Recent content by foyan

Thanks. Any suggestions for starter live plants for this size of tank? I think I'll first start with some plants before introducing fish again.

Thanks a lot for the advice. I'll clean up the tank and start fresh, after doing a bit more reading on maintenance. I cycled the tank for two weeks and got the water sample tested to the shop before adding the fish. But I think it got worse over time and unfortunately being new to this I was...

Unfortunately this morning I saw that all of the 6 remaining fry died. If this was because of a parasite, how could I detect this earlier? Is there a test for it or a general parasite treatment? I think the algae eater was a hillstream loach.

Maybe also good to mention, there are very small white dandruff like creatures swimming in the water. I cannot see their shape because of their small size, but as far as I see in google, they are not planaria.

Just after posting the message I found out that one more fry is dead. There seems to be something really wrong, it seems like every day there is a new fish dying.

Hello everyone, I'm a new member and I need some advice for my fish. I have a 25 liter (6 gallon) aquarium. I had 3 guppies and an algae eater, and for the first month everything was fine. Both female guppies had babies (23 in total) which I kept in a plastic tank inside the aquarium. But after...