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Thanks. that is encouraging, even if I don't have the pics up yet

Pictures will be coming, probably tomorrow. Thanks

I have a small tank with a little herd of black skirt tetras. One has developed black lips. all the other fish have grey/white lips and he did too at one time. He acts perfectly normal and eats okay. socializes with the others all right. Lips are swollen a little too. this has been for quite a...

Everywhere I look on the net they say the prognosis for dropsy isn't good. This has been going on for a while now and he must be hurting due to the size of the bloat. Should I euthanize? I am willing to try antibiotics if some feel there is any hope. This has been a couple of weeks now and...

He hasn't been eating the peas. How much epsom salts per how much water?

I have an Otocynclus that seems to be very obese. He has a bulging belly as you can see in the pictures that are attached. Problem is he is not eating the algae from the tank. Has not been eating for quite a while (a couple of weeks) We thought he was eating excess fish food so we have cut...

I observed this morning's feeding closely and this fish was the most voracious of them all. Went at the food quite all right. I have not seen it poop so can't comment on that . I do add dechlorinator, Jungle brand. 10 drops/4 liters. It seems to be breathing normally. The pop eye was...

The water parameters are: ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, One problem might be the pH. the highest reading my test kit will give is 7.6. that was the reading, but it might mean that the pH is actually higher than that. Could that cause the problem? I have included a picture showing two of them with...

I have a 10 gal tank with 3 black skirt tetras 1 white skirt and an oto. the white skirt is the oldest member and her mouth seems to have moved from the point of her face up her face toward the top of her head. The bottom Jaw flesh seems to have gotten bigger and the top lip receded so that it...

I have 5 white skirt/black skirt tetras. 3 are painted blue and the largest one, we noticed today has large pale spots on both sides of his body. It doesn't look raised with distinct round white spots like ick, looks more like pigment is missing in areas under his scales/skin. We introduced a...

My Pleco is a Clown Pleco -- I got it cuz a couple of common plecos did grow too big. But he don't eat algae like I want and he is still growing big across though not long :)

Hi guys, I have a 10 gal tank with 5 gold skirted Tetras and 1 clown pleco. Pleco was put in to keep down the algae. He isn't doing it. We cut down on what we are feeding the fish but he still doesn't go for the algae. What is my best solution a snail? What ones feed on algae? I am...

Thanks for the reply. It seems to be eating quite okay. Swims as well as it ever did. This morning all 5 of the tetras are tearing around the tank like as if there is no tomorrow to swim. The one with the fat lip is sticking right beside the big one. I will try the water changes and see...

1. One of my white skirted Tetras has a swollen bottom lip. It is a blue dyed tetra (don't yell at me, I didn't know people did that when I bought them). The lip is pinky white in color and significantly larger than the bottom lip on my other fish. There is also similar colored tissue growing...

Hi Mike: thanks for your reply. The black skirts are smaller than two of the gold skirts and about the same size as the other one. they did seem to charge the largest one less. By aggressive, do you mean that they will harm the others if kept in this situation? thanks

Hello all: we have a 10 gal tank and had 5 Gold Skirt Tetras in it. Two have died in the last number of weeks so we thought we would add a couple of fish. LFS said that Black skirt tetras were compatible with other tetras. We got two. they look the same as the gold skirt except in color...

We have had him over a month. We are cutting down on the food we give out tetras assuming he is filling up on their left overs. Zagz, what is an oto? thanks

Hi. We got a clown pleco for our 10 gal tank because they don't grow so big. We had to give a regular pleco to the lfs because he was getting too big. The clown doesn't clean up the glass like the other guy did. Algae is starting to look loathsome. I don't imagine having a heart to heart...

We have had our tank for about a year. all is going well. about 2 weeks ago I got our water softener going again. today, when I did a PWC I realized that the water going into the tank now would be softened. Many of the minerals would be taken out and replaced with a salt solution. Is this...

I haven't seen the bristlenose pleco in local stores. Are they more common than the clown or will I have the same problems getting one? 4 inches isn't too bad.

Good evening. We have had our 10 gal tank with gold skirt tetras in it for a number of months now and all seems to be going well. We have a regular pleco from the local fish store for the algae and he is getting huge. He started out about an inch and is now about 5 inches long. I am...

My tank is finally cycled (thanks for all your advice and patience that gave me patience). I have 5 goldskirt tetras in it. All in that area seems to be working quite alright. Now my problem. On my phony plants there is a little light brown fuzz that is growing (not a lot but some). There...

We have 5 goldskirted Tetras in a 10 gal tank. Just finished the cycle. One of the old timers (from the start of the cycle) has some white areas in both its eyes. one eye is worse than the other. They are not round spots and don't seem to be protruding. The fish is acting normal as far as I...

Things have been going real slow in my attempt at getting my tank to cycle. I have a 10 gal tank with 3 Gold skirt tetras in it. For about 4 weeks now I have been keeping the nh3 at about 1 ppm by doing a 2 gal pwc twice a day. The no2 has been at .1mg/liter or below all this time. Now my...

Okay, I will try to answer all your questions in this full shot, in order in which they were asked Filter: Regent Aquatech 5-15 with charcoal, etc. all in one prepackaged unit that you put in and remove as required. It has a permanent biological filter that is supposed to be stocked with the...