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So in the area where I live the unsoftened water from the tap has pH 8.3 and is extremely hard (haven't gotten it tested for the exact # but it leaves deposits on everything). For the past couple of years ive used the unmodified water and the fish have done fine, but it's destroyed all my...

His side is perfectly molded to it.

I found my platy today pushed right up against the filter (aquaclear) and he was really stuck. I had to turn off the filter to dislodge him. He was perfectly healthy yesterday morning. He now has a very large dent in his abdomen right behind his fin, and he's having a lot of trouble swimming. I...

He died a day or two after the last post unfortunately :( it wasnt tb thankfully since none of my other fish have shown any weird symptoms since. It might have been something age related since he was nearly 4 years old and he was a Pygmy who was bullied a lot. Hope you have better luck!

I really didn't want to diagnose him with anything stronger than mela and pima if I had no idea what was wrong, so no :( And the other fish seem fine so far...

He hasn't eaten or pooped since the first day I qt him :( I know he's going to die, I just would really like to know what to do if this happens again... I have no idea what's wrong with him... But his poo was normal a couple days before he got this way.

No, there aren't any meds in the main tank. He got beat up once a while ago and some of his fins were a bit torn and I used some pimafix then and he was fine with it. Its like he can't move because his spine is stuck in a 'C'

His scales are starting to really look bad and he's getting more emaciated. Does anyone have any ideas? He's just lying on the gravel gasping.

I have a 20g tank with currently 3 platies and 6 Pygmy cories, 0 amm,0 nitrite, .1ish nitrate, ph 8.3. Out of the blue the other day my pygmy platy started looking very I'll, he was very thin all of a sudden, not his belly as much, but behind his rib area, and he seemed to be having some...

Thank you for the advice :) he died the other day but I'll keep it in mind in case this ever happens again :(

So all day today he's stayed in the same place and hasn't moved. He just lies on the bottom and looks dead unless you look closely at his gills. I tried to lift him to the surface to see if would eat but he just kind of twitched as he floated back down. It's really depressing to watch, if anyone...

I was thinking it might be swim bladder. Im not sure how though... His stomach isn't distended and he isn't constipated or anything. He's just wedging himself upside down between rocks at the moment.

I've had this platy for about 3 months, and until today he had no problems. But when I went to check on them this morning I thought he was dead since he was hanging upside down in the java moss. But when I went to net him, he wriggled away. He still is able to swim but never the right way, he...

The lights run from 11am to 10pm, so I couldrobably cut back. All I have in there right now are some java ferns and one anubias which I just got the other day. I usually do a 15-20 wc every other week. I did them every week for a while but my nitrate never goes up past 5pp, so I pushed it an...

I've been having a problem with this algae. It's in a 20g H ph 8.3 and hard water. Lighting: single t5h0 10000k bulb. About a month back I took all the rocks out and scrubbed it all off but within a couple days it came right back green and slimey, and now it's quite thick and slightly spongy...

I just don't want to buy a 'lower quality' brand and have if possibly fail. Have people had good results from the zoomed 6700 or 10000k bulbs?

Awesome :) hopefully this will be the last time I have to try a new bulb!! Thanks you all!

So the midday would be ok 100% sure? I've bought so many bad bulbs and things that its getting a little ridiculous :P

Sorry if it sounded like I was blaming my fern problems on the water! I'm just at a loss of what could be wrong. The new leaves get brown spots that grow until the whole thing is brown and falls off. But new ones spurt up to take their place. So I have this long rhizome (?) with no leaves haha...

Hey there! I have a single t5ho bulb over a 20g high/ tall. So im thinking that I should be able to grow low light plants though. My local water has a 8.3 ph and is quite hard. I know people say that more minerals are ok for most species, but are there any that do particularly well? I currently...

I have a Hagen glo t5ho single bulb ballast. I purchased a zoomed flora sun bulb at the local Big Al's. I'm not sure if thee is something wrong with my ballast or the bulb or something, but the lighting was horrible, dark and pink and just made everything look brown and the plants weren't...

A few weeks ago I had a platy who's eyes developed a white dot in the center, and then it wasn't able to find much food, but he was still eating at first. About a week later I found him dead with his gills spread out wide. Now my dwarf platys eyes are going a bit cloudy, his scales seem kind of...

I bought a platy today and he looked great, no signs of illness, and his belly was normal. I drip acclimatized him into a 5g quarantine. I got him at noon, and it is now 9pm and his stomach is considerable larger. This seems really weird to me since I thought when the the belly bloats its...

Never mind, he died. It's weird how the saddest part is my guilt for letting it happen.

Theres no change, and he won't touch any food. If he doesn't die of whatever will he starve?