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My 55 is now holding steady w/ .25 ammonia, no nitrite. I may still lose a couple, but some of the fish that were ailing before appear to be feeling better. The rest of the fish in there are back to...

I gave it about an hour. Did another water change tonight and added ammo lock. I won't test again til I get home tomorrow from work. Did my other 55 and my two 20's and boy am I tired!

I should add our tap water sometimes tests for up to .25 ppm ammonia. The water company does not test for ammonia or Nitrite. The chloramines run from 1.7 to 2.0 pmm, nitrate is .2 to .8 ppm....

Hey, I posted yesterday about some issues with fish dying and my suspicions about cycling again in my 55 gallon tank but haven't heard anything since posting my parameters. It turns out I did have...

OK I just tested my water. I'm in a bit of a doughnut . Using an API test kit: Ammonia .25 ppm, no Nitrite, 20 ppm nitrate, PH is 6. I'm really happy about the PH. Since my hornwort exploded, I'd...

I have a 55 gal w/ maybe 2 dozen misc platies, Mollies, guppies, swords, and a few neon tetras. I originally cycled this tank without fish over a year ago. I haven't tested my water lately, but I am...

Thanks, for your help. The tank is 55 gal and has been going for three years with more or less the same equipment. About 6 wks ago, I added to their filters some media from a filter that had been...

I lost all my goldfish yesterday. They'd been fighting something for weeks that lead to excessive slime coat, lethargy, clamped fins, lack of appetite (really bad for goldfish), and stringy white poo...

Thanks William and Curious for bringing up the different daddies issue. I've wondered about this with my molly girls some times have very different looking babies at the same time. Glad to have it...

Actually, I'm referring to dropsy before they start pineconing. Sometimes you can kind of tell before it gets that bad.

I keep a lot of mollies and other livebearers and I have been wondering this. Am I the only person who has difficulty distinguishing early dropsy (pre-pinecone stage) and very late pregnancy? In both...

Is there ever a time when long stringy white poo is not a sign of a serious problem? Last week, my two goldfish comets had it on two different nights. Neither of them showed any other signs of...

My fish really like to nibble on the leathery algae that grows under my aquarium lights. Is it possible to grow your own spirulina? I've heard it's very nutritious and I know they'd like it.

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Cholly shares a 55 gallon tank with two comet goldfish. I might have little freebie pond snails in there, and most certainly have detrius worms. My fish tend to eat any snails I put in there, so I...

I have a blackmoore goldfish that I think has anchorworm, but I’m not sure. He gets these isolated white bumps that start off looking like ich, but they get larger and start looking like pimples with...

I have 2 comets and a blackmoore who have always lived inside. Lately, I've noticed them sleeping a lot more these past few weeks. I usually don't have a heater on unless someone has ich and their...

They could be a fluke cross between blackmoores and comets, but I do believe I've seen them referred to in a book as "Frog-eyes" and thus an intentionally bred breed. Didn't have any luck w/ google...

A few of my marble mollies over the months have come down with this white crusty coating on their skin. It looks like someone painted them with some correction fluid like white-out that should have...

Last Christmas, my pineapple swordtails Leilani and Fred decided to give me my first set of swordtail babies ever. I only have about 7 or 8 of them, but recently I have noticed that two of them are...

OK, having raised a few comet gold fish in an aquarium, I've always accepted the principle of 20 gallons for each adult comet. We are serously thinking of building a pond, and my mother found an...

The other night, I lost one of my two year old Comets Timmy. He was one of 4 goldfish in my 55 gallon tank which I managed to keep cycled with weekly 50% water changes. On Friday, I noticed Timmy...

Parameters in the fry tank are showing some signs of progress. Last night the Ammonia was down around 1ppm and the nitrite I think was around .5 to .75. Still toxic, but on the road. I'm surprised...

Actually the ammonia was somewhere between 2 and 4, but still pretty bad. I tested it again last night and the nitrite was a bit higher, so at least the ammonia eating bacteria are doing something....

The water in the fry tank was still pretty foul last night. Ammonia improved friom teal to Kelly Green (5ppm on the API kit- I think) and there was a little nitrite. I am surprised I haven't had more...

I'm sure some of you have seen this. I've had a few fish, usually one of two at a time, that start deteriorating by listing a bit and then they start curling up and lose the ability to swim properly...