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gcalberto

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  1. Are you sure that's what's wrong with the discus? I mean, the chance of it having a particular worm, not called callamarus, and that is resistant to praziquantel is pretty low. In my opinion it could be something other than internal parasites, though I have no idea what
  2. I did that with prazipro. 2 doses 1 week apart from the other
  3. I've already done that, as explained in the post. After it's metronidazole treatment, it didn't have any contact with non treated fish
  4. So one of my discus wasn't eating as well as the others, so I put it in a quarantine tank and started feeding it daphnia, which it will eat. After a few hours, it made a huge, stringy, white poop, which as far as I know is indicative of internal parasites. The thing is, about two months ago it went through a complete 12 day metronidazole treatment, and about a month ago I dewormed it with prazipro. It hasn't come in contact with any other fish. In fact, I did this treatment in all 3 tanks in my house and haven't gotten any new fish since. Does anyone know what could it be? It was fine, up until a week or two ago
  5. Do you know what might have cause the disease itself? I'm a lot more bothered by not knowing how a fish kept the way this was got HITH, than the disease itself
  6. Ph in my tapwater is pretty much the same as in my tank. Same goes for temperature. Since I live in a tropical county, my tapwater is in the 70s 90% of the time. I'm also in the habit of doing bigger water changes in tanks where I want fish to grow faster, and I haven't used activated carbon in years
  7. Pretty much everywhere I look says hole in the head is caused by poor water conditions. Is there any other causes or is 70% weekly water changes not enough in my case? I also have an oversized canister leftover from another build that has turnover of 20x the tank volume per hour Also I started treating with metronidazole and prazipro (I don't have either paracleanse or general cure in my country). I'm also planning on doing a 70% water change every other day or every 3 days for the next couple of weeks, just in case. Is that going to help?
  8. How could I get better water quality if I already do large weekly water changes and I have no issues whatsoever with ammonia and nitrites? Should I do 70% water changes twice a week??? Or maybe it has a different cause in my case? I'm honestly at a loss here
  9. So one of my angels started developing some white masses on its head. I've been told it could be hole in the head disease, but this tank is way overfiltered (got about 20x the tank volume going through my filters) and I do 70% weekly water changes. Is it really hole in the head disease, or is it something else? Temp is 84°F, ammonia and nitrites are 0, ph is 6,5 Edit: I have no idea why are theast 2 photos upside down 😅
  10. What if I don't have that available in my county?
  11. So one of my guppies has something weird coming out of the base of his tail. Does anyone know what that might be? I looked up on the internet and it looks like anchor worms???
  12. So I got 2 pairs guppies from a friend's tank, and both females seem to be developing what I think is fin rot. His tank doesn't have fish with fin rot and parameters are fine. My ph is 7.8, 0 ammonia and nitrites, 15 nitrates, temp is at 78°F My other fish seem to be fine. I do not have access to maracyn in my country. Is this really fin rot? What should I do?
  13. Honestly, it's not a big problem, but it's extremely easy to deal with as well. Buy a dog dewormer named panacur C and apply 1 drop per 4 gallons. In 24h all hydra should be dead. This is extremely safe and does not harm fish, plants, snails or shrimp, but it does kill planaria as a bonus 😁
  14. I have a 55 planted tank with nano fish and neocaridina shrimp myself. Here is my stocking. It's working perfectly: Hyphessobrycon negodagua Got 12 a few months ago. After less than 24h in my tank, they had already started spawning! I'm currently keeping them in a 55 gallon with neocaridina shrimp, 2 vampire shrimp, mistery snails, 12 Cardinal tetras, 12 chilli rasboras, 12 celestial pearl danios, a sae, 6 hillstream loaches, 2 l168 plecos, 6 longfin albino bristlenose plecos and hundreds of guppies (I started with a trio). Despite all of the fish and invertebrates, everyone seems to be doing great, and I sell around 100 neocaridina shrimp from that tank every 3 months.
  15. I believe it depends on the betta's personality. I tried it myself and it didn't work
  16. I would keep the south American fish (tetras, angel, ram...) in one tank, along with the smaller rasboras, and the other fish in another tank. Also, if you send pics of this possible severum here, I might be able to identify it for you. Also, a lot of those fish will get stressed out of kept alone or in schools of less than 6 fish ox the same species. Long term, if I were you, I'd try to either get a school of each species or maybe try to donate some of them and buy more from the rest.
  17. Looks like you got the perfect diet for pea puffers then. Neocaridina shrimp, snails and bbs. It doesn't get any better than that 😂😂 In case you don't have the pea puffers yet, you could set up the tank and let a shrimp shrimp colony develop there. Then you could possibly have them happy and eating most of the shrimplets without killing all the shrimp 😂
  18. How is your line? Do you need to cull a lot? Either way, a mixed snail/shrimp diet is probably about as good of a diet for pea puffers as you can possible get
  19. Are you sure what you are seeing is isn't actually a hair algae bloom? I could be wrong, but as far as I know, moss balls don't really grow in freshwater. They just stay the way they are and slowly die over time
  20. I think snails can very well make up for the majority of the food pea puffers eat, without any issues at all. There's also the possible issue of an ammonia spike, since pea puffers don't't eat the whole body of the snails, which could cause an ammonia spike. I wouldn't feed exclusively snails though, since they might be poor in some micronutrients like vitamins or minarals. I would buy something like frozen daphnia, bbs or cyclops and feed that a couple of times a week. As far as the amount of snails per puffer, I'd try 1 per day, but increase the amount if the puffers want to eat more and there aren't any ammonia spike issues
  21. The ones you started with were probably not from a "pure" line. I bought some red rilis that give me blues and red cherries all the time. It happens and is not particularly serious. On the other hand, I would definitely either cull or put all of them that are not full red in a different tank. Eventually you'll star getting mostly pure shrimp
  22. From what I've heard about this subject, Ballon fish tend to have a lot more health issues and don't live as long. This suggests to me that the balloon for is detrimental to the health and well being of fish, so I'm completely against them.
  23. Honestly, if you can handle the cost and maintenance of all the tanks you mentioned, I'd definitely choose the 75
  24. Yes, unfortunately. Maybe a tiny clown loach might not eat a fully frown mistery snail, but as it grows, it will definitely start eating them
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