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I had thought this subadult Mbuna was a rusty because of its pale brown color and orange dorsal, but when I received rusty juvies in the mail that are a different brown and with their sub lineal black dorsal line, I realized this one I already had must be something else. It has faint vertical...

I'm setting up a 5 gallon hospital tank that came with a tiny filter and a little carbon media. I added about 2 tablespoons of Seachem matrix (all that could fit) from my cycled tank. Several days have passed (no fish) and the tank is showing a nitrite and a nitrate reading. There is, of course...

I always keep 1 tablespoon Epsom salt per 10 gallons of water, every time I do a water change. I need to add some aquarium salt to help with a fin rot situation. Should I stop using the Epsom salt until I discontinue the aquarium salt? Should I water change out all the Epsom salt first? Sent...

I've been dousing the tank with Melafix and Pimafix for at least a week now to help with some healing -- what does it mean that in the last day or two I've been noticing more that most of the fish swim around excitedly rubbing themselves on the rocks after I've thrown the stuff in the tank...

I've occasionally seen this before but only at nighttime. The dragonblood bends over sideways while one or two synos scratch him maybe?? Then he zips away until they find him again and go to town. The dragonblood is the boss of the tank and three times the length of the synos. Is this good or...

In the absence of my BNP who moved into the big tank, my driftwood in the hospital tank is growing flowy stuff on it. Is this bad? There's a lot. Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

My peacock cichlid has cloud eye and has been in a hospital tank. I've done a round of API general cure and a round of tetracycline. No change. Should I do furan now or another round of tetracycline? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Can a small calvus be a companion for a 2.5-3" compressiceps? How about a few small dwarf comps? Will they be beaten up by the bigger comp? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

This Lwanda has been developing white patches since he was fighting with another peacock several weeks ago. No one else in the tank, including the guy he was beating up on has these patches. May I treat with API general cure? i've been putting melafix in the tank every day for almost 2 weeks...

I had to isolate my Lwanda and Lemon Jake because they've been hounding each other for weeks and BOTH are being messed up by the Red Top Lwanda who's boss of the tank. Their fins are all pretty badly beaten and the Lwanda has some scale and lip damage. He's also developing a strangely...

My caudopuncs have these black marks on their faces that I don't think they had when I first got them. Is this bad?

Is it usual to have the temp in a small tank (15g) fluctuate with a submersible heater? I'm on my third one (this time an eheim jager) and it heats to 78.8 and then drops to 77.4 before heating back up again. The others I tried had up to a 4° fluctuation. Isn't this bad for my cichlid fry who...

How long after rubbing my Aveeno hand lotion in should I wait before sticking my arm in the tank? Here are the ingredients.

Do peacocks have just as hard a time telling whether a juvie is male or female as we do? The smallest of my all-male group of peacocks, a ruby red, is just coming to maturity size and has the beginnings of blue dots coming in on the face and a nice red stripe on the top of his dorsal. The...

In theory, if I cycle to 2ppm ammonia and then put in my tank a few tiny fry and some juvie shell-dwellers which make at most .01ppm ammonia, do I lose all that bacteria that was grown to handle the remaining 1.99ppm? Also, in such a situation, if I'm not quite cycled (there are about 0.1ppm...

If my dragonblood is this orange, does that mean he will never have those lovely red spots on icy white coloring? Or is this just a colored down state since there are three jakes/Lwandas higher than he is in the hierarchy?

Is 15 gallons too small for a bristle nose pleco? Would any pleco fit in a tank that small or do I need to resort to snails to keep algae under control?

I have a flavescent peacock - about fourth in the peacock hierarchy in the tank, who has had beautiful coloring for months. About three weeks ago he started coloring down just a tad and staying near the bottom of the tank. I figured it was because a flametail stuartgranti was passing him by...

Will a small bristle nose pleco prey on fry or will they keep to themselves?

I got 17 tiny cyps out of two holding females today - my little school's first batch. They're all in a box within the same 75g tank as the rest of the school. When my 15g cycles, I'll put them in there. They're about 3/8" to 1/2" long after three weeks of holding. Will they be fine with just...

I cleaned up an old 15g turtle tank to use as my cichlid fry tank / shell-dweller tank. I have an internal filter rated for 40 gallons with bio balls, carbon, and floss. I think I might take out the carbon and put in a sac of purigen. In order to cycle faster, I'll take the purigen bag out...

It's finally a possibility for me to setup a second tank. I have an old 20 gallon in the garage that used to house turtles and I'd like it to be a tank for my pearlies (meleagris / lamprologus stappersi). 1) Would a tank with a small colony of pearlies be a safe place to put other Tanganyikan...

I caught my cyprichromis school doing some egg dropping and catching last week (so cool). How long should I wait before trying to catch the females?

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I just got this guy from Dave's Fish. He's about 3.5-4", so not quite colored up. He has these dark spots on his face and down his sides -- looks like he needs a bath, but that doesn't make much sense, does it? Is this a fungus? Also, should the black rings on his eyes be so speckled?