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I have two tiger oscars that need a new loving home. I do not have the proper means to care for them correctly. They are best friends and always swim together. I live in Green Bay Wisconsin. Send me a message for more details.

I have a red belly piranha, his name is mitch and he is my pride and joy. I've had him for about a week now and recently moved him into a 10 gallon tank so he could be alone. I had him in with an oscar that was a tad bigger than him (not terribly bigger) but the oscar kept bothering him until...

Well it's velvet. **** this is the second time in the last month I had to deal with this. All the fish are flashing and most have gold dust on their body now. This sucks.

55 gallon tank. 3 tiger barbs and a German ram are in there with him.

My red tailed shark has his fins clamped and is flashing quite a bit. His top fin is a bit roughed up but I assume that's from the flashing. There's about .5 ppm of ammonia in the tank right now. All of the other fish are fine and there's no sign of ich or velvet on any of them. Why is it only...

He's currently in my 55 gallon as he is very small and gets pushed around too much by the current in my 90 gallon. When he gets bigger I'm gonna move him either to the 90 or 125 depending on what I have stocked in those tanks by the time he is big enough.

That actually sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the input

Why does my albino tiger oscar keep pulling my plants up out of the gravel? I've never seen anything like it. I picked him up from a petstore cuz he was all by himself and I felt bad. Now it's just annoying he won't leave that plant alone and as soon as I put it back in place he rips it out...

If the symptoms first appeared today I think you should be fine if you get some medicine tomorrow you should be fine. As of right now you should slowly bring the temperature of the tank up to 85 and add some aquarium salt if you have any. About one tablespoon per gallon should be good. When you...

Well I've been watching the little guy for a while now and he's been leaving the sponge filter alone and is chilling down by the gravel looking for food mostly. He seems really healthy but the whole thing with the filter just kinda freaked me out. Maybe I just have a weird fish.

Ok so I just need to say this first, yes, I'm doing a fish-in cycle. No, I'm not irresponsible. Doing a fishless cycle is not the answer to my question so please just don't even start. Ok, now that I have that out of the way I have a few questions. I have a 55 gallon tank, ammonia is at 0 ppm...

could use a little more input. welcoming all answers.

Thanks for the the very in depth response. Just one question, when you say treated tap water do you mean tap water with some dechlorinator in it or tap with with something else entirely?

I lost my red tailed shark that was sick with velvet. She put up a good fight but I guess it got the best of her. I was keeping her in a 10 gallon tank with plenty of stuff to keep her happy. My question is would it be safe to take the decorations out of that tank and put it in my new 55 gallon...

Oh and I would also prefer not to move the tank. Any suggestions are welcome

So I got this new 55 gallon tank and got it all set up and filled with water and then I realized I didn't leave enough room for a filter to hang on the back. I'd really prefer to not hang one on the side or front. Are there any other filters I could get that I don't have to hang on the back for...

I did make sure it was safe to use beforehand. And i'm not taking the fish back. I am able to take care of it and it's much better off with me than it would be at petco. Honestly if i took it back and they put it in that tank then the whole freakin tank would get infected. And as for the tank...

Ok so i went to the pet store today to pick up some medicine for my shark. I did a bit of research and settled on coppersafe. I also picked up an API master freshwater test kit and tested my ammonia levels which are at .50 ppm right now. I got a little curious to see how far along my fish in...

oh i totally understand how serious this whole thing as know you're not trying to be rude but just trying to make sure any fish being cared for is healthy. I know to no longer trust the people at petco. and i'm gonna talk to the employee who gave me that terrible advice and tell him how big of...

Thanks for the fast response that was amazing. I'm going to go to the petstore i got her at and see how the other fish in her tank look and then get the medicine i need. thanks so much for the advice!

ok so it's definitely velvet disease. i turned all the lights off in the room with the aquarium. pitch black in there. i took a flashlight to it and saw the gold dust in here gills mostly and in patches on her fins. I added some aquarium salt and am raising the temperature right now. my main...

She's a red tailed shark. Just a baby.

I'm fairly new to fish keeping and fell prey into doing a fish in cycle when I received the fish from the lfs and the guy told me I'd be fine. The rts is about 2 inches long and is currently in a 10 g soon to be upgraded when I get paid. I have been doing water changes everyday and she's seemed...