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  1. Fish
    just got 4 happy and active baby bristlenose plecos, 1 to 2 inches, and they have dots on them....some more than others. I mistook them for natural skin features, but now have doubts. Can someone confirm if this is natural or desease? My other fish are in for a ride...
  2. Fish
    Can you guys help me out… I have a community tank with loaches, 2 mollies, and German Blue Ram Cichlids. My mollies & loaches (as of now) have no signs of ich/epistylis. I studied up and was thinking it was Epistylis. I made some antibiotic food and have been strictly feeding it the last 9 days...
  3. General Planted Tank Discussion
    so I had a 6 gallon tank with a betta, small plecco and a zebra snail full of plants. It contracted Ich and I didn’t catch it until it was a bad case so my Betta ended up passing during treatment and my plecco died a few days later. I think they caught it because the tank was over stocked so I...
  4. Fish
    I’ve not been having a great week for my tank. My harlequin rasbora school had thinned out over the course of a year (had no other source than petsmart so not a huge surprise), so now that I’m around more reputable aquarium stores I decided to replenish the ranks. I put too much faith in the...
  5. Fish
    help! my pleco is going nuts and I do not know why. I am currently fighting a battle against a large ich outbreak (and wining). I'm using treatments that are safe for plecos(ICH ATTACK: 3tsp every 12 hours in a 20 gallon tank) additionally I do a 20% water change every 6 days and then one day...
  6. Fish
    My betta has had these two white spots (strangely, almost symmetrical) on his head for at least 5 days, likely more. The one on his left side seems to be embedded, while the one on his right side is sticking into the water a bit. He is eating fine but is sticking to the top of the tank a lot...
  7. Fish
    I have a 10 gallon tank that has been running since February 2020. We started out with 2 Leopard Guppy males. They have been our sole inhabitants for all this time. I am diligent with water testing and changes. All levels are standard and the tank has been very healthy. Temp and chemistry...
  8. Fish
    Can the white dots be CO2 bubbles instead of Ich? I apologize in advance for the lack of pictures. I have a 90gal, CO2 injected, planted community tank. I bought 3 Irian Red Rainbows 3 weeks ago. (no quarantine at the time) I noticed they had lip rot and treated with MelaFix. That took care...
  9. Fish
    Hi there! I have a tank with 6 peppered cory catfish, a betta, some snails, and some shrimp. I also have lots of live plants. I'm a newer aquarium keeper, and noticed a few white specks on my betta. When I asked my much more experienced friend to take a look at him, she confirmed it was an...
  10. Fish
    New to aquariums. I recently got neon tetras, 9, of them to a 20-gallon long tank. Water tested perfectly. One male tetra seems to be territorial guarding half of my tank and not letting any other tetras come near it. He does not school with the rest of them. After feeding them today, I saw that...
  11. New Member Introductions
    Recently I bought four german blue rams from my LFS, when I picked them up I bought a better heater and had done my research. I wasn't surprised when one of them contracted ich, i then proceeded to raise the temperature from 86 to 90 to help kill off the ich. I noticed while doing that, that one...
  12. Fish
    Hello! I noticed a white spot near my Cory's tail last night and am trying to identify the problem. I believe it looks larger than ich. It is slightly raised and does not appear to be fuzzy. The fish is acting completely normal and has no other spots. I see no signs of disease on any of her...
  13. Fish
    I have a 125 DENSELY planted dirt tank, inverts, and fish with beautiful specs. I noticed some white spots on one of this fish. Immediately started the temp up to 86 and dosed with Paragard. It doesn't seem to be working. As five days later my Bosemani looks like he and is girlfriend have been...
  14. Fish
    Hey everyone, I started my aquarium about four months ago, and everything has been going great until a few weeks ago. I have (had) two German blue rams, 15 Cardinal tetra's and 5 Otocinclus. It all started with one of my tetra's getting white spot. I treated with Esha exit, but to no avail...
  15. Fish
    So, I just moved 6 fish from a holding tank into my main display tank only to discovery they may have Ich.... Should I get them back out?? It's gonna be a pain in my large 75 gallon
  16. Shrimp & Other Invertebrates
    Hello! I have a 29 gal tank that has been through an ich/ick outbreak. I treated the tank with a solution containing; Formaldehyde & Malachite Green. Multiple treatments were required to remedy the disease, and I lost some fish along the way. The surviving fish has been moved into a new tank...
  17. Fish
    Okay I made some serious mistakes. My 6 inch oscar in a 40 gallon tank had ick so I tried treating with "Ick Remedy" day 1- 4 I used ick remedy directions 25% water changes and medicine everyday. I noticed he had locked fins so I discontinued using idk (only sponge filter) day 5- 25% water...
  18. General Planted Tank Discussion
    Hi! Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place because I'm new here. We have a 10 gallon freshwater aqaurium that just killed a few fish due to pesky Ich. The parasite clearly came from PetSmart when we brought in 3 new neon tetra to add to our collection of the other 3 tetra (totaling 6)...
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  19. Fish
    After 3 long days of work and generally not seeing or doing anything with my tank, today I found that the majority of my cardinal tetras have ich. Surprisingly, the other fish in the aquarium appear to not have any signs. I immediately moved all of the cardinals into a 5gallon quarantine with an...
  20. Fish
    Hey all, Just this morning I noticed the first signs of ich on my cardinal tetras. They had been infected two weeks previously and I attempted to treat it with ich attack (it appeared effective for a week), but it seems I may have stopped treatment to soon. My question is, can I combat the...
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