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Tank: 150L + Aqua One Aquis CF700
- driftwood
- live plants
- gravel substrate
- 2yr old tank

Perimeters:
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 0ppm
pH: 6.4

Fish: Fancy goldfish x2
Ginger: fantail
Taco: Oranda

Ginger’s tank mate named Mango recently died from a swim bladder issue (i think) without any warning. I constantly test my water using the API Master Test Kit, and haven’t had any issues with water perimeters so it was unusual. Mango had very mild pineconing but was mostly struggling to stay upright and ended up constantly rolling onto his side. I had noticed that since I put in a new piece of driftwood and started to notice tears on Ginger’s tail, so took it out, dried it and sanded it down so it was smooth. Ginger then had started to develop black marks on his fins and more tears.

I ended up getting Taco last week and it’s in the past few days that I have noticed Ginger starting to pineconing and the ends of his fins starting to stick together into points. He’s been perfectly fine in terms of eating and balance, though resting slightly more.

Again, the water chemistry is perfectly fine. However I have just remembered that there was a small amount of metal stuck into the driftwood as the shop had stapled a tag onto it. Would that be able to have any impact in terms of water chemistry?? I’ve just removed it.

Please let me know if anyone has any solutions or suggestions to help my little fishy!! Thank youuu

I’ve attached some photos of Ginger’s condition but my phone camera isn’t great so I couldn’t get one of his pineconing.

Are these ok reading for my freshwater setup? This is the first aquarium I've had in a while.

I have 5 Amanos and bladder snails as my livestock for now. I'm only planning on adding either a honey gourami or 3 to 4 Endlers (all males) in a couple of weeks.

I will admit that I jumped the gun on adding the Amanos too soon, but they've seemed to settle in now. They graze all over the tank and don't seem interested in the ghost feeding I've been doing for the tank.

I finally got a DiY CO2 injection system working this morning. It took a couple of days to troubleshoot my setup.

I have live plants in my tank; Long hair grass, Anubias, Java Fern, Java Moss, Kings Crown Java, Banana Lily, Anacharis, Salvinia Minima, Red Root floaters, and maybe some Dwarf Water Lettuce (if any of the peices I got regenerate)

Current Parameters and Kit:

10 gallon tank

GH : 180 ppm (according to API Testing strip)

KH : 120 ppm (API Test Strip)

Ammonia : 0 to .25 ppm (API Master Kit)

Nitrite : 0 ppm (API Master Kit)

Nitrate : 10 to 20 ppm (API Master Kit)

pH : 6.4

Heater : busted (may not get a new one)

Temperature : 69.1°F

Lighting System : Hygger HG999 (programmed a 10-hour lighting cycle at 70٪ brightness with a 4 hour moonlight cycle)

Filtration : Modified HOB Filter with live culture media and a sponge over the intake.

Fertilizer: Aquarium Co-Op Easy Green (i dose once a week the recommended 1 ml per 10 gallons)

Can someone help me identify wtf this is.

I live in The Netherlands. I have an open tank of 70L.

Some kind of fuzzy (fuzzy when under water) green worm thing and it appears to have made its own cocoon from hairgrass… or something? Its freaky. Should i be worried?

I could have sworn i just saw something moving in my awuarium that is not supposed to be there… have a birthed and fathered a xenomorph👀

Send prayers lmao, and advice. Please. Will there be more if i found one? Do I have a problem?

Just got this little guy and noticed he has a white, fuzzy looking spot on his tail. Is it ich?

So randomly last night I noticed my platy would just fall to the bottom of the tank and softly curl. When she wasn’t doing that she was attempting to swim to the top and gasping for air, or kinda just swimming low to the tank. Checked my levels and everything is completely fine, moved her to a hospital tank and did a 50% change for good measure on the main tank. None of my other platys or guppies are doing this? I got an oxygen stone just in case last night and should be here today, in the hospital tank she is moving much more and not doing the curl but still gasping for air. Help!

My tank is having a rlly long hair algae issue , I usually remove most but the one left is on the plant leaves and I can't remove it and nothing else is working. I have 6% hydrogen peroxide and I'm abit scared cuz I have shrimplets and khulis in the tank. Please if anyone can help with advice and dosing or sharing experiences lmk!

I found it in my heavily planted tank today, what could it be?

First image from ~1 hour ago. Sick cory on left, healthy cory on right.

Second image from a few minutes ago.

29 gal low tech planted tank, no ferts/CO2. 10 Agassiz's Corydoras, 11 Black Phantom Tetras, ~14 amanos. Tank regularly has the following parameters: 0 ppm ammonia and nitrite, 10-20 nitrate, 6.6-6.8 ph, 4° gH, 0-1° kH.

Left on trip two months ago, returned one month ago. Tank sitter fed according to my instructions using a measuring spoon to be sure. There was a brown algae bloom while I was gone that left several plants coated in grey, presumably dead algae, gH dropped from 4° to 3°, and all but 1 of my amanos vanished. Fish all seemed lively. Did a ~40% water change but did not have time to remove algal gunk. Found one cory dead two days later with no preceding symptoms, assumed either the gunk was toxic or wc volume was too high for the first in a month. Waited a few days, vacuumed up as much dead algae as possible, no further issues until yesterday.

A week ago, did another algae scrub and 33% wc. I also moved a piece of driftwood to improve flow, but vacuumed under it as it was moved to minimize effects of anything trapped underneath. Fish seemed fine until yesterday. I noticed one cory was pale and not moving much. Normally, they are pretty active, will flee when I get really close to the tank (except at feeding time), and sit with their snouts pointed a bit upward when at rest. The sick(?) cory had a more slumped posture, and didn't respond to me tapping on the glass in front of it. All other fish look/act normal. Tank tested same as normal, but slightly lower nitrate (5-10 ppm).

Today, I came home from work...didn't notice anything different. An hour later, I find sick cory on its side near the driftwood: very pale, dark-eyed, barely breathing, and under attack by the last amano. I net the cory into a breeder box so they can at least die without being eaten alive, and tip it upright — cory struggled weakly but couldn't right itself. ~30 minutes later, its eyes and body have regained a bit of colour, but it's still breathing very shallow.

Questions: What happened to this cory? What caused the other cory's death a month ago? Is there anything I can do to help this one recover or should I euthanize?

Update: cory has passed. Help/advice still appreciated.

i have a major problem! i have a 40 gallon community tank, and a ten gallon “hospital” tank. i have a kuhli loach who had scraped itself from the gravel i previously had in my 40 gallon, i moved it to the hospital tank to heal while i escaped my aquarium fully with sand. it has since healed over and i have returned it to the 40 gallon. i noticed last night that it appears to have somehow contracted ich (im assuming from when it had the open wound it weakened its immune system or something?) in the 40 gallon, in a breeder net i have 4 baby sparkling gouramis. i moved the baby gouramis into the hospital tank and turned up the temperature in the 40 gallon. in the hospital tank, i also have the mother sparkling gourami who in the past couple days had some lifting on her scales and i wasn’t sure what it was. today she appears bloated and can’t swim well and i think she may have dropsy. i only have the 2 tanks and i don’t know how to help the mother gourami, or where to keep the babies without putting them in harms way. help!