Recent content by windrunner9189

happy 4th, y'all!

the only dwarf gourami disease I know about is dgiv (dwarf gourami iridovirus,) but from what i've heard it doesn't affect honies. in my case, the disease was contagious. a few days after my honey gourami started to behave like this, one of my guppies fell ill too. it was turning pale and...

i'm very sorry. it's always hard to see them go.

uh oh, sorry about your gourami! unfortunately, i'm not very sure of how to help. I have a honey gourami that acted in a very similar way before it died a week later, and I have yet to figure out why. your case may be entirely different than mine, though. I wouldn't take the risk, the disease...

my honey gourami did this exact thing before she died, and I had her for about 5 months. I still don't know much about what happened to her. I agree with dd, i'm doubtful she'll make it. i'm very sorry

before illness spread, my tank was stocked with 3 guppies, 3 honey gouramis and 6 ember tetras. now it has 2 honey gouramis and 5 ember tetras. something was probably introduced with a new fish. but the pH fluctuating worries me, I want to limit stress as much as possible. what do you think...

I need to buy a liquid kit to test my KH and GH. i've been meaning to get one anyways. maybe I'll know more then. i'm not sure what else could cause it, the illness started exactly when I started doing top-offs. i've had the same decorations in the tanks for a long while, and my tap water...

hey fishlore, it's certainly been a while! I haven't been able to get on as much recently. now, I have a terrible tale to tell. my tanks haven't been doing so well recently. several lives of fish have been lost, and they were all named and dearly loved. I just made a huge beginner mistake that...

gouramis for sure! getting more into the specifics, honies and pearls especially

anacharis! you can leave it planted or floating, and it's a good nitrate-sucker. usually, no ferts are needed whatsoever. but, beware that it loves to melt unexpectedly, i've had some bad experiences..

another guppy went down... now an ember tetra is going down next. i'm seriously so frustrated.. I don't know what's wrong. here's what they look like and do a few days before they die: - pale - hollow belly - listless - tumor? every single time. and I can't figure out for the life of me what's...

one had cotton mouth and a cloudy eye, the other one had a swim bladder issue. they all had internal parasites. I noticed ammonia on one side of the tank being .5 ppm, and that's when I took the remaining one out into quarantine. yesterday I put him back in, but I noticed amiss parameters...

unfortunately, ultimate terror ensued, and two pearl gouramis passed away. the male was medicated though, and doing great now. once my quarantine tank is free, I will get some cherry barbs

sad news.. the honey gourami passed away last night. I really loved that fish. I just did the first dose of hydrogen peroxide on my tank, I decided I'll keep it at low concentrations and repeat it if needed. hopefully what caused all this will be killed off. keeping an eye on parameters too.

right before I tested I did a water change, so I probably had more to start with. I'll be rechecking parameters and doing another water change in the morning. a guppy in the same tank as the honey died, or at least I think it did, I can't find it anywhere, and the last time I saw it, it wasn't...