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Ok thank you! I don't know what type it is, it apparently was in one of the plants I bought, but doesn't look like a pond snail. It's about the size of my thumbnail and still growing. I spoke to the gentleman at our local aquarium store (a privately owned shop, not a chain) who I've bought...

Thank you very much! Will the salt harm my snail or live plants? I hope I caught it early...I can't see very well up close so I didn't notice the spots till I took a very close up pic of my hatchet fish and saw it in the pic. Had my husband take a close look and he saw it on several fish :(

I've just finished cycling my 60 gallon planted tank (with fish) and all water parameters are fine. Unfortunately I noticed last night a few of my fish have developed ich :( As of this morning all were eating well and other than the spots, are acting fine. I have the following in my aquarium: 2...

Gotcha! ��

We have something similar, I just never thought to use it. This will make it much easier! I got home last night and checked the aquarium water and got much better results. Nitrites were 0.25, Ammonia between 0 and 0.25 and Nitrates between 0 and 5.0! I finally feel like we have turned a corner...

We have been using our aquarium thermometer to measure the temp but the meat thermometer would be much easier to read! Thank you for your advice!!

Awesome! I appreciate the info!

It helps a lot, thank you again! One more question; I realize that high nitrites are very harmful to the fish so back to back water changes may be the lesser of the two evils but just want to know, is there any down side for the fish in doing big water changes often?

Thank you so much! I do have a Current light but no CO2 yet. I am doing 25% water changes almost every day and adding Prime. Is that suffcient or should I be doing a larger amount every other day...or?

I have been cycling my 60 gallon tank for a little over a month now. I added fritzyme and fishfood to get it started after running about a week. I added some fish after 3 weeks and now have the usual new tank issue of high Nitrites. Ammonia is fine but Nitrites are off the chart. I'm doing water...