r/TetraFish

Last night I noticed these white spots on my Bleeding Heart Tetras (tank mates are a clown pleco and Gold Inca Snail). I think it’s the Ich or White Spot Disease but will be my first time dealing with this so wanted consensus. And then as far as treatment, I know I should increase the tank temperature, do daily water changes and I got API’s Liquid Super Ick Cure for delivery today to start treating them tonight. Any other recommendations?

My water parameters were good but this is a new tank set up (have had these guys almost two weeks).

Thanks in advance!

I am a beginner with a freshwater 20 gallon planted tank. It has 6 corydoras, 4 shrimp, and 2 snails. I recently brought home 5 von rio flame tetras. Yesterday, I woke up and one of them was nipped at so badly it didn’t have any fins or eyes. This morning I wake up and one of my shrimp is split down the middle and eaten and ANOTHER tetra is nipped badly. I was supposed to have a betta community tank but I’m scared to purchase a betta with these in my tank. I don’t know what to do. Do I take them back to my LFS? It’s making me so sad :/. They are extremely aggressive and honestly I’m afraid they’re going to attack my corydoras.

Store said they were neon tetras but like they don’t really look like neon tetras. They were babies when I got them and looked like neon tetras as babies but they look like this now? Any idea what they are

For context, I've got two aquariums and in one I have ember tetras. I was trying to culture copepods is a small bottle I guess and I was gonna give up on the project a few days after I started it and I moved the moss (that I had previously moved from my two aquariums) and noticed this small guy, now I have gotten insect eggs in my big aquarium before and at first glance I didn't even know if it was alive but when I nudged it with my pipet and the shit darted I confirmed it was indeed alive also resembled guppy fry which I have seen before so I searched up ember tetra fry and I definitely see a strong reassemblance

Now I wanna know whether it's an ember tetra fry because there should be more than one or if it's just some fly larve, I don't t wanna get my hopes up even if it is a baby tetra because it probably won't make it in my unprepared hands but I just wanna confirm my suspicion

Theyre in a 20 gallon community tank with a beta, idk how many shrimp and 6 kuhli loaches. If they are doing the deed how can I help the babies survive or are they doomed?

I was today years old when I learned that tetras eat plants?!?! They are munching on an Hygrophila difformis; and now I wonder if they are going to eat the rest that I am planning to plant. Could algae wafers prevent them for going after my plants?

This is my oldest fish, a blind cave tetra, around 7-8 years old. Woke up yesterday & this was hanging out of him??

Waited 24 hours to see if it was a weird poop, but it's still there, & now I'm worried it's something urgent/dangerous.

Be cool if it was just 💩, but I'm not very hopeful because it looks so odd. Been keeping fish 15 years & never seen anything like this

I recently noticed this particular male ember tetra starting to lose some of its colors, and its belly is also a bit sunken even though it's eating and being very active. My suspicion is that it has contracted callamanus worms, as I had problems with callamanus worms in another guppy tank I have, and I believe it somehow got into this aquarium. I didn't see any red worms coming out of it (typical of an advanced stage of callamanus worms), but I believe it's possibly because it's in the initial stage of a possible worm infestation. I couldn't see its poop to analyze if it's healthy or transparent, so I'm not sure. I'll post some pictures of it in comparison with the other ember tetras that are healthy and haven't shown signs of disease yet. In any case, I applied a dose of 3mg/L of Ripercol (active ingredient levadamisole) to paralyze and expel any possible worms from the fish. Unfortunately, I had to use it on the entire aquarium even though I have ramshorn snails, which could probably kill some of them since I was told levamisole affects invertebrates. Anyway, I came here to seek guidance or tips from someone who has gone through something similar.

Note that the parameters are 82-84 degrees Fahrenheit / 28-29 degrees Celsius. Regarding the pH, this is probably a point of concern. I've been using DIY CO2 with sugar and yeast, and I don't remove the diffuser overnight. I believe this causes a pH fluctuation. I don't know if this possible fluctuation could have affected the fish or lowered its immunity, but with my tests i saw that the fluctuation isn't huge, about 6.8 ph during the day and 7-7.2 at night

Hi all, I set up a 20L tank with a group of 12 ember tetras about 6 months ago. They have done well since then and produced several offspring that have joined the main group. The embers are the only fish in there, but there is a colony of red cherry shrimp too. Planted setup with floaters, Anubias and subwassertang, normal parameters, lots of botanicals/moderate tannins.

Today, I noticed that the biggest one has an asymmetric white patch. Behavior/feeding is unaffected and the other fish are healthy. ​Only recent "husbandry change" is a brief temperature increase from 77F to 79, then down to 74 (heater issue, I have since raised it back to 78F to assist healing).

I am thinking fungal? Or less likely an abrasion/injury. Looking for thoughts before I begin treating further. Thanks in advance!

1 year old tank, all other fishes ok. Water parameters stable. Water changes ≈25% every 2 week.

Sorry for bad English, not my first language