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So in the area where I live the unsoftened water from the tap has pH 8.3 and is extremely hard (haven't gotten it tested for the exact # but it leaves deposits on everything). For the past couple of years ive used the unmodified water and the fish have done fine, but it's destroyed all my...

I found my platy today pushed right up against the filter (aquaclear) and he was really stuck. I had to turn off the filter to dislodge him. He was perfectly healthy yesterday morning. He now has a very large dent in his abdomen right behind his fin, and he's having a lot of trouble swimming. I...

I have a 20g tank with currently 3 platies and 6 Pygmy cories, 0 amm,0 nitrite, .1ish nitrate, ph 8.3. Out of the blue the other day my pygmy platy started looking very I'll, he was very thin all of a sudden, not his belly as much, but behind his rib area, and he seemed to be having some...

I've had this platy for about 3 months, and until today he had no problems. But when I went to check on them this morning I thought he was dead since he was hanging upside down in the java moss. But when I went to net him, he wriggled away. He still is able to swim but never the right way, he...

I've been having a problem with this algae. It's in a 20g H ph 8.3 and hard water. Lighting: single t5h0 10000k bulb. About a month back I took all the rocks out and scrubbed it all off but within a couple days it came right back green and slimey, and now it's quite thick and slightly spongy...

Hey there! I have a single t5ho bulb over a 20g high/ tall. So im thinking that I should be able to grow low light plants though. My local water has a 8.3 ph and is quite hard. I know people say that more minerals are ok for most species, but are there any that do particularly well? I currently...

I have a Hagen glo t5ho single bulb ballast. I purchased a zoomed flora sun bulb at the local Big Al's. I'm not sure if thee is something wrong with my ballast or the bulb or something, but the lighting was horrible, dark and pink and just made everything look brown and the plants weren't...

A few weeks ago I had a platy who's eyes developed a white dot in the center, and then it wasn't able to find much food, but he was still eating at first. About a week later I found him dead with his gills spread out wide. Now my dwarf platys eyes are going a bit cloudy, his scales seem kind of...

I bought a platy today and he looked great, no signs of illness, and his belly was normal. I drip acclimatized him into a 5g quarantine. I got him at noon, and it is now 9pm and his stomach is considerable larger. This seems really weird to me since I thought when the the belly bloats its...

My honey gourami is a little under the weather lately. His belly is quite swollen, but the scales aren't sticking out or anything. I gave him peas and he ate them but it didn't do anything. He's been fasting for almost a week now. I'm thinking it's probably time for salt bath. I have some Epsom...

My Fluval U2 filter stopped running recently and when I opened it up , the insides and the impeller shaft was covered completely with a very thick crust of mineral deposits. I couldn't get in to clean it well with vinegar, so I had to soak it in CLR. All the parts work like new now, so is there...

Originally wanted light that could support some plants in my 20 gallon high. I had a regular t5 light that was bright, but the plants weren't growing. So I upgraded to a t5ho bulb and the light quality is very bad. It's the zoo med flora sun bulb 24w. It's probably half as bright as the regular...

I I just purchased a t5 HO hated GLO single ballast for my 20 g tall, the light from my 2x15w cfls just weren't cutting it. Is the a difference between NO and HO bulbs? Or just the ballast? I bought an aqueon 17w t5 bulb which works and looks good, but I just want to make sure. Will this...

Have 6 Pygmy cories, and about 4 of them were quite chubby when I went down to check on them today. I left some algae wafers in there last night, in case the otos became interested in them. I think there were 3 wafers, No sign of them today, except where a Cory was having a party eating what was...

The tails don't look nearly as large as in pictures of them I've seen. Will they grow in? One of them is basically a stump. It doesn't look like finrot though.

The lighting i have over my tank right now is very poor... 2 15w cfls. So im trying to upgrade that to about medium light as cheaply as i can. What kind of lighting would a 24'' double t5 fixture give? Would it give me algae?

My little pygmy platy is hiding all the time. He was fine until yesterday when i noticed him doing this. He is completely hidden from view mostly at the bottom of the tank in the baby ferns. He doesnt come out for food, just sits there. When i was doing a water change and vaccuming out the tank...

Hen i first got this fish, i noticed his scales werent totally smooth in one small section of his tail. I just thought it was how he was. But now , 2 months later, its grown into a bump under his scales that seems to be under the skin. Its only in one spot, so i dont think its dropsy, but the...

My new platy seems to be quite a bit fatter than my other 2, who ive had since june. One day i gave them a bit too many flakes, and unlike my old guys, the new one just kept eating and eating. He got so fat! Do platies get bigger when they overeat? Im not sure if he was large to begin with, if...

Ive had these 6 pygmy cories for about 2 weeks, with 1 week of quarantine. For the past 2 days i havent really seen them out and about like they normally do. They usually are all grouped together and schooling or something. But now i barely see 2 at one time, and thats when im really looking. I...

Bought this filter a while not too long ago, a month ago, was working fine, i moved it to my qt it was working fine. Then today, i moved the fish into the real tank then i moved the filter. I set it up on the back, didnt fill it with water, but there was still a bit in it from before the move...

Just brought 6 of these guys yesterday, the other 5 seem to be ok, still getting used to the move, but this one hides and his dorsal fin and tail are clamped. Is there anything i can do about this? No other noticable symptoms... But i dont hwve any previous experience with cories... Any ideas...

Don't know what to do about this, my plants (java fern and moneywort) are covered with a brown kind of crust. I can't tell if the money wort is dying or not (I suspect it is because it is currently only under 30w in a 20g tall) because I can't see the green beneath it. Sometimes if I bend a...

Just upgraded to a 20 gallon tank 2 days ago, and there seems to be some weird things going on, or it could just be me worrying but... The first day I moved my 2 platies & snail over, the snail (pond) was writhing, squirming and just floating a lot, and the next morning I found him in the...

Anything specific it needs? I have a low light tank( which I've read is good?) and thought they looked interesting, so if you just plop them in the tank and flip them every once and a while will they do alright? 20g high 30w, 6500k