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4 Of My 5 New Cories Died!!! Do you think i could have gotten a bad batch from my LFS? I did a water test and everything is normal. Water changes have been weekly. Isn't that u...	Brian1216	4	12-Jul-2005 17:00
Second Bout of Ick in Two weeks. Please help! Not sure what to do now. Three weeks ago I noticed my bala shark had ick. I bought a 3 day treatment that I under-dosed by about a third and it went...	billyspans	14	12-Jul-2005 04:41
dropsy i have a female with a dropsy problem. everytime i look at her i get goose bumbs. a couple of questions: is it contaous? and to treat, i am useing s...	bettachris	6	12-Jul-2005 03:08
Otto death I woke up today to find one of my ottos dead and stuck to the filter intake. It has been fine ever since i got it, but I think I may know why it died....	ericm	2	11-Jul-2005 18:35
Opaline Gourami Acting Weird Hi I have this Opaline Gourami that has been acting weird for about a month now. It kind of "floats" rather than swimming. It will swim like it is d...	batman	2	11-Jul-2005 08:11
Broken Thermometer in the Tank! So I get home from work today and find the glass thermometer at the bottom of the tank. I think "hmm! that's strange!" Upon further inspection I dis...	mo735	6	11-Jul-2005 04:56
Ill Betta? Strange dark patches...? Hi, I recently got a betta girl a couple months ago, and lately her color has been changing a bit. She has these dark spots on her body, and these whi...	Pammy	8	10-Jul-2005 21:52
Strange Bala Deaths Ok, this is a wierd question. It's wierd because I WORK at the local chain petstore and and am generally pretty knowledgable about fish but this puzz...	tribblehappy	5	10-Jul-2005 21:43
Mysterious Giant Danio Deaths When I woke up one morning I found both of my giant danios floating at the surface. I checked all my other fish and they seemed to be fine. I boug...	JJWhiptails +Catfish	3	10-Jul-2005 15:11
Sensitive Fish Safe Ich Med What is a ich med thats safe for synodontis catfish, cories, and tetras....	greenmonkey51	7	10-Jul-2005 07:37
PLEASE HELP I THINK MY OSCAR IS DIEING!!!! when i woke up thismorning my oscar was lie on his side in the corner of the tank (i have seen this behaviour befor but only when i put something in...	johnsfish1984	6	09-Jul-2005 22:42
Electric Yellow Dying!! Please help!! My electric yellow is twirling around.. he has gone a pinkish colour and has a red mouth!! Any ideas??@!@@...	carpe_diem	2	09-Jul-2005 08:55
my red devil has got fury stuff on his eye well my convict and red devil all ways fight and i noticed that there is a fury little thing his eye i think it wound heal or is it something more lif...	Danny	4	09-Jul-2005 05:45
blisters i have a gourami with white blisters that look like zits all over him . i removed from tank and i dont see any other fish with these symptoms . what d...	devil3035	2	09-Jul-2005 04:54
Shubunkin with mouth stuck open I have a juvenile shubunkin (about 3-4" long) who was in good health (at least visually) when I bought it about 4 months ago. Recently, I have noticed...	wonder woman	2	08-Jul-2005 21:22
OK I did it OK I did it. I broke down and got a hospital tank. Tails, one of my blue dwarf gouramis, has developed what appears to be fin rot. So, immediately I d...	divertran	14	08-Jul-2005 16:39
?? Meds, filters and a sick BETTA Hi all, Just a question - I'm on treating by betta for white spot and heard whispers that I should remove my carbon part of the filter. Is this true?...	bram4054	4	08-Jul-2005 16:26
Treat For Ick??? I bought some new fish today and was told by the guy at the LFS that i should treat the tank for Ick right away, even if my tank showed no signs of it...	Brian1216	17	08-Jul-2005 08:54
Growth on Black Widow Hi I have a Black Widow with a black growth on this mouth. It is about the size of his mouth. He's had it for awhile and doesn't seem to bother him...	fishymama	9	08-Jul-2005 04:18
What happened to him? My sister's dwarf gourami was looking just fine last week, minus a small patch of redness on his side. It was centered top to bottom, but about 2/3 of...	kitten	4	07-Jul-2005 06:00
unexplained koi deaths I need help! We started out with 20 koi ranging from 3 inches to 14 inches. When I added 4 new koi about a month ago, thats when all my troubles star...	cutienwandy	1	07-Jul-2005 03:56
Cory sick! Water tests!! Running out of time I have a group of corys and I started to notice that one fish was getting a little bit skinny a while back, I started keeping an extra eye on the fish...	angeleel	5	07-Jul-2005 02:24
Can they recover from SBD?? I have a really sick Red Zebra Cichlid. He must have been sick for a while. I few days ago he started laying on his side. I know he has a swim bladder...	slvrrose8	1	07-Jul-2005 00:11
Old Age? My very first platy is starting to look a bit sad. She's gotten fairly skinny, but she still swims up to greet me at feeding times and gets her fair...	Gromit	1	06-Jul-2005 22:36
How do I do this?? Hi, I was reading about some of the diseases trying to learn more after loosing so many gouramis. Could some one tell me not only what this mean but...	shammey	2	06-Jul-2005 19:12
