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Fish Dieses well besides Ick which seems to be the most popular tropical fish dieses there are plenty of others and are harder to cure and sometimes harder to even see.

1. Clamped Fins - The fish clamps its fins close against the its body. Experienced aquarists use this to quickly spot problems with their fish. If you see that some of your fish have clamped fins and treat your fish immediately, you can usually cure them and avoid more serious stress and disease.

2. Shimmy Looks like the fish is swimming fast but staying in the same place. Shimmy is easy to spot, and if the fish is treated immediately, you can usually cure it and avoid more serious stress and disease.

3. Red Sores Many things can cause sores on fish such as fights with other fish, scraping on sharp rocks, and small wounds that get infected and grow bigger. A new small sore can usually be cured. Older or larger sores are more difficult to treat, but sometimes you can succeed, and treating your fish will make it less likely that other fish will be infected by the fish with the sore.

More advance tropical fish dieses

1. Fin Rot where the edges of the fish’s fins disintegrate and becoming ragged.

2. Pop eye where the fish’s eye bulges out.

3. Cotton mouth where the fish has patches that look like cotton around it’s mouth.
Sometimes accompanied by a Cloudy eye this is actually a fungus that effected the eye similar to cotton mouth. This is really advance and should be treated immediately.

Two great medications for the listed tropical fish dieses are E.M Erythromycin by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Inc. TC Tetracycline also by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Inc.

TC Tetracycline by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Inc. Anti-bacterial medication for common tropical fish diseases such as bacterial tail rot, cotton mouth fungus and gill disease. Aquarium filtration will not affect treatment. For use in freshwater aquariums. This medication will not harm the biological filter. Note: This medication will cause a slight discoloration of water which can be removed with activated carbon. More information on this product click here for the pdf

This product is great and should be in every ones tropical fish emergency kit.
E.M Erythromycin by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Inc.
For broad spectrum treatment and control of bacterial disease, such as body slime, mouth fungus, Furunculosis (open lesions and swelling), bacterial gill disease and hemorrhagic septicemia (blood spots without sign of skin damage). For use in both freshwater and saltwater aquariums. Can be used with any API Ich, fungus or parasite remedy to help prevent secondary bacterial infection. This medication will not color the aquarium water. More information on this product click here for the pdf.

Well this is the first time I had ich in my tank, I am going to test the water and find out if it is the water condition. After doing that I have to actually buy some Ich medication, and the best one I have found was Rid-Ich By Kordon. I already tested the heater and that is OK.

I also discovered a great new way to prevent ich in the future and that would be to actually add non idonize salt mix it in with the water when you change it do not dump it directly in the tank, this would burn freshwater tropical fish. I found this information on nunnie.com

Ich is easy to see in light it is little salt looking dots on your tropical fish.

Well the tropical fish food I use regularly is Tetra’s TetraMin Tropical Flake in with a brown trim. My Swordtails and Danios seem to like that the best. I just do a pinch of the tropical fish food a day. Once a month I will give them bloodworms or larva.

TetraMin Large Tropical Flakes (5.65 oz.; Large Flakes) The world’s leading fish food for more than 40 years. Each highly nutritious, vitamin enriched flake is firm and highly digestible. Essential nutrients and added vitamin C promote optimum health, energetic fish, and long life.

Besides once a week feeding my Crowntail Betta bloodworms, I would feed him Wardley Premium Betta Food Pellets, I normally just drop in 3 pellets a day, I notice when I did more with past Betta they do not eat them all. Betta’s I found out have smaller stomachs then fish in there size range.

Wardley Premium Betta Food (1.2 oz.) Nutritious ingredients specially blended for bettas. Extraordinary color enhancement is achieved from natural ingredients.Floating mini pellets will not cloud the water.

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I went to The New York Aquarium in Brooklyn, NY and my friends and I where talking about our fish tanks. When I was there it actually inspired me on how to do up my next fish tanks. One thing we have notice and this is actually true in a lot of life’s avenues is your should apply the KISS method (Keep It Simple Stupid). They had very lovely tanks that seemed to be great to look at that was less then 10 Gallons, and for saltwater tanks they had 45 Gallons that looked great.

