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Sometimes you just get a fish, or a group of fish that are like that. Some many years ago I purchased a half dozen nickel-size silver dollars. For some reason all of the others singled out just one and beat on it mercilessly. It was eventually moved to the 20G support tank and lived a long and solit...

Have you tried ammo chips? The local pet store will have it, you put it in the filter with the carbon. Aeration and filtration - move that water.

Smudgeman, I just went through this myself. The trick is to keep treating until all of the spots are gone plus an additional three days at least. Better yet four or five. Then slowly notch down the temps to the regular levels, go back to using carbon in the filter, and lower the salt content with wa...

Sorry to hear of your loss. I know how heartsick I would be. I've had a couple of heater failures over the years. Just last week the heater in the 55 decided to run wild - happened to notice the water was pretty warm while putting a piece of seaweed in the holder for the pleco. I had been turning it...

Hello! Found this site while researching treating sick Clowns. Had some water problems but I think we're back in the green again. The good news is that all the fish survived. The bad news is that all of the live plants didn't. Not sure if it was the salt or the high temps. The tank looked pretty bad...