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Thank you so much for your quick reply! Do you know whether this disease (parasite) will spread to other fish? Basically I am trying to decide whether I need to treat the whole tank if one fish has it?
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I see so many fish (both online and in-person) that have bent or curved spines.
For example, for different types of tetras, I can see many pictures where they have curved spines. You can do a image search for, say, candy cane tetra or red phantom tetra or x-ray tetra and you will see what I...
I set up this new aquarium about 3 months ago with new white sand from Petco (Imagitarium), and, over the last month or so, I can see some brown patches or growth right in the front but below the surface. I have attached some pictures below.
Does anyone know what this could be and if I need to...
I am getting the below shell dwellers along with pea puffers, endlers, and corys ---> for various tanks.
Is it okay to hold them altogether for a while in a 10 gal long quarantine tank?
Will the shell dwellers kill the other fish?
I have provided the sizes of each fish also.
1 X 1.5-inch...
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It's not white spots, more like one small patch mark on either side of this Golden Ram which I just got.
I looked up fish diseases for white spots/marks/patches and to me it does not appear to be Ich or Velvet (tiny spots), Columnaris (pale colored patches), or...
My corydoras are always so scared when someone even remotely approaches the tank. They panickingly rush back to hiding spots and stay so still like statues. Is this normal behavior for corydoras?
Sometimes even from 4 feet away away if they happen to (sense "movement outside" the tank) see...
I see conflicting information on whether to use epsom salt or aquarium salt to help with dropsy.
This article says to add aquarium salt for dropsy but other articles (such as this and this) say do not use aquarium salt because it will make it worse and use epsom salt instead.
I know...
Does my Bolivian Ram have some parasite or something? It's been just sitting on the gravel for the last few days and today I saw that its belly has really shrunk inwards.
About 5-6 days ago, I saw that its anus area was a bit red and swollen. I thought it was just something I hadn't noticed...
I am confused about where ich comes from.
Can fish that are in a ich-free environment get ich when they are stressed?
Or do they get it only if it is already there in the environment brought from another fish?
I got a group of 3 platys. One is very young (about an inch long) while the other two are bigger (about 2 inches long). Out of the bigger two, one is constantly following the other one (and never the other way round) and at very close proximity.
The question that I have is : is the chaser a...
I think young fish need to eat well and more frequently (like 3X a day) to grow bigger faster.
But when you already have various fish in your tank most of which are mature and 2 to 3 inches long, and you just added this new juvenile fish that's only 0.75 inch long, how do you ensure it is...
I just got two juvenile rams yesterday (one german blue ram and one gold ram) - about 0.75 to 1 inch long - and I have noticed that they are constantly opening and closing their mouths.
Is this normal for cichlids to have this behavior of constantly opening and closing their mouths?
It is...