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Help! I did the water change and added the copper, and yesterday he was doing a lot better, swimming, eating. But the ammonia was at .5 and the nitrites were at 1 D: Then today he stopped swimming. Now he just sits at the bottom kind of curled up going in circles with the water current, and...

Ok, I will do a water change then. And I am just sticking with the copper treatment. I don't want to stress the poor creature more than I have already done. That fish has come back from near death twice before, so I want to make it easier on him.

I got a damsel because I wanted a really hardy fish. I didn't know they were really agressive though, my poor sixline got beat up as soon as he went in. I spent the rest of the day trying to net out the damsel, they are so fast! And my fish trap only ever catches the sixline wrasse D: They get...

Oh! Ok, I will look into getting one of those. Will the container start cycling again though? I'm not sure how to control nitrites and ammonia if that happens and I don't think all my fish are hardy enough to make it through a tank cycle too. :O And I just checked my hospital tank and already...

Can I leave my fish in tupperware for 8 weeks? That sounds scary. But I will keep the inverts in the main tank then, they do look much better than the other fish. I put an airstone in and my clown is swimming again :D Thank you!

I will try putting a power head in then, or will an airstone be better? We have both but they are very small. I do have a copper test kit and right now the level is .25, I was going to add a second dose today and hope the levels go up to .5. If all the fish need to be treated, I still have a...

So I am very new to the hobby of keeping aquariums, my boyfriend is trying to help me out but he's never had one either. We started off with a 5 gallon tank but realized very quickly that wasn't big enough for the blue damsel and ocellaris clown. So we got a 20 gallon and are using the 5 gallon...