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I have recently read on another board that because of their size Orandas can suffer from swim bladder problems , "especially if the complete food pellets are not soaked in water before they are fed to them" Can anyone offer any further advice on this subject? Thanks.

Thanks for response, the tank is about 65USgallons and has 2x angel fish, 3 bala sharks (about 3-4"), 9 albino rainbow sharks (about 1-3" long), 3 red finned sharks (about 2.5" long), sharks get along OK together, 3 pinkish sucker fish about 2" long, the 3 ram like orange fish that are about 1"...

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Check this link: http://www.sks-bottle.com/Glass_Info.html tells all.

I have a golden Ram (I think) one of three in a mature tank with other fish in it, That seems to have lost control of its reflexes it is swimming in very small circles , upside down kind of twitchyall over the place, I lost a female guppy the other day. Do I need to euthanise this fish? The...

Hi Guys, I have about a 55 Imperial (UK) gallon tank that has the filter built into one end, it has four sections the top section about 6" deep supplied with about a 2" thickness of floss, a middle section again about 6" deep filled with a lot of bio balls and a bottom section about 8" deep in...

Dear RDD, I don't want to go on, but think about it , at the time (and for long after) Britain was colonising and getting booted out of the U.S. , it was also colonising the rest of the world, we are talking, a large part of Africa, India, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, and look here for the...

Well I am surprised an American has heard of litres, I doubt very much if many people outside the US give much credence to a US gallon, the US might be big but it ain't that big, as it is currently finding out! All the boxes I look at (and I am in Thailand mostly far eastern products, pretty...

I have cycling under control thanks. Thanks for the input , looks like gravel with some blunt rocks and a powerful pump for the airstone! I change a third of the water once a week and hook out a lot of waste. (seems to appear just before and after feeding!).

it is obvious from the above that members need to start specifying what gallons they are talking about, maybe someone important should put a notice to that effect on the baord somewhere prominent.

Hi Toebash, Thank for your input I changed the pump for a bigger one didn't make any difference so i took a spike to the air stone, and made some holes, seems like pushing side wall out a bit is the secret. Anyone know the actual mechanics of these things? Space

i have read on the board that Balas should be the same size otherwise the smaller one is chased incessantly.

I have just put a 34" airstone in a tank, but it emits bubbles strongly where the air pipe goes in (from airstone no leak) and Ok for about half its length then nothing til the other end where a few bubbles come out, the pump isn't that massive its called a general 2800, could this be the...

I am about to rehouse 5 orandas and a baggy eyed goldfish from a 30 UK gallon to a 52 UK gallon tank, I have searched the board but have not found a description of whether they like gravel or stones, house to play or hide in, big rocks or whatever. As far as plants go I do put live plants in...

As I live in Thailand does the board think that returning my 15 (3 bala, 3 red fin and 9 albino rainbows!!) sharks to a suitable river when they start to get big is a possible option?i

It seems to me that as there are very many goldfish kept in the tropics, certainly not at coldwater temperatures and at even warmer temperatures than those recommended for tropical fish in temperate countries, and as I have read on this forum that slightly fancy godfishes such as Oranda should...

Dear Julia, You are not being thicker than the average Joe, I too cannot post pictures via the URL method, stangely the more convenient 'browse my computer' function is available in the 'Members aquarium & fish pics' forum so I suggest you post your pics there and refer board members to them...

Are 'red fin' and 'rainbow' sharks the same thing? I have some albino rainbow sharks and red fin sharks do the same things apply to them both, I had hitherto believed that Rainbow sharks were less agressive than red fin.

Whilst researching around ammonia I read that urea is much loved by plants and bacteria, and is 10,000 times less toxic than ammonia. Why is this not a good idea , it's free and easy to come by.

I have read elsewhere on this forum that boiling causes the shell to lose any colour in the boiling rather than into the tank

Along with goldfish .

So what happens to all the 14'' bala sharks when they mature, everyone sits at home with 6 x 100 gallon tanks for the six babes they started off with? The only possible logical answer is that most of them die, is this correct?

Hi, I have recently started a new tank with flossy media from a cycled tank added to the new floss in the top section of a trickle down filter underneath which is a section full of bio balls, about half of these balls have little air bubbles all over them is this indicative of anything good...

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Thank you for this great information, and yes I do have to put a pot of plants in the tank every week because they are blitzed, the question now is if I were to return goldfish to the store because I have too many are they likely to end up mollycoddled in a 20 gallon + 10 gallon tank or in a...

Yes i do currently own them but I will shortly be returning them to the store as above, I am in Thailand and cannot talk to anyone in the stores , and I am not sure that the assistants in the store have quite the same attitude towards fish as we westerners anyway, I watch my fish most of the...

Hi I posted the fish on this forum because the others do not have a 'browse computer' feature but require the entering of an URL which is beyond me. On the other thread (on which I referred the readers to this page) I stated that they are about 1.5" long and should have done so on this page. I...

Yeah the cheap prices have other consequences too, I have just discovered I have 8 albino rainbow sharks that cost me US$3, GBP1.71 the lot, in the U.S. and no doubt U.K. they would gave cost US$40 GBP22 I would obviously had a completely different attitude towards buying 8!! or assessing what...

Thanks for above, As I am in Thailand this would make sense.

Thanks for your insight.

Thanks Ncj, missed the last bit could you fill in please? and For me the big question, that no one not in the tropics has accounted for, is that here in Pattaya Thaland and I would imagine in most places at sea level in the tropics the natural water temperature of my tank which is not in the...

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Hi Annastasia thanks for moving it, I haven't actually tried to move it as yet but I have posted another pic there maybe you know what this pink fish is , anyone? By the way the original fish is only about 1.5' long Is this a bit small for a Koi? I will take better pic in shop. Thanks again...

This fish is about 1.5-2" long what for the future?

Ok have uploaded a pic to 'Members aquarium and fish' forum will try and transfer it tomorrow, but in the meantime if anyone interested could look there? Thanks a lot Spacey

here is apic of my unkown fish any ideas? Thank You.,

This is a very pertinent question that needs to be dealt with constructively as soon as possible!