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I have a 150 were I lost two ripe fish and a dojo in two days I'm a bit angry seeing as my ripe and dojo are my favorite fish. I took ever thing out decorations and all left pleco and last rope in there he acting a bit weird to water test show perfect. My gf said when the one rope died he had...

I have problems with foamy water I went and bought a 75 gal took my water filter and fish from the 55 gal and put in the rest of the water from tap. Everything looks good water is not as good as I've had it before nitrates around 30 and my general hardness is high I don't know how to bring...

My Archer fish change colors a lot when there in the open there bright golden swimming shooting at everything that move. When I first got them the never changed colors they shot morning till night for a week the I noticed they'd kind of hide under the Turtle pad black as can be put a cricket in...

Added saltwater over time now I use marine salt when I do water changes is this bad with tap water

Is he OK if I were to lessen salt he was my first fish and way to big for my other tank the again the poet store has told me he was OK but also told me everything else was OK. The plecos been in there since the start up cycle 4 or 5 months ago I don't want to hurt him so should I take him out...

There banded archers I'm not to concerned with the sized at the moment I got them all as babies the only one breaking 2 inches is the pleco which grew fast. The pets store said if they were healthy they'd take them all back. I just got in to this and don't want to kill fish because I'm new to it...

Crap what about the archers are they ok ?

Aaaahhhh lol got to love pet stores I told him I wanted an all brackish tank that was fairly easy to maintain. Its a 55 gal filled with a screened in foot high top were I have plants and live bugs for the fish to eat. I was thinking bout a 100 gal tank but by the sounds not big enough.

Caribbean/black fin

Pet store said they wouldl be fine but I'll move them to the other tank just to be safe thanks for that the archers are weird I don't know if it camo or not but they seem to do it on the other side of the tank under the turtle pad I had for the mudskipper.

How to keep my archers stress free one minute there perfect then there black then there fine again I haven't got them figured out yet. All my other fish are perfect as is the water the only thing is my mudskipper died and I'm not sure why. No one picked on him and he had a turtle pad should he...

Its a brackish tank I do have my own test kit and go to the local pet store to have it tested sometimes to. The poor mud skipper died right after the two from the pet store died they told me they lost the hole batch and refunded me my money. My archers are now acting weird when they were perfect...

My two archers are turning black to white please please help I don't want my fish to die my water is perfect what could be wrong. I'm new to the fish world

i slowly have been putting this tank together for about four months now and it has been great untill now. a few days ago my gf bought two fish from the local pet store they didnt look healthy at all they one died within an hour and the other died the next day. we went to they pet store to see...