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Nothing to add about potential harmful affects, but I do know what you mean by silly mistakes.

Last time I broke down my QT I decided to try fit the job into a busy schedule. I took the heater...

One thing to look at is the light spectrum of any LED lamps you consider. Some may not provide the wavelengths best for plant growth - although many of the latest do appear geared to either planted...

37 gallon, fish as noted below (nowhere near fully stocked). Tank established 22 months, parameters all good.

One BH has been struggling for just over a week. Struggles to keep upright, it is...

Yes, the pygmies seem a little pointless now. Much more fun when they were active. At least they don't take up much bioload.

And good point on the filtration, thanks.

The Penguin has worked...

Parameters are fine, 0 Am, 0 trites and consistent 5 - 10 ppm nitrates. pH steady around 6.8

The BHs have always been shy when someone approaches the tank (I've had three of them for 3½ years)....

My tank: 37 gallon, Penguin 200, planted. Current stock:

1 BN
6 Bleeding Heart Tetras
5 Neon Tetras
3 Amano Shrimp
8 Pygmy Corys

My initial plan (earlier this year) was to increase the BHs...

Hopefully you are right, LadyHobbs, and from past experience, you probably are!

There are a lot of stories on the interweb about neons with growths that don't seem to have other issues.
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I'm not an expert, but your neon looks just like one of mine. Could be columnaris, which I believe I have been struggling with in a QT for months (see my posts in this forum further down (Persistent...

Giving the baths a try. If nothing else it is experience for me.

homemadepopcorn, you say triple strength - you mean 0.15ppm for malachite green as opposed to the 0.05ppm for a standard treatment,...

Well, I've often wondered why I am persisting with this…

The fins on these three are all OK, no issues with them rotting/tearing. The mouth growth doesn't look cottony, it looks smooth, like a...

Continuing...

A week after the last post in April, I was down to one neon, nicknamed "Survivor".

3 weeks after that he was still there. So I got 3 more for the QT (should have given up on neons...

I have noticed that a few LFSs have one or two fish in their plant tanks. I avoid these, but am wondering if there is a simple way to make sure you are not adding any unwelcome, invisible, newcomers...

They like brine shrimp. Whenever I feed the fish with them the assassins immediately come out of the woodwork (or more precisely, wherever they are hiding) and book it around the tank looking for...

Oh my...

Thats a nice looking fish. I am sure the other one was too... Sorry to see that. Good luck with the extraction.

Great post, Ghpr13, there are many extremely helpful folks here who all deserve a lot of thanks for their time, effort, and great advice. Thank you all!

I too posted questions here and on another...

From what you have circled, the white looks to be on the fin edge, not on the body. You also mention fraying of fins - is that where the white is?

If so, I don't think this is Ich. Could be fin...

When displaying some of mine swim in small circles around each other at about a 75 degree angle - not far from horizontal. They seem to like to look at life from a slightly skewed point of view, like...

I have the 37 gallon version - the same footprint as the 29g (30" x 12") but 6" deeper.

And I have the same plants as Strider199, plus Vals and Crypt species. All grow fine, but fairly slowly...

Thanks for the post Julie, interesting to hear. Good luck to you too!

After two full treatments with Triple Sulfa, a final 30% WC and adding carbon the three did OK for a week, eating well, looked...

Well, tried 4 days of BiFuran+, lost two neons on the third day, and two on the fourth. Was thinking of helping the rest on their way...

The same day I happened to stop at a pet store I was...

Not surprisingly, they don't want them back! The ones they had apparently got better all by themselves - and in a day or two... (or so they say).

Lady Hobbs, yes, if it is columnaris, it has gone...

Thanks for the suggestion, it looks as though you could be right.

I did a little reading about columnaris, and can see that the colour is definitely fading on the back, near the dorsal fin, of...

So, two weeks later... The white on the ragged fins persists, and appears on all 8 fish to some degree. None of them have much, and it has not spread down the rays to the body - although a few are...

How about making them a sand box?

I've not come across it before, but I have wondered if putting something like a 12" square, 1.5" deep container, sunken into the gravel and filled with sand, in...

Thanks for the responses. I've had a good look at the fish, and while the fin edges are still white, it certainly doesn't look like cottony growth - just the actual fin edges appear opaque.

And...