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What could of caused my Betta fish to have died?

Posted on September 13, 2010 by admin| 8 Comments

I got him from Petsmart in Dec. of 2007 . He had a 5 gallon tank with a heater and filter. I did weekley water changes. I fed him pellets and brine shrimp. I noticed his color was turning gray about 2 months ago, he use to be purple all over and his chin was white which was new this month. Yesterday I noticed his water was yellow, almost the color of urine. I then notice there was some sort of net (Bug) dead in his fish tank water. I did a water change last night, and woke up this morning he was gone. In the last month he would spit out his pellets, he did enjoy the brine shrimp. As I was taking him out his tank today, his color was rubbing off on the paper towel, the paper towel was turning purple which is his color if that helps. Also his eyes were cloudy when I was examining him. What could have caused my fish Tony to have passed? Thanks!

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Norman is pooping!!!?

Posted on June 19, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I just have to thank all that answered my other answers about my goldfish Norman…he is eating a bit and I noticed today that he had normal looking poop….I’ve been doing water changes and changed the filter among most everything that has been suggested by ya’ll…and the lady at Petco….it seems that he is going to be just fine! Thank you again!
ps..when at petco today getting Norman some slow sinking pellets and frozen brine shrimp, I saw some Nemo’s! real life clown fish…they are much smaller than I had imagined..I wanted one!!! So stinking cute!!!!

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Can I add another filter to my 10 gallon?

Posted on April 20, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I already have a power filter that filters up to 20 gallons on it, but I’ve noticed that even when I do water changes with gravel vacuums, there’s still a lot of stuff floating around. Sure I’ll try to net it out, but it still floats around in there. Whenever I put a new cartridge in my filter, a week later, its clogged with dead food and fish waste and my filter does filter properly because of it. I guess its because I recently switched from feeding my fish flakes and bloodworms to flakes, bloodworms, brine shrimp, and tubifex, but not in one feeding. I just feed them twice a day without feeding them the same foods consecutively. Plus at night I drop a tropical tablet and an algae wafer for my cory cats and oto cats.

Do you think that adding another power filter like the one I have will reduce the clogging of my cartridges with better filtration? If so, will it have any big affects? For instance will I have to recycle my tank because of the new filter? I’ll give someone a best answer
Well I have been kind of slacking on remove excess food, but I have 3 cory cats, 3 oto cats, 4 neon tetras, and 1 dwarf gourami.

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Are my fish sick?

Posted on April 3, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I have a 20 gallon tank. We went on vacation for a week, the in-laws extremely overfed our fish. The fish weren’t fat or anything the water was just a horrible dark brown. I did water changes until it was clear again. Took care of the tank for a week, and then had to go out of town for 2-weeks. My wife fed the fish during this time. For some reason half of the fish died, and one of our snails died. One of the fish that died after I came back was ballooned up to about 3 times his normal size. None of the other fish that died balloned up like this. None of my x-ray tetras have been showing any signs of being ill, its been the other fish so far. Except now one is having trouble floating, he’s always sinking, still swims around and eats though. I’ve been feeding them a varierty of sinking food, flake food and every now and then brine shrimp.

Ammonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate levels are all fine, and this is an established tank. Could there be something wrong with my tank?
I want to add fish, but I don’t want to possibly put new fish into a sick tank.

I’ve thought about adding some sort of medication (suggestions?) to the tank but I’ve heard some of those wipe out the good bacteria in the tank too, and I don’t want to do that if its not necessary.

I do use aquarium salt in the tank.

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Why are they all dying?

Posted on March 7, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

my angel fish layed eggs and everything was going great the babies started swimming on ther own in the grow out tank at about a week old. i feed them the baby brine shrimp and did water changes all of the time(once a day) so that the water didnt get to dirty…Then last night it was really hot and the tank temp went up to 90 degrees(it was usually 78-80) and this morning there were only 4 left and they look pretty bad. is it the weather that killed them wrong and what can i do to have more babies live longer next time??
also i have the parents tank with gravel and plants and stuff…if i took that out and lets the adults raise them would i get a better turn out and then move them into the grow out tank at about 4 weeks(when they start to look like little angels)

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