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Aquarium Science
Based on Science and Logic
Aquarium Science
Based on Science and Logic
This website has been updated to use the Genesis WordPress Platform, the Monochrome Studiopress Chile Theme. Modifications done by the author’s son.
David, I’ve been reading a lot of articles, watching a ton of videos and been trying this recommendation and that recommendation….
Not sure of anything, can’t tell if she’s getting better but coming across your site and reading your common sense and expertise is making my hopeful.
I look forward to reading all and educating myself as there are next to zero fish docs and fewer freshwater folk I’ve found that give a care.
Thank you in advance for being here
Ruby
Hey David, have you ever thought of publishing this in a book format? Or even better yet, having a once a week automatically synced .PDF document of the site for anyone to download or print? I would absolutely print all 500 or so pages to keep next to my tank, this site is a gold mine
Hi Mr. Bogart! I have been reading and learning from your articles for a couple years now. I met a fisheries biologist that works for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and he had told me to use your website. He said he and his classmates used it all the time while they were in college.
I have a question that really has me stumped. I have an established tank with driftwood, Stratum, and petrified wood. Normal water parameters. 7 green corys, 6 blue-eyed rainbow fish, and 2 mystery snails now. They have been together in this 9g quarantine tank for 3 months when I purchased them. Six of the rainbow fish have died since I brought them home. No corys have died. The rainbow look and act completely normal, and I will just find one lying in the bottom of the tank. No symptoms. I fed them all 10days of Maracyn 2. Now one of the corys are completely white. Overnight. Acting normal. Reminds me of columnaris, but normal behavior. I change water/tank cleaning every 7 days. It is day 5 now. I am changing the water today. I would be so very grateful for your opinion.
Thank you very much, and thank you for your website it has helped me, and I’m sure thousands others, immensely over the years!!
Paula
In reply to Paula ……………What you are describing is one of the most common complaints: namely slow deaths with no symptoms. Maracyn 2 is probably the best course of action you can take. In all probability it is fish TB, which see the articles on. Adding a UV unit is the best course of action, assuming fish TB. Sorry I can’t be better help on this but the number of possibilities makes it a long list.
Thank you so much for your input and advice! I wanted to follow up with you about my situation. I purchased a UV light and am keeping it running 24/7 in the back of my 9g fluval flex tank. I was feeding them food with maracyn 2, but last week I added Paraclense to the food. I have an order into Thomas labs. They are discontinuing their fish medications. I purchased fenbendazole and plan to add this. I added a second pump and another air stone as well. The surface water is choppy now. I removed the driftwood from the aquarium. The water has tannins from the driftwood because I don’t use activated carbon. I have been changing the water every 4-5 days now. The water still has a slight tea color, but I don’t understand why because the wood was removed 2 weeks ago and there have been many water changes since. The water parameters are normal. Maybe I should add activated carbon because the medication is in the food? I have lost a couple more fish in the last 2 weeks and I currently have a green corry that is twirling and spinning out of control. I’m wondering if I should start a brand new tank with no substrate, wood, stones, ect. I could take a bag of ceramic rings from another aquarium, but I would need to use new sponges, filters, and air stones. Or, I could remove all of the stratum substrate from the aquarium that they are in now and leave the rest alone. I am heartbroken and feel so helpless watching them die one by one.
Reply to armour72 ………………… You are doing too much. Just chill out a little bit. Stop the frequent water changes. You probably have fish TB and there is little beyond a UV which will treat it. You mention ceramic rings. If you have them in this setup replace them with plastic pot scrubbies, foam or K1 type media.
I have learned so much here. Thank you. I recommend the site to anyone with questions about their fish. ‘Love your depth of knowledge, style, and common sense. Just wow.
It is my goal to read every single article on here. Just when I think I’ve made real progress on that goal, I stumble delightedly into another tunnel. It’s so wonderfully dense in some places that I have to take breath, walk around and think, then come back.
i can’t thank you enough for helping me understand what went wrong and why. Onward and upward!
Is there any chance you know what this is? I had strings of them in the tank and in the bottom of the canister, along with 3” and longer transparent worms that looked like hairs! Ack! I treated with Panacur (with no fish,) at high doses that seems to slow them down but couldn’t get rid of them, same with those creepy worms. In fact it looked like the transparent worms had eaten them, too, as I could see pieces of them along the length of the transparent worm bodies… I broke the tank down and am taking a break for a bit. Made me nuts. Thank you.
In reply to Bettaway ………..I have no idea what the critters are. But note that “critters” like these generally only take over overfed tanks and the only way to reduce their numbers is to reduce the feeding WAY down.