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I’m stumped. In the last three days, I’ve had a green slimy algae attack on my plants. It has nearly encased one of my floating plants. The only changes in the last 8 days since the water change are: 1. I added a sponge prefilter over my intake valve on a Fluval 50 HOB because I bought some...

Yesterday I noticed this chalk like substance on several leaves. I think the plant is a Scarlet Temple, but I could be mistaken. It’s a 29 gallon and has been up and running for over a year. I noticed it after my recent water change, but it could have been there for longer. There’s been no loss...

I’ve been in the hobby a long time, and I guess I got too comfortable. I do my weekly water change using 5 gallon Lowe’s plastic buckets. As I began filling the second bucket up with tank water, I noticed some water on the floor, then A LOT of water on the floor. The second bucket had broken...

After 60 years of having fish, I’m a little stumped on this one. One of my gold barbs is swimming with its mouth open. The only thing I can think of is I fed some small hunks of sinking wafers for the corys and YoYo loach. I didn’t watch all of the feeding, but the gold barbs seem to love them...

One of my Serpaes started swimming sideways. I noticed it after feeding some sinking pellets, but I can’t be sure he was doing it before. Many times they carry larger portions in their mouth trying to swallow more than they should. It looks like a swim bladder issue. Any other ideas or...