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Hello- Help! I've had one of my Blue Rams for about a year now and he's always been quite healthy. A couple days ago though, he just started swimming vertically. He pretty much just stays in one spot and swims upward. He's breathing heavily, but there are no other visible symptoms...

Now he's just next to a rock and continuously swimming straight up but not going anywhere. He's still breathing hard. He looks completely normal on the outside (except for maybe his colors). Could it be internal parasites?

Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 pH: 7.6 (Our tap water out here has high pH) Last water change: less than 2 weeks ago All the other fish are fine (and I have several other blue rams). This is the only one with any symptoms. Any ideas?

Hello- I've had one of my male blue rams for about a year now. He's never been sickly but last night I noticed that he was swimming funny. He swims forward but instead of his mouth being even with his tail, it's pointed way up, so that he's swimming at an angle. He's breathing really...

Hello- I have a dwarf bushynose pleco that I've had for 4 or 5 months now. I've never had any trouble with this fish and she's (at least I think it's a she) always seemed quite happy. On Friday I brought home a male dwarf bushynose pleco and they seemed to get along well. Today I looked...

Thanks, CT- The 20 gallon (the one I want to put the sand in) currently has an established penguin 150 biowheel filter in it and I wouldn't replace or clean that filter media for a while. I also have an established 36 gallon that I could take one of the filters out of and add to the back...

Sand and Biologicial Filtration Hello- I have a similar question that was already somewhat answered above, but I'm still looking for some more opinions. A few weeks ago someone gave me their 20 gallon aquarium. It has a 150 penguin biowheel filter and an undergravel filter. I need this...