Kevin A

I have bacterial bloom for almost 2 months now in both of my 2 tanks. It was already crystal clear after the first bacterial bloom, then when I went overboard cleaning it went into bacterial bloom again that has now lasted for 2 months already. Now I understand the part not to replace with new water as it will introduce new minerals for the heterotroph bacteria to eat and to populate. But can I add more water to top off the water that evaporates over time? Because I'm using hang-on back filter and the water evaporates rather quickly and the filter makes loud noises and my tank is in my room also (im living in an apartment in a city) and I would want to top off water to make the hang on back filter less noisy.

Hi thank you for the response. So if I want to also treat my main tank with salt, I would put 1 table spoon of aquarium salt for 6 gallons, then should I keep it at that or after a few days do water change or remove the salt with carbon? I have plants and snails in my main tank. Hi thank you for the response. I am living in the middle east and antiobiotic is not allowed to be sold here unless you go to vet and have some prescription and being here means there's not a lot of fish stores/vets. I am putting him in Meth blue + Aquarium Salt bath for 1 hour weekly. Should I increase more time or frequency? He seems do be doing fine now after my initial bath of him. The red blotches are gone but his underbelly seems to be "transparent" now and I can see his "organs i suppose" instead of the red blotches before. Could be organs or could be parasites I am not sure.

I had this as well. I was worried my angel fishes are laying eggs and is being scattered by water flow. But upon reading this post I remembered I put 2 nerite snails last two weeks ago. Did you successfully bred nerite snails before?

Please help me guys. My red zebra danio has been having this thing for the last 2 weeks. He’s been moving energetically from time to time but would mostly sit idle in one corner. He’s still feeding but not actively. Only when you drop food in front of him. I don’t know is this a disease or parasite internally or externally. Could also be bacteria. Anyone encountered this thing before? My advance thank you to anyone 🙏