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I got four platties about a month ago, all female. I checked this several times in the store, in the bag, in the tank... They've been in quarantine by themselves with a couple of shrimp. They started to grow bigger... And now one has a wiener/gonopodium-thing. I've heard of gender-bending...

Ok, I started putting fish in my 75 gal. Tank back in March, and it's finally cycled. Ammonia, nitrites, etc. are 0. Nitrates, however, are now showing that yeah, there's poop and I over feed (5ppm). Question 1: Besides cutting back on food, should I only be doing a 20% tank water change once...

How long should new fish be quarantined before adding to the main tank? Should I be hitting it with an all-purpose medication, or just watching/waiting for any anomalies? And when they say only add a few fish at a time, a few fish a day? A week? I have 6 newbs in my QT tank since Saturday...

Status 75 gal. Tank, water/substrate/decor added early March, ~7 fish added late March - end of cycling. What is this brown stuff accumulating on some decor? Algae? No real plants in the tank, just fake. I haven't seen any "noticeable" algae, but I wiped down the front and sides with a...

S/he seems happy, active, ravenous, and appears to be growing in length as well as width, but you can see his fat little belly. The balloon mollies also seem to be fatter in the gut, and my platties seem to have gotten larger. Should I just cut back on the amount of food I give them? Or do...

I went out to hook up my sink python, and when I came back, one of my balloon mollies had gotten wedged under my air mill water-wheel. I backed it up, and he swam out and doesn't seem worse for the wear (now), but I'm wondering what would have happened if it didn't occur when I was right there...

I've had my tank fully cycled with a HOB filter, but added a canister 2 days ago. Today the ammonia (which had been steady at 0) was 0.5 I did a 25% water change, which brought it to .25 and used a half-dose of ammonia safe tabs (it's all I had left). I'll continue with water changes until...

I'd like to put an inline UV Filter on my tank. It's new (couple months) 75 gal. without algae (yet) but between two windows... (I know, bad... but the windows are insulated, non-drafty and somewhat UV protected, at least...) It really was the only place I could put the tank. I have a HOB...

I have a new Tiger Botia Loach, and he seems happy enough, but I don't really see him eating what I feed everyone (flake, freeze-dried bloodworms, frozen algae brine shrimp, shrimp pellets, algae wafers, peas...). The guy at the LFS gave me frozen bloodworms that will sink (vs. the...

What is this? Quarantine? Her appetite and body language seem ok, but I've only had her a week... Water parameters are perfect... 7.0 pH, no ammonia, no NO2 or NO3, about 3/4 the recommended salt for a 75 gal. tank, not overstocked... Temp 81.5 degrees It's not fuzzy looking... It looks...