Lil Joe is the one who lost his tail, right? I'm sorry to hear that. I'm afraid that ometimes, even though we do our hardest, it is not enough...

On normal conditions the ammonia produced because of feeding (fish waste and uneaten food) is consumed by the bacteria. As your tank is still being cycled, it is likely to raise your ammonia levels a bit. On the other hand, I think that not feeding the fish until your tank is cycled is impractical ...

Great news! His fin growing back is a sign that things are not too bad, or even fine. I think you can now take things a little bit more easy, as it's up to him doing the rest. If ammonia/nitrites levels don't go up, you can stop doing water changes on a daily basis and let the tank finish cycling by ...

I also wanted to ask: how is the fish's fin doing? Still growing?

I wouldn't use the turtle's water. There's no point in it, as it has ammonia already. If I may speak for troi, I think he was talking about getting something from your turtle tank because he thought it was cycled. If it's not, then there is no point. On top of that, the bacteria are not free ...

Great news Will!

Hope both you and your cory have a merry christmas and all.

Hello again,

AmQuel Plus is an excellent product in my opinion. You can use it in your fish tank as well to detoxify ammonia and nitrites in case of emergency. For water changes you can still use StressZyme and StressCoat. The ammonia test kit in the link you provided is the one. Aquarium ...

Inflammation of the gill is more serious than the fin. I don't think the Melafix would help with that. I think that the best thing to do in that case is a salt dip as it will most probably clear the inflammation without having to try out different medicals until something works and I'm not a big fan ...

If your ammonia and nitrite levels are high then it is more stressful for the fish if you don't do anything about it. As Troi suggested, using AmQuel Plus or Prime will detoxify the ammonia and nitrites and make them safe for the fish until they are consumed by the bacteria. If you use either of ...

When I first bought my cories I had a rather large gravel which is intended to use in ponds, and not all of it was round and some looked a bit sharp. One of the fish then got a barbel erosion, but it has nothing to do with the gravel as I got a really sick batch (3 out of the 5 died within 24 hours ...

Melafix, by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals, can be bought in almost any fish shop here in the UK. As it's imported from America, I think it's even easier to get it there.

Melafix should be added directly to the water, 5ml for every 10 gallons. API recommends removing the carbon, but I don't bother.

I ...

Hi,

You're not crazy, fins do grow back, depends how bad it got. By the look of it in the picture it looks as if somebody bit off most of his fin, but it didn't actually wound the base of it, which is good news as it will grow back as new (well, maybe he'll have a scar on the fin, but maybe not ...

Hi Will.

I assume that your tank is about a couple of weeks old, and even if it was cycled properly, ammonia and nitrite levels still might rise after adding fish. The cycle might last some time, depends whether it was cycled before or not. In the meantime you have to help the fish with the ammonia ...

Thanks Barbie and Sirbooks. I actually bought the chinese algae eater because I was led to believe tha they are the siamese algae eater. It will move soon, when I get the chance to do it, as it's quite hard to catch and I don't want to cause a commotion at the moment. Unlike the ancistrus, they lack ...

*next morning update*

The fish is apparently very happy with his re-loaction. I woke up this morning and I found the tank spotless without a hint of algae. Eating algae is something that he's stopped doing in the old tank ages ago.

On the one hand, if he had done it in the other tank I would ...

Mine loves cucumbers and zucchinis. Although it doesn't seem to like the skin, it does like them unpeeled, if that makes sense (neither does the fish, by the way). I once tried feeding it with Wakame (dried japanese sea weed), but it didn't like it.

I have never seen those veggie clips PlecoCrazy ...

Thanks for the tips Mats. I don't know if they will help me in the current situation, but in the future, if I get stressed, I think that rearranging the furniture might do me good.

As for the fish, he calmed down in his new home. It's a hardly populated tank which was a hospital tank initially and ...

Water Parameters:
Ammonia & Nitrite = 0
Nitrate = 20
pH = 7
GH = Around 15 dGH
KH = 5.6 dKH
Temp = 26 - 27 (c)
Water Changes = Weekly

Tank:
Size: 96Litres (20 something gallons)
Substrate: Gravel
Filteration: Juwel compact
Furnishing: Driftwood, many plants
Tank mates: 6 cories, several guppies (4 ...

I thought I'd post an update in case anyone ever has the same problem and searches the forums and find this post... I hope it can help.

Since posting my question, at first there had been a decline in the fish's state. I was shocked to find my pleco sucking eagerly on the cory's spot one day, as if ...

Hi medaka.

Thanks for the reply. I know that the GH is very high, it's not due to anything in the tank, the GH is as high when the come out of the tap. I don't really know if that is the reason to his condition as his mates are doing fine. I'm suspect mostly that it has something to do before he ...

Hello everyone. I hope you can help me with my problem.

I have 4 C. Trilineatus (although labeled at store as Julii)and one of them is not quite right. His problem is that he seems to be losing his colours on his body behind his gills. When I first noticed that it was only on one side of his body ...