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Giant gourami has this on its head. It was small before and then grew. Any idea what this is and how I can treat it? I have clown loaches in my aquarium too so please advise how to treat taking them into account also

Hey All! Been a very long time since I've been on MFK. Happy to be back. My Petco flowerhorn, Kevin, recently had this dark spot appear on his head. Does this look like an injury or something else? I just wanna make sure he's ok. He's acting 100% normal, I'm just being a worried keeper haha...

Hello all! So I recently purchased (less than a week ago) a baby (~4”) silver arrowana. He was doing great, even ate for me last night. This morning I noticed however he had been extremely beat up (fins totally tattered, bite marks and small chunks taken out from him) overnight. He was still...

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Was watching the tank and I just noticed a growth on my male gts fin. Idk what it is and never had a fish with this issue it doesn’t seem to be bothering him at all. I’m wondering if I should be worried or it will probably go away on its own. Him and his female are in breeding mode and he’s...

Hey everyone, unfortunately my arrowana suffered an injury last night. He’s in a grow out tank, and he is a baby. He is missing an eye, looks like it got picked out by a tank mate, and his fins are extremely damaged. I put him in a quarantine bucket in the tank to separate him from the rest, and...

I had an injured BGK which I posted a thread in fish lore about around 2 weeks ago but no one had any idea how to treat it, so I just did more water changes to keep the water clean and so far the wounds on the Bgk has been recovering fine. But recently I realised that it had scales flipped...

Hello can somebody please tell me if this is an injury or illness? I purchased this 4" flagtail a few weeks ago and noticed a mark on his face that looked like a damaged scale. He was kept with two other flagtails and some small cichlids at a reputable store so I thought it was from liplocking...

Hi All First off a great big thank you to the whole Monster Fish Community for all the help, advice, and support over the last few years... Q.1 So Our Pleco Squiggly suffered a ripped anal fin about a week ago from unknown source. No changes prior to the injury and the water has been clear...

This video (from Cory at Aquarium Co-op; love him, hate him or somewhere in between, it's not the point of this thread), contains a lot of useful and imho good sense info about using salts in aquariums. More experienced fish keepers will likely know most of the info already but you still might...

*Long post warning* :) So my beloved Kamfa-Red Texas is in the process of (hopefully) recovering from a pretty gruesome wound that I'm going to present as kind of a photo journal I've been taking each day during the process. Background: Drakaris is about 10.5" and resides in a bare bottom...

Hello.. My Florwerhorn just injured himself on a gravel hoover while i was away from the tank.. Its definitely through the scales and into the flesh.. but not too deep.. Has anyone any experience with treating flesh wounds and how i can make sure it doesn't get infected.. would be absolutely...

Hey everyone, so about a year ago, i was keeping this baby juruense and it got sick. It completely lost its tail. Eventually, it started getting better, started eating and growing its tail back. However, only its upper tail grew back, not its lower tail. Ive left it be ever since, thinking that...

Hey I’m new to monster fish keepers as a member and I’m wondering what to do about my green terror. I only had him a few days and I bought him and my walking catfish the same day and put them in a 75 gallon holding tank for now and within 48 hours the catfish who is 4.5 inches bit the face of my...

Hey everyone I don’t post often and I really should but I’m looking everywhere for advice and this is a likely spot. I’ve got 4 spiny eels right now one 15 inch tire track eel one 5 inch zig zag eel one 10 inch Borneo python eel and my beloved 16 inch fire eel I’ve raised from a baby. He has...

Hi everyone, I am new in this forum, but I really need your help. I have 6 red-bellied piranhas in a 720-liter freshwater tank. Four of them I got "second-hand" when they were already a few years old, they are now about 25 cm long. I added two smaller piranhas less than a year ago, those are now...

Hello All, I recently purchased a Royal Pleco at petco the other day and didn't notice until I made the trip home, but there seem to be bulges on one fin. Can anyone help me with this? How can I help heal him? Is it treatable? I keep my water pristine and do 90% water changes on my 75...

Noticed tonight that my 5-inch tsn has popeye in one eye. I know exactly when it's from, he kinda freaked out yesterday morning and ran into the glass a couple times. He looks fine otherwise, is acting normally and eating normally, just has one eye bulging. I'm sure it's not from water...