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We've had a trio of multifasciatus for the past two or three weeks and they've all been settling in well. They've plenty of shells to choose from and have started digging around and claiming territories. However, I've noticed that there is some discolouration and that one in particular has...

Stocking ideas needed! I've got a Fluval Edge 46 litre tank that's currently being used as a grow out for some juvenile mollies and a temporary home for 1 cardinal tetra and 1 otocinclus. However, they'll soon be moved to their permanent homes, giving me an empty tank to play with. I'm...

Mollies went out morning after they went in. Tank kick started cycle with established media. I've still got 1ppm ammonia but nitrites have disappeared overnight

Another update: ammonia around 1ppm but nitrites have dropped to 0. Any ideas??

Scratch the ammonia reading. Thought I'd do another test and it's at 0.5ppm

I've been keeping fish for coming up to a year but I've never had to run a cycle as my first tank was second hand and already matured. However, I recently bought my second tank (Fluval Edge 46l) and thought I'd chuck the bio media in the rear sump of my main tank (AquaNano 40). For more...

I've recently bought a new Fluval Edge (46 litre) and am keen to get it up and going. Rather than transferring some old media, I decided to seed it by placing the new bio media into the rear sump of my established tank (Aquanano 40) and on top of the existing bio rings. How long would it...

Water chemistry is all fine - only concern would be nitrates of 40-60 as that's the content of our tap water. All other fish completely fine. I'll also note that light doesn't shine through this mark and it stays as a shadow.

A few months ago we noticed a small dark mark in our male guppy's tail. We kept a close eye on it and since then it's grow a bit as shown in the photos. Has anyone got any idea what this could be? I've seen a similar post about this elsewhere but there was no conclusion. The fish seems to be...

Tetras can be nippy. I don't have experience with red eyes but my betta is in with cardinals, five banded barbs, ottos, two mollies and a guppy. There was an initial 'settling in' period where the tetra did nip his fins but they lost interest after a few days. That was 3 months ago and I've...

It depends on the personality of the betta as aggression levels can vary. Our betta lives happily in a 15 gallon community tank with no problems. A good way to test aggression is to see how they react to neighbouring bettas in the LFS or test their reaction to their own reflection. Having...

Last Sunday we added in a female marble molly to our tank to try and improve the ratio of male to female molly. Previously, we had one male and one female pair that we inherited with the tank. For the first few days, our male couldn't leave the new female alone and was constantly trying to...

New update: I've been rubbing her food in garlic and feeding her separately for the past few days. On Sunday I also introduced another female molly into the tank in case the issue was stress related. This left me with two females and a male which is a more ideal ratio. Today I noticed that...

Thanks for the suggestions. As an update, she's still alive but hasn't got any better. I tried feeding her small pieces of pea and garlic but she ignored them. Will continue to rub her food in garlic daily to see where this takes us. In a week or so I may resort to medication.

Just given her some more food this afternoon and then noticed this soon afterwards. Could this be internal parasites?

For comparison, I've attached some pictures of what both the mollies looked like when I got them.

I had my thoughts about parasites but as you mentioned, I'd presume everyone else in the tank would be affected. She's currently in a community tank with 1 other molly, 1 guppy, 4 five banded barbs, 5 cardinal tetras, and a (extremely placid) male betta. All of them are swimming around happily...

When we bought our first tank a few months ago we inherited a number of fish, including a pair of silver mollies. I'm not sure of their age but I'd put them on the younger side as our male has grown and coloured up since we got them. However, the female has remained small and looks...

Update: after seeing glimpses of progress this week, I think that today we finally had a breakthrough and Humphrey is able to swim downwards again! He's now been able to explore the new plants we've got in the tank and seems to have found himself a new spot! I'm not sure what caused him to...

Thank you! To give a head start, I've looked into swim bladder disorder and have possibly ruled out constipation as a cause. The thing confusing me most is that he's still got an appetite and isn't off his food. When selectively feeding him from my finger, he'd occasionally jump to get at the...

Parameters are: Ammonia: 0 GH: 180 KH: 240 pH: 7.5 NO2: 0 NO3: 40 I haven't tried daphnia yet and he doesn't have a set spot to rest, but he does go for the filter intake (as pictured). He's been in the tank for around 8 weeks, but we've only noticed this around two weeks ago when we got...

We got back from holiday two weeks ago and within a few days noticed that our betta was behaving differently. Usually, he'd be darting up and down the tank walls (55l community) but now he's up by the filter intake and rests there for most of the day. He's also quite floaty and bobs with any...

Bit of a daft question coming up, but why would you soak for buoyancy? Don't you want the wood to sink? Forgive the potential ignorance, but still relatively new to the hobby!