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This morning I took the Emperor 400 HoB filter off of my 55 gallon tank and swapped all the biomedia in it into a new canister filter that I've had running for 5 weeks on that same tank. After that I did a water change of about 40 percent. This evening I noticed my featherfin catfish was...

I have a 55 gallon tank. I've never had problems with my levels till this week. My ammonia is 0 but my nitrates are extremely high. The color matched the highest level on the API test kit! I did a 30 to 40 percent water change yesterday before I realized my levels were so high. At the...

My feather fin catfish's top fin is looking really bad. A large part is gone all of a sudden. I'm not sure what is causing this. He had a couple white spots on his belly but they are gone now after using Pimafix and Melafix. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Sent from my iPad using...

I have a 4 year old featherfin catfish in a 55 gallon tank that has been set up for almost 6 years. About 9 days ago I noticed he had a couple white spots on his belly. They are bigger than ich but not fuzzy looking like I keep seeing fungus infections described. I have not added any new fish...

I have a 55 gallon tank that is about 6 or 7 years old. My featherfin catfish has a couple white spots on his belly. I'm thinking it might be fungal because it doesn't really look like the pics of ich that I've seen. I haven't introduced anything new to the tank in several months. The other...

I have a 10 gallon planted tank with 11 neon tetras and lots of really small snails. I noticed today while doing a water change that I seem to have some kind of hair algae starting to show up. It's a really dark green, almost black and was on the uv sterilizer and on some of the plant leaves...

I have an aluminum stockpot that I used to boil a piece of driftwood to place in my planted tank. It now has dark stains inside and I don't know how to get them out. I'm hoping that it can be saved for cooking. It never occurred to me that this would happen to it when I boiled that driftwood...

I just started my first planted tank, a 10g low light, a few weeks ago. I have a java fern that has dark spots, kind of looks like dark rust stains, on the top third to half of 2 of the leaves. Other than that the plant is doing good. The color is good and it looks healthy, as far as I can...

I thought I was going to have to order some mts for my 10 gallon but this morning when I got up I found some snails that must have hitchhiked in on the anacharis I've put in there, since that's the only plant I have so far. They are very small and so far I haven't figured out how to take good...

Is there any way to place a uv sterilizer on my 55 gallon tank while still using my hob filter? I don't have the money right now to switch to a canister filter but really need the uv sterilizer to get rid of the green water.

I am starting a new 10 gallon planted low light tank. I am ready to head to the store today to purchase a few fish and plants. I have had the sponge for my filter in my main tank for about 3 months now so I don't think I need to worry about the cycle. My question is about how many neon tetras...

I was watching video of a planted aquarium on youtube and the person setting it up put salt in before adding the plants. It looked like pieces of rock salt that he just put around on top of the substrate. What is the salt for?

I have a 10 gallon tank that I am planning on starting up this weekend. I was debating between having a blue lobster or going for a planted tank with a few small fish and inverts. The more I think about it the more I am leaning toward a planted. I just have a few questions before I get...

I just had a pleco I purchased a couple days ago die in my quarantine tank. I'm not really sure what he had. less than 2 days after I bought him I noticed his fins were looking kind of bad, maybe fin rot, not really sure. A couple hours later I checked on him and he was dead. He looked like...

I noticed a few days ago that my male congo tetras tails look like something has been nipping at them. Right now the fish in my tank are 6 congo tetras, 4 pearl gouramis, 1 rainbow shark, 1, and 1 featherfin catfish. The last additions were the pearl gouramis but I've never seen them bother...

I just noticed earlier today that it looks like I might have ich in my tank so i started treating my tank today. Now I've noticed that my new dojo loach, which hasn't been eating in the past couple days, is looking kind of puffy. It kind of reminds me of the way a butter bean looks after the...

I think my rainbow shark is starting to show signs of ich. I just noticed today that he seems to be rubbing his sides on the gravel and when i looked closely I noticed a spot or 2. The other fish seem ok so far. I also noticed that his dorsal fin and his 2 side fins are looking a little white...

I am getting ready to order 4 of these to go in my 55 gallon. I had read that you don't want to keep more than 1 male because they will fight and that you don't want to have 4 of the same type of gourami because they will gang up on the other fish. I was hoping someone with experience in keeping...

I have 2 fish in a quarantine tank waiting to be added to my main tank. How long do I need to leave them there? They have been in the qt for 3 weeks now. Is it ok to move them to the main tank now or do I need to wait another? Also, what should I be looking for other than signs of ich?

I am setting up my 10g quarantine tank this weekend and had read that flower pots can be used for hiding places. Would a terracotta flower pot be ok or should it be plastic or something else? Just want to make sure I don't put anything in the tank that might harm the fish.

I have a 55 gallon tank that has been running for a few months now. I haven't fully stocked it yet because I was in the process of selling my house and moving and didn't have time to set up a quarantine tank so I decided to wait till after the move. I am now ready to finish stocking it. Right...

I am hoping to be able to set up a nanocube in the next few months and have been looking at them online. I was considering the 29 gal Oceanic Biocube. I was looking at them online yesterday and noticed that the people who reviewed it on Petsmart's website said they had problems with leaking...

I just purchased an Aquaclear 20 to use as a filter for a 10 gallon quarantine tank. My plan was to attach this filter to my 55 gallon tank for a few weeks in order to cycle it before setting up the quarantine tank but this filter is not fitting on the rim of my tank. I managed to squeeze the...

Two nights ago I asked my husband to stop by Petsmart on his way home and pick up a rubber lipped pleco to replace the one I lost. My husband, who isn't in to fish at all, decided to get 2 instead of 1 "in case another died". When he got them home I floated the bag in the tank and took a close...

Four days ago one of my dojo loaches died from what looked like ich. My pleco then started showing the white spots. I have immediately raised the temp in my tank to 85 and started treating with Rid-Ich every day along with massive water changes every day just like the directions said. Since...