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...sex them...  So I'm just waiting on that tank... So now fast forward to last week...  I was sick of the Pandas not spawning... so I bought the bristlenose... and the calico bristlenose... ...
  Fish Diseases -- The Signs of Stress and/or Disease   Everyone deals with sickness in their aquarium at one time or another. This list may be extensive...but here is some inform
... to new guppy babies, only to look closer and most of them are dead. most likely because the mom was so sick before. i've counted 38 so far, but im guessing around 25-30 are dead. but i have a que...
My little discus who has been starving himself is not faring much better in quarantine in soft blackwater at 90F. His color has improved, but that's about all. Overall, I've seen discus look worse...h
Hi, I have an angelfish who is about a year old. He was doing wonderfully, very beautiful, bright coloring (orange), getting big. He seems to go through phases where his fins get tattered and torn a
...ed a male with her at the time of egg laying to fertilize the eggs? Or is it possible that it is just sick with some disease or condition?...
I have two sick fish who happen to be the same breed, some type of tetra. Both of them appear to have their scales sticking out at a slight angle - not severe, but noticeable. Does this mean anything
...great except for one that just lays near the bottom of the tank opening and closing its gills and looks sick. it doesnt swim for long distances but will try to join the other pack at times. i also n...
...seem to be getting any worse at all. i have some more good, and bad news. the good news. i put my sick dwarf platy in a breeder trap without the divider, because my oldest baby guppy was picking...
Hello, I have a 5+ year old red devil that I have had in the same 55 gallon tank by himself for the last 3 years. Recently he started acting funny swimming vertically and lying upright in the bottom
...ght off more often because of the ghost liking the dark. I have lost all of my fish (even though 2 were sick, and I think 2 died from the stress of all the water changes), except for the pleco, the ca...
I have a approx. two year old betta fish who has been sick for quite a while now... 2 and a half months...? Out of the 2.5 months, it has not eaten in TWO MONTHS! Please help me!!! I used to feed it
...egular basis. I feel like I take care of them really well I don't understand why any of them should be sick. Danny thank you...
...it treatable or is it curtains for the little guy. I feel bad. I really like my Neons. First freshwater sickness in months and months. All that being said, is there prevetative method(s) for this di...
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
...o glad that you are available. My daughter has a 30 gal freshwater with 5 guppies, a black moor who is sick (doubt will make it through the night...) and another one who will most likely also pass aw...
Hello all, Hopefully some one out there will be able to help.I keep a mature 180Litre Discus tank at a ph of 7 or less currently with a raised temperature of 31oC.it has a Fluval 304 external(with Pea
I have 2 cichlids that dont move from the back end at all.They are on the bottom of the tank and they are eatting but they just dont move there back end. Thank you for your time and please help.
...wimming, chasing and eating like the others. Any ideas? Should I put him in quarantaine or would he get sick there from loneliness? Last question (for now): I bought an oxygen-stone. I thought it lo...
...f this message appeared to everyone a few days back I have lost 3 Angels over the last 4 weeks. The sick ones seem to go to the top and gulp the air in, they do this for a day then go into a corne...
...tain removal than fish keeping. Most of the time when water chemistry gets out of kilter or a fish gets sick, the problem goes back to too much food or too many fish. :( The fix is obvious, and it do...
I am new to this club and was excited to find you all! My 22 year old son recently passed away and I have turned his 29 gallon into an angel/pleco only tank. The angels tail fins have closed up (no
Can anyone 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 o
My 3 month old barramudi has started swimming on his side and slowely sinking to the bottom of the tank. Once he hits the bottom he gets an energy spurt and swims to the top then does it again. I ch
...pect that it is going to give birth/lay eggs, but I'm not sure about the lethargy. I'm not sure if it's sick, pregnant, or if this is actually normal...
Not being a sicko or anything... JFMI how long did each fish take to starve?
... isolate him but he is still quite spunky... the disease, whatever it is, it's not causing him to 'act' sick. My first question is how should I go about treating it? Secondly, is it contagious? I ha...
...purchase real plants. In the petstore they look so big and lush. After a few weeks in my tank they look sick. Only the tops of them grow, and are not full of leaves. Does this mean they are missing so...
...he water column waiting for the right conditions? If the worst happens and the entire population gets sick and dies, what is the procedure for the tank itself? Would you advise breaking the entire...
...t.) So now I need information/wisdom about this. I never knew that owning fish would end up making me a sick combination of a chemist, plumber, botanist, marine biologist, micro biologist, veterinaria...
I have a 5 year old 3 spotted blue gourami that recently has been acting strangely. She will occasionally swim at full speed, crashing into the tank walls until it appears that she knocks herself out.
... of my 2 LFS in my town of 15,000 people. The shops are dark, dingy, smelly, the tanks are poorly kept, sick looking fish etc etc. Anyways, I was impressed with PetsMart's (Burlington, Vermont) clea...
Today one of my Bleeding Heart Tetras has some dark matter above the eye and nose, almost looks like a black and blue bruise on its head. He also seems to be weakening rapidly pointing up and slowly f
I posted a message on here last night about my sick oscar..what on earth happened to it?? weird, sick questions stealers about!!! On a serious note, my oscar is very sick....he is shedding mucus and I
...i all. I recently returned from an eight day Christmas break to find my weather loach looking extremely sick. It has developed a thick furry white coating from just below it's head stretching about an...
I have a 10 gallon tank with two clown fish, several snails, 5 hermit crabs, and a cleaner shrimp. One of the fish has started lying motionless on the bottom in the corner. If someone comes near the t
So my favorite fish in the whole wide fish-world is sick! One of my four clown loaches has suddenly become listless and a loner. He was always smaller than the other three, but robust and healthy. Now
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
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
... wobbly when swimming. There are two in the tank and the other one does not display this behaviour. The sick one eats well and stays fairly active. Could this be a parasitic problem and would a 10 d...
... on his brow if you like. I am guessing a secondary infection from the ich, which antibiotic? It's in a sick tank. Positive or Negative Gram or something else? I want get some on the way home. Thank...
Just wondering how your fish are going? Are they still dying or getting sick? Cheers
...s trying to interact with it now they are both looking fine anyone got any idea what is happening is it sick or is this normal ?????? lol I feel worse now than when my kid bumped his head lololololol...
... to quarentine them. I am kicking myself now. They were not healthy. They had parasites. Massive fish sickness two days later. Weirdly, the tetras looked bad, but did not die. Most of the fish got...
...p method, and placed the anemome in the sand. Can anybody think what I did wrong? Or did I just get a sick specimen? I took him back to the LFS, but they refused to even give me store credit. Is thi...
...been performed. Then again, I have never had a tank with such a catastrophic loss before. I'm literally sick to my stomach right now, and it's not all from the stench of the dead fish. I blame myself ...
Am I the only one whos sick of this crap!!!
...nd from time to time eye becomes foggy. Its vision is good, picking food acurately, but it is obviously sick. How may I help him? Is there a way to help him without isolating it from reef?...
Hello all- Firstly, thanks for all the helpful comments from everyone. In the end, the clown died this morning, apparently suffering from lymphocystis (Def Lizard's diagnosis seemed to be right, we'
...p for about 3 months. I have about 30 1' to 3' fish and I have no back up tank. Should I get rid of the sick fish or should I treat the whole tank? Thanks for any...
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