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thanks, fynnie. that means a lot.

thanks for all your help everyone, but sharkie passed away sometime during the night last night. he was a fighter and he was swimming until the end, and he will be missed.

thanks :) i've only been dropping in a couple of flakes every few days, and getting them out the next day. his eyes definitely look less puffy now, but his body is still pretty bloated. he doesn't seem to have really "gone" all that much, either. i was feeling a bit more optimistic, but...

he's still trucking along...doesn't look any worse, but doesn't look any better, either. still quite active, but still not eating. a couple of times when i've checked in on him it has seemed that there might be - i don't think i can put this delicately - a tiny bit of poo leaving his body, but...

No, he isn't still eating, and he isn't pooping, either. The fish-sitter was a disaster. It was a friend of mine, and he didn't even stop by once. I have had friends watch them before with no problem, but this has made me 100% sure that I'm never leaving for more than a couple days without...

Thanks Devilishturtles! I picked up some Maracyn Plus and added that to the QT tank...I figure I should just go all out and I'd rather risk stress from overtreatment than death because I was too cautious. He doesn't look any different, physically, today than yesterday, but he's more active...

Thanks! I am off to pick both of those up. I had seen a few threads where people had success with these tabs, but I definitely want to do everything I can for him. So you would vote antibiotic food + other antibiotics (maracyn and maracyn II maybe?) + epsom baths?

I am virtually positive that my seven year old angelfish is suffering from dropsy: his abdomen is bloated (scales are still lying flat) and his eyes definitely have that "pop eye" look. Long story short, I just got back from a ten-day trip and my "babysitter" flaked on checking up on the fish...

SUCCESS!!!!! Thank you all so, so, SO much for your great advice! I never would have had the courage to do what I did if I hadn't heard from y'all. On Apocalypse_Gold's suggestion, I grabbed a Q-tip and wrapped it tightly in plastic so it was a small, smooth, flexible, and waterproof...

thank you so much for the response! i'm looking around the apartment trying to brainstorm what i could use, but i'm afraid of hurting him. i'm guessing i'm right in ruling out anything made of metal or anything with sharp plastic edges. would the corner of an envelope hurt him? it seems...

Hi everyone! I'm quite freaked out right now as I write this, and I hope that someone *anyone* has some advice... For the last few days, every time I've seen my clown loach, he's been in the same place, his favorite place, in a hole in a piece of bogwood that I have in my tank. This didn't...

hi everyone! i'm having a curious issue with my angelfish. he is about four years old, and (i'm sorry, i don't know the technical name for them) the long thin fins that come out from his bottom side, right behind his head, have been breaking. they used to be about 5-6" long each and are now...

thanks so much for the great links! i have aquarium salt here for my betta, so i can start treating my tank tonight. also, i noticed that on two of the sites, they mentioned adding copper and aquarium salt to the tank always in order to ward off disease-is this safe? will my fish (angel...

hm...they're perfectly spherical, like little tiny bubbles....i would say that they stick out probably about 1/3 mm, maybe 1/2 mm. that's probably about their diameter. they're very small, and there are five of them. I would guess at this point i will need to treat the whole tank, rather than...

Hello all! Well, three years into my life as a fish mom, I appear to be battling my first fish illness. I noticed last night that my angelfish had 2 or 3 tiny, tiny white, opaque bubble-like dots near his face. Tonight he appears to have one or two more. I've looked around the net, and first...

Ok, I'm hoping y'all can give me some good ideas here. I had a betta in a 3 gal bowfront that was the happiest guy ever. My new betta, however, doesn't seem quite as happy in his 3-gal. I have turned the filter off, running it only for a little while every day or so to give the water some...

update! ok, so one 60% water change, and one HOT magnum converted to a diatom filter later, and i have NEVER seen my tank look this clear. thanks for the tip. now...what would y'all recommend that i do in order to keep my algae at bay?

hm, would a magnum filter be an effective diatom filter? they sell those here at petsmart (small town=not too many options), and i was considering buying one, but felt maybe i should just get something that said specifically diatom filter. i'll run out and buy a magnum right now if it'll take...

I have always wondered exactly what is included in that number, and have always heard differently...so I'm just gonna ask my (probably stupid) questions, and see what y'all have heard. Do you include bottom feeders (catfish) and/or algae eaters (CAEs)? I've heard it both ways... and Is it tail...

Ok, so a few months after adding my new lights (196 watts at 7600k, over my 46 gal bowfront), my tank has turned into an algal smorgasbord. It wasn't too bad before I left town for a week, leaving the tank in the care of a friend, but I came back to (my first ever) a bad case of green water...

well, i guess it's good to know that my fish are happy, but maybe they're a bit *too* happy. i've got 11 baby mollies and 2 still very, very large mommy mollies. does anyone have any ideas what i can do with them (and still keep them alive)? if any big chains (petsmart, petco, etc.) will ever...

thanks for the info...i got him into a quarentine, but it's not looking too good :( at least i'll know next time...

last night while doing a little plant maintenance, a large piece of bogwood was lifted, and subsequently fell either on or near one of my zebra danios. afterwards, he couldn't seem to find up, so to speak; he was swimming sideways, upside down, or straight up and down (nose pointing the...

this may be a silly question, but what if my problem was similar...but happened in a reverse order? when i first set up my system, i got several bubbles (very large) a minute after about 18 hours in operation. the bubbles then got smaller the next day, and now (day three or four), they have...

i don't know anything about why that angel survived, but i can tell you what worked for me when i was having pH issues... i used bogwood to help act as a natural buffer in my water. i had the same problems you did (tap was 8.2, and wouldn't get below about 7.0 even using proper pH 6.5), and...