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The full spectrum Aqueon bulb blew so I took a quick ride to the store. They only had the Floramax bulb 15 W 18"L that I needed. This is the first time replacing the bulb, it has been about 2 1/2 years. I have mostly platties, a Betta, 4 cory catfish and a Green Tetra Glo fish....no natural...

It's pretty easy to tell the male from female. The anal fin of the male is called a gonopodium looks clamped, flat and elongated and the females is fan shaped. See picture.

Google it. I read microworms are best. There's also website Bettafish.com maybe they can answer best.

I can't put it in my main tank as I have a Betta in there. I'm sure he'd bite thru a net to get this one

Found this tiny Platy fry in the bucket of old water from my tank. Must have gone through the syphon out into the bucket. So glad I also had some gravel in there that my husband questioned, so I looked around the bucket. This little one was swimming on the top. I I scooped it and have it in a...

Daphnia - water fleas. I got frozen ones at Petsmart. Cut a cube up and gave a bit depending on how many fish and size of tank.

I do 20-25% water change every week with 14 fish in a 20 gal tank. I clean filter once a month thoroughly. If possible, do water change at least every other week. They say smaller changes more often is better. I just got over a high nitrate problem. You have a lot of fish to clean up after and...

That's a lot of fish for a 20 gal. The 50 will be much better. Someone told me to double your filter. For example, I have a 20 gal tank with 14 fish, using a Fluval 50 filter since they didnt have a 40 and I have it on lowest setting. I don't know what is recommended here tho.

I don't have any of those fish but I'd separate him into a 'hospital' tank, give him some meds for about 3 days, doing 100% water change adding conditioner of course, make sure water temp matches. Check your water parameters in original tank for amonia, nitrite and nitrates.

Anytime fish are behaving unusual I check amonia, nitrites and nitrates and make sure the heater is working (mine recently was not workingalso after 1 1/2 yrs even though the light came on. Good thing I also check thermometer). Then I do a water change siphoning the gravel. This fish may be...

The nitrates effected him probably because he's the oldest, or perhaps he's just sensitive to it. Just wanted to let you know I followed your advice and stirred up the gravel then did 40% water changes every other day. I'm keeping track of the nitrates weekly which has been 0.2 for the past two...

Got the nitrates down, fish is back to himself, yay!

I just delt with this and great advice from this website got me thru it.one of my plattys wasn't acting right so I checked. All was well except nitrates were as dark on the test strip as could be. I use Prime and if you do you must use the a Seachem test kits, not API for accuracy. I did 40%...

All my other fish are fine. He has been like this for approx 2 weeks. I tried a hospital tank for 3 days with some Fungus guard. Here's a video

20 gal tank 1 1/2 yrs 14 fish - 1 Betta, 2 Tetra Green a Glofish, 1 male red wag swordtail, 2 male Platy, 4 female Play, 4 Cory Catfish 0 amonia, 0 nitrite, .05 nitrate Tend temp 74 degrees Recently had very high nitrate levels, many water changes and scrubbing down now lowered. My male...