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Well I was thinking to talk about important equitment for an Aquarium and a very important piece of equipment is the Filter. The filter’s I trust the most is the Mariland Filter. The Mariland Filter is very easy to use and install. I have the Mariland Filter Mini Penguin for both my 10 Gallon Fish tanks.

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I was thinking about getting my nephew a small fish tank and I was looking around and I thought to get him an All-Glass Aquarium Mini-Bow 2.5 Gallon Acrylic Aquarium Kit.

All-Glass Aquarium Mini-Bow 2.5 Gallon Acrylic Aquarium Kit (7.75″ L X 11.38″ W X 14″ H) Everything you need to start a great aquarium for your goldfish or betta. Its undergravel filtration keeps the water crystal clear and makes it an ideal step up from your goldfish or betta bowl.2 1/2 gallon acrylic tank with base that conceals air pump and lighted hood with handy feeding door.Air pump and 24″ airline tubing.Undergravel filter with base and clear lift tube.Clear betta divider that makes room for two bettas.15 watt incandescent light bulb.Goldfish and tropical fish food.Water conditioner.Perfect starter aquarium for a new fish hobbyist or as a tranquil addition for your desk or family room.

Well I know it could be fun and more custom if you buy each piece of your fish tank like the tank, the lid and so forth but that could be time consuming considering you still have to buy the fish, plants and run a house hold or work your job. Don’t worry you still need to maintain a fish tank so no threat on not spending time with your fish.

The one I really like and this is 2 of my fish tanks now is the AquaTank X Plus 10 Gallon Seamless Acrylic Aquarium which is a good deal and really easy. My biggest complaint which is not many is that it is hard to find the right filter size in your local pet store and hard to clean the edges of algae.

Here is 10 Gallon Aquarium Kit is the AquaTank X Plus 10 Gallon Seamless Acrylic Aquarium

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Well the way I always prefer to control PH levels in an Aquarium is by natural means. For a long time I know how to decrease the ph levels in water that would get some drift wood. Just recently I learned a way to increase the PH levels. That would be by ground up coral, same stuff you would by for a Saltwater Aquarium.

To Increase PH try these products;

Tideline Medium Natural Coral Sand Pure Marine Substrate (Medium; 10 lbs.; Coral Sand) 100% calcium carbonate substrate for marine tanks. Provides a natural bed for your aquarium and increases buffering capacity. Minimal rinsing.

To lower the PH in your Aquarium use this;

Zilla Malaysian Driftwood (7.5″ L X 13″ W X 10″ H) Real Malaysian driftwood makes an ideal natural decoration for your aquarium or terrarium. Each piece is unique in shape and texture.

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What a information you need to have a healthy fish tank is to test the water. Also when buying fish you need to know what your fish tank’s PH level is depending on this is what type of tropical fish you can get.

My favorite water tester I like is something that you place into the fish tank and leave it in your fish tank. It is the Mardel Freshwater LiveMeter Master Test Kit (6″ W X 2.5″ H; Freshwater)

Mardel Freshwater LiveMeter Master Test Kit (6″ W X 2.5″ H; Freshwater) LiveMeter Master Test Kit continuously monitors three key aquarium water conditions; ammonia, pH and temperature. It combines the test strip technology of Live NH3 and Live pH with a liquid crystal thermometer in ONE sensor.Convenient slide indicators remind you when it’s time to replace the sensor Helps you maintain healthy water by constantly monitoring pH and ammonia, and providing immediate response to harmful pH changes and toxic ammonia levels The advanced crystal liquid thermometer allows water temperature to be monitored inside the tank, not on the outside glassFor freshwater use only

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I was looking to see how I could improve my aquarium and some times it is good to go back to the basics. So I decided to buy a couple of books including both traditional and ebooks. A really great book for the beginner is David E. Boruchowitz book The Simple Guide to Freshwater Aquariums. In which you learn the basic, some nice hints and even going as far as stating what tropical fish a beginner should and should not get.

The book also is very easy to read and great pictures. So if you get a chance I would get this book.