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Hey everyone, I have a sick Pristella Tetra who is missing its tail and looks to have some kind of white spot on its head? I have had this fish about 6 or 7 years so I'm thinking maybe he is getting sick from old age? I have attached a photo, any advice would be greatly appreciated. His...

Hello! I am needing some help picking a light since i will be spending a good amount to get something decent and need some Input! I have a planted 36 and 50 Right now I only have 1 light a national geographic LED which is terrible by the way! But I am using that on both one on during day and...

Hello! I take care of these fish tanks for a business. Long story short the tanks are over stocked but I am doing my best to keep them under control. Right now they have 2 bubble wands but since they add feeders the fish constantly lift up the air stones. What is the best way to aerate a 280? I...

Two of my glass fish I have had 5+ years have two little white spots on the fins. My first reaction was that it was ich. I moved them to a hospital tank, slowly raised temp to 30 and using aquarium salt carefully. Has been there 8 days now and no sign of the spots being gone? Could it be...

Hello! I have a 36 bow front with a few plants that have been in there for years which I didn't pay too much attention to. But I really want to start getting them looking awesome. I need some advice on how to get things going again. I have started doing weekly water changes again since getting a...

Hello! I take care of some fish tanks for a business. Two of the tanks get this scum? On the rubber part of the filters. Each tank has 2 fx5/6 running. It only happens on the new ones. Just wondering could be causing this? I will add that their tanks are grossly overstocked but I try my best to...

Hello! Can someone please tell me how to get this apart. I can not for the life of me figure out how. I watched a video and the did it so easily he didn't even have to explain it hahaha yet I cannot figure it out. Thank you in advance!! Sent from my SM-G920W8 using Aquarium Advice mobile app

I take care of some tanks for this business. This one tank a 75 gallon, is getting really bad brown algae build up! I don't know what is causing is. I do a 30 ish gallon water change every week or at least every 2 weeks. There are 2 filters running. A Rena Filstar xp3 I believe and a fluval...

What would you suggest are the best, long lasting light fixtures? I work for a business taking care of their tanks, they have: 1 280 2 180 1 90 1 75 they have the national geographic LED right now but they barely lasted a year on two of the tanks. I am looking for some better options...

I work for a company doing their tanks. They want me to find some better lights for them. They had switched to all LED when I got there. They ended up getting the national geographic lights which suck terribly. The white light burnt out on 2 of them in under a year. They are only on 8 hours per...

Hey guys. So I take care of some tanks for a business downtown. Anyway one of the tanks has 3 koi and one of them has been losing some scales. First thing the tank is too small but I am doing the best I can for these guys. Anyway for some reason they also have 2 huge silver dollars in there so...

Guys I'm taking care of a Co workers fish while he is away. He has a 3 gallon tank with 3 neons and one otto. One of the neons has ick!!! Now the tank has a non adjustable heater. And a filter with one of those inserts. What the heck do I do???? I'm worried! I don't want his fish to die...

Hey guys. I'm wondering how long neons can go with out eating. I am watching my friends fish at work for him while he's away. But I flippin forgot to feed them today and we don't work until Tuesday. They usually go the weekend even some long weekends. But 4 days? Should I see if I can get in on...

Best way to get this off? Thanks! Sent from my SM-G850W using Aquarium Advice mobile app

Hey guys. So I just started a second job where I go to this business and take care of the tanks. I need some advice on some of them. So first off here is what they have (I am not 100 % sure of tank sizes) Tank 1 is a 280 with 3 HUGE koi about 20" give or take and 2 huge silver dollars. About...

Hey I need some advice on how to switch out my gravel. It's for a 50 gallon tank. There is large river rock type substrate in there right now. I would like to switch to a finer gravel as I think it will look and work better for plants. Here is a pic. I've changed my gravel in a different tank...

Help!!! I came home to my black moor goldfish missing some of the skin one his eye! This is a 50 gallon tank I recently acquired. The water quality is poor right now. Nitrates are probably 40 to 80+ nitrite is 0 and ammonia 0. Temp is 24 as the tank came with other tropicals aswell. Some have...

All of my plants were doing really well. Then their light burnt out. They originally had a full spectrum daylight fluorescent. I decided to switch to a flora glow. My anubias started to wilt. My newer water wisteria was growing pretty well though. Then I inherited a 50 gallon which had LEDS. I...

Just recently got a 50 from a friend. It is a tropical tank with a few live plants. It wasn't in the best condition so I want to slowly get it back to good. Currently there is a black moor goldfish, 4 rummynose tetras a cherry barb, a female bristlenose pleco, one green Cory? And a synodontis...

Okay so here is the situation. Last month I had changed the gravel in my 5 year old tank... didn't go to well. Ended up losing a couple fish as they were super stressed. The nitrogen cycle had to recycle. BUT that is close to being done. Anyway the fish were pretty stressed out so.I just left...

Help!! My fish tank is 5 years old and I've been having snail problems. So I'm changing the entire gravel. They are the small pest trumpet snails. This is a 36 gallon. I am keeping 20 gallons of water. As I was emptying out the last of the gravel I Flippin found worms. I am freaking out please...

What is the best test kit to get? I had some API or maybe they were tetra.. lol anyway they were pretty could but I would like to get one of the master kits and am wondering which is best. I know my pet store has the API master freshwater kit. Is it any good? Sent from my SM-G850W using...

My favourite plant has started getting brown spots on its leaves. I thought moving it to under the filter would help keep debris off of it but it hasn't helped the brown spots. In fact it might be worse? Could it be too much light? Help! I don't want him to die! He's been growing very quickly...

My sisters betta has been bloated off and on for weeks and we can't figure it out. Water quality is good.. Nitrate 10 Nitrite 0 Ammonia 0 He is in a 10 gallon with 3 corys and 2 small plecos. She has fasted him and this seems To help a bit. He gets bloated every time he eats. She has also tried...

This appeared on my pleco two days ago. He appears to be acting normal what is this!?