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I cant put salt in the tank as i have a catfish in there, she has many hiding spots and plants, she has been pregnant about 4 times now as has had no problems untill now , she has never been that swallen and has never sat at the bottom of the tank like she is. She realy is having alot of rapid...

R.I.P TONY I bury all my fish in plant pots or near plants, they help the growth of the plant and give the fish a new life.

do not add any salt if you have any kind of catfish in your tank it will burn them, water changes and use PRIME (red and white bottle), i had the same problem after i cleaned my filter out?, i wondered why my fish were all gasping. Anyway it only took me about a 2 days to solve it , just keep...

Please can someone help me, my platy started to give birth about 4 days ago i spotted 1 baby but she is still at the bottom of the tank getting bigger and bigger she i very bloated. She does not eat and can not get off the bottom of the tank, she also has rapid gill movement. Also my barb has...

Thankyou Wilder, I have a black carbon filter will that be good enough, or is that what you mean?. Thanks once again :) Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year

Sounds like he has an internal bacterial desease or dropsy mine went like that. Does he have a pitted stomach,are his scales up,do his eye look buldging,is he bent and swims funny thats dropsy.Internal bacteria desease can just kill with no obvious symptoms although dark colourings is one of...

Hello, my fish has mouth fungus and i treated the tank yesterday with 10mls of fin rot/fungus control made by KING BRITISH (i added 8mls less than i should have done because i only had a little bit left).Today i went to buy somemore and the shop had changed suppliers to INTERPET. The King...

They are chinese alge eaters , they hav'nt caused any problems yet and i am keeping an eye on them. I noticed you said INTERNAL bacteria control, i have been adding just anti-bacterial control. They are due their water changed on friday, so i will buy some internal anti-bac and added it then...

My tank is 180litre 36 gallons Fish: 15 platys (most small 1-2 months old, 4 adult) 3 white widow tetras 3 ruby barbs 2 loaches Test results: ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 10 ph 7.9 I rinse the sponges in the old fish water and replace the inner filter poly pad. Thankyou for your helpful link :)

I am confused and stressed out, i seem to be getting sick fish week after week. My water readings are normal I changed the tank water and suck the gravel once a week and changed and rinse my filters every 4 weeks. I will list below what problems i have got, the first 4 are my recent problems...

ok then, thank you very much. They will look foward to having a bigger home :D

Yes the i have my catfish in a 40 litre tank and i want to put them in my 180 litre tank, i have added salt to my 180 litre tank for medical reasons. I added salt yesterday and was wondering would it be ok to add them in 4 weeks time, i do a 30% water change each week so would it be safe for...

Hello Just 1 question, can i add aquarium salt to a tank with albino catfish in?. Thankyou.

WOOPS sorry pressed the wrong button before :) . Thankyou both for your help, it looks like i will be doing this by myself along with my boyfreind. Many thanks you provided alot of useful info. :D

I am moving house soon and i have 180 litre and 40 litre tanks. I am so worried about my fish dying in bags while they wait for their tank, and i am worried that when i empty the tanks that the gravel will break throught the bottom when i lift them. Does any body know of any specalist aquarists...

My tanks have been set up for about 6 months, done a cycle with fish (none died as i kept on top of it) I have quite a few plants, all thrived at the start and untill a month ago i lost all my plants and had very dark algee, so ive just changed my lights as i thought it might be the problem. I...

Thats what it says on my test kit for the reedings that i have. I dunno im confused :unsure:

I got as exsited as you are now when my platys were first pregnant, i called the first baby lucky, since then i have had about 50 babies (more were born but obviously got eaten) all were born and bred in a community tank. Platies breed like flys (well mine do) you will have loads more to come...

I change about 40-50% in both tanks once a week, and my tap water nitrate is 40ppm, my tap water is also hard so i need something to soften it but i dont know what. I test for ammonia and nitrite they are always 0ppm. The ph is realy annoying me though because i want other fish that just wont...

I have platys , ruby barbs and sucking loaches. My ph is 8.4 and sometimes swings between 7.8-8.4. My gh & kh swing between 250 -370 ppm which means my water is brackish. Are these high reading harmfull to my fish? as i have lost 5 fish in the last 4 months (but i can think of other reasons why...

