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    Video: Dolphin Swims To Divers For Help

    awesome Videos :)
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    Name Vote

    im with dreamer , here pugly ,, altho if u cant agree lol change too pudsey hahaha :)
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    And They Are Off..... Fish Racing :)

    wtg on ya , im sure i posted in the thread of the lady who needed help :) that was awesome of u to help her im sure a load of worry has been lifted from her now .. and the vid was wikked , i love taking vids of my fish also :)
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    Nutrafin Test Disparity With Vet Tests

    well i would just keep a watchful eye on the rest of them signs for fish not happy is flashing about in the tank , flicking about on decos etc .. its hard to say what the cause is so not sure the best way forward about treating something we dont know the name off read up fish diseases and...
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    Nutrafin Test Disparity With Vet Tests

    i try not to medicate in big tank . so i sit for hours watching fish lol , to make sure they are all good , i also have a quarentine tank i put fish in when i need to medicate them so im not upseting the sensitive clowns /fish .. as with all medication with clowns it will be wise to only put...
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    Nutrafin Test Disparity With Vet Tests

    not 100% sounds like ur clown has skinny disease heres some info on it got it from here http://www.bollmoraakvarieklubb.org/artiklar/praktbotia/clown%20loach.htm Clown loaches enjoy food pellets. Special problems: There is a couple of things that you should keep watch for concerning Clown...
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    Beta Female

    Hi , Never kept a beta fish before and a few weeks ago after buying some fish she jumped ship and ended up home with my new fish , since she has doubled in size and comes out Heaps more where as when she was small she hided all the time . So cut a long story short she's nipping my male guppys...
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    Fish Stores Around Leicester Area?

    A5 aquaritics was one of my faves for fish when i lived in leicester ,, Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire CV11 6BG ocean commotion 210 Clarendon Park another good one i used a lot Birstall watergardens centre another good one 19-35 Sibson Road birstall these 3 i used regular ..i...
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    Help Fish Acting Weird

    sound like a possible outbreak of ich then if ir tetra has it .. , if u have one with spots then im sure u could have others that are showing early signs flashing the way they are .. but someone else with more experience will probs confirm , im a newby really , but personally if one has spots i...
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    4 Dead Fish

    Flashing is when a fish is irritated by something , could be water or anything else , but keep a close eye when u see it ( u will see ur flish flick against something like a rock the filter ,anything ) it could also mean ur fish may have ich so watch the fish carefully for white spot .. your...
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    4 Dead Fish

    not sure about the rest of the fish the first time around but ur clown could have reacted to the treatment u put in , my hubby put treatment in a few weeks ago the clowns went crazy swimming so fast they were slapping into the glass , had to do a emergancy water change ..soon after they were...
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    How Much Money Have You Spent On Your Fish?

    rofl ......... gawd knows how much we have spent ,, it cos me 25 quid yesterday on plants n stuff hahaha .. bank statements have more fish shop debits than any other thats all im saying LOL
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    Help Me Bring My Tank Back To Life!

    this is a good page too read u can learn lots here http://www.fishforum...esource-center/ if ur water is still then try adding air stones .. of course u will need a air pump to do this but i would also invest if possible one day a good filter that will also give a good flow of water in...
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    Can Any Experienced Nottingham Aquarist Help?

    you could place it on ebay buyer to help empty /dismantle Due to health .. hope u find someone soon :) many tanks this size is fought after ..so im sure u would get someone :) , rather than let it go for nothin . u could aution it , then u will only get serious bidders , and if ur really...
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    Ich Treatment Advice

    i lost most of my B tetras , 5 made it , so try and heal first no harm in trying :)
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    Ich Treatment Advice

    plz do come back to this thread and let us know how your getting on :) hopefully ur fish will be ok :)
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    Ich Treatment Advice

    most ur LFS will sell it , and yes Do not use Salt :) good luck .. i think label on protizin says ..dose day 1.......2..........3 . then day 6 @half dose you may need to repeat a second week like i had too .. because of the half dose
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    Ich Treatment Advice

