Recent content by CiwisAquatics

I believe it was just a cyst as it dissipated within a few days. He did recently get another one in the middle of his caudal, though, from what I believe to have been a bacterial infection. He seems to be doing just fine now, though.

So I'm planning out my 75 gallon planted tank awhile & would really like to use an aquasoil underneath a layer of pool filter sand. I was first considering doing a dirted tank but decided against it since dirt seems like a pain to use in a larger tank, especially if/when I would tear it down. I...

So this is one of my Bettas. I've had him for a little over a week, & just overnight he's developed this little lump on the end of his dorsal fin. I've tried to go through & see if anyone else has seen anything similar, but everything I find is at the base. He's about 6 months old. 5 gallon...

I wanted to mention this in the post but I did slowly acclimate them to my water before adding them to the tank & parameters were pretty similar anyway, so it probably wasn't related. I was going to quarantine them before putting them in but it completely skipped my mind before I put them in the...

So exactly a week ago, I had bought four more Kuhlis for the two that I have had (those two are doing very well right now). I lost the first of the four on Sunday. Then on Monday, I had noticed another one of them having seizure like movements, then laying on its back or sides. I got up this...

So, I made a REALLY dumb mistake while feeding all of my tanks today. I found ich on my newest rescue betta, begun treatment today, but when feeding them, I started with him & without thinking, I put the pipette into the water, then went along and fed all my other tanks the same way. Do I have...

If this is due to long fins, there's not much you can do but provide a lot of places to rest. You can trim the fins, but I really don't recommend it, especially if you don't have much experience. It could also be something else Internal that usually can't be treated with medications, and if you...

Okay! You could try adding a few more silk plants to see if that helps at all. If that doesn't help there could be multiple reasons as to why he's sitting on the bottom. Even still, his fins may just be too long and heavy and it causes him a lot of effort to swim around.

I do sometimes. I have 1 betta with an actual name out of all 8 & a killifish named Smize. All the other fish are too hard to decipher to name, or I just can't come up with a name for them. The other 7 bettas do have "names" but they're nothing special, really just descriptions or some way to ID...

Is he a long finned fish & if so, do you have anywhere for him to rest? Sometimes bettas with long, heavy fins that don't have any places to rest will sit at the bottom of the tank because moving around is too much work. If you don't have anything for him to rest on, you could get a few fake...

Fed the fishies bloodworms today. This little one never stays still so it's the bets pic I have right now

It was gifted to me, but, even though I'm still using it, I despise the Marineland Classic 4 gallon kit. It was a pain to set up and the filter failed within the first 24 hours of it running, & there's not really anywhere to put a heater because a wire won't fit through the hole in the lid. It's...

My unnamed koi betta flaring.