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I had a perfectly healthy betta in a filtered 5g tank all by itself. My water parameters have always been fine. I think I added a pathogen :( ...I put in a piece of driftwood, and during a water change, noticed it had a rather foul odor and some soft patches. I tossed it out. But now my...

What's the 'recipe' for mixing epsom salts to help with constipation? And how long to I let the fish bathe in it?

Geez, it doesn't rain, it pours... In my 10 gal (it's cursed, I swear), my dwarf gourami is lying on the bottom gasping. I noticed he didn't eat at the pm feeding yesterday, or this am feeding. And he's been hanging around the surface where the HOB filter pours in. I had just done my weekly...

I just got a betta this past Monday, and put it in a brand new 5.5gal tank. He did fine the first few days, but he hasn't eaten much. I wasn't too worried until today, when he decided to hang out at the bottom of the tank under cover of a rock ornament, and only comes up for a surface gulp of...

I've got a limpet take-over going on in my tank. I think they came in on some java fern a few months back. My gourami is eating them, but they are getting way out of control. Anyone got any suggestions for pest-control? I've thought of getting a clown loach, but I have a snail that I don't...

I've got a 33g tank that I'm going to be starting up soon. I want to try a planted tank. I'm also going to try fishless cycling to get the tank going. Do I want to get my cycle going before I plant, after, or does it matter? I'm just starting my info gathering on planted tanks and haven't...

Greetings and Happy Holidays! I have a dwarf gourami with a brown spot on it's side, just behind the pectoral fin. It just sort of appeared today...I didn't notice it yesterday, at any rate. Looks like he's been singed, and I thought maybe he got trapped behind my heater. That's unlikely...

I added 3 ottos to my 10gal this weekend, and I think one may have ich (I don't have a QT but am thinking that's next for me :?...at any rate, here's where I am...) My NH3 NO2 NO3 and pH are fine. I add salt with water changes just as a precaution. So far, I only see one spot on one otto...

This weekend I took the seashells out of my tank(10g) and added a small piece of Mopani driftwood...my pH is 7.5 and although I know that's not really a big deal for the fish I have ( gourami and tetras), I thought I'd try to drop it naturally a bit if I could (this decision at the...

:cry: Well, I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that my gourami is doomed. From all that I've been reading, and talking to people, I think I have to go with TB as a diagnosis (or as good a guess as I can make without a fish clinic to take it too). Now my dilema continues...what do I co about...

I'm having a problem with a powder blue gourami. I've had if for two years, and other than a slight case of fin rot, it's been healthy. A couple days ago, I noticed it wasn't quite 'right', then last night at feeding I had a good look down on it, and it's body has twisted to resemble a loose...