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So this is the second of my juvenile platys to have this issue in two weeks. After a water change... coincidence? So last week one spotty fry, well its 2 months old now, was wriggling his front end when swimming. And when he turned his body was not curved but more bent, crooked like. Seemed...

Has anyone come across this interesting bit of research? BBC - Earth - How do you entertain a fish?

Just came across this on YouTube and found it very interesting. Its two years old so I'm sure many of you have seen this already. But as a newbie, learning about fish, I thought it was really informative in regards to natural habitats.

So I have two expectant mums, a tri mickey mouse platy and a sunset platy. "Minnie" is much bigger and one of the males is nipping at her flanks, presumably at the fry eyes?? When should I put her in the fry tank? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

So I lost my last adult guppy yesterday (rather I euthanased her). She was hanging on for weeks wobbling around, eating. But I found her on the bottom with her tail fin clamped, like fused together, and couldn't swim around any more. I have four 6 week old fry left. They're living in my...

I just did a hardness test for my 35L/10g planted tank, that I recently got platys for. So the GH is supposed to be between 8-12, currently 5 but slowly bringing it up. The KH has bottomed out, I put like 1 drop in and it turned yellow immediately (usually goes blue first, Sera liquid test)...

I've read through the other threads about columnaris. My question is, however: I'm taking all my fish out of my main planted tank, including my corys (fingers crossed I can catch them quickly enough without stressing them). I am then going to do a major vac of the gravel, stirring up who knows...

I have had persistent issues with internal parasites in my 35L/10g planted tank. I have guppies and fry plus pygmy cories. I did a 20% water change and gravel vacced on Thursday (even though my parameters were all good, 0 amm, 0 trite and close to 0 trates) but it had been 2 weeks since the last...

How often should I feed my 2 day old guppy fry? They're in a 35L/10g community planted tank with 3 adult guppies and 4 pygmy cories. Don't want to over feed the adults either! I don't want to fish them out as I don't want another 15 guppies and wanting nature to do its thing. Survival of the...

I'm so excited! Since starting my tank in May, and losing about 8 guppies to illness/water issues, I'm so happy to have life for a change! Was a complete surprise as the mummy spent 15min or so out of water while I was transferring her (she jumped out of the container while I was aclimatising...

I'm still new to tropical tanks and biological filters. It took me a frustrating month (and steep learning curve) to cycle my tank. Now I have the balance right and my biologicals are doing their job. But I have had some fungal/non-beneficial bacterial issues with my fish and possible...

Has anyone found that they have low to no nitrates between water changes? I have a 35lt/9gallon tank with an internal pump and filter. Its planted with vall, water sprite, micro indo (java fern), java moss plus duckweed. My last water change was 10 days ago and I check my water parameters every...

1~ My latest ill fish is a metallic yellow male guppy. During the day he was happy and swimming with the others and feeding etc. By the evening he was hanging in the plants. I noticed he liked to sleep on the gravel and thought this was a bit unusual. Next morning he didn't eat, not interested...

Hey there, I'm new to tropical tanks. But I used to have goldfish when I was a teen, but looking back now, I kept them all wrong! I used to change all their water and scrub the tank squeaky clean ~ so, so wrong. We also had pond fish which pretty much looked after themselves. Now I have...