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White Mossy Stuff On My Betta’s Tank Rocks, Help!?

By Aquaboy on Friday, April 29th, 2011 | 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, I bought a fish tank off line, and it had had angel fish in it. I thoroughly cleaned the tank and filtered it for 2 1/2 days before loading my betta in. I bought a new filter sponge to because the other one was a total mass of angel fish poo. I put him in and a couple of days ago I noticed a like white mossy substance, like hair almost, floating attached to the rocks. I don’t know what it is and I’m very attached to my fish and want what is best for him. I’m thinking about replacing the rocks. My fish seems really active, and has his usual gutsy appetite. Please help me :(

My Betta Fish Looks Like He Has Faint White Spots, But Isn’t Acting Sick? Should I Medicate?

By Aquaboy on Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 | 5 Comments

Kato, my betta fish, was bought with a scar on his side. After I bought him he had bloating issue, which I solved immediately. So, I know how he acts when he isn’t feeling well.
I just bought a hood with a light. I turned the lights on and noticed a faint white spot on his head and two very small ones on his side. I remember seeing them before, when i first got him, but when the hood light is off- you can’t see them unless you really look for it. He is acting normal, swimming around actively, flaring, eating normally. I bought Pimafix from the store, thinking I should medicate him. But now I am having second thoughts because he is acting so normal and I don’t want to medicate him (and the mystery snail he lives with) unless hes sick with a fungal infection.
He has a 10gal tank with filter and heater and shares it with a mystery snail and java plant.
His diet is bloodworms, brine shrimp, and fasting one day out of the week
Mystery snail gets algae wafers and brocolli
Hes acted normal ever since he got over his bloating back a couple months ago. Should I wait to medicate? The spots haven’t grown at all in a week. They do not look fuzzy, it almost looks like discoloration of the scales.
Any other reason why he has them? Previous sickness (remember the scar?)
Please help out!

My New Halfmoon Betta Has Some White Stringy Stuff On It Fins And Body?

By Aquaboy on Thursday, April 21st, 2011 | 2 Comments

It is very mild. Hard to speculate but it is there for sure ! I googled and symptoms say its columnaris and none of the other symptoms apply. Its breathing fine, eating fine, is active and the skin and fins look healthy otherwise. Specially there is nothing wrong with the face or head.
Should I treat it like columnaris or wait? Also one of the stringy stuff fell from its body onto a plant and the area on fish where it was hanging looked totally clear. is it something external?
The water is clean. I just got him yesterday and set up its 1 gallon fish bowl by treating the water with aquasafe and following all instructions about setting up a tank. It looked pretty active and happy yesterday when I first put it in. I made sure it was a smooth transition.

What Is The White Stuff On My Tank’s Walls?

By Aquaboy on Monday, April 18th, 2011 | 2 Comments

I noticed that almost over night this small white spots appeared on the walls of my 10 gallon fish tank. So far as I can tell my fish aren’ affected, no white spots on them, so it doesn’t seem like ick (at least not yet). They don’t seem like hard spots, the sway a little with the water current and if I tap the glass. What is it and do I need to be worried? If so, how to I get rid of them?
A little history on my tank:
About 9 months old, freshwater. A fish did die about a two weeks before the spots appeared.
I’ve completely replaced the filter system after the fish died since it didn’t seem to be cleaning the water properly anymore despite the bio bag change.
I also cycled the water before replacing the filter system.
I have 2 dwarf gourami, two hatchets, 3 panda catfish and 2 upside down catfish.

Goldfish With White Spots?

By Aquaboy on Saturday, February 19th, 2011 | 3 Comments

I have a black goldfish that changed tanks a couple weeks ago. It was in a 10 gallon and I moved it to a 29 gal. I bought a fantail goldfish to go in with it, and after a few days it got cloudy eyes and would hang around the bottom of the tank. I removed it from the tank after a few days, so it wouldn’t get the other one sick.
Well, it did. The black goldfish then got cloudy eyes, so I started dosing Pimafix. After a week (which is how long you’re supposed to dose it), the eyes look a little better, but now the fish has white spots growing on it. I’ve seen pictures of ich, and it doesn’t really look like salt sprinkled all over, it’s just some spots witch look like fungal growth or something (i don’t know). He swims around the top a lot but is very capable of swimming around if I stir him up. Fins are clamped, and the growths are on the tip and bases of the fins. Water tests fine, and I’m about to do a water change.Anybody help? He’s had it for about two weeks with no obvious improvement. The white spots have shown up in the past couple days.

Is I Found A White Spot On The Top Of My Bettas Head, Is He Ok?

By Aquaboy on Friday, February 18th, 2011 | 4 Comments

I have my betta alone in a 10 gallon power filtered aquarium with a heater set to 80 degrees. and he has developed a small white onh the top of his head. i have no idea what this means. oh yeah and i feed him one blood worm a week and the rest normal food for bettas.

Marine Aquarium White Things?

By Aquaboy on Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 | 2 Comments

Hi, I have a 37 gallon marine aquarium with 4 fish and and an arrow crab. Recently I noticed there are these weird bulb- type things growing on the glass. They look almost like a splatter where they connect to the glass, and then they look like a whit bulb- type thing. I scrubbed one off and another one grew back. They don’t move around and when I changed my last filter it was covered in them. Can anyone tell me what these are?!?!
I will include a picture if you need one.
Thanks!

My White Betta Fish Turned Black, Why?

By Aquaboy on Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 | 7 Comments

I bought a white betta fish about 3 or 4 months ago, and before I left him with a friend for a month for Christmas break, I noticed a few black spots on his head. My friend fed him, cleaned the tank and took care of him, and four weeks later I come back and he is almost entirely black with a little bit of his fins still being white. Is it some kind of bacterial infection, or what? And what should I do for him? :(

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