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Came out for first time in a week for a few minutes.

Thanks for the link, I will try to get him out of his hiding place to snap a pic, prior to his getting sick nothing new was added withing probably 2 weeks, it came out of nowhere, he just started hiding and not eating. Since then, I have not lost any fish so I can only assume that it is isolated, at least at this point.

Thanks, water is within normal parameters and there are about 20 other fish doing well, there has been no change since using the melafix, my only other idea was some type of general cure or parasite treatment.

I have a good size leporinus, probably about 1 year old, 7 to 8 inches that I believe is dying. For the last week or so he has been hiding in his castle, vertical, not eating and breathing fast. I chased him out and did not see any outward signs of trauma or disease, he is the king of the tank. I tried melafix and some salt, my guess is some type of internal parasite as every other fish in the tanks is healthy including 2 other smaller leporinus. Has anyone had a similar experience and/or suggestions? He is not eating just to clarify, and he has a very healthy appetite typically. Thanks!

I have a 125 community with a bunch of weird fish, however, it has probably 20 or more tetra other than cardinals, the weird thing is that I can't keep more than 2 cardinals alive in this tank. I have tried a few times to keep them in a large school as they are great to watch, however, they won't stay alive when all of my other tetras are thriving, my LFS more or less told me that it is what it is and for whatever reason they don't do well in my tank. After a few attempts I gave up and just built a larger school of the other types. Good luck!

The paradise fish is on his left, looks like he is grooming, weird.

In my tank among other fish I have a blue parrot hybrid and a paradise fish which previously bickered over territory, the tank is a 125 community. I noticed this morning that the blue parrot was facing straight up and it appeared as though the paradise fish was grooming him? This has now been going on for several hours, they appear to be rubbing against each other and shadowing each other, I can't figure out what the are doing, has anyone experienced this weirdness. ( I tried to upload a video from my phone, it won't allow it unfortunately). In essence the paradise fish looks to be touching the side of the parrot fish and the parrot fish is pointing with his mouth 90 degrees facing straight up to the top of the tank, I have also seen the parrot swim to the paradise fish and they start again.

Thanks, yes, I am now using more Prime just in case and the Leporinus are not particularly hard to keep, they are quite hardy fish and very cool to watch, very strange for sure. I have already replaced one and will buy a few more, hopefully it does not happen again.

I recently picked up my first mystery snail and compared to my nerite the mystery snail is off an on as the nerite is always on the move. After the first day I had to check to see if he was dead as he was not moving and was hanging out of his shell a bit. It has been about 2 weeks and he is still alive, nobody really pecks at him which is good so whatever is going on is keeping him alive.

Thanks, at this point I have considered electricity as well, however, I turn off my power strip prior and the weird thing about the whole situation is that it only affected my 3 Leporinus, even the chemical possibility doesn't explain it. I suppose though that the city did add something and we are not aware of it, that can't be ruled out. At this point I can only go with some type of stress that this particular fish could not handle, hopefully it does not happen again, they are cool fish.

I did a gravel vacuum, however, it was actually pretty clean as they are done bi weekly. I think that based on what I am getting in replies it was most likely something in the tap water and unfortunately I missed and the Leporinus could not handle it for some reason. I will get a tester for chlorine and going forward I will need to up my dose of prime as precaution(new bottle was used), it is city water and god knows what they do to it. As much as I hate losing them I am lucky there wasn't more fallout. Thanks.

Yes, two airstones and several plants, just added a new large plant a few days ago.

Today my 3 Leporinus in my 125 community tank died within hours of a 30% water change and I have no idea why, definitely bummed out. Prior to the water change which I do about every 12 to 14 days the water parameters were normal, maybe about .05 ammonia and all else normal. I have no idea what happened as they have been through several water changes like this one before and every other fish, loach, and snail in the tank are fine. The water temperature never varied more than about 1.5 degrees, I use a laser thermometer for the tap water. After each water change I add prime and Pristine as directed and a little carbon(flourish) for the plants. I tested the water after a few hours, ammonia at 0, nitrates around 30, all others the same as always, any ideas? I really liked these 3 fish and now I am afraid to get more.

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Thanks for the reply Cory, keep us in the loop! Keep doing what you are and doing and ignore the noise.

Thanks, I can see myself finding another home for them sooner or later as I don't have room for a separate large species tank, I must admit they really are really cool fish when they do come out.

I was in my LFS and saw about 8 black fish with dolphin noses in the tank hanging out so after asking a few questions of the owner I decided to purchase two of them for my 125 community tank. Typically I do a quick search on my phone, however, I did not bring it with me so I relied on the information he gave me. Since I have had them in my tank for about two weeks I rarely see them and I have learned they are nocturnal and I am not sure I am feeding the properly though I do use frozen bloodworms sometimes and live blackworms occasionally which I believe they are supposed to enjoy. After reading many articles about them I have learned that they use electrical signals of some type to navigate their environment and evidently can stun fish which sounds pretty crazy to me. This morning I watched one of them approach one of my loaches, touch him and the loach froze for about 30 seconds, if I am not mistaken he did something to him. They definitely are very cool, however, I am not sure if I can keep them in my tank, has anyone had these for any length of time. Next time I buy something I will do my own research..lol. Thanks.

My paradise fish has become a favorite, I have similar to what you have as well as silver dollars, cherry barbs and quite a few different schools of tetras, it is a bigger tank. My paradise fish is very chill and basically nobody bothers her, she tends to stay to herself, no issues. I also have some large angels which can be aggressive with each other as well as a blue parrot cichlid, no issues.

I have an FX6 on my 125, not a huge canister fan prior, however, it seems to be doing a great job after a few months and pretty easy to mix and match foam and media. Good Luck.

1 (125g), enough for me to manage for sure. Angels, hatchets, several types of tetras, snail, bamboo shrimp, 2 rams a few loaches. Cool topic, I am definitely in the minority with 1, will have to work on that.

I just found my pleco after a week, I assumed he was dead, he was in my castle the whole time, the male hides and the female never hides.

I had HOB on my 55 and like it alot and went to canister on 125, cansiter is a pain to take care of so between the two I like HOB, stuck for now with canister as it is new. Hope that helps a bit.

Thanks for the replies, I will continue to monitor and in the near future take a look at swapping some of my media, I have and fx-6 and for a few reasons if I had to to it over again I would probably have done on or two HOB as the fx-6 is a hassle to work on..lol.

My tank is about 2 months old and slowly cycling as it was a transition from 55 to 125 using old media etc. My nitrates were 80 so I did a 50% water change two weeks ago and 30% last week. I have been moderately successful with nitrates down to 30 to 40 and continually making progress, however, I noticed .25 ammonia which I have not been able to get rid of and I use prime when I do my water changes, not that it will remove it, however, just as fyi. I tested my tap water immediately out of the tap and also overnight and both were a strong .25, I am not sure at this point how concerned I should be and/or what I can do to alleviate the problem. I am of the mindset that it needs to be 0 so it is definitely bothering me. If you have run into this please share your thoughts. Thanks.