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Hi. Thanks for your reply. Yes, I have the API Freshwater Master Test Kit & everything is normal. The only thing I can think of is that he may have become stressed following having a kids party here last night & that all the movement in the room might have caused it? I have 2 female platy in...

Please help. My male platy is suddenly behaving in a worrying way. Since this morning he looks really unhappy and seems to be just floating around rather than swimming & keeps going almost vertical. He didn't eat when I fed this morning. I was wondering whether I should do a pwc or would...

Ammonia reading currently 0.5 at the moment.

Thanks for the advice. Little platy has fed this morning, but keeps going back to the bottom of the tank under the plants. The other platy is bullying him a bit, pushing him around. I'm still trying to figure out what sex they are. Their fins are so small that it's hard to tell! I'm hoping...

Stress coat, I meant! Oops.

Thank you. The only treatments I have at the moment are the API stress zyme and stress cost that the store advised me to use when i got the tank. Should i be using something different?

Thanks Samantha. Little platy has been at the bottom of the tank all evening again looking very unhappy. He seemed ok most of the day though. I keep worrying at night, thinking he might not make it. Please could you advise whether I should still treat the water when i do the daily part...

Thank you, regarding the water changes. That was going to be my next question. I was wondering whether I should be adding stress coat and/or stress zyme when I do the daily part water changes. I added both today but then wondered what happens tomorrow. Do I add untreated tap water or treat...

Hi. Thanks for your advice regarding my Platy's. I'm from Huddersfield, but now live in Leeds.

I forgot to mention this - before I bought the fish I took a sample of the tank water to the store for testing - which is something they advertise that they do, but when I got there they said there was nothing to test for as no fish were in the tank yet! They had told me to wait just 3 days...