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Ok take 4 pinches of salt about 10 to 15 grams and add. This has no danger involved. It is one way of making water inhospitable to any pathogens.

Simple get few assassin snails 4 or so these guys will have them for breakfast lunch dinner and supper

Seems he is suffering from a situation called Dropsy. Don't feed him for a day or two. Feed him spinach. This is similar to indigestion and flatulence in humans.

Ick or Ich comes when fish are stressed not necessarily due to pathogens or bacteria Seems to me like whitespot fungus this is easy to treat Trust me I did as below and it worked Can you get normal pure table salt that is not having iodine or any other additives. Take 1/4 of the salt which you...

Another simple but sure shot is add natural salt 50 grams to 3 litres of water and dip them fully for 5 to 10 minutes and rinse and plant even if algae spores and other parasites in egg forms get killed.

After long years close 30 years of fish keeping found that all the fancy medications are derived from antibiotics used by humans in a diluted form if 100 millI grams is used by us then for the fish is it 5 milligrams for 5 gallons. Generally they are all from tetracycline or ampicllin or...

I have faced this. The solution is simple. You can make diy set up with Get 9 or 12 volt dc motors number is left to your choice. These motors run 9 volts Duracell or you can hook these 12 volt car or any other 9 or 12 volt poet source. to make siphon to draw water from the tank and flow the...

One piece of advice If you have time and patience. Try to make diy stuff. On you tube videos by joey give you lot of of info and man this guy is really amazing and what can save is 75 % on the branded products and yet get the same or better performance and still fine tune as the situation demands

As after that it becomes neutral ph 7 and though is not harmful fish tend to dislike specially discus ghost elephant nose etc I meant using natural additives low ph add lemon juice soda means not sodabicarb plain carbonated water that to 50 to 100 million litres or 1 to 3 ounces. Off the shelf...

Sorry for asking is the tank a marine or tropical fresh water Marine tank on range is 7.6 to 8.4 Freshwater tank ranger 6.4 to 6.8 A ph of 7 does not effect fresh water but some fish prefer slightly acidic water If it is a planted tank increase co2 and check If you need to increase on urgency...

There is simple technique and it works. It takes 2 or 3 weeks max this I improvised with techniques available on internet. Zeolite as filter media reduces ammo and nitrates levels keep this as part of your filter This is for 75 gallon tank adjust as per your tank size 1 buy pure vodka not...