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Hello, my tank smells like sulfur, most likely the cause of anaerobic bacteria under the substrate. (I have sand). The tank contains a couple of small snails and a jack Dempsey. My question is how do I get rid of the smell while the fish are still in there? I don't want to stir the substrate and...

Hello, Is it okay to use sea salt from the grocery store in a slightly brackish aquarium? My tank is filled with only guppies, baby mollies and a snail. I want to do a water change but I just finished the last of my seachem live bearer salt and all the pet stores are closed! These are the...

Yes, Bamboo shrimp are completely fine in brackish water. In fact, they require it to breed, however, you probably won't be able to successfully breed them in captivity. Shrimp Habitat in an Aquarium | Animals - PawNation

So, you've got a cycled aquarium. Good filter, good heater, not overstocked or anything crazy, all your fish are friendly towards each other... Then you notice one fish flashing - and only once! What should your course of action be? What do you do at the first signs of flashing?

I have never heard of using pimafix for ich. If I see Ich in my tank, I use a half does of API Super ick cure. If you can, I would move the neon tetras to a quarantine tank if you can before you dose - they really do not do well with the Super Ick Cure - I used a full dose with six neons in my...

Hmmm, If it is an internal parasite would ich medication work?

Hello, Ich is no fun! I had to deal with an outbreak myself just last month. I could not give you any advice on the mystery snail, but my ghost shrimp did fine through the medication treatment! (I used API's super ick cure - only a half dose because there were neon tetras in the tank). I...

Hello, I am having trouble with my mollies. I currently have two mollies in a 20 gallon brackish aquarium, with 2 fiddler crabs, two bamboo shrimp and about 15 molly fry. (The mother of the fry died shortly after giving birth) The adult mollies are behaving very strangely. They are flashing...

Hello, I recently raised the salinity of my brackish aquarium (keeping two fiddler crabs, 3 mollies- 2 females, 1 male). I recently bought a reliable hydrometer and realized that my salinity was a bit lower than mollies enjoy - about 1.005? I very gradually, little by little added more salt to...

Thanks! I was wondering though, you say clamped fins is a sign of stress. I was thinking that clamped fins were fins held close to the fishes body. My fish's fin is the opposite. She holds it straight out - perfectly perpendicular to her body! It is also not moving and won't aid in swimming...

Thanks for the info, I had no idea you could do a water change so often! This is a 20 gallon tank, with 1 cory catfish, 3 guppies, 4 ghost shrimp and 3 african dwarf frogs and one silver loach. Hmm.. never heard of Prime. is it similar to API's Stress Zyme?

Hello, I recently got a new tank and used API's Quick Start to immediately add fish. I was skeptical, so I talked to someone at the fish store who said that it really does work! My fish tank does not seem to be responding to it correctly. My ammonia levels are high - between 2 and 4, as well...

More info. I only have an ammonia test kit, so ammonia is between a 1 and 2 - this is kind of a new tank. My previous one cracked, so I had to set up an emergency tank fast! Plants are old, but everything else is new. The other fish I own are 2 other corys, 2 murray river rainbows, 3 african...

Hello, My green cory catfish (Who I have had for about a week) is acting really weird. He is just swimming around the tank vertically (Nose down, tail up). His right fin seems to be in tact, but it is not moving. A fish I just added to the tank had ich, so I returned him to the store, but my...

Is Ich medication (I have Super Ich Cure, by API) bad for fiddler crabs? I've done some research, but have encountered a lot of mixed opinions. Anybody have any ideas?

Yeah, I am not really sure what to do with the Chinese Algae Eater. This is only a 20 gallon and the rest of my fish should be quite peaceful.

I recently went to the pet store, intending to purchase 2 Siamese Algae Eaters. I was given 2 fish, under the assumption that they were SAEs. However, when I got home, I realized I had been given something completely different. I identified one as a Chinese algae eater, but the other, I can not...