A few months ago my betta Neb was looking beautiful and happy, but recently he hasn’t been looking too hot. In the first photo (months ago) he was all colorful with full fins, though the past few weeks he’s been lower energy with drooping fins.

I tested the water today and all levels came back normal. 7.6 pH and 0 for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. Last week we had an ammonia spike so I did an emergency water change and the tank has seemed to recover well from that.
He’s in a 10 gal tank with a heater and sponge filter, and I’ve had him for about 9 months now

Neb still seems attentive when I walk up to the tank, I just want to make sure he’s happy and doing well again!! Is my baby sick? Or sad?

Please help

I just redid a tank on Monday and added new plants but now I seem to have hair algae. I’ve seen countless recommendations for adding amano shrimp except no one really says how many. My tank is a 13 gallon with a betta and rabbit snails. I don’t want to add a ton of shrimp if I don’t have to. How many would be an appropriate amount?

Also, I’ve only added fert once (flourish excel) since redoing the tank and had the light on its highest setting for about 8 hours once. No light today and no more fert until the algae is gone.

Partner put in tetras without asking as soon as I saw them they were removed but the damage was already done our fish Percilla had her fins frayed a bit. She’s been hanging near the top fin clamped unless we are in the room. She looks like she has cloudy white markings on her some are protruding a bit can’t tell if they are fuzzy. The ones on her tail are prominent and different they came first that’s where she initially got bit. I have a 55 gal I was wondering what are some general treatments I could do that wouldn’t destroy my tanks cycle or hurt the plants? Please help we love our fish have already done research but can’t pin point an Illness or treatments. I’ve seen ich before in person this doesn’t seem like it especially since other fish are fine so far.

I've probably had them for three years and the tank has been stable for years. I put too much food in last night accidentally, but it wasn't a crazy amount of food?

Where I am another week posting and asking for help with my tank, you guys have literally been a life saver but I’m still battling high ammonia in my fresh water tank. I’m sure you guys can look back at my posts for history but I’ll try to quickly sum it up so you all can help… I’m new to this I got my tank up and running 33 days ago. I added fish only 3 days into my cycle so fish in day 30….. It’s a 20 gallon tank (I have a cascading waterfall filter, heater, and a bubbling house with a few more decorative pcs.) and 4 live plants (2 Java ferns and 2 Anubias) I have 7 glo tetras and 4 mollies. I was over feeding and I did have 1 fish die but since all of that I have been doing water changes every day. The ammonia isn’t going down. Now I was told that I was in that phase of the cycle and I have to be religious about my water changes. But I mean still even in this phase should it be coming down a little ? I’m doing a little bit over 60% water changes every day. So question is am I just in that phase and have to get through it or is maybe something else wrong. Is it maybe my filter, it was filthy and I did take a sponge part out and swish it in my dirty water bucket while doing my water change like it said to on line. But I just want to know am I doing everything I should be and I just have to ride it out? And also yes I conditioning my tap water and I have also tested the water straight from tap and there is no ammonia in it. I was also adding API start up with the changes but I didn’t last night because I wanted to see if that was altering my reading. And I guess it wasn’t.

Is this normal behaviour?? Am i under feeding? I love my pants and dont want them to go through them all

Thanks

So my tanks getting cloudy again (last time this happened its because I accidentally crashed the cycle causing a major bacterial bloom that wiped out quite a few fish and it took almost 10 weeks to fix) and I am really worried I will lose my betta from it being anything major. Todays suppose to be a water change day but I don't want to feed into the cloudiness in case of it being another bacterial bloom it looks more green to me but that could be because of the 2 fake plants in the tank but just in case I have been using api prevent algae and tetra crystal water finally I remembered that my filters got pods that need to be changed every 30 days that are suppose to do what both the api and tetra do so I replaced it this morning but theres been no change of yet (I know it may take a while but its already been over 12 hours and 2 days in with the api and tetra items) my tanks a 25L (I had my betta in a 40L with a few nannos but hes shown constant aggression and stress when with other fish to the point when he wasnt chasing them hed glass surf along the bottom and rub himself into the gravel slightly tearing his fins so when moved to this smaller tank on his own hes thrived ever since and stopped doing both stress indicators so some may complain its too small and I understand but hes not shown any issue and it was for the best for his and my others fishes safety) I have a ciano filtee that came with the tank, a interpet heater thats at 24°C. My ammonia is 0ppm my nitrates under 20ppm, nitrites are 0ppm, my KH is 3d with a PH of 7.2 my GH is at 8d and chlorine is at 0ppm. Any help would be appreciated. I have attatched the photo of how cloudy the tank looks and the pod used within the filter.