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Platies seem to get this "disease" one at a time. This is at least the third in a row. They get weak, stay in the bottom, sometimes try to move or swim up. Looks like they have a cramp in a body and swim with only a part of the body. They may last few weeks before I found them dead. I had maybe...

Hi, I have one female platy carrying a ball of something weird white stuff near its anal. What could it be?

Has anyone else had evil fish among the others? I had one platy that kept the rest hiding all the time behind the termometer or somewhere. I gave her to a friend to keep with tigerbarbs, but she bites them too, when it is feedingtime. Tigerbarbs have passed :( . Now my friend is still trying to...

Hi, I would like to add plants into my tank. It is 30 g tall Sea clear Aqrylic tank. Then I have there Emperor 280 hanging in the back. No hood nor lights yet. I was thinking to get All-Glass Full hood which has one 18 " bulb, but does that sit well on round corners? Or can one bulb make enough...

I'm getting a hood and lighting into the tank. I have 30 g tall Sea clear Aqrylic tank. Then I have there Emperor 280 hanging in the back. So Eclipse hood with lighting and bio-wheel would be perfect, but I have already this Emperor. I should had bought that Eclipse instead of Emperor a long...

Hi, I have smell problem in my tank. My family took care of the fish while I was gone for ONE night. When I came home I thought that the dog has peed in the carpet. Well, I vacuumed leftover food from the bottom making about 20% water change. The smell has not gone yet. How should I do this...

The snail population in the fish tank has increased. I do not want them there any more, if they multiply with this speed. My daughter wants to keep them. Will they survive in a 2 gallon betta tank, where is no filter nor heater. In what conditions? Thanks.

I have one Platy with red eyes. Is that common? She is the bully.

My platties are nowadays hiding inside a plant most of the time. Should I be worried? At first they liked to swim around a lot. Now they come out only when feeding or thinking that I am gonna feed them. The plant has grown bigger now and there is more room to hide. Some of the platties have also...

This morning I found one platy dead. It was one of those I bought two days ago. I decided to do 30 % water change, allthoug all the parameters were fine. While emptying the tank I found three babies there. Maybe it was their mama that had died. Well, anyway, I have only an empty one and half...

Nitrites are in zero! Gotta go to buy some fish today! Nitrates are only 5 ppm ? No need for water change. Maybe the sweet potato in the tank is eating that. It is getting so green and bushy. I have to get those last pieces of the dead shripm out of the tank somehow anyway, hmmm. This fishless...

I'm just cycling the brand new tank. Then I found a tiny snail moving along the wall! Must have come from Petsmart with the only plant that's in there. At least he is surviving the high ammonia and nitrite levels. Do I need to name him/her? Are they all beneficial to the aquarium?

Hi, I don't have any fish yet. It seems to be quite time consuming to study all the fish profiles. There is some things I can't change. Or at least I hope that I do not need to change. I have 30 gallon tall tank. Heater works at 76 F or 82 F. Very hard water. PH tends to go up, too. I'm gonna...

Where do you people get your fish? I have Walmart in 30 minutes distance and pet stores in one hour. Is there much difference? :)

Does anyone know if sweet potato roots are poisonous? I put it :) float on the tank surface if not.

Doesn't chlorine come out of tap water already when letting water stand in a bucket? Does anyone use this method before adding new water to tank? How about situation when the tank is new and no fish are added in there yet? If I wait to get to right temperature and right bacteria, won't the...