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I have had an outbreak of velvet! Tiger barbs in a 20 gallon. Between that and a case of internal parasites, more than half my fish did not make it. Until the Methylene Blue comes in the mail, my poor fish are stuck with heat, salt, dark, and kordon ich attack. Peeking in today, I noticed the...

In the past month or two I have lost 3 tiger barbs, a betta, and 5 oto cats. I'm pretty sure this has been because of internal parasites/gill flukes. Their main symptoms seem to be loss of appetite leading to extreme skinniness, lethargy and then death. I treated the tank with API general cure...

First off, water levels are good. No ammonia or nitrite, and nitrate is around 20. Water changes every week. ph is very high out of the tap, 8.2, but all my fish have been acclimated slowly and these otos have been fine for almost a month. Out of 4 otos in the tank, 2 have died in the past few...

So just over a week ago I changed over my tank to a 20 long. For the first few days everything was alright, but then the 2 oto catfish acted lethargic, started hiding under driftwood most of the time, and I noticed one was breathing very heavy while the other was breathing very shallow. I had...

About a week ago I changed over my tiger barb tank from a 20 tall to a 20 long. Since then, one of the larger males has generaly been staying in one spot. His color is bright and has no nipped fins, but he is not interested in food at all and hasn't eaten in 3 or 4 days. He will occasionally...

So I recently started dosing excel in my 20 gallon. I was doing 1/4 & working up to 1/2 dosage a day, and after a few days started to see a few white specs on the tail fin of one of my tiger barbs. Two days later there were a few spots on three more and I suspected ich (I had recently added in...

Hi everybody. I am new here, and new to planted tanks but have done a lot of research to figure out the right way to do things. I have a 20 gallon tank, with water wisteria, argentine swords, java fern and an anubias. (They are all from the tubes sold at petco, and are thriving.) My tank was...