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My female ( I think) Paradise Gourami has an open wound on the top of her body in the middle of her dorsal fin.... its getting bigger by the day, pieces of flesh have fallen off, and now it looks red and deep. She hides most of the time (in the 29 gallon community tank), but will come out to...

My 5.5 gal. tank has been almost empty for months except for a guppy, and a bronze corycat. I recently bought them some tank mates, but the guppy seems less than happy. I bought a marble molly, a peppered corycat, and a dwarf gourami (who died the next day.. ugh). It looks like the guppy is...

Ho hum... Im getting so sick of sick fish. My pearl molly is sitting under the ornament with her head straight up almost.. as if shes trying to find the darkest place. I dont understand, she was fine yesterday. Could weeks of my male guppy chasing her make her sick? she didnt seem to be...

Ive had this male betta for about a year now, and hes never been sick... My daughter and I are very attached to him, his name is Poppy. He lives in a 3 gallon tank with just an air stone, and I do a 100% water change every week. Lately hes been looking bloated in his abdomen and is acting a...

Ok, I finally found an ammonia test kit (Ive never been able to find one anywhere). Ive tested the water in my 5.5 gal. the day after I did a large water change and gravel siphon.... it read somewhere between 0 and 0.25.. it was hard to match the colour on the chart, but its more than just 0 Im...

I just got a male fancy guppy and a pearl white molly(not sure what sex yet, I havent studied it long enough).... The guppy is chasing after the molly like theres no tomorrow, but to me it doesnt look like hes nipping at it.. do you think he could be trying to mate? Or are guppies known to...

*Sigh* I am getting so frustrated with fish keeping Im ready to give up. Ive had 2 Gouramis die on me in this tank so I decided to switch to something a little more hardy. Right now I have a female black molly and a male fancy guppy in with 2 corys(in my 5.5 gal). Well yesterday I noticed the...

Ive had a female betta "Potpourri" for 6 months or so and until now she lived in a community tank. She picked on my catfish till he died, and then proceeded to pick on my black Molly. Shes now been seperated to her own 2 gallon tank and is acting very unhappy. She is moving slower and sitting...

Well after my gourami died, I decided to get a different kind of fish for my community tank. Well stupid me, I got a Tiger Barb from Walmart. The sign said he may nip at longer finned fish and I didnt consider my catfish "longer finned". A friend of mine told me they will nip at slower fish...

I have an earlier post titled "Constipation??" and Ive decided that its not constipation. I am totally baffled. My flame dwarf gourami has been sick for almost 3 weeks now.... hes being treated with Coppersafe, Melafix and Maracyn Two and this is the last day of treatment with no change in his...

My Flame Dwarf Gourami has been acting strange, Im wondering if its constipation, and if anyone has any tips to help him. Hes acting sluggish, hanging around in one area in middle of the tank, more nervous than usual. He also hasnt been eating much of anything and his poop is forever trailing...

I have these wierd little white thread-like worm looking things in my tank and cant seem to get rid of them. My fish seem to love eating them and they arent bothering the fish at all. Ive given the tank several water changes, and a couple of complete overhauls... and still when I fill it back...

I could just be extra paranoid (as I tend to be most of the time) but Im worried my dwarf gourami may have dropsy. I have already lost a Gold Gourami to dropsy and Ive learned that in certain colours of fish, its hard to tell whether their scales stick out or not, especially when the scales are...

Somewhere on this board, a member mentioned that their gourami was building bubblenests. My Dwarf Flame Gourami has never even attempted one. Could it be there is too much current on the surface and he figures it is a lost cause? Otherwise he is happy and healthy. My Betta attempts build the...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any tricks for keeping a small tank warmer during winter months. I have a male betta in a 3 gallon so I cant put a heater in it , and my apartment gets below 70 F at nights. Would wrapping a blanket around the tank at nights help? lol I'll try anything, thanks.