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Ok, thanks. I'll start with the water changes now. The water parameters may be just a little off from normal. Two days ago, my brother was feeding them and accidentally dropped way too many flakes in the tank. Yeah my dad came home with him and I got worried. The people at Petco (never...

1. Platy. Looks like a thin fuzzy layer of white ontop of her head. Otherwise, acting completely normal. 2. Ammonia- .3 ppm. Nitrites- 1 ppm Nitrates- 80 ppm Temperature- 76 F PH- 6 Everything is a little out of whack. 3. 29 gallons. Set up 8 months. 4. Top Fin 30. I don't have...

My platy, Sir Yellow Bellyious, has a white spot ontop of her head. It isn't spreading to any of the other fish and she doesn't really look like the pictures of Ich I've seen. We haven't added any more fish into the tank since probably november/december. I got some pictures, it's kind of hard...

I finally spotted him. We saw my giant pleco burrowing under the sunken ship and when I picked the ship up, both the pleco and bumble bee goby were under there. He immediately zipped around the tank at lightning speed and finally settled in the plants.

Mine had somehow squirmed into a extremely narrow passageway in my sunken ship. I've only seen him once since we brought him home.

Yep, thats him. The day after we brought him home, we thought he jumped out of the tank and disappeared. After looking for him for a while, we picked up the sunken ship ornament and he somehow squirmed into a tiny, tiny little tunnel in the plastic. He is quite the little hider. I'll have to...

Ok, that explains a lot. He's pretty small right now, maybe only an inch long. How small are the fish they eat? The pet shop said they were community fish and would be fine with my other fish. I have a few varieties of tetras, are they at risk?

About a week ago, we added (I'm pretty sure it's called) a bumble bee catfish to our 29 gallon. I've only seen him swim around once since we got him, and that was at night and only for a second to get some food. He's constantly hiding underneath some of the ornaments, I know he's alive...

Wow, thanks! I thought it sounded a little odd.

We just got some anacharis for our tank. They said to let if float at the top of the tank because if you put it into the substrate it will die. Is that true? It looks kind of weird just floating at the top and it's all hanging around the filter because of the current. The fish seem afraid of...

We did notice her a little bloated, but it hasn't really decreased much. We've had the platy since the end of August. I don't know if the baby has been around for a while, we just noticed him while looking at the new fish we bought last night that was hiding in the sunken ship. Then we...

We just added some new fish to the tank, but I now noticed there is one very tiny baby fish hiding around the sunken ship. I have absolutely no idea what fish it came from, whether it's been there or came with the new fish today. A few weeks ago, we found this by our plants. We thought it was...

I checked around the tank, no fish I can see. I guess it's just a mystery, then. This morning, I checked on the Molly and he is completely back to normal. The water change helped a lot. We also took out the plants temporarily because they were starting to grow something on them. We'll go...

We did the 50% water change today. Now we have a problem. One of the hatchet fish is missing, the one that was acting strange. Nowhere to be found. I noticed I couldn't find him a few days ago, but he never emerged. I checked underneat all of the ornaments and gravel and in the filter, but...

Thanks. We will do the 50% water change tomorrow. I just checked the heater, it's set at 77 degrees, but the thermometer is at 80 right now. I don't know how good this thermometer is, I'll probably end up buying a new one soon. The tank has been set up for about a month and a half. The...

Does anyone know what this might be? He's still swimming weird and the very tip of his tail looks sort of thinner than it should, almost see through. And on a side note, I forgot to say I also have hatchet fish in the tank, I forgot to mention that in the previous post.

I have a 29 gallon tank and right now there are 5 rasboras, 4 threadfin rainbows, 4 neon tetras, one black molly and one fish I'm not completely sure about, on the reciept it said Platy. We recently lost the other Black Molly for unknown reasons and one rasbora before that. We did a partial...

Well we decided to just have community fish. While getting the water tested, we had a look around at the fish and liked a lot of them that were not able to be housed with semi-aggressive fish. So the angel is out, so far we want mollies and rasboras, along with the neon rainbows if they still...

We brought it to the pet store to be tested and she said it looks like everything's in range.

Thanks everyone. I think I read the nitrite wrong, there's a lot of things that are tested on the strip and I might have put it up to the wrong color. The petshop near me does free testing, so I'll bring a sample over and double check with them. As for the fish, are bigger tetras than the...

Alright, these are the first readings I got. I took these before I added fish food to help the cycle. Temperature: 78*F PH: 7.2 Ammonia: 1 Nitrite: 20 Nitrate: 0

I used the pure amonia yesterday, just ammonia and water. When exactly do I know when it's ok to add fish? We're going to add only a few fish at a time, keep checking the water to make sure it's stable, then add more. We have an ammonia and nitrate test kit, what are the healthy levels? I...

Alright thanks. I know how petshops can be, they know nothing about small animals, so I guess it's the same with fish. We have a testing kit that we test the water every day and have started the cycling.

We finally found a stand for the tank and it's now beginning cycling. We'll be starting the fish additions either Wenesday night or Thursday. The harlequin rasboras are beautiful, I would love to get a school of them if it will work out. I saw a lot of bigger tetras that I would like to add...

Thanks for the tips! I didn't realise the silver dollars got so big, they were in the same tank with the angels when I was looking for my tank, so that's where I got them from. I'll leave them out. I was going to add the dwarf sucker catfish or cories last so they had enough algea to feed on...