Aquatictimes

I really appreciate your words you are very kind thank you for your help and understanding. I feel so responsible for little lives in my care and I really beat myself up when something goes wrong. She would have been three this month so yeah so young in my opinion and she was so gorgeous and here come the water works again.

Unfortunately Luna has passed. This is my first large fish loss. Im a bit of a wreck and I feel like a failure. And I miss my girl.

I just switched her over to a cleaner larger quarantine tank. I am hoping the water quality improving will also help her to heal. 0 nitrite 0 nitrate. 0 ammonia. 6.8 ph.

It’s gotten worse. She has a second spot starting. I think she stopped eating. I have been treating her with kanaplex in her food and quarantine tank for 4 treatments now. The fourth treatment was today. I have now added furan for what I believe is septicemia. I added salt again 2 tablespoons to her four gallon. Please help me save my three year old girl. Red spots disease??

Currently quarantining.

Thanks I currently have two table spoons per 3 gallons in as I bumped it up this week. I’ll continue to watch and wait.

Luna my 2 1/2 year old beauty I think injured herself while my male was trying to mate. She was full of eggs and I took out the only possible sharp object in her 90 gallon pond. I can’t tell if it’s improving or getting worse. I gave her 7 day treatment of melafix (yes let’s all sigh together, I had it on hand and used the last of it up because it didn’t look bad at first) as well as two tablespoons of salt per three gallons of water. I have a water change tonight and if it’s not better I can quarantine her but she gets really stressed when away from the others so I was trying to avoid that. I do have Methane Blue on hand. I was thinking of getting a qtip tonight and putting it on her. I don’t have parameters in this post because I believe it to be started by a cut and they will change tonight with the water change. Let me know your thoughts. Soap bubbles in last picture are from the melafix

Y’all has this baby done a glow up or what?!! Thought you would enjoy this dropsy survivor living life!! Ps yes I always take photos after a water change when the water is stirred up. It’s my one fault in fish keeping.

No clue but this is him this morning with nothing sticking up and the white stuff is metallic like his scales

IT WAS SAND!!!! Took a look at him this morning and he’s all metallic and shiny and clean. SAND. Best outcome!

I was trying to sex my first ever butterfly oranda goldfish when I saw this. Normal not normal? Fungus? Had a corydora pass recently so I’m treating it with maracyn 2 currently ammonia is high from finding the poor guy in the plants . Here are the paramaters from Friday before their weekly waterchange. Ammonia-.25 Nitrates- 5. Ph-7.4 Temp-71 GH-89.3 KH- 89.3 Nitrites-0 Thanks

I have had bad luck in general with shipping fish thus why I now only buy local, it definitely curbs my options but our LFS is pretty nice. Unfortunately, I did buy some hillstream loaches from Aquahuna and they did not arrive alive but this was during Covid when shipping was terrible. They were stuck in Seattle for WAY longer than should have been waiting to get a flight out and I live on the east coast. So I do not blame Aquahuna and they gave me a refund. It was just awful getting my shipment on my birthday and opening a box of dead fish. Again, nothing agains Aquahuna this was clearly a shipping issue.

@Patrick_G no this is a MarineLand 3 gallon tank

The three gallon post trimming big reveal!

All right you saw the before photos I spent all day aquascaping a bunch of my tanks. I may still change the 10 gallon up a little because my moss tree I put in is behind the huge Amazon swords and hard to see so I’m thinking of bringing it to the front. Let me know what you think. All in a days 8 hour shift in the fish room!

The other thought I had was a Least Killifish? Also I’ve had fish go missing before but never mysteriously show up!! Guess you know you’re doing fishkeeping right when the tarsus delivers new fish to your tanks.

Dear friends, I water changed this tank yesterday to find a mystery fish I never bought inside. What are your thoughts on what kind he may be? CAE? Currently he is smaller than my male endlers. I think he came in as a fry in my plants or with my ghost shrimp. Let me know your guesses below!

Here’s a before photo of the 5 gallon for reference Along with the 10 gallon before rescaping tonight. As well as momma and baby Otocinclus

I would buy that! Manual removal of my endlers has been a paiiiiinnnnnn also for those that stuggle with pond snails I would use this product. @a tired fish keeper yes! I only had one nerite snail in my collection that was given to me as a rehoming project. I had to tear apart the tank and scrub it when she passed the eggs were everywhere!! All because of her she will be my one and only. No thank you. No more of that. also why are you so tired? From enjoying your tanks?

Tonight on Fish Maintenance Friday I have plans to rescape, just a little, the 10 gallon tank, capture more endlers out out the 40 gallon to lower the overwhelming population, completely take apart the five gallon that is an overwhelming jungle of aquatic plants with no structure and of of course water changes/filter changes for the tanks. So, another 6 hour night you think?

@GriznatchYes! Exactly! So that is how it got like this in the first place! I was extremely lucky that a batch of shrimp I ordered had a gravid momma in and when she arrived there were adorable fry everywhere. So I was very particular about saving them! But I’m sure they are big enough now it’s just if there are any new ones. @Patrick_G Yeah that’s a good idea. Before I had shrimp in this tank I put the trimmings in my pea puffer tank to grow his moss home that he loves but I’m afraid if I do that now I’ll just be adding lunch for him as well. Expensive lunch too!

@Patrick_G Any concern in this overgrown jungle that I would accidentally cut a shrimp?

Hey all, This is my 3 gallon neocardina shrimp tank. I know they love the moss but it has become overgrown with moss. I would like to rescape it without ruining the moss completely but not having it overgrow the tank. Thoughts?

So this Fish Room Friday cleaning and Maintenance I hope to add sand to the bottom of my pond. First of all I think Toothless my telescope Moor will really enjoy sifting through it and give her enrichment throughout the day. Secondly I noticed that it is very hard to see my fish and take nice pictures with a black backdrop. Now that the pond is staying inside permanently I thought it was time to spruce it up. I feel like we have done sand before and I took it out because of how dirty it got. What are your recommendations with goldfish and sand? I also know my three are HIGHLY destructive with plants. Every planted tank I have put them in they have destroyed within days. Typical goldfish behavior for you. But with the sand could I put in some annubius and the stone planters from aquarium co op do you think? I am hitting up our LFS tomorrow to buy other plants for the tanks and am hoping that they water hyacinths are available to put on top but if not I may get some other floaters or bamboo to spruce up the pond. Any ideas how I can upgrade the pond?

I wanted to give an update on our friend with dropsy. They are doing well! Acclimated to the 40 gallon and loving life in the community tank right now where I can keep an eye on them. Fingers crossed they keep this up swing going.