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My betta all of a sudden got this big white abscess on his side. He previously had dropsy I think, so I've been doing small water changes twice a day after I feed him so the water's super clean. He has been getting kanaplex through his food. He looked fine this morning, and his scales were...

Ok, thanks. To do the epsom salt bath, should I take out a gallon of his tank water then and add epsom salt to it or use fresh water that is the same temperature?

My betta has dropsy and I have aquarium salt in the tank to treat it, and I also want to give him epsom salt baths, but I can't find anything on if you are should do both. In another fish that had dropsy a while ago, I would take a gallon of tank water and add epsom salt to it so that it didn't...

Ok, thanks for all the advice! I will try to add some variety in their diet, and hidings spots and hopefully that will prevent anything in the future. For the guppy, the bubbles are definitely in the fin, it looks like his fin has trapped gas like a balloon in a couple spots. The filter doesn't...

1) In a 10 gallon tank, I have 3 male platys and 1 male molly. In a 26 gallon tank, I have 10 neon tetras and one guppy. In a 20 gallon tank I have probably about 20 female platys, which I know is too many but they gave birth a lot and I'm trying to find someone to give the babies to so that the...

I need help figuring out why my platys are dying. The only symptoms they have is stress. One died a month ago after acting stressed for a little while, and I figured it was just old age. Before he died though, I thought maybe it was swim bladder disease because he was laying on his side. Then, a...

I dechlorinate the water with neutral regulator when I do water changes and that's it. I don't add in anything else and I've used neutral regulator since I got them so I don't think it could be a reaction to anything.

There are 3 other platys and one molly with him. I've had him for at least a year I think. There's no salt in the water but I have some aquarium salt I could add if it would help. He is eating normally. I haven't seen any unusual poop so I'm assuming it is normal.

One of my platys is constantly at the top of the tank in a corner and I don't know why. Ammonia and nitrites are 0, and nitrates are about 30. The temp. is about 74 and the tank is well oxygenated because I have an airstone and a filter. I do water changes at least once a week so I don't know...

I think it must be a disease because all the other fish leave him alone and the water quality is good. I looked it up and I wonder if it might be swim bladder disease. I'm just not sure because it was so sudden. It does seem to fit because he's lying on the bottom on his side, but he's not...

I went to feed my fish this morning and one of my platys was lying on the bottom on his side and he wouldn't come up for food. I noticed a couple weeks ago he seemed stressed so I measured the water parameters and ammonia and nitrite were 0, and nitrates were about 20, so everything was within a...

The temperature in the tank is always right around 78 degrees and the Ph is around 7.6 normally. I usually sex them when they're a couple months old, at least an inch long. Most of them I'm sure are females because they're pretty old, but there are some babies that are small and maybe could turn...

I got some male and female platies about 10 months ago, and they've been giving birth consistently since then, but for some reason in all that time I've only ever had 2 males be born vs probably 30+ females. Does anyone know why this might be? I just think its interesting and wondered if there's...

The dropsy isn't very obvious to people who haven't seen the fish before, but all my fish are a lot rounder than before and some of them are losing color so I do think it matches with dropsy. For the bully, I put him in a breeder box so he's in the main tank but he can't reach the other fish. My...

I attached a picture of the fish. All the other fish have rounder bellies then usual but it's not this noticeable. Also, I think the mean guppy must have ripped his fin which is why it has that chunk taken out of it. Most of my fish have ripped fins, but his is the worst. Also, my understanding...

I have some guppies that I'm pretty sure have dropsy. I only realized this morning because one of my fish is lying on the gravel and the plants and won't swim. Looking at the other ones, I think that 4/5 might have it. I've been watching them a lot today and noticed that the only one that...

Ok, I just got a 10 gallon tank for them. I haven't put them in yet, but I'm going to soon. It has a filter, but no heater because it's hot here and the water is at 76. I'll probably get one soon anyways so that the temperature is more steady, and I'll need it for winter, but as of right now...

I got 3 new fish yesterday from a neighbor who was giving them away. There's a molly and two neon tetras. One of the tetras looks super unhealthy so I didn't want to put them in with my healthy fish in case they could infect them, so I put them in a little tank I just set up. Its a 1.5 gallon...

I got some frozen brine shrimp yesterday and just tried them out on him. The petco I go to only had baby brine shrimp, and I thought it would be the same but they're really small and he doesn't recognize them as food. They come in little cubes, so I put one in there and he ate at the cube, but...

As far as I've seen, his poop looks normal. For the brineshrimp, should I try freeze dried ones? I already have freeze dried baby shrimp that I feed to my bigger fish, so could I try cutting those up for him or are they different?

Can we get another picture of the fish (close up) and a 1 minute video of him? I attached a picture, and I tried taking a video but he just was doing the same thing he was doing in the picture the whole time. He just sits at the surface for a long time not moving. Does he have a round fat lump...

Pictures of the fish and a picture showing the entire tank? Attached Do you have any plastic plants or ornaments in the tank? Only silk plants, driftwood, and live plants other than the flower ball ornament in the middle, but it doesn't have any sharp edges. How long have you had him? Over a...

My betta fish is having a lot of symptoms and I can't find anything online that matches up with all of his symptoms so if anyone knows what it might be, please let me know. The main symptoms is that his fins are deteriorating. Pretty much overnight, his fins got really messed up. He was doing...

I have 5 adult platies, 3 male and 2 female. I want them to stop breeding because they're only in a 20 gallon tank and it'll soon be overcrowded. I have 13 babies living in a breeder box I have in there. I have another tank that I will move one of the genders to that is a 26 gallon planted tank...

One of my neon tetras recently developed some sort of sickness, and he has a white fungus on him. I will try to attach some pictures, but even since I took them, his colors have gotten a lot paler. Does anyone know what it might be and how to treat it? Also, if I treat it, would I have to put...