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If you have more than one or two aquarium tanks and you have plans to expand or add tanks maybe you should consider setting up a small or large fish room depending on your aspiration. You will ne
...any medications at all. Learn to recognize these signs of stress and/or disease:   1. Clamped Fins The fish clamps its fins close against the its body. Experienced aquarists use this to qui...
Betta ar somewhat my weak link on the home aquarium life. I suppose it is because I've never set an aquarium that was suitable for tropical fish. The whole temperature requirements was a restrictio
...kwater at 90F. His color has improved, but that's about all. Overall, I've seen discus look worse...his fins, eyes, and slimecoat are in excellent shape. He's dark but not black, and spends a lot of t...
This is Ernie. He is my first crown-tail betta and I picked him up today. He has greenish blue fins, but it is hard to see in the photo. [IMAGE]
...hat I purchased a couple months ago seems to be going through some changes. Starting near it's pectoral fins it is getting 'shiny.' Shiny as in it seems to be growing scales that shimmer and shine. Th...
...erfully, very beautiful, bright coloring (orange), getting big. He seems to go through phases where his fins get tattered and torn and then grow back and look amazing. Once he floated at the bottom of...
...s from my local pet store. at first they were spectacular to look at. but now they have no colour there fins are down i have lost about 4 so far. so i went to my pet store again with a sample of my Aq...
...s. The problem is our airpumps keep dying. The last one was quite expensive, a large alloy block with fins that was noisy as hell. Can anyone recommend a REAL pump that can run 24/7. I'd really li...
...nyone help me ID him? He really is pretty and a brilliant colour. He has blue and black dots on his top fins and tail, and the lower fin is orange. The picture can be viewed here: http://www.ns-stab...
...w, The other day I thought he had whitespot but on closer inspection the white on his top fin and lower fins had a nice light blue colour streak through it. Would this be a mating thing or is it com...
...o make matters worse we also have 2 mollies, two orandas (small) and a speckled goldfish with beautiful fins, also small. I do not plan on replacing the moors as they do keep dying on us because they...
...gel fish, which i bought have went from a sivery colourless colour, to a jet black colour along all the fins and most of the body, is this just their natural colours coming out aor is it something in ...
i've got a grommie who's had most of his fins 'nipped' by other fish in the tank any suggestions? should i isolate him or is he hopeless????????????? will the fins grow back/how long will it take?
...t lost any of the fish that live in the tank, but I fear the unstable conditions may be harder on their fins. I do regular water changes which I think helps the fish, but hurts the biological load. I ...
... two days after I perform the water change some of the guppies are just laying on the bottom with thier fins clamped close to thier bodies . I test for ammonia and the water in the test tube turns dar...
...angel fish. One on my fish has stopped eating and lost his/her energy to swim around the tank with his fins stretched out. He's been hanging out at the bottom of the tank, hasn't been socializing w...
.....even though the slit was VERY tiny!! :blink: Well..you guessed it..I mean they tore one another's fins up real bad!! They ALL ( four of them) look terrible!! :( ..I take that back..there is ONE...
My new bought Marble Angel fish which has it body about 1 inch but has its fins and tails 3times bigger than its body. It’s acting abnormal so I left it in my 3litra jar. It spends most of its
...n recently passed away and I have turned his 29 gallon into an angel/pleco only tank. The angels tail fins have closed up (no longer fan out) and they have white cloudy spots on their body and fins,...
...o determine the cause of a strange swelling of the connective tissue at the base of one of the pectoral fins, and some tail deterioration that occured post quarantine, that had occured on one of the f...
... the tail looked of the dead fish. Also, one of the pink see-trough fishes has tiny white dots on the fins. I have been reading about a desease that shows white dots. The fish doesn't seem ill, he's...
...e HELP! I have a sick angle he is about palm size, is not eating, keeps lying flat on his side and his fins look alittle damaged but is hard to see as if he is not lying flat he is sitting on the bot...
Has anyone ever seen platinum veil angels anywhere? I have seen lots of standard fins on aquabid. I hope to start raising platinums, but I want veils. If anyone spies some let me know so I can keep an
... around the top of the tank, looking bored, though he's not gasping and he's eaten normally so far. His fins look rather ragged, and we've noticed one or two of the other fish taking swipes at him. Al...