Dwarf gourami. Well my dwarf gourami looks sick. I know this isint much info but he was always swimming everywhere and the past few days he's stayed in the same spo...	xlinkinparkx	2	06-Jul-2005 05:28
red spot and swollen eyes... I save 2 new balloon mollies at my friends’ pond, they're about 2 inches. He gave it to me because he’s moving to another place here in th...	ronnfive	7	06-Jul-2005 04:07
white spot (ich) remidy questions well its no big deal i'm just wondering what the treatment time is for ich cause today administered some "multi cure" which contains malachite green a...	Darth Vader	10	06-Jul-2005 01:42
frontosa slugish the tank is fine, but my male frontosa is slungish,and my female is fine. what's going on. i think on his dorsal fin there is like a growth there. i...	bettachris	2	06-Jul-2005 00:48
Betta girl with pop-eye Wow, okay, she looked absolutely fine the other day, then yesterday evening as I go to feed my fish, I notice my biggest girl has this monster case of...	kitten	7	05-Jul-2005 23:11
mass casualties i added melafix to end a outbreak of some unknown disease i did my water change 24 hours later added freesh water and had 4 fish die almost instantly...	bknygurly1	19	05-Jul-2005 22:41
How often do you have Ich and why? Ok, I am currently fighting a bout of Ich in my tank . Reading so many entries here at FP regarding Ich I began to wonder how common this problem...	LITTLE_FISH	15	05-Jul-2005 05:41
Clown Goby Color Fading I have a yellow clown goby in my nano cube...Had him about six months... His color is starting to fade. Kind of whitish yellow. I'm assuming it's...	mrlimpet	0	05-Jul-2005 03:19
Puffer not eating. Help! Have the teeth grown so much that it cant properly eat anymore? Yes, trimming can be done manually head over to [link=http://www.thepufferforum.org...	FishProfiles.com	13	04-Jul-2005 23:45
Sick Frotosa, very worried, please help! I have 6 frontosa in my 180g african tank. One of the larger ones has what can best be described as a big pimple thats been opened/picked at on his ta...	lunker101	1	04-Jul-2005 04:34
Sick Tiger Barb I have a Tiger Barb that is sick but I don't know what it is. He is breathing heavy, flashing every once in a while and not eating. There are no visib...	renoharps	9	02-Jul-2005 21:13
Betta Girl is pine coning and i am panicking! i moved her from the main tank to a 2.5 after violence and fighting between my girls. she has been alone for about three weeks....	goldfishgeek	6	02-Jul-2005 02:22
why dosent my betta eat ? its kind of strange that a fish dosent eat you would think if it got hungry it would eat what ever it could find right but why didnt my betta eat he s...	funnyfish	7	01-Jul-2005 23:57
empty hospitals what do you do with your hospital/quaranteen tank when it is out of commition? how do you change to "emergency"? what's in your hospital tank regula...	fry	5	01-Jul-2005 23:49
Sick Firemouth jacnyr, IMHO, my first thought was that he might be at the end of his lifespan, but, given that these guys get over 10 years old and you have him onl...	jacnyr	3	01-Jul-2005 07:41
ugh whitespot, help quick please ok, bought a new fish today [link=http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/Bottom%20Feeder%20Frenzy/60990.html?07477838]http://www.fishprofiles.com/fi...	_wendy_	10	01-Jul-2005 05:17
Weird Growth Hi all. My favorite fish (African Butterfly Fish) has a wierd growth on the bottom of his left fin. Its greenish brown. Ammonia = 0, Nitrate = 0, a...	weighates	4	30-Jun-2005 23:11
Buy Despite Ich at Store? I have a general opinion question; I hope I post it in the right section (as it is illness related). Yesterday, I went to our LFS to add some Neons t...	LITTLE_FISH	13	30-Jun-2005 19:56
Goldfish died :( Well I had my goldfish for a few months now. He was originally in a 10 gallon tank, I moved him to a 25 gallon a couple months ago after laerning gold...	thelifeofriley	8	30-Jun-2005 17:49
Dam whitespot TWICE in 2 months well this is the second out break of white spot attack in 2 months! i noticed it on my beloved oscar this morning. I have strated to treat the tan...	johnsfish1984	3	30-Jun-2005 16:50
Dwarf Gourami Sickness Hi, Has anyone had trouble with a strange disease that causes bumps on their side that develop into a red sore usually only one, all the while they w...	shammey	6	30-Jun-2005 06:39
Salt Bath........ Ok my plec who hasnt been very well and has been moved to a new tank now apears to have some sort of fungus infection or somthing. I have done some r...	johnsfish1984	8	30-Jun-2005 01:48
The Blue color from Rid-Ick: gone in a couple hours? So I've been using Rid-Ick to treat Ick in my tank for 4 days now, and I am always surprised with how fast the blue coloring leaves the water! It appe...	Beefshank	7	29-Jun-2005 06:13
OSCAR!! I have an Oscar and it looks like hehas fin rot because he had a hole in his fin and now it just completely split. So his top fin that used to be one,...	ballinyallz4life	8	28-Jun-2005 09:37
Corydoras needs help. Can somebody tell me what happened to my Schwarzi Corydoras?. I found it with a very rounded face near her gills & hardly swimming. Please see pic...	jasonpisani	9	27-Jun-2005 09:30

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