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Help! I have 3 Amazonian puffers and one is resting on the bottom of the tank today and won’t eat. There’s nothing else in the tank with them. They eat ramshorns and pellets. Belly looks wierdly shaped. It seems a little wobbly. What should I do? Update: it ate bloodworms I put in front of it

Hi all! I’ve had 10 baby panda cories since July. Recently I noticed one of them doing spinning and flipping that seems like it’s out of control of its body, it lasts 10 seconds or so and then it flops down breathing heavy and almost passed out. Is this a seizure? I think fish can have those...

I've had 2 sick bettas for 3 days and have had them both in a small hospital tank treating with metronidazole. Both didn't have pinecone scales, but today one died and the living one has pinecone scales. I put her in an epsom salt bath for 10 minutes then back into her hospital tank...

Here trying to find out what the consensus is on algae bloom. My local store says algae isn’t bad for the fish it just looks bad to us. They suggested UV light to clear it along with daily Flourish excel and weekly Flourish. I read that UV lights can kill too much bacteria, kill fish etc so am...

I started a 10g with the second established filter media that has been on my 20g tank for 3 months. How long should I wait before adding plants or a fish to my new 10g? After a week it reads 2 nitrate, 0 nitrite, 0.25 ammonia TYIA

Does anyone know which types of crystals are safe for freshwater tanks? Here’s a photo of the ones I have. I did a nitrate drop test and none reacted. Should I boil them? Thank you!

Now that my tank is finally keeping steady healthy parameters I'm trying to figure out what type of fish to pair my one angel Butters with. He used to get beat up by a community of fish in another tank (loach, large angel, sharks) and he has PTSD. He's super mellow and gets frantic if fish are...

Hello I’ve had my 20g tank since July 7. The ammonia was very low, along with no nitrites, 6.8 pH and safe amount of nitrates up until 2 days ago. I did a 25% water change after a week of not doing one and later that day had a nitrite spike- no more nitrates, high ammonia, pH is hard to keep at...

Hello! New to tanks but rescued a 3” angelfish that was getting bullied in a large tank at work. My 20g tank is 17 days old (put her in 7 days ago), no nitrites or chemicals, 6.5 pH, 78F, 3 mollies, 2 plants, 20% water changes 2-3x. There’s obvious fin rot so am on day 6 of metronidazole...