...ailed. Soooo...hallelujah!! ;) I snapped a few shots so you can see him. You may be able to tell..his fins got frayed a bit from shipment..but hopefully soon they will heal all up. He is a purty li...
... bought as Celebes halfbeaks, Nomorhamphus liemi liemi. While the body is the right shape and size, the fins aren't red, and most remarkably, the beak is very long and completely straight. The body do...
...ches tank. Another topic of consern os my banded rainbow he is in the same tank. he has a fungus on his fins, he had it before and it went away before I could get some meds but now that I added the lo...
...res that are captioned 'black spotted seetlips, Red Sea'. They are a spotted fish with yellow tails and fins. Because we have many categories of fish, I need to know what label to categorize them with...
...y. I bought a male, and I chose the best looking one they had. Only thing I'm not to sure about are his fins. They look some what jagged, and from images I have seen in books and on the net, they shou...
...male Betta, but have you considered a female Betta or two? They're just as colorful albeit with shorter fins, and are peaceful (I have two or more together in other tanks). You could have 2 of differe...
Hi,one of my blue gourami's has developed a white lump on one of his front fins.The lump is visible from both sides of his fin and has a raised appearance. He is swimming and feeding ok and does not s
...umber of spots on his tailfin haven't reduced in number though. Does Ich take longer to clear up on the fins? Perhaps due to less nutrients in the fin areas than on the body for the parasites to feed ...
...my Gourami show a bit of what I think is fungus. A couple of small, white, cottony looking spots on the fins. I have read that Maroxy is supposed to be good. Any sugestions otherwise? Water chem: ...
I have a small school of 5 cardinal tetras which got pretty badly bitten in their caudal and anal fins by a dwarf cichlid who went hyper-aggressive after its fry hatched. I've removed them to a 10 gal
...uld indicate his interest by posing and displaying to the female (he presents himself side-on, with his fins flared, to show himself to best advantage), then returning to his nest site. Usually he wil...
...eird behavior that's quite fun to watch. Two of them will pair off and kind of swirl around each other, fins fully extended, nipping each other's flanks. My guess is that it's some sort of male domina...
...whitespot. 4 goldies in the tank,3 of which are showing spots. Most of the spots are on their tails and fins,with a couple on their bodies. Having looked up the symptoms on the internet,I have treated...
I've got an angelfish (pterophyllum scalare) who doesn't look very happy right now: damaged fins with bloody streaks on them and around the body (at the base of the fins), black specks (seems like Ick
...e sailfin mollies looks like it has a contorted face.It seems to be twisted to one side and has clamped fins.It is swimming about ok and is feeding well.All other fish are ok.I have had mollies for ab...
I have a dwarf gourami that has developed a sore mouth. He is still swimming around ok, no clamped fins and no fading color. He actually did eat a little brine shrimp tonight (I just came back from a
...hem. We put them in the tank. 24 hours later, they are happy as can be, eating good, etc. We notice the fins have some spots on them, especially the tail fins. My wife then tells me that they had thes...
...ether? We put the beta right next to the goldfish tank last night to see if the beta would fluff it's fins up, and it never did. But, it may have been stressed out too. Brian S....
I just bought a pair of new fish I have no idea about. They are off-white in color, with all the fins in an orangish color. It's eyes are also orange, and it's mouth is downturned. I hope someone ca
...ns for only $50(canadian) Usually they are 40 each, and this is definetly a pair, they can't keep their fins off each other. Then as a further nice surprise, they swam right up to my 'Condy' amenome a...
...where else on the fish. (Actually, they might have the same bumps on the leading edge of their pectoral fins, but it's hard to tell because they're pretty zippy fish and move too much to see.) The fis...
...ds, and have even helped them in doing so by artificial insemination! Without them, we wouldn't have hi fins, lyretails, or most (if not all) the brighter colored livebearers. My second species of cho...
... have a new copperband in quarantine who may have ich, I see alot of the usual white spots on the clear fins. And the last time I used chelated copper in a large quarantine tank (all my fish) the only...
... a whitish film on their bodies, then fade away and die. Now my angel has lost almost all of it's upper fins. One of the serpae's head is covered in white film, and the head/tail light is swimming err...
...on? This looks like her scales are sticking up and sort of fuzzy, she also has fuzzy spots on her front fins. Her back tail has a couple white specks. The only thing I have in the house is Rid Ich, I ...
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