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My Shubunkin, Bruiser, has been sick since I returned from a vacation. I was gone 2 weeks and paid someone to take of things. The night I got back I noticed Bruiser was sitting on the bottom of the pond, so I put him in the 75 gal in the house. He was VERY thin and had maybe some light fuzz on...

My 6 yr old Red cap Oranda (who I love dearly) has very red streaky tail/fins that started today. Tail and around her face appear flaky. Eating ok. Bottom sitting behavior. The tank cycle crashed sometime in the last week - ph fell from 8.2 to 6.2 with ammonia and nitrite spikes. Not sure why...

Tank size 90 gal, 4 Orandas and 2 shibunkins Equipment: 306 Fluval canister, 406 Fluval canister, large HOB filter, large air bubblers, large lava rocks. Annubias plants. ammonia 0. Nitrites 0, nitrates 20, ph 8.0, gh 3, kh 6, TDS 300-400. Help please. I had 3 large orandas and a male and...

Just noticed this lump and could use advice. I have him in a hospital tank. He is eating, but not active, rests on the bottom. He comes over to eat but then goes back to resting. Other than the lump, I think he looks ok. The lump is on his back side behind his anal fin but before the anus. From...

Last night I noticed this little guy covered in orange with a bright orange lump. I've had guppies for a few years and have never seen anything like it. It looks like the poor guy got into a bag of cheetos. He is supposed to have a silver body with a purple tail. Now he looks like one of those...

In the process of setting up a 10 gal as my first planted aquarium and am overwhelmed reading all the info online. I have 10 red cherry shrimp ready to go in their new home, the little females are either sadled or berried. So far I have added Eco-complete as substrate, a heater, 2 sponge...

Well maybe I did a stupid thing. Went to the pet store to pickup a few things yesterday and brought home a sick fish. Felt bad and couldn't walk out the door and leave her, so asked and they gave her to me. This is why I don't go to animal shelters, I would take home every darn one if I could...

I have photos but not sure if I post them. Somehow the snail was entirely out of his shell. Maybe the darn guppies did that. :( it is kind of interesting, but gory, to see because I have never seen a snail out of a shell. Don't know what is going on with our tap water, but the it has been...

Do these guys look like they have ich? I can't tell if it's that or they have real sand stuck on their wens. I noticed it after putting them in their new tank with sand substrate. The white stuff is only on their wens. Otherwise they seem healthy and eating well. They were rutting around in the...

I'm so excited (and kinda nervous) because this tank seems huge to me compared to my other tanks! I would really appreciate any advice and help. :) For now I am going to put my fancy goldfish in it and keep it simple. BUT later when I save up more money, I want to make this a colorful...

This girl became sick today. Im wondering if she is having problems brthing because her back side is bulging.

Been wondering if it is necessary to use an air pump in my tank with 2 fancies. When I have used the air pump in the past, the fish eat the bubbles and start having floating poo with bubbles in it. Feeding them peas helped, but I worried that eating bubbles could lead to other problems so...

Hi all, I'm looking at getting a big tank (maybe 100g +) but holding off until I decide on what type of fish to get. Starting everything in this tank from scratch. What is your favorite type and what is it about their personality that you like? For example, I like oranda goldfish because...

My red cap Oranda has fin rot which has came on very quickly. She does not look well at all. I am very fond of her. She was stunted when I got her a year ago and hasn't grown an inch. My first fish. Tank mates are another red cap and fantail. Any advice would be really appreciated. (I know I...

My sister is in the process of setting up a 10 gallon FW tank. Her entire house is on well water. I have no idea how to adjust well water for an aquarium so any suggestions will be really appreciated. :) We tested her water using an API kit. Straight out of the tap: Ammonia 0, Nitrites 0...

This is Gary the Snail. My first photo upload so here it goes . . .

Set up a 5 gal tank for apple snail and 2 ghost shrimp. It was cycled. Ph 7.6, Ammonia stayed at 0, nitrites 0, nitrates 20-40. But then I noticed the ph dropped to 6. I thought this wasnt great but nothing too big. Then Ammonia went up to 1.0 and no Nitrite reading. I was using reverse osmosis...

Being a newbie I thought some tough little guppies would be a good way to start, that they would be able to handle my goof-ups. So I got a 20 gal tank and cycled it. Then we got 5 guppies (I thought they were all males, my bad) 2 apple snails and 2 ghost shrimp. After 6 weeks we now have added 7...

Wanted to introduce myself and say how glad I found this website, man there is some great info here! Just started this hobby a few months ago, I now have 3 tanks and learning so much. Plus it keeps my mind off other things, beings I can't work any more after being diagnosed with leukemia. It's...