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It is alot of work since all i kept was 10 5 gallon tanks, 2 20s and one 10 gallon. My house is not supposed to be a fixer upper, but there is alot of stuff wrong with it ive got to fix, and ovbiously i will be changing things like wall colors, carpet, ect ect. Alot of work!!! yes it is. No...

Ive found that the smell usually comes from prime or amquel plus that has been opened too long and started to get funky. I doubt it was the sand, unless you were cycling your aquarium, then a wierd fishy smell is normal especially if your cycling using fish food. Carbon can get rid of smell or...

Probably gill flukes, but of course just my opinion. I use general cure, but formalin, paraguard, and prazipro (praziquentnel) will all kill gill flukes Body flukes are common among guppies and probably all fish from a pet store Its almost like fleas on a dog.

Hi guys im back! Sorry ive been gone for quite awhile, tho i have tried to login here and there and found i had forgotten my password. Im currently still into guppies, and now that ive bought a much larger house in a small town (like back in the day when i had a fishroom in my basement in...

It might be a diffrent type of worm, prazipro dosent kill them all. You may need to try pancur or prohibit.

Ick can be killed using a seperate tank and Methylene blue. Dont need to destroy the healthy tank if you can.

This is the reason why im getting a UV stearilizer for my big aquariums I have a miscroscope too, but its hard to know what to look for. Just following along, no idea what that parasite is, just learning.

2.5 years means the betta is probably getting old and dying just like everything does. People forget fish dont live forever, its not always our fault they get old and die.

Metronidazole Internal parasites Praziquentel Worms

No point in buying meds for dropsy. If anything your best bet is to do more water changes and hope for the best. Especially if you live in the UK where meds can be hard to find. Keep an eye on them for stringy poo or worms coming out their bum.

I like the liquid copper meds. Or i mix my own malachite green/formalin

They probably would benfit from an antibiotic at this point. Are there symptoms? Tail rot, body sores, fungus? Oxytetracycline works good in flake food So does Doxycycline. Both are effective broad spectrum antibiotics Feed it to them dont kill your good bacteria in the tank.

I think any tropical fish can take 86, if you do it that way, be prepared its alot more work vs just bying some "quick cure" at walmart for 4 bucks and killing ick that way.

Use the general cure in food with galic, dosent work that well in hard calcium water we have here in the midwest. Do I have to disenfect everything? No, never really have to do that, unless you plan on getting out of fish hobby ;) It can be also caused by bacteria, or just weak fish genes.

They are weak inbred fish. Constantly dying off not your fault. They only live about a year and a half under ideal conditions. If you dont like loosing fish consider getting stronger, like a more wild fish or non-livebearer. Otherwise all i can say is you get use to it.