 8 turned in to a dozen, then older ones died off, the younger ones reproduced, and next thing you know we had 6 generations of fish in there...