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Red fin-like protrusions from gils
[New aquarium owner. Pardon any lack of basic knowledge or incorrect terminology.]
My fish has some weird red protrusions coming out from the bottom part of its gills that look like either "...
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Male Platy clamping fins and hiding
I got 7 coral red platy for a planted ten gallon tank about two months ago. The water conditions are very good and the temperature is 76. I have 3 males and 4 females, and they have been breeding so I ...
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Why is my betta fish starting to have a dull color? [duplicate]
I have a betta fish that I’ve had for a year now. I’m not exactly sure what kind he is, but I found a picture of him when I first got him and he was a really bright pink/purple, his tail and fins were ...
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Common goldfish with "bleeding" around face, gills and fins
I look after two common goldfish in a 56L filtered tank with an airstone for additional aeration. Over the past two days, one of the fish has been appearing to be sick, suffering with what I can only ...
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Color change in guppy
My guppy looked pretty healthy and shiny just three days ago:
And yesterday... it just darkened. The scale pattern just got so dark all of a sudden. Should I be worried?
And this is today:
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Is my guppy pregnant? It's my first fish so i don't know [duplicate]
Is my guppy pregnant? I really hope it is but I'm not sure...
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Is my guppy healthy? Its colour is weird
I just bought a male and female guppy, and the male guppy is really small, probably a month or two old. This is my first time getting a fish. The male guppy seems to have a black spot near his head. ...
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Fish swimming with mouth always touching the water surface
I have a fish bowl and they are all swimming with their mouth touching the water surface, almost always.
Are they hungry?
Do they suffer from insufficient oxygen concentration in water?
Is the water ...
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Betta dying help
I forgot to save the old water from when I cleaned my betta’s tank and now he’s floating at the bottom. What can I do? I have already tried putting my guppies’ tank water in to do half half and it’s ...
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Female guppies are fine, but male is sick
I recently got a 54L aquarium and stocked it with 4 small guppies - 1 male and 3 female. Initially they all seemed to be doing fine - eating, very active within the tank etc. The male looked great ...
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Fatty belly for my zebra danio - what should I do? I don't think she is pregnant
I have another and she also have the same fatty belly:
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How can I help my fish which was exposed to UV light?
I have installed a UV lamp in my aquarium and had it on for 12 hours.
After that my flowerhorn fish seems to turn pale in colour and his eyes seem to have turned blind. How can I cure my fish? Is the ...
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Can you estimate when a shrimp is going to give birth
Now my shrimp is pregnant. I know I have been asking a lot of questions about my shrimp pregnancy but yes. Either ways, this is my sunkist shrimp. One of them. I want to see if it’s possible to tell ...
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Mollys appear bloated after eating bloodworm
We have a 60 litre tank with around 6 adult fish, and 6-8 juveniles. They are mostly happy, rarely swim at the surface, and spend much of their time foraging. On the rare (maybe monthly) occasions I ...
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Helping an old betta with fin holes
I’ve had my betta for two years. He was full grown when I got him so I’m not sure how old he is. He’s got pretty classic signs of age - humped back, difficulty attacking food accurately, not active at ...
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Female Guppy Health Question
I went to feed my fish and I always check on my female guppies because they are the smallest in my community tank. I saw that one of my female’s gravid spot was a “odd” color to me. It is usually a ...
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White patch and spot on my goldfish?
One of my goldfish, which I've had for 3 months, suddenly got a white patch on the top and a white spot on its left side (the yellow-black one in the picture).
I just noticed it today, but I'm sure it ...
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Is My Guppy Sick?
My adult guppy has been acting strange in my opinion. He has been inactive unlike the other guppies and platy fish in the tank. I’ve noticed that he has been swimming in place at the top of the tank. ...
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What is this alien in my shrimp tank?
The tank is set up since nearly two months now. The shrimp have been in it for around four weeks. One small algae eating fish and one big and accidentally some small snails are living there too. But ...
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How much space does a fish need?
I am wondering if there is any accurate way to determine how much space any particular fish needs. I have heard things like 1 gallon per inch of fish, but this cannot be accurate as a betta (2.25 ...
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Goldfish skin around the intestine area is gone and stomach looks to be caved in
This is my first time posting so I’m sorry if I made any mistakes with my post.
I think I’m going to lose one of my goldfish. About 2-3 weeks ago both of my goldfish (I only have 2) developed ammonia ...
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What should I do to my goldfish swimming on surface? [duplicate]
I am new to goldfish, it is swimming on surface like gasping for air every 3 minutes or so. So, I did 40% water change, using drinking water just now. Should I do something else?
There is 24/7 filter ...
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Why are my Betta’s fins curled and maybe spotted?
I bought a Betta for my daughter that has quickly become my 5th child. We bought him from Petsmart, as I knew little about where else to go - especially with Covid19. He is in a 3.5 gallon (13 liters) ...
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What is this fish disease?
I had 4 platies and 5 danios but there are only 1 platy and 4 danios left. mysteriously, they die in the same manner, like sinking to the bottom of the tank and resting there. I was wondering if they ...
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8.0ppm ammonia spike that's been "in effect" for about a week or two
OK, so I went into fish keeping way too fast with almost no knowledge. I will give a short rundown of what happened in my tank.
I got a 5 gallon (19 liters) tank and a silver molly and a leopard ...
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Why don't fish grow to their full size in a small tank?
I have heard that when a fish is kept in an aquarium that is too small for the fish to grow to its full size, it will only grow to a portion of its possible size and its lifespan will be shorter than ...
