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Differing opinions on water changes but I'd personally always do extra water changes if I saw an injury/illness. A 50% change every day shouldn't create any instabilitites or fish issues IMO unless the tank is improperly set up, or you have drastically different stats in your tap water compared...

She is very skinny (on top of not being pregnant - rare for Endlers!) and unhealthy looking :/. Could just be and older, weaker individual that hasn't been able to compete for food in the shop tank, or there could be some internal illness. What does her poo look like? (Is she eating OK?)

Hungry fish of most species will take advantage of weakened individuals...how many fish are in the tank and how often/how much do you feed? That particular juvenile guppy might have been more hungry for some reason, or even just genetically more "aggressive", and once the other fish observe an...

As you are actively growing biofilm for feeding, sounds like everything is in hand. IMO I very much doubt you are doing too many water changes, more likely to be too few if you are having dying shrimp. TDS doesn't indicate too much really, what's your tap water TDS/other stats like? What are...

Repashy Soilent Green would be perfect for feeding them. What you are feeding already sounds great though, I'd be personally feeding more algae wafers if they are breeding and you have growing babies. My favorite wafers are Hikari, the mini ones are an idea size for ottos :thumbup:. Congrats...

Another "no" from me. What you plan could be perfectly fine water condition wise if done properly, and if you really care about the well-being of the fish, I guess you could spend time every day "entertaining" it to reduce "boredom" (more like fish mental-illness IMO)...but it's a terrible plan...

Nerites eggs hatch into larvae and need saltwater to develop. You will most likely have Physa sp. or ramshorn snails that came as tiny snails or eggs on plants. They are harmless and wont multiply fast unless you overfeed, I think they are beneficial...

Does your pond have fish in it? Do your pond fish have parasites? If not, I wouldn't worry about the risk of introducing them too much, nutrition is more important to boost the immune system :). If you haven't been feeding snails before, definitely start now. Maybe try a harder to reach...

First step is to identify the species of parasite. No pictures/video, so we will have to leave this to you. The neons tetras could be suffering from internal worms/bacteria...without a picture or video we would only be guessing though. With visible worms on the fish, a treatment will...

Replied to PM - don't feed just quite yet, I would leave CO2 off for now until conditions have stabilised too. You can dose ferts if you want, I would just dose trace ferts for now to help the plants such up any excess ammonia. Keep doing 50% water changes for a couple of days at least still...

Looking better on the ammonia side of things, you don't need to bother doing the time-consuming nitrate (NO3) test btw. Keep up the water changes! :)

Nitrate value is good for plants, won't negatively effect fish, nothing to worry about there. Ammonia is at 2ppm, so if you do a 50% water change this should immediately bring it down to 1ppm. 50% minimum daily water changes until it's at 0ppm for a couple of days :thumbup:. Don't clean the...

I would do as big a water change as you can do (50-75%) every day for at least a few days while until your plants and bacteria grow enough for the tank to become stable again. Seachem Prime is great as a dechlorinator and can detoxify ammonia, but is no substitute for many big water changes...

Not a nice subject. There is no perfect way to euthanise IMO, it should always be an unpleasant thing for us to do and only used as a last resort to end incurable suffering. Blunt trauma (or the brick method) is the fastest and most acceptable in my opinion. It should be done as fast as...

Whenever I set up a quarantine tank...it eventually ends up so full of grown-up fish fry, shrimp and plant cuttings that I can no longer consider it a quarantine tank. So I don't always have an actual spare quarantine tank going, but I do often set up a new temporary tank to quarantine new...

Anther vote for keyhole cichlids! Beautiful fish when healthy, great bold characters yet very peaceful (prefect for relatively skittish characins like rummynoses). I wish I could convince more people to get them from pictures, their iridescent sheen, subtle yet beautiful colouration in good...

How about just putting the external filter inlet literally on the tank floor? That way water can still flow though it, even if you do a 80% water change? An external inlet shouldn't be as tall as a discus anyway. Unless the filter is turned off for hours every day, I cant see how there would be...

Beautiful fish and very enjoyable videos. Agree that the first video would be better with quieter music, but found it interesting and enjoyed nonetheless. Sorry so hear about the bleach problem. Thanks for sharing your experiences! I will keep Discus myself one day...not really a suited...

Depends on your water parameters before it went in and how much you added. It only makes a very slow gradual difference. Remember pH is not really critical here (that's old fishkeeping thinking not suite to modern planted tanks), hardness is, so ignore anything in the article above which...

Oyster shell is perfect, leave it in permanently, it will take years to dissolve. .

No problem, I hope your endlers thrive :). What type of rock? Most rock sold for freshwater aquariums is specifically selected to be inert so that they don't release minerals into the water which may ruin the water for soft water fish. This is why I am specifically suggesting sandstone as it is...

With soft water plus ADA AS, you are going to have the exact opposite water from what endlers prefer. As mentioned, they are far more hardy and adaptable than fancy guppies, so if you have good genetics and your water isn't too soft they will be fine. In the long term, do watch out for arched...

I find like most fish endlers (or at least my hybrids) are flexible with regards to pH, and more tolerant of my soft water than weak fancy guppy strains found in stores. More important than pH, what is your water hardness out of the tap? I usually add crushed coral to my substrate when setting...

Not seen that before, but I have experienced several unpleasant occasions where a big oranda/goldfish has swallowed a cory and got lodged in its mouth, to the misfortune of both fish, and myself on one occasion as I got jabbed by the corys toxic pectoral while trying to remove it and my finger...

Encouraging such young children to try and keep a fish in such a small volume of water electrics-free will just be misleading to their education IMO... It can be done, but either requires lots of luck or lots lots knowledge of which species, substrate A filter may not be necessary, but some...

Yeah, the freezer method is generally regarded as a bad way to go on most euthanasia threads I've seen in the past, slowly freezing to death sounds like a horrible way to go. Being cold blooded doesn't meant they can't feel it! (that's usually the reasoning given ) The brick/blunt trauma seems...

While it's often harder for the human do to, I believe the best fish euthanasia method is also the fastest: the brick.

As long as its not a natural pond/lake then that's fantastic! :)

Good to hear :thumbup:. He'll need to start making phone calls now to find a suitable garden pond to donate the fish to in spring, it might take longer than that too. I wish him and the fish good luck!

Uh-oh, looks like a grass carp to me, really needs a swimming pool sized pond to have enough space to thrive. Always a shame seeing these monster fish in small indoor tanks, also feel sorry for that stunted looking koi at the back. IMO the sale of such monster-sized fish should be regulated in...

That's called "Sparring". Males do this more often, but with barbs the females will spar with each other too. Who knows what this particular sparring match was over, but it could be for who gets priority over food, choice of mate, a particular spot in the tank etc. Or they could just be bored...