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I change at least 20% of the water every week and I thaw the foods in water before I put them in the tank. I just found my canister filter flow was terrible and I cleaned the intake and sponge inside the canister, now flow is great. All water peramiters have been spot on for the life of the...

You guys might be right I read secondary symptoms and it looks like that's whats happening. The problem now is to figure out what is causing it. I don't use carbon, the water preamiters are always great, their diet consist of flake food, frozen blood worms, frozen brine shrimp and ghost...

I don't think so, I've never seen any aggression. One of the bloated fish died last night and the other bloated fish seems ok for now. I isolated the fish in a bucket and I'm treating them with salt and antibiotics. The strange thing is I can't figure out hole in the head in one fish...

I had six angle fish in my 75 gallon for the past year no problems. Then one developed hole in the head and died about two weeks ago. Now two more have bloated bellies and are almost dead and another has what looks like two bite marks on each side of his belly. I have the sick ones in...

I know I'll have to upgrade some time

75, thats old. I just moved the fiish in the picture to my other 20 gallon thank. He's the only fish I've seen show aggression. Anyone know the type of fish in the picture I posted?

5 other angles, 2 Bala Sharks, 3 Clown Loach's,4 siemes algae eaters and 4 otto's. And the attached picture of a fish I bought and have no idea what it is. The only aggression I've seen is from the fish in the picture but he only chases a fish every once and a while never bites anyone and I...

I think my fish is wounded. Dose this look like a bite? How do I treat him, I'd hate to loose him I've had him a while. I have never seen any aggressive actions from my fish, I'm not sure how this happened.

I run a UV sterilizer it took care of my green water problem.

I started with the red sea system and after 2 months it stopped working. I then order and good regulator and defuser. The difference is amazing, my paint ball co2 cylinders last a lot longer. Go with a quality system it will save you money in the long run. I bought 7 paint ball co2 cylinders...

The fish are fine now, I'll keep PH around 7.0 - 7.2.

The red sea CO2 indicator fluid that came with it , its says to mix it with aquarium water.. Thats must be my problem, its cheap and not accurate with my high KH water.

I'm a little confused on how to read my co2 levels. I have pressurized co2 on my 75 gallon planted tank and a red sea drop checker. When the drop checker turns a light green the fish seem stressed and are gasping for air, the fish are not at the surface but seem to breath fast and gasp. But...

Using the well water would be easier, I was reading the salt in a water softener is not good for plants. I was going to do 30% water changes everyday to try to get the salt out of the tank.

Well Water: PH 7.8 GH 23 KH 14 Softened Water with a salt water softener PH7.8 GH1 KH14 RO Water GH >1 KH 3