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Why is my Pleco turning white, how to improve his health
A few days ago I got a Pleco and some cherry shrimp for my aquarium. Due to my being a complete idiot, the bag with the Pleco fell while I was acclimating the shrimp. In order to keep it alive I put ...
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My goldfish is dying
I have had 2 goldfish for 2 years in my aquarium. This one was good last night. I don't know what happened today it is somehow floating on side with little movement, like sleeping. I put it outside of ...
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My 18 year old Musk turtle has some soft areas on his plastron
My 18 year old Musk turtle has some soft areas on his plastron. They also bend a bit. Is this ok? There are no exotic vets in my area so I am not sure what to.
He eats dry turtle pellets and he has ...
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My new goldfish is gasping for air
Today I went to the pet shop and got a goldfish. My tank is 20 litres, and the goldfish is pretty small. When I first got the fish, it was gasping and eating the bubbles in the bag. I thought this was ...
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Ichthyophthiriasis control in tanks, nitrites and nitrates
I have recently returned my fish to my main tank, a 65 g, after treating two weeks for ichthyophthiriasis. Two days after treatment ended, I transferred my larger fish home to a fully planted tank and ...
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Will ichthyophthiriasis medicine harm my betta if he doesnt actually have ich?
A few days ago I noticed a spot on my betta's side just next to his gills. It wasn't completely white in color but definitely lighter than the rest of his body. I tested his water and there was an ...
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Why are my 6 flame tetras not swimming like normal?
I have a 29 gallon aquarium with 6 flame tetras, 2 smaller mystery apple snails and 2 other bottom feeders (brown, spotted, with dorsal spike and main fin spikes). Usually I see my 6 flame tetras ...
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New betta problems - I was unaware of cycling before new tank
So I am experiencing a plethora of issues with my new betta. I hope he makes it out okay. I was unaware of the cycling process before putting him into the new tank. It's small (1 gallon) and temporary....
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My molly is nipping at one of the cherry barbs in my tank. What should I do? The barb is losing colour
This has never happened before. My fish are in a 20 gallon (76 liters) tank, they've been fed the exact amount every day, and none of them have had problems before (other than another incident with my ...
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What’s wrong with my Betta fish?
I can’t tell if it’s a fungal disease, but he lost all of his color. My sister never cleaned his tank so I think that might be the reason behind it, but I don’t know what disease he has so I have no ...
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Is it safe to add medication in a fish tank if there is no sick* fishes? [duplicate]
My water conditions aren't the best, yet, my fishes are doing their best so far. I want to put a fungus and fin rot remedy in the fish tank but none of them have it (at least I don't think so).
Two-...
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My koi has an odd scale that may be infected but I can't tell; how do I fix it?
I saw it this morning and started researching because I am dealing with an ich outbreak due to recent overcrowding. It hasn't changed or gotten worse but I don't know if it's infected or a disease. If ...
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Is there a way to repair apple snail shell damage?
My snails have damage on their shells. I think they had a calcium deficiency, and ate each other's shells to make up for it. I've changed their diet, and things seem to be getting better. Now I'm ...
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I think my Betta has dropsy but I'm not sure?
I'm really worried about my dragon scale Crowntail Betta. I realised that in the last couple of weeks he has had a bump, like in the picture, on his body on both sides.
He has started to curl his body ...
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Betta has a large black spot [duplicate]
My Betta has a large black spot on him and I don't know if I should be concerned about it or if it's just a natural birth mark I don't think it is but I can't find anything online about ITV so I need ...
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Fantail goldfish looks bloated - Does this mean he is sick?
I bought two goldfish last summer and they've been doing great in my 10 gallon tank, but I am starting to wonder about one of the goldfish. I don't know if he is sick, in pain or what.
When I bought ...
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Why are my Mollie fry not growing?
I have 4 Mollie fry and I have had them for about 3 months. They aren't growing and some of them have a brown line on their fins. They are in a 20 gallon tank with 2 other Mollies, 2 plecos (I'm ...
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How long do viruses live in aquariums?
I had a dwarf gourami in my tank for several weeks and it was healthy, as were the rest of my fish, including regular gouramis. I decided to add another dwarf gourami. I purchased another one from the ...
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Betta fish is a dark blue, but color keeps fading and returning quickly; why?
My Betta fish, named Sapphire, is a female veiltail and she's dark blue normally, but her color keeps fading and returning to normal in a short span of time and I don't know what to do. I already lost ...
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Betta fish fin tear or rot?
Does my fish have fin rot or is the tail simply torn?
I got him a few days ago and his fins were a bit like this, I'm unsure if it's gotten worse. He is in a cycled 16L tank with a filter, heater, ...
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Does dosing a tank for sicknesses cause harm if I can't diagnose the illness?
I came home after work today to my baby guppy tank showing signs of sickness.
About 50% of them are gasping for air. I just did a 50% water change, after using my master kit, and seeing that my ...
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Do aquarium turtles require basking every day?
Sometimes, my turtles are not active at all. They appear to be floating on the surface, completely motionless. I generally change water in that case.
However, I also think that not giving them proper ...
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Mystery Snail laid eggs in a terrible location-, hatchling health help
I recently put two of my mystery snails together (originally separated between 2 tanks). They spent almost an entire day together "piggy backing" each other. Woke up and feed my fish this morning and ...
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Gourami breathing at water's surface
I've had a pair of Pearl Gouramis and another pair of Opaline Gouramis for a few months now and, unlike any of my other fish (Tetras, Rainbow, Loaches), they spend time at the surface breathing the ...
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