My final question is, my fish seem to be swelling up really badly, and then just die. I put in some medicine. Is this what you call ich, if so what is it and how do I stop it? Thank you. <... time to study... and adapt a better maintenance schedule... It sounds like your system needs more regular care... likely your fish deaths are due to poor husbandry, a lack of nutrition, perhaps mis-medicating. Take a read over our website: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebIndex/fwsubwebindex.htm re Set-Up, Knifefishes, Maintenance... IF you want to be successful at keeping an aquarium you need to learn more re what it takes to care for it. Bob Fenner> Something wrong with my thingamajiggy I did a water change about two weeks ago and I can not get my pH levels down. The algae in my tank is a bright green. Normally my algae is dark green. I had one fish die last