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A few weeks ago, I came back from being out of town for a week and noticed that one of my powder blue DG's had some raised scales and a small sore on his side. Upped the water change, and kept an eye on the tank parameters, but the sore spread and noticed that his ventral fins looked bad also...

Over the last few years, any time I add new fish to my tank it seems like I also end up treating for internal parasites, and ultimately loosing a few of my cichlids (angel fish and rams). This happens even after keeping the new fish in QT for several weeks until everybody looks healthy and has...

Bought several fish about 2 weeks ago - 1 female juvenile convict, 1 tiny Bolivian ram, and 3 dwarf gourami. My plan was to keep everybody in QT for at least 2 weeks before adding them to my 55gal community tank (angel fish, Bolivian & German blue rams, tetras, cories, and a BN pleco). I got...

My tank: I have a 4yr old, 55gal SA cichlid/tropical schooling community tank = angelfish, Bolivian & German rams, tetras, cory cats, tiger barbs, and 1 grumpy BN pleco. At present my parameters are in good shape: temp 78, ammonia & nitrite 0, and nitrate less than 20. Backstory: For the...

I have a 55gal tropical/SA cichlid community tank, which includes my BN pleco Bert. For whatever reason, Bert stopped taking care of business for a while and the algae built up. Even when he was staying on top of things, there are al lot of small areas that he can't seem to get to, so I've...

Mid-October last year, I noticed a growth or mass on my convict who's probably about 4 years old. It's on her right side near the caudal fin (pictures, and more pictures). At first I thought it was either a parasite or some cartilage sticking out (first post). Moved her into a 10gal QT and...

I've had my little guy, Cornelius, in a 2gal tank at work for a little over a year now and I've never noticed any health problems. His tank is heated, 80 deg. F, no other occupants, and he has an under-gravel filter. Water changes are weekly, usually about 20-30%, or more if I'm out of the...

I posted about this problem several weeks ago (original post here) but never got any useful responses, and unfortunately she's looking worse. In short, several weeks ago I came home from being out of town for a week and noticed that my female convict had some white tissue sticking out from her...

I've been out of town for the past week so unfortunately I don't know when the problem started but I just noticed this evening that my female convict appears to have vertebrae sticking out on her right side, maybe half an inch from her caudal fin. What's sticking out looks mostly white with a...

I've had this little guy for about 3.5 years and lately noticed that he spends hours at a time, gasping at the surface. He began doing this in spurts several months ago but for the last several days, he's kept himself wedged up against the filter intake. I've found other forum posts where...

I apologize for this being a cross-post from the "Unhealthy Fish" forum but I was hoping that I might get more information from a cichlid-specific group. I bought 2 bolivian rams about 10 days ago for my 55gal tank, in which I currently have 3 other rams. Since I brought him home, one of the...

Last Wednesday I purchased two Bolivian Rams from a local chain fish store with whom I've had nothing but good experiences (i.e., no sick fish). The fish I'm concerned about is male. In addition to these 2 new fish, I also have 3 other Bolivian Rams in my 55gal tank, 2 males and a female...

I got up yesterday to see that one of my pepper cory cats was floating at the surface. Thinking he'd passed away, I opened the lid to get him out and he panicked a bit, then went back to the bottom. Also saw that he'd lost most of his tail, though his other fins seem to be in good shape. The...

My boyfriend decided to break down his tank so I agreed to take his two remaining fish, a female convict and a female salvini. He'd had both for quite a while and other than stealing food from the synodontis, both were pretty well behaved. However, the heater in his tank over-heated a while...

I got 4 angelfish about a month ago and this past Tuesday I noticed that one of them was hanging out at the top of the tank, not swimming or eating much, and trailing white poo. I tried feeding everybody peas several times but the angel took no interest in them, so last night I put him in the...

A few months ago I came home to find 15+ gallons of water had leaked out of my 55gal community tank. I assumed that there was something wrong with the tank & since I'd recently moved, others suggested that damage might have been done to frame or seals during the move. Got a new tank & assumed...

Just got home from work to find that 10-15 gallons had leaked out of my 55. I can't find any cracks or obvious signs of a problem but on the backside of the tank, the sheet between the tank and stand is soaked and water has soaked the carpet in front of the tank. I'm working on moving the fish...

I finally got approval to set up a tank at work but I'm limited to 1gal and no heater, going to use this tank I already had. Set it up today just see what the water temps would be before getting a fish. Originally I'd planned on getting a betta but without the light on, the water temp hovered...

I just moved to the Dayton area and found that although the nitrate level in the tap water is near 0ppm, the water is hard/very hard. About a year ago I got an RO+DI unit to remove the nitrates (for the fish) and to soften the water (for my aquatic turtle), and now I'm wondering if I can just...

A while back I was doing a PW on my 55gal and found a 4" long red worm in my tank, and posted a question about it. Some said it was harmless though others suggested it could be a parasite. I have no idea how it might have gotten in my tank, but since then, I've found several others during...

In a few weeks, I'll be moving about 2.5 hours away and so far my main concerns are getting the fish down there safely. The tank is loosly planted (bunches of anachris, cambomba, anubias nana, & pitiful amazon sword plants) community tank. I have: 4 bolivian rams 6 assorted cory cats 6 black...

I'll be moving to the Dayton area in a few weeks (the Fairborn / Huber Heights side) and I'm wondering about the water quality. I currently use an RO+DI filter because my tap water often has high nitrates (40+ ppm) which is bad for my fish, and is very hard which is bad for my turtle. I won't...

I'm getting ready to move in the next month or so and my main concern is getting the fish & turtle moved and set up safe, and not loosing either of my aquariums along the way. I'm thinking about renting one of the portable storage units (PODS, SmartBox, etc) but I'm a little worried about the...

I've thought for a while that two of my rams had paired up but it kind of seemed like an on-again, off-again pairing. This evening though, I noticed that they were both fiercely guarding a rock in the middle of the sand box and, sure enough, in a little depression of the rock there were about...

4" red worm in my tank - what is it, where did it come from, & should I worry? While doing a PW in my 55gal today, I noticed a small, squishy-looking splotch going up the siphon. Managed to catch it as it came out of the tap in the sink and found it was a reddish worm, about 3-4". Here's a...