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My tank should be renamed the Death Tank. I can't keep anything alive it seems. I seem to destroy it all. I have two neons currently dying of what I assume to be neon tetra disease, they are turning pale in the red stripe. I lost my poor female dwarf gourami today from some unknown cause...

I have had two small female red dwarf gouramis for some time now and they have been doing exceedingly well in the tank. I purchased yesterday a male powder blue dwarf gourami. I was curious if anyone has any experience breeding dwarves. Will powder blues breed with reds? Or should I have...

So I think I have my tank set at an equilibrium again (knock on wood). Ick is gone, got a new bristlenose pleco who seems happy and healthy. I lost 3 neons, leaving me with 6. I would like to replace them with something different but I am not sure what to do. I could get 3 tetras of a...

So last week I was so excited, I finally found a pet store with a bristlenose pleco. I only wanted a small pleco so I refused to get the common pleco. I got him with two dwarf gouramis who are doing beautifully now. A few days after I introduced the fish I noticed ick spots on two of my...

Well I visited a new LFS yesterday and finally found my bristlenose pleco I've been wanting! I also picked up two sunset dwarf gouramis. They were the only two in the tank and seemed to get along well and were housed with a few guppies and tetras so I figured they'd do well in my tank...

I finally thought my tank had turned the corner. No diseases, fish seemed happy. Actually have kept 9 neons for 1 week without losing any. Then today, disaster..... I lost my favourite guppy, Heff. I couldn't find him at feeding time, and there he was, dead behind a log. I don't understand...

Well I moved my aquarium with great success a week ago and once everything was stable again I bought 9 neons. They are doing spectacularly, haven't lost a one yet (which far beats my record last time I bought neons and they were all dead in a few days). I took 2 hours to acclimatize as my...

Hello all. Nice snow! I am moving this week to a city an hour away from where I live now and of course the fish must come too. Any suggestions on moving the tank to make it easier for the fishes? TIA.

But the word is recently new to me and I want to make sure I pronounce it correctly..... How do you say cichlid? :oops:

Does anyone have any experience with using Aquatronics Discomed? I am trying it for some guppies & platies which I have been struggling with internal worms for a long time and am not winning the battle. I finally got put onto this by somebody here and it seems promising (it's actually labelled...

Okay, so I've been struggling with some sort of worm (ick!) for awhile now. I got advice to try a drug called Dyacide which I ordered online and added to my tank last night. (Just to refresh...the worms tend to be very long and white and hang from the anus) I noticed that out of the platies a...

I am curious - what anti-parasite medication did you use for your goldfish? And how long were your worms? Thanks, AJ

Okay - I seem to have stabilized my tank again. All female guppies & platies have died leaving me with 2 male guppies and 3 male platies and 1 chinese marble algae eater. I treated with antibiotics. (As for the worm thing :?: I think I was dreaming they are not there anymore, but gave...

Hi. I now have 4 guppies (2 male, 2 female), 4 platies (3 male, 1 female) and 1 chinese marble algae eater in my 20 gal tank. It has lots of plants and decorations. Everything was going along so well and lately I noticed my 2 female guppies hiding lots. I wasn't sure why but now I notice...

Hello. I am still trying to straighten out the "worm" mess with the help of veterinarians. However, in the meantime I am planning on what I will do when that happens. Does anybody have any experience with dwarf gouramis? I have two sets of opinions - one being they are peaceful and shy...

So I am now down to two neons, which is not strange. However, my last female guppy who is very sick at this stage, has something strange. There is a long white stringy-thing coming out of her butthole (for lack of a scientific term, sorry :wink: ). It's not poop. I have no idea what it is...

Hi. At the end of July this year I started a new tank. I had one tank many years ago as a child so I am fairly new. I did lots of research before I started the tank to learn basics. It is a 20 gal tank, with power filter and an undergravel filter powered by a powerhead. My water is a...