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I posted last week about my sick platy and it was believed that she had internal parasites. I started treating her 7 days ago with Jungle Parasite Clear. I have not noticed any improvement with her. Does anyone have any other ideas for me? How do i tell the difference between internal parasites...

Thanks for the advice! I went out first thing yesterday morning and got the Jungle Parasite Clear. Do you have any idea how long it takes to see a result from this? It's been almost 24 hours and I see NO improvement in this fish. Nope, she wasn't pregnant.....but thanks for the advice! Jen

Thanks for trying to help me! Ok...my levels....ammonia is zero. Nitrates are about 18ppm....nitrites are zero.....Hardness is 75ppm....alkalinity is about 60ppm and ph is about 7.2. I have a 10 gallon tank (2 years old, cycled) and we have te 2 platys and 2 bronze cories and no live plants. We...

Hi all. I have a yellow Mickey Mouse Platy, female, that I got about 2 months ago, along with another platy. Everything has been great until this last week.....she started to lose weight very suddenly, although she eats like a pig. She looks for food a lot of the time, even after she has eaten -...

Hello! I am trying to find out the growth rate of platy fry - specifically....how long does it take for platy fry to "grow-up" or reach adult size????? Only 2 of my platy fry survived and they are about 8 months old now and very small....the large one is maybe 3/4 inch long and the other is...

Thanks a bunch guys!!!!!!!!! J.

Yep to all of that. I change the water and vacuum the gravel every week - rinse out the filter media at that time and I add the decholrinator every time I add water - It's very weird what's going on. Could the nitrite readings be caused by something I'm missing when I vacuum the gravel? I had...

Hi everyone - The tank is 7 months old and cycled Thanks!

Does anyone know how this happens or what it means? My nitrite level is 05ppm and ammonia is zero! I'm stumped.PH is 7.2, alkalinity is 80ppm, hardness is 75ppm and nitrates are 20ppm. I don't get it! Also, how can I raise the alkalinity without raising the ph? My test kit says that it should...

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Ok...I went out and bought new test kits today just in case I had faulty kits. These are my readings: Ammonia = 0, PH = 7.2, Alkalinity = 80ppm, Nitrates = 20ppm, nitrites = .5ppm and hardness = 75 ppm. What's up with my nitrites????? I have no ammonia and I keep coming back to an issue with...

Yep....I rinsed very thouroughly several times before I put the gravel in......the cloudiness is a white/gray color. It concerns me how MUCH of these little flecks there are - it's not just a few......if the fish swim by real fast....it gets all stirred up and it looks like someone dumped 2 cups...

No, it doesn't go away....everything just settles back onto the gravel until I siphon again or the fish make a wave or something. This gravel is the black and blue colors - 2 separate bags that I mixed together.What is natural gravel? Does it come in dark colors? From what I've read, these fish...

Hey there.....I was cleaning the gravel and doing a partial water change(because the water is so cloudy) and I noticed that lots of little flecks of rock were coming up in the siphon. They were too heavy to get siphoned out, but they were there. Could the gravel be disintegrating? Could this be...

Hello. 3 days ago my Red Wag Platy began to give birth - I was very excited! But.....what ended up happening is that the first fry seemed to get stuck half-way out.....it was stillborn and didn't look quite normal. About 6 hours later, the fry finally became unattached when the mom rubbed...

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Hello. 3 days ago my Red Wag Platy began to give birth - I was very excited! But.....what ended up happening is that the first fry seemed to get stuck half-way out.....it was stillborn and didn't look quite normal. About 6 hours later, the fry finally became unattached when the mom rubbed...

Hello. I have what I was told was an Agazzi cory, but based on pics I've looked at on google, I believe is most likely a bronze cory. Anyway...we had 2 and I had to put one of them to sleep today because of fin rot that I could not reverse....I found that some of our other fish (Larger Tetras)...

What in the heck?! Hi Liz! What in the heck kind of fish is that in the pic you posted? It is so great! Jenni

Fish swimming tilted Thanks for the info Liz! I sure hope it's not a swim bladder problem:( I have a 10 gallon tank, 3 Red Eye Tetras, 3 Buenos Aires Tetras, 2 Agazzi Corys and 1 Red Wag Platy. The ammonia level lately has been a problem )since adding the Agazzi's) previous to that, we had...