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Not sure what happened here. Vacuumed the gravel, then changed out about 25% of their water, and they started panting. I used water from the exact same source as the last two times (I buy a 5 gallon bucket.) The only thing I can think of, is a tiny trace amount of chlorine may have got in...

A bottle of clove oil in hand and tears in my eyes, I was minutes away from administering the lethal dose. Then after more internet digging I figured out - there was nothing wrong with my fish. Nope. Nothing at all. Problem is - when you first do a google search for "pale tetra" Or "tetra...

Okay, so I was able to figure out my tertras have neon tetra disease. They have slowly lost their color and developed tumor/cysts. What's weird is even the cardinal has it. He has gone completely white. But it's controversial whether or not they are really immune or not. It's taken a very...

So I give my fish their regular food, but I also give them blood worms daily. Is that okay? Or am I supposed to only give blood worms as a treat?

This one green tetra has looked strange since I got him, nearly a year ago. He had these darker patches on him. Yet he still swam around with the rest, eating, and acted fine. So I thought, okay, he's never acted sick, maybe he just has funny coloring. I looked online and never found any...

My clown loach disappears at night, only to reappear during the day. I have no clue where he goes. I search all over the tank, even removing the hidey-houses, and no loach. Yet by day break, there he is again, swimming merrily, doing loop-de-loops. The only thing I can think of is, maybe he's...

Got a Mr. Cleaner battery powered gravel cleaner. I'm happy with the versatility. Does a good job of cleaning the gravel without suctioning out the water from your tank. Instead it filters it through a little white baby sock and puts it right back in. *You can make it shorter or taller as you...

My fish get stressed out whenever I suction the tank, so I went in looking for a bottom feeder that would help do the job for me. They were out of ghost shrimp and sent me home with a clown loach instead. Quite a lively thing he is! So I'm wondering how good a job these guys do at gravel...

Will my dwarf gourami's whiskers will grow back after being nipped in half? He was attacked by a mean yellow guppy. It's like, there are the thread looking things trailing from where the bottom-half whiskers used to be. Exposed nerves or something, idk.

Ohhkay. My guppies in jail. Put a clear plastic separator in there for now. Imagine, a separator for a guppy like he's a betta or something. He's going back to the store. My blue gourami had a nipped fin but was getting all better. Was almost totally better in fact. Then I found the guy...

Okay, so I'm starting to notice that every time I leave the aquarium light on, next time I check again one or more of my fish seem to be missing a bit of their fin or tail. This never happens unless I have left the light on. Is the light getting to hot and "burning" them? Like, maybe the glass...

The other fish are fine. He just hangs up in the top corner of the tank. I thought maybe he wasn't getting enough oxygen so I lowered the water level so it made more bubbles. I also did a water change. He's new to the tank. The first two days he was fine, swimming around. It's day three and...

My little guppies, they swim all over the tank and are totally normal, except for this one guppy, who likes to position himself under the filter and swim directly into the incoming stream of water. He'll do this for several minutes, then I guess he gets bored, so he'll go swim around the tank...

I noticed something with my snails, they seem to only crawl around after it gets dark, and if I leave the tank light on for over an hour they go back in their shells. They will even climb into the hidey-houses I have for the fish. At first I thought this was a water temperature problem, maybe...

Hi, a bit of my background information here: stop me before I kill again - Page 2 - Aquarium Advice - Aquarium Forum Community I was cycling my tank and went down to the fish specialty store. This place looks more trustworthy than one of those chain pet stores with a fish department. It's run...

Despite all my time, effort, money and prayer my fish keep dying. I feel I got in way over my head with this hobby as it has become a real money-pit and very depressing. My background: A good friend of mine would have me take care of her three large aquariums while she was away. I simply...