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Hey, Just got home from a long holiday had someone checking on the fish and automatic feeder but have noticed my light is no longer working. I have no natural plants as the fish decided to destroy them but wondered if having no light has an effect on the fish? I am shopping for another but...

I have a gourami fish and it seems to have lost its colour, looks "dirty" and have just noticed one of its eyes is cloudy and it has a red pin head size "something" on its fin. Any ideas what it is and how i could treat?

I am not going to be in the house for 1 week over xmas and my normal "fish-sitter" is also away. I have been looking at various tablets and contraptions to feed the fish whilst im gone, but would like to ask what people think is the best thing to use? I have neon tetras, 2 congo tetras, 1...

Can anyone answer this question? I have had mixed reports (or miscommunicated ones) as to whether i have my carbon filter pad in at all times? Thanks.

My gourami seems to have had half its feeler bitten off, maybe snapped off. (but i have noticed a nip in his tail - possibly from a larger congo tetra) Will this affect the fish in anyway?

Can anyone tell me what these dots are? They havent always been there. Thanks.

I "have" a neon that has been treated for pop-eye. Left the house for a few hours and it has disappeared! It isnt anywhere in my tank... Could my other fish have eaten it??? If not i need to get it out (if it is dead!!)

I added some new fish a few days ago, along with some melafix, now one of my neons has pop-eye and i want to treat it. Am i ok to treat it with the anti internal bacteria with the melafix still in the tank? Thanks.

Whats the best way to do it? Heard bad stuff about strips, seems a lot of hard work testing everything seperately so whats the best method? Is there such a thing as digital testing??

I wrote on here a few weeks ago about one of my head and tail tetras being ill, fins discoloured and frayed - it died not so long after i asked for help. Problem is, i think my other tetra is going down the same road and am trying to do something before it dies. I have attached a picture, its...

One of my fish just died of dropsy, can i put some anti internal bacteria treatment in the tank to prevent any of the other fish getting it? One of my fish looks a little pale and fat!! Thanks for your help.

i have 3 of these tetras, 2 of them are looking a bit fat! they swin in the corners of the tank...up and down..up and down... whilst the thin one chases them!

Some pictures of my first ever tank!! Before I started keeping fish, I really didnt know how much work was involved!! I had done lots of research but nowhere mentioned just how hard it was, so there it is, i said it, now no-one has the excuse of not knowing. It has grown into a hobby now, the...

My tetra is looking different from the other, this ones fins are coloured unlike the other one who's fins are transparent. I dont think it has always been this way, also, it is swimming approximately an inch away from the surface of the water. Its fins are a burnt orange colour, not...

I woke this morning to find one of my otto's had died. Didnt seem anything was wrong with it before hand. Had recently put some cucumber in the tank and they (I have 2) had quite happily been nibbling on that. When i realised he was dead, i took it out and he had a pale green tummy (or...

I have a female dwarf gourami and another gourami, male i think (he is red and blue and has darker stripes) the male keeps "sucking" at the female gourami. Its worrying me as i dont want to find one of them floating on the top when i wake up tomorrow. He does it all over her body and keeps...

My female dwarf gourami keeps eating my plants, as a result pooping ALL THE TIME! Do I leave her? Or take the plants out? Sometimes her poop is 3 or 4 inches long, is this normal??? Thanks. Apologies if you are eating dinner!

I really want to change from gravel to sand but am confused about how to go about it. Do i take my fish out? I dont have a spare tank so dont really have anywhere to put them. When (if) i put new sand in can i put new plants in too? I realise this isnt an ideal thing to be doing with the fish...

I bought a few new fish a few days ago, 2 big tetra's and....i asked for 1 scissortail. I didnt get any scissor tails, whilst i went and picked up some bits for my tank the girl at the fish store put my fish into a plastic bag and into a paper bag, i made the mistake of not checking that i had...

Like the person below, I have just found a snail in my tank (thought i was going crazy at first). Dont really want to kill it, but will it harm my tank? I have an oto, it (the snail) wont eat all the algae will it? Thanks in advance!

I have one oto and i have noticed recently (approximately 10 minutes ago!) that the underside of its belly is red and a little round the eyes. Any idea what it is? Also, is it true it can have cucumber? Thanks!

I have real plants in my tropical (freshwater) tank. They have something stringy hanging on some on the branches near the base of the plant. Looks a little like "silly string" but not as thick, it is the same thickness as the fish poop but 3 or 4 inches long! Can anyone tell me what it is and...

I have a 64ltr tropical tank with 5 neon tetras and one oto. I am a little concerned about feeding and how much i should be giving them. The neons get very excited when i put flakes into the tank and eat them all up within 5 minutes, once they are all gone (the flakes) the neons have bloated...