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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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I have a platy baby that is a little over a month. He is big enough to not get eaten, but I'm worried about him getting bullied. Would they bully him if I put him in now? I don't want to wait too long because he is in a small breeder box and I don't want to have to keep him in there until he's...

Does anyone have any ideas on what to cover the filter intake with so my guppies/tetras stop getting pulled in? I want to make sure it is a safe material for tanks and will allow the filter to still work well. Thanks

My platy just gave birth and I need help on how to care for them. So far there are two, but I think she's still in labor while I'm writing this. I put them in a breeder's box to keep them safe from the other fish (3 male platys, 2 females). I feed the adult fish the fancy guppy food by Hikari...

I just got some fish from a neighbor who was neglecting them and they were just in a bucket along with a bunch of snails (I want to say 100-200 snails in a 1 gallon bucket). I don't want to keep the snails so I want some advice about what to do. Could I put them outside or something? I really am...

One of the plants in the back of my tank is dying. All the others are doing fine, so i don't know whats causing it. I noticed a brown leaf a couple days ago and now its half brown, and i dont want it to die because it is a nice plant. Does anyone know how to save it? I attached a picture if you...

I just got some guppies and put them in a new tank I have and they don't know the routine of feeding like my other fish so when I put food in, they don't come up to eat. has anyone else had this problem or does anyone have any ideas about how to get them to eat? Its been a couple days and I...

My betta's top fin is missing and I need help with finding a treatment because I don't want him to get an infection or get hurt worse. For a bit of context, I went camping this weekend but couldn't find anyone to watch him so i gave him a bit of extra food before we left because i figured it...

For a few weeks, I've been having brown algae growing in my tank, and I don't know how to get rid of it because it keeps coming back. I did a water change and took out all of the decorations and cleaned them. 4 days later, it was all back. I've been doing water changes every 2-3 days to keep...

I have a clown pleco and a betta in a tank together, and I'm worried that the clown pleco isn't eating enough. He has eaten all the algae in my tank, so I got him algae wafers but I'm having trouble getting him to eat them. I feed him at night when the betta isn't swimming around, but when I...

I just got a new ammonia test kit (api ammonia test kit) and the ammonia is testing at 8 ppm! My old test strips (tetra easystrips) which I just used had it testing around 1 ppm. I am wondering if there is a water conditioner I am using that could be giving off higher levels or one of them is...