Same sort of thing happened to my gouramis first the female then the male all with 24 hours about 2 weeks ago, water was tested and good. As far as i can see it could be an internal bacterial infection. I wonder if your LFS has the same suppliers as mine hmmmmmmmmm -_-

I will try to get a picture of CAE but they are shy and only realy come out at night. Btw i have brought ruby barbs not cherry barbs my mistake :blink: .

where do you get this clove oil from? please. I think we have had this conversation abour my CAE and i think we understood that they were sold to me as CAE but i dont think they are but is still call them that if you see what i mean :blink: .Ive had them for about 7 months they are only about...

I forgot to say i had them for about 3 months and the fish shop where i got them from seems to have a problem to as they didnt look happy when i brought them but they come alive when they got home and they both loved their home. I recently went back to the shop and noticed the gouramis all...

Sorry its taken me so long to reply (ive been busy at work) Bad news........my male (otto) died the next day :( . All of a sudden he started to loose his balance in the water, gasping at the surface and he even got sucked in to the filter, he was so weak. I moved him to the hospital tank where...

I brought 2 dwarf gouramis about 3 months ago 1 male 1 female (only sold as a pair) The male builds his nest and blows his bubbles into it aswell, the female is (was) very active and always looked happy with my platies. The male and female gouramis have spawned and fertilized onece or twice. My...

Thankyou all very much for your replies, you have all helped alot :D , soon i will be able to choose my fish (when tank is cycled). My baby platie is now nearly and inch long and she is getting more red by the day. Sylvia my ph is 7.5-7.7 but did go to 7.9 but has come down again :dunno: , so i...

Have you got a dog or a cat in the house that might be having a look at the tank and its occupants when you are not there?. I noticed my platies done that but they have snapped out of it now, i also noticed at the time of the nervous platys......muddy paw prints on the tank......my cat neo, he...

This is mine: Siamese Algae Eater, Crossocheilus siamensis (Smith, 1931) This slender algae eating barb is the only known fish that eats red algae. It comes from the flowing waters of Thailand and the Malay peninsula. It was first brought to Europe in 1962, but became popular in the 1970's when...

{By sucking loach you are probably reffering to chinese algae eaters or golden algae eaters. These get to 10", are aggressive and are not suited to a community tank. As they mature, they may begin to attack your fish so be prepaired to remove them.} My local fish shop sold me the loaches and...

Ive seen the name of the other fish i was describing, its a speccled swordtail (looks like its been rolled in glitter). Do mollys, guppies and swordtails live alright in pairs?. I want just females, 2 of each. Which will make my 180 litre tank: 9 platys (red) 2 mollys (1 black 1 white) 2...

If your using the aquasafe like me, are you using the small 100ml bottle?, if so the side of the bottle has a clear bit with small lines raised from the bottle, they indicate 5mls. And if you buy the bigger bottles the have the measurer in the cap for 5mls half the cap and 10mls the whole cap...

Hello i dont live that far from you, im near cambridge and my tap water nitrate is 40, 40 is maximum for the tank so i dont bother messing with it. But if it goes above then my test kit say you can buy a product called nitrasorb. Hope that helps, but i will let more experience people answer your...

[COLOR=blue] OK so i have got a new tank 180 litres and my platies are in there at the moment with 2 sucking loaches, once the tank has cycled what fish can i add?, i know about adding a couple of fish at one time but im looking at about 10-12 more fish for my tank. So that will be 8 platies+1...

Yes i always check for fry in my bucket with a torch, but now im so more paranoid i will scoop the water out the bucket with a see through jug and check it. Oh please dont say ive thorwn some down the drain :unsure:

You could sell them to your local fish store (a good one) maybe the one you got your fish from. :)

Im have ONE baby platy (the rest must have been eaten), and i feed her freeze dried brine shrimp, she loves it because it breaks apart in tiny pieces but as she is only about 1/2 inch big (max) she only needs a pin head of food and i feed her twice a day. Im also using that food to keep the...

Yes she is eating and pooping, bless her she is the only one. Its amazing she survived in a 30 litre tank with 8 platys and 2 suckers, its also amazing she survived because i transfered all the adults and suckers to the new 180 litre tank and in the proccess uprooted all the plants and stired up...

ok thanks for the info :D , but how old do you think my One baby platy is, shes about 3-4mm big?

Yes my mistake 12 hours :rolleyes: