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Okay, thanks for the advice, starting the more aggressive water changes tonight.

I thought I posted a couple pictures, here are the others.

Here's a picture of a turquoise rainbow I just picked up this past Sunday. I have him in a 10 gallon quarantine tank with a Boseimani and we saw a little bit of white on his tail Monday night. Assuming it was ich, I started treating for ich. The turquoise has been somewhat lethargic, and while...

I have been trying to get pictures of my fish on my cell phone, rainbows are so active it has been very difficult! A friend brought her digital camera and we got a few better photos, I guess one of those may be in my future... Here is a front view of the tanks. Up top is a light weight...

I was trying to get some close up of a few of my fish, particularly my Boesemani rainbows to see if I can get some help in identifying whether I have male or female. These are very active fish, occasionally I get one swimming in a current near the front glass, but usually by the time my smart...

The tank is been in the house for years but sat dormant for at least a decade, I bought the house two years ago and just set up the tank last month. So brand-new substrate, brand-new everything. The algae is brown or reddish-brown. I am hoping a whole new tank thing is the issue. I just found...

My bowfront tank, just been established, has algae. I can see it starting to grow on some of the plant leaves, the driftwood, a little on the glass surfaces and some in the nooks and crannies of the various equipment such as the theater and fan mounts. I have only had fish in there for about...

We are down to one tetra. he is lost part of his tail, whether from being harassed because he was sick by the other fish in the tank or as a result of ich, I do not know, but I expect the last of my tetra will pass in the next 48 hours. I would be thrilled if he recovers, but he did not eat and...

Well, I can report that the medicated food works really well and not at all. The rainbow fish look great. There are maybe a half-dozen spots distributed among 16 fish, mostly entails or fins. They are active, very hungry, and doing great. The gold barbs also look great. They never develop...

I found out that the treatment cycle for the medicine would be 2 to 3 weeks in most cases, although they do recommend medicating for 3 to 4 weeks after you no longer see the spots. The way this is supposed to work is that as the organism attacks the fish and feeds from the fish, the organism...

I have posted some pictures of the tank in the new members forum, some questions about the sick fish I have in that forum, some questions about how quickly the couple who I hired to initially help set up the tank added fish in the getting started forum. I decided that I would create a thread...

So my tank was set up on the 6th, had fish added the 13th (see other threads, big 155 gallons, planted, tests show only trace amounts of ammonia and nitrites) and I watered seeing ich on the 18th. I called the couple that helped me and they said that the fish could have already been infected at...

This is the fish food, the medicated fish food, that was suggested to help combat the ich. My fish have been on this now for two days, and my daughter swears that there are already fewer white dots on the fish. I am not 100% certain, but it seems a little unlikely to me although I admit I have...

I know they strongly advised against the tap water around here, not hundred percent sure why. As far as the water goes I am just following their advice at the moment, I have to learn more about the reasons behind the advice on Jennifer's next visit.

There are a few pictures in my other thread: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f59/hello-from-a-newbie-to-the-forum-and-the-hobby-359751.html

I think, although I am not absolutely certain, she did some checks of the water when she arrived for stage two where she added the remaining plants and the fish. Things were a little chaotic then and I was not able to watch everything she did (I was watching because I was highly interested and...

Today's test results: temperature: 81° pH: 7.0 ammonia: 0.20 (estimate, slightly darker than before, still not at the 0.25 level which is the lowest band on the test kit above zero. Nitrites: 0 Nitrates: 3 We keep our house around 78°, and the heater in the tank is set at 77, so I am not...

Thank you for the reassurance. The omens comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek, echoing back to earlier in the thread when I mentioned how poor my luck was in the past and keeping fish tanks. However, I think I know why based on the reading I have done at this time. I just did not know enough about...