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I've had my betta for just over a year now. throughout the year, he's fought fin rot quite a few times, and a few bouts of consitipation. It was easy to determine when he was sick, because during the day, he would hide in his castle and not come out. Lately, he's been deteriorating to...

So my betta has this white flaky string like thing hanging from or near his poop hole. Whenever poop comes out, it gets caught on it, and hangs from him (so nasty looking). Eventually the poop will fall off (with a little pestering from me and his feeding tongs), but the white thing remains...

so i got 3 neon tetras from someone who was going to flush them down the toilet...i currently don't really want to take care of more fish than my 2 bettas, but i felt i didnt have a choice. I've put them in a non-heated, 3 gallon rubbermaid tank (it's 5 gallon, but i only filled it about 3...

Not sure if this has been brought up before.... I was wondering if anyone thinks this could work, or just plain dumb. I know male betta are aggressive and will fight to the death. In the wild, from my understanding, one will usually retreat. If I was to get a large, heavily planted with lots...

so my new betta that i've had for about 1 month now had developed some fin rot (or fin-tear..at the end, it looks the it's been shredded a bit). his water params are: 5gal amm - 0.25 nitrit - 0 nitrate - 5ppm i've done water changes, but it never gets below 0.25. my other betta, who's in a...

My female betta is getting worse and worse, and i'm just wondering if i'm prolonging her suffering by continuing treatment. I had started another thread, and although i've gotten some good advice, nothing has seemed to work. she's now on furan 2 and api salt, but it seems pointless. at this...

my female betta has columnaris. her mouth is cottony white, she has white cotton strings attached to her body, and two greyish spots on her back. she looks a bit bloated too, possibly eggs? I do see her waste, so I'm not sure if she's constipated. she is lethargic, eating only pellets now...

So I have both these filters for my 5 gal and 10 gal tanks. They make these filter cartridges specifically for them : http://feeds2.yourstorewizards.com/1298/images/250x1000/marinaslimcarb3pk.gif but if i want to medicate the tank, and get rid of the carbon, i can't. I had to actually go...

my betta has been hiding in his cave, only to come out and feed. last time he did this he had sbd from overfeeding. he seems to have developed some sort of cut or wound on his forehead. it's hard to explain, but it looks like skin peeling ? like a dry scalp? I might've overfed him, and I...

I'm asking cause my two tanks alwYs read between 0-0.25. The nitrates read 10-20ppm. They are both cycled, but for the love of god, the reading is never at 0. My tap water has a bit of amm. And sometimes I feed a bit sloppy. Ever since summer began, the tanks temp would get hot , 84, so I...

I wish I was at home so i could take a pic...I will do so when i get home. My male betta, his eyes "slightly" protrude. Before, i really didn't compare him to anything, but now i have a female betta. Her eyes are completely flat, in their sockets. But my male's eyes, if u look at him from...

I have a male and female in a 10 g and 5 g respectively. I don't want to raise fry or breed. All I want to do is let them spawn and have the opportunity to have sex (sorry to be blunt). Would allowing them to do this and then immediately discarding the eggs and nest be wrong?

so i just recently got a female betta to go into a 5 gallon tank - it was vacated from a male betta who upgraded. i didn't notice at the store...there were about 10 females, but some really small, some really BIG, and this one looked about the right size and color. she was a bit active too in...

so i had recently finished cycling a 10 gallon tank. prior to doing the big pwc, it had been able to convert 2.0 amm into 0 within 24 hours two times in a row. there was no nitrites, and nitrate readings were about 40-80ppm. after i did the big pwc (he was suffering fint rot so i mixed in 3...

ok, so i had a betta that developed fin rot...there was tons of debris flying around due to me shaking the filter. i wasn't sure if that was the cause, or if it was due to a new plastic part of a silk plant i put in. i figured, maybe the filter's not working right or the gravel is really dirty...

My betta seems to have fin ron, and there is a ton of debris whenever i disturb the tank to do pwcs; much more than before. Even hours afterwards, i can still see some flying around, when before there would be nothing. I do have an almond leave in there, but still a bit worried that my filter...

So recently, i disturbed the filter of 5 gallon tank, with a single betta. A bunch of debris started flying everywhere, mostly brown and white, i suspect most of it was debris from the Indian Almond leaves that i would put in his tank. Since then, his fins have started to show fin rot, i...

My tank is in the last stages of cycling..ammonia drops to 0.25 within a day, high nitrites and nitrates... is it ok to take out the seeded gravel? i have about 3 cups full in stockings hanging inside...just want to take out... if not, when can i take it out? thanks in advance

So the filter tube cap was sort of loose, causing the water to come out too fast. So to make it tight again, I had to shake the sponge filter in the tank...which caused all the debris and dust on it to fly everywhere... Now, I notice this white dust in my tank constantly...it does eventually...

So I have a 5 gal cycled tank. The hob filter has 2 inserts inside. I was wondering if it would be ok to take one of them out and put onto my new 10 gal to help speed up the cycle? I would put a brand new one in it's place, so my cycled tank would have one new insert and a an old one. Would it...

I have a cycled 5 gallon tank, with 1 betta inside. I put in an almond leave, and he proceeded to make a HUGE bubble nest under it. I should take pics, but it's huge. Anyways, when I do his weekly 20% water change, I have left the nest and leaf alone. Should i break the nest when I do the...

So I've been thinking of getting an adf as a tankmate for my betta. They would share a 5 gal, but could upgrade if necessary. Any tips in bringing the frog in? I haven't really seen anything on the net other than drop him in and hope for the best, and be prepared to seperate them. Thanks in...

Hi, i recently started a fishless cycle with a 5gallon tank. I have no plants, and used some seeded gravel. Pure ammonia as well. It's been about 10 days, and these are my readings: ammonia - 0.50ppm nitrites - way above 5ppm nitrates - 80-160ppm So, I tried to taking tap water 75% and 25%...