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Ok reefers I need some help. I’m a newbie, this is my first tank and it’s about 10 months old. This gramma is about 8 months old. We had a fairy wrasse that was a bit of a good bully, so we would really go weeks without seeing the gramma at all. We got rid of the wrasse, and she started coming out, but this was the result. She’s been swimming like this, or sometimes she just lays on the sand. Salinity and calcium were high this morning.
Parameters before a 15-20 gallon water change.
Salinity 1.0275-1.028
Ph 8.4
Magnesium 1265 ppm
Phosphate .18 ppm
Ammonia .06 ppm
Nitrate 16.7 ppm
Alkalinity 9.0 dKH
Calcium is a blinking 600 ppm on the Hanna tester. I’ve tested it twice to make sure.
Several hours after water change:
Salinity 1.0265-1.027
Alkalinity 9.2 dKH
Calcium 525 ppm
Calcium finally registered something.
I didn’t do full testing, just what I felt was important. I haven’t seen it eat at all in the last week, and shies away when I try and put thawed shrimp in front of it. I’ve set up a hospital tank, but I don’t want to stress it with moving if I can help it. Any thoughts?

I was videoing my shrimp when I saw all these tiny things moving after rewatching it. They're all over my tank and they move. Its that big clump infrount of her... theyre all bunched up on food?

For weeks, his tail has been droopy. He had signs of dropsy, but now they're gone. Is there anything I can do for him? Thank you in advance for your advice.

Tank size: I don’t know the exact volume, but based on the tank’s dimensions, I estimate it to be around 10–12 liters.
Fish size: Approximately 3-4 cm.
Tank mates: None. The fish is currently isolated because it is sick.
Water parameters (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, temperature): I don’t know.
Filtration: I don’t know .
Water changes: I changed the water a few days ago.
Other information: The fish is showing raised scales, so I am concerned that it may have dropsy.

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

Bucky: Normal Ocellaris Clownfish

Chernobyl: Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish [Rescued from Petco; was inside an offline tank with dead fish]

Chie: Cherub Angelfish

Hank: Fiji Blue-Spotted Puffer

Jacques: Cleaner Shrimp

Samantha: Fire Shrimp

Pito: Peppermint Shrimp

Note: Hank is kind of an anomaly, he leaves inverts alone. This is uncommon with puffers. There's also Robert (the smaller) & Kim (the larger) hermit crab

So I’m brand new to keeping fish so I’m not the best at ready their behavior. One of my guppies seems to be addicted to swimming up and down by the airstone bubbles. I’ll include a video in this post and in comments if that’s possible.

I’ve only owned these guppies for a little less than 2 weeks and maybe 3ish days ago I noticed that I would see all but one of my guppies by the front of the tank when I got home. When I looked for him I found him swimming up and down in the back of the tank by the airstone. I thought it was cute because it looks like he’s playing. Ever since I noticed this I started looking for him in that corner and it seems he’s almost always there doing the same thing, swimming up and down up and down. A lot of the times the other guppies join him and do the same thing, I even caught one of my Khuli loaches joining them (idk if it was accidentally or not, it’s rare I even see them during the day).

It really does seem cute and like they’re playing but he keeps doing this behavior and I’m worried maybe it means he’s sick or has something wrong with him. Do you have any guppies or other fish that do this? Is this normal? Could it harm him? Is he just weird? Maybe he’s on an exercise routine lol?

Thats the gist of it but to cover all my bases I will list info about my tank below:
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Tank size: 20 gallons

Cycling:
*I cycled this tank for a month with just plants and the hardscape/decor and some bonus hitchhiker bladder snails. Products I used:
- Seachem Prime (remove chlorine)
- Seachem Stability + API Quick Start (beneficial bacteria)
- Dr. Tim’s Ammonium Chloride.
I only bought fish after my tank was able to process ammonia in 24hrs (from 4ppm to 0ppm).

Water Parameters:
*I use the API freshwater test kit as well as the 5 in 1 test strips for quick checks)
- Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate all 0 (or very close to zero from what I can tell)
- pH: usually 7.4-7.6
- Temperature: 78°F/26°C

Note: my water has a greenish yellowish tint, likely from tannins from the cholla wood and also some reflection of all the green plants.

Livestock:
- 6 male fancy guppies (Local Aquarium Shop)
- 5 black pepper corydoras (Petsmart)
- 3 Khuli loaches (Local Aquarium Shop)
- 1 Clown pleco (Petsmart)
- 1 nerite snail (Petsmart)
- 1 rabbit snail (Petco)
- Unknown amount of bladder snails (came on plants from local shop)

All except the bladder snails were purchased within 2 days of each other and it’s been a little less than 2 weeks that I’ve had them.

Food:
- Fluval Bug Bites Tropical Flakes (1-2x per day)
- Fluval Bug Bites Bottom Feeder Formula for small fish (1-2x per day, I try to dunk them in while the guppies are distracted by the flakes, they’re so greedy I fear the bottom feeders don’t get enough food)
- Live Detritus Worms & Live Black worms. I’ve only fed them each of these once and plan to give them these only once a week as a treat.

Hardscape/Decor:
- Fluval Stratum
- Aqua natural Black galaxy sand
- Aqua Natural gravel
- Dragon stone
- Slate stone
- Some seashells
- Cholla wood
- Crystals (citrine, clear quartz, red and flower agate, ocean jasper) all are inert, don’t dissolve in water and have smooth edges.

Plants:
Submersed:
- Brazilian Pennywort (also have some floating)
- Bucephalandra brownie
- Anubias nana
- Dwarf Sagittaria
- Tiger Lotus
- Madagascar Lace plant
- Bacopa monnieri variegated
- Vallisneria
- Lacy Java fern
- Java and Christmas moss (I think it’s dead idk)
- Banana lily
- Red root floaters

Emersed:
- Monstera deliciosa
- Monstera esqueleto
- Raphidophora tetrasperma
- Philodendron gloriosum
- Philodendron micans (in clean LECA)
- Philodendron Jose buono
- Lucky bamboo
- Silver scindapsus (in clean LECA)

(I used aquarium safe superglue by Imagitarium to attach some of the epiphytic plants)

Tech:
- Airpump with long bar shaped airstone
- Sponge filter for 20 gal
- Hygger corner filter for up to 10 gallons (only in here to seed it so I can cycle a 10 gallon aquarium faster)
- Heater preset to 78°F/26°C
- Currently using a regular plant light for the aquarium, planning on getting one made for aquariums)

*I don’t have a lid but I don’t spray anything near my aquarium, no candles, if I do it’s in my bedroom with the door closed
*I haven’t used pesticides in over a year and the plants have been rooted in water

So am I just a paranoid first time fish parent or is there something wrong with my fish?

My apologies for the poor filming, I have shaky hands!

The trails of dried salt in the back glass was caused by my old Fluval C3 & C4 filters. Will remove once I get to maintaining the newer Fluval AC 110s