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Help! GBR seems to have significant issue. The underneath of belly area is open and fish is very swollen. Is there anything I can do or is this beyond help? This is a 20g QT tank with 2 GBR and one blue gourami. Options: move gourami out of tank (he's being an a$$), move injured sick GBR out, or...

Hi all, I'm in need of advice. I have a 20g tank that I have been using as a quarantine for 5 juvenile angelfish. Unfortunately, 1 angel is a bit larger than the others (1.5" compared to about 1"). Well, as happens with angels he has turned out to be a bully to all the others. My plan is to move...

Hi I am looking to change my substrate in all of my tanks from aquarium gravel to PFS. I did this is one tank and already I am kicking myself for not putting in some type of soil under the sand. What is the most cost effective "soil" or substrate I could put under the PFS to support plant growth?

I have 5 new juvenile angels and 7 rasboras all in a 20g QT tank. They all looked healthy as far as I could tell when I purchased but I didn't inspect them well enough. I have one angel that I'm concerned about. Thoughts on the bottom fin. Fin rot or maybe just damaged from being in a tank with...

Ok I finally bit the bullet and bought an RO system. I have 4 tanks, stock includes oto, bolivian rams, pea puffers, snails, and juvenile (newly added) black ghost knife. All tanks are planted some heavier than others. 3 tanks are established and 1 is newly cycled. How is the best way to go...

I've got a 29g, well established, planted tank with 2 newish Bolivian Rams and 1 Oto. The Rams were the best of mates for about a month and went everywhere together. A few days ago, I noticed them in separate sections of the tank. Tonight (at feeding time) I noticed them fighting. At first just...

Ok looking for some insight/strategy. I recently set up a 75g tank, brand new. I intended to do a fishless cycle but in my lack of planning, I planted quite a few plants in my new tank, while simultaneously following Dr Tims fishless cycle. So as you can imagine, doing a fishless cycle with...

2 different planted tanks 2 bolivian rams (30g shared with 1 oto) 1 dwarf puffer (10g solo) All are doing well. The puffer has made it 3 weeks and is a PITA to feed but I'm figuring it out now. The rams (have had 1.5 weeks) lost coloring at first but are very active and get along well. Coloring...

I'm a little underwhelmed with my plants but hopefully they'll grow in. I had the online shipping mishap where I ordered $100 worth of plants and had them delivered while I was on vacation. Sigh. Anyway, plants were in great condition. I haven't figured out what to do with java fern so I just...

So I'm a dummy and placed a large order for aquatic plants from aquariumplants.com (first time ordering online). I misread their shipping dates and was expecting plants to arrive today but they are going to arrive (most likely) after I've left town (for 3 days). Has anyone ordered from this...

I'm new to the cichlid group so be gentle with me. I've recently discovered the severum fish and have fallen in love. My tank is new and I'm doing a fishless cycle so I am exploring stocking ideas. I'm aware of aqadvisor but wanted to ask this group how many severums I could stock in the 75 and...

I've got a new pea puffer. He's a solo fish in a 10g established tank. He's very tiny, maybe a 1/2". I put him in the tank and kept lights out and no food for 24 hours. I tried frozen blood worms after 24 hrs, no luck. I tried again at 48 hours and still no luck. Any tips to help? I fed it...

I've got 2 tanks with no fish in them (for about 6 months maybe a year). The tanks have been running but haven't had fish. Water parameters are good. Can I add fish or do I need to cycle it again? The filter media is still in and running. TIA

I'm so devastated, my husband did a WC while I was out of town and our entire tank was dead the next day. 4 neons, 4 cochu blue tetras, 2 ottos, 2 rummynose tetras. We have one neon and one oto left. He feels awful too and isn't sure what happened. Has anyone experienced something like this...

For 2 days, he's been at the top very still. Thought he was dead but he's alive. I moved him to a bucket. Is he dying? Anyway to know. He looks dead and even when I poked him he didn't move. But then when I started dumping the water out he started swimming. I don't have any tank parameters...

Ok look at pics. What do you think? Check out mouth and spot on middle of body. No behavior issues, but had deaths not too long ago. So just keeping a close eye - plus he's my fav. Is the white on mouth normal? I think it's a big scratch on his side but not sure. Sent from my iPhone...

Accidentally landed with baby mollies. 1/7 survived. He/she is a week today. When can it go in the main tank which had neons and momma molly. Approximately how old? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

20 gal infected tank (early stages). 1-ballon molly 5-neon tetras 1-young oto 1-African dwarf frog 2- live plants What are my options/best course of action? I have an empty 5 gallon tank that I could use as an extra tank. But my stock is a little too heavy to use even with daily WCs I think...

20 gallon. New ballon molly infected with Ich. Tetras, ADF, oto in tank 5 gallon healthy betta tank. I'd like to move Betta to plastic pitcher temporarily to get the molly into the 5 gallon. Perhaps reduce the chance if killing my whole tank. Can the betta live in this temporarily?

1st, fast forward to the last 5 seconds of the video to see what I'm talking about. My new ballon molly keeps, purposefully swimming into one of my plant leaves. Like bumping it and it throws him/her off balance and then goes on his way. It's very odd. Anything to worry about? Instagram

I have 2 lightly planted tanks. I'm dabbling in planting. I really love the plants but don't want to put in a whole lot of effort. I have anubias and just put in amazon sword. In my 30 gallon I put in a large amazon sword, unfortunately the top of the plant is slightly out of the water...

Well, I added 8 RNT to my angel tank yesterday. I was very worried because my angel is about 2" and was trying to attack the floating RNT bag, like he was Jaws. But night 1, everyone survived. The RNTs are very little and I have been worried about how they'll do. Well low and behold, one of...

Does this look like fin rot? If so, how should I treat. The only other fish in the aquarium is a juvenile albino bristle nose pleco.

Is this fun rot (top fin)? Sigh. There are no other fish in the tank that could cause this. It showed up overnight.

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