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aka fish - 2009-03-11
This site is good and it help a lot, but I still want to know how to get my tail back nice when it gets damage. [tell me how]

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Anonymous - 2013-01-08
The best way to help with fin regrowth, is to keep the water clean and warm. Temperature should be around 78-82.
Anonymous - 2013-01-11
How fast will the fins grow back? My betta hasn't yet lost any fins but it is clear and black tipped on his tail. When will color come back?
kye turnbull - 2013-03-25
probably get a treatment from the pet shop, it worked for me!

Cindy - 2010-08-20
Hi, I just got another male Betta and I would like to know what kind of feeder fish I can give him to eat that he won't just end up TRYING to eat? He has managed to kill, but, unsuccessfully swallow, 2 feeder guppies in one evening. Btw, he is not full grown yet. Has another inch to go, I would say, so, maybe later on he will be able to swallow them. How 'bout for now, though?

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Jeremy Roche - 2013-01-18
Gut fed Ghost shrimp should work
kye turnbull - 2013-03-25
fighters don't eat other fish! sometimes they will kill but that is for breeding! i recommend a small type of shrimp, or a small water bug, although do not get bugs from a river! that's ended up bad for me, good luck with the fighters! my fighters are breeding right now!

Mani60C - 2010-02-21
I'm Emmanuel, I have 3 siamese fighting fish. One that is blue red and black, I called him Swish because his colors are sorta smooth and mixed. I have a pink one, my mum called it sweetness but I call it sweet. I have a purple and white one called Rage because he fought with sweet 7 hours straight. He was tired the next morning lol. Swish is ready to breed, his bubble nest is huge. I'm purchasing a female soon so he can breed.

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YUKESH - 2010-09-25
I have yellow red and blue mixed siamese fighting fish i call it as blue buji because it is so bulky.
kye turnbull - 2013-03-25
i love the names! they will breed like crazy!!!!!! although sometimes females never want to bred, its annoying when they do that.

kye turnbull - 2013-03-24
how big do the bubble nests grow?

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Jeremy Roche - 2013-03-24
Bubble nest will vary on size. Environment, temperature changes, barometric changes and objects in the tank will plat an important role on the size and thickness of bubble nest.
kye turnbull - 2013-03-24
is there a average size? the male has built a nest and has stopped building it but it looks very small, and that's why I asked< but thanks anyway i really appreciate it!
kye turnbull - 2013-03-24
oh and is barometric or what ever it is the weather conditions? i forgot, because i have got alot of rain and low pressure around here
kye turnbull - 2013-03-25
oh well, the nest was big enough i guess, they bred! well more tiny baby's !

Anonymous - 2013-03-22
hey i have a giant gourami. I bought it recently. I find it aggressive! It killed my silver carp and now it is after my shipping . Why is it so? Aren't silver carp and gourami compatible with each other? please tell me the name of fishes compatible with gourami.

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Clarice Brough - 2013-03-22
Sorry to hear about your carp, however, the Giant Gourami is rather aggressive when it's small. It may mellow out as an adult, but some males stay aggressive. They also need a really big tank, small spaces can aggravate aggressive behaviors. Although they are considered 'community' fish, companions need to be the more reserved type that stay out of its swimming area and tend to hide. Good tankmates of this sort are like knifefish, some eels, loricariids, and other large catfish. Sometimes large quiet fish like Silver Dollars and Red-Belly Pacus can also work if the tank is large enough.

bob - 2010-02-01
hi, I am Bob. I am keeping betta for many years. There are a little problem with feeding when you first buy them. Try to feed them livefoods, especially live bloodworms, mosquito larvae etc. If it is taking prepaired food, then no problem. My betta, which have reddish blue colouring which did'nt take pellets, but insects and meat pieces. If you want a fancy show from your betta, try to keep a mirror in your tank so that your fish can see it. He will inflate it's gillls, and straighten his fins, looking highly magestic. Betta's are curious and intelligent fishes, try to keep caves in the tank and your betta will sometime hide there, even when there are strong currents, to escape fron the currents.

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Elana - 2010-04-06
i never knew they liked mirrors! very cool thanks for adding that
ananya roy - 2013-03-11
Actually the male betta mistakes his own shadow to be another male betta and displays his 'fighting mood'. The inflation of his gills, and straightening of his fins are all displays of his 'fighting strategy' to shoo off the second betta he sees (here it is his own reflection). Also he is not at all amused with a mirror, he sees it as his opponent and gets stressed.

Mandy - 2011-05-01
My dwarf gourami has been laying on it's side at the bottom of the tank all day long and looks to be breathing very fast. It's belly doesn't look swollen and I dont see any unusual spots on it. It seems almost like it's gasping for air. It hasn't eaten any food today. I have 4 other gouramis in my tank but they are doing fine. Can someone please help me figure out what's wrong with my fish??

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Charlie Roche - 2011-05-02
Attached is an article from Animal World, Fish Diseases and Treatment, just click on it. Scroll down and you will come to an area that gives you a brief summary of ailments and symtoms. A little farther down is a list of symptoms and the corresponding treatment.
It sounds like you should check the tanks PH and temperature and water condition. Try that first and then if you could tell us a little more, what is happening in the tank, with that fish it would help.
gouramigal - 2011-07-14
My gourami is doing the same thing. It's been hiding and not eating for the past 4 weeks or more and then swims fast to the top of the tank for a mouthful of air and then retreats in its hiding spot. Every now and again it comes out but it seems to be getting worse, laying on its side gasping for air. Others have said dropsy but im not sure seems to be common with this species.
kat - 2013-02-21
I have a powder blue one that was in a 10 gallon with 1 neon and its doing the same swims up gets air n back down to lay on its side I have had him for 6 months and he has been like this for 5 weeks ..... No one seems to know what or why he's like this.
katelyn - 2013-02-24
You need more oxygen in your tank it seems. Go get a air pump air line and a bubble strip. The smaller the surface area and the higher the temps allows amonia to Go Up Causing Them To Not Br Able To Breathe. Getting Plants Also Helps Or Making Sure your Filter Is Hitting Hard And Creating Current If you Have one. Good Luck!

Sarah - 2006-02-03
i was just writting because i have recently started an aquarium. i purchased 1 pearl gourmai, 1 bristlenose catfish, 1 fighter and a dawarf gourmai. My pearl gourami started to nipe my fighters tail it then began to bite my dawarf gourmai and continued to eat it. My dawarf gourmai has been left with no tail and very few scales. I was told that all these fish were compatible and good community fish. We have since sold the pearl gourami and the tank has been restored to a peacful enviorment.

michelle bravo - 2010-09-25
I'm very concerned about my kissing gourami fish because it doesn't move it just stays in one spot do you think it is dying or it is sick?

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Terimarie - 2013-02-20
Hi I have the same problem with mine, he's also stopped doing the 'kissing' now and lost his appitite, I've been trying to look this up but not found anything yet, have you?
Jeremy Roche - 2013-02-20
That is not always a sign of a problem. First start with checking water levels and temperature.

JohnB - 2013-01-30
I have four Red Flame in my 55 gallon and they are always foraging on the Amazon swords. Very soothing to watch. They are also one of the first to the front for feeding time. They are housed with various Tetras, Danios, Barbs and Platies. Hardly never see them interact with each other. Each just busy picking away on the plant.

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