Fussy is more of a human thing. Fish eat when considtions and food is right. Fish do sometimes need to be taught to come to the surface to take floating food, but once they know about that, which I assume they do from the flake, they should be fine with floating pellets. You could try grinding up some pellets and trying that, or flake food plus pellets assuming floating pellets. If they pick the flake out and ignore the pellets I'd say there's a problem with the food. If they're taking in pellets and spitting them out the food is bad. If all the fish aren't eating anything the problem is probably with water quality. Bumps on fish can be many things. Parasites under the skin. tumors, bacteria, virus. Step one is always to figure out which. However, I'm in the same boat as the other poster, have never cured a fish. I stopped trying years ago. Dealing with parasites in the pond OK. Treating new fish as a precaution OK. Making sure water quality is good so their immune system is good, OK. But actually curing a specific problem with a fish, I don't even try any more.

Oh, Linda, I hope she gets better. I'll be thinking of her and of you. All my heart goes out to you and your fur family. Sally Here is a link that might be useful: Pet Forum thread

I have a similar problem, but in quite a different! Please help if you can. My MalShih (Half Maltese half Shih Tsu is 5 months old & barks and snaps at me to take her outside to pee ever hour & a half to every hour & forty-five minutes. I read on a previous forum that everyone else's Shih Tsu's don't have to go that often (4-5 hours minimum). I'm exhausted by the end of the day. At night she's not crated. We have an insulated garage which we've set up with an air conditioner & astro turf, bedding and her toys. She goes to bed about 8pm & gets up at 8 am & that's when she starts on me. I hate to hold back water. She has a fenced in back yard and sometimes she goes out, pees and she's ready to come back in. Other times she likes to run around and play. She's thirsty after that. The crazy thing is that because I needed to watch her to make certain she went when I first brought her home now she expects me to stay out with her the entire time she's outside. I'm disabled and got her as an emotional support dog. Right now she's wearing me out by making me take her outside at least 10 times a day between 8 am & 8 pm. I stuck a little cup under her yesterday to see how much she goes. It's such a small amount that I can hardly believe she's not able to even feel the need to go with only this amount of urine inside her. At 4 months she had a UTI & went every 10 minutes. When she had 48 hours of antibiotic she was going every 3 hours. Now she's starting to go more often again. I'm at my wits end. I love Ginger so much, but she's killing me! Somebody help! Diabetes has even crossed my mind! By the way, at 5 months she rarely has accidents. But if I ignore her barking and snapping she will find the nearest pee pad and urinate on it!

Hi Christine, I do remember seeing you on the Houseplant forum as well (maybe even the C&S forum?). I agree, rescues make the best pets (I'm not biased at all!). They know how good they have it! Planto This post was edited by plantomaniac08 on Thu, Apr 17, 14 at 15:04