    i have used protizin , with my clown loaches , so u would need to treat the whole tank as per instruction on bottle , ..but cos u have yoyo loaches im assuming same rules would apply as clown loaches , only using half the recomended dose , remove carbon from filter , Dont add any salt , not...
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    My Tank , :)

    yeah i did think about dark gravel ..black n white , i think ill save that for when i get my 6 foot tank next year then have some black sand or gravel ! thanx so much for ur feedback much appreciated oh and the gravel is now all green white n blue :) looks nice now i put some blue there too...
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    Starting To Wish I Didnt Buy Grassy Bits For Tanks Lol

    tyyyy so much , and ok im kinda glad i got the grass , i intergraded my new fish into my tank today , and omg she decided to have babies ..only managed to catch 3 baby lyretail mollies the rest has found its way into the grass :) ..but i have clown and corys that like to hidey in the grass so...
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    My Tank , :)

    thanx all :) it doesnt worry me that no'one commented although feed back would have been nice :) i just wanted to show ya all , cos i am not the most creative person on the planet lol ,, but thanx to all who have commented :) xxxxxxxx
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    Starting To Wish I Didnt Buy Grassy Bits For Tanks Lol

    LOL my kids in my tank loveeeeeeeeee the grassy corners even my clowns / baby mollys and corys , im starting to wish i didnt buy it lol , Every morning i do like a count tank well as best as one can lol ..but most are either sitting in grassy /playing or hiding so now i cant do my count lol...
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    Help Beta Female Found In My Tank , I Didnt Buy Her But :s

    Thanx for the tip baccus , i wont get any gouramis and paradise fish then and thanx for the tips on the plants i can buy i will look for some of them ..i believe the shark is young as its only little and scrawny atm lol , but i will keep a close eye on shark .!! hubby wanted him lol .. i will...
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    Help Beta Female Found In My Tank , I Didnt Buy Her But :s

    i have grass (fake plants ) either side off my tank in back corners i only have fake plants in tanks cos clowns and plecs destroy real plants .(sigh ) you can see what plants i have in siggy ..lots of hidy places for loaches and any thing else that likes to hide ,,, was fed up replanting daily...
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    Help Beta Female Found In My Tank , I Didnt Buy Her But :s

    yesterday i went too LFS to buy a cpl more corys , upon releasing them to tank ,carefully taking them out of the bag with net ..i noticed i had a fish in the bag , thinking it was a guppy jumping into net then and jumping out into bag , lol but on inspection of the fish when i switched lights...
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    Cleaning Gravel Help

    http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/277264-beginners-resource-center/ this is a page with lots of good info on here , go give it a good read :)
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    Cleaning Gravel Help

    http://www.ketteringkoi.com/acatalog/Aqua-Flow-100-Aquarium-Filter-121710.html is this ur filter , if yesh then u just need to give the sponge a Quick rince every other week , not too vigerous that u remove the bacteria but ,enough too take some slime off .... my filters have 2 medias in each...
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    Cleaning Gravel Help

    ur filter doesnt really need changing that frequent , do as ur doing , give them a quick rince in the water ur removing from tank fortnightly. i remove one filter media one week , the other the following , this helps keeping the flow going nicely on ur filter .. and do a gravel clean...
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    Cleaning Gravel Help

    i have just changed my gravel over from a biggish gravel to a finer gravel.. and it shouldnt do ur bacteria any harm ..bacteria is in ur filter media .. if u see my pic in my siggy u can see where i have changed , the newer gravel is green and the old gravel in the middle of the tank which i...
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    Cleaning Gravel Help

    hi i do a gravel clean once a week .... using one of these...
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    Is My Balloon Molly Pregnant? Urgent.

    not a very clear pic im affraid , if she is getting ready for babies and is shimmering already maybe shes had some , i had a platty give birth last week ., no indication at all , only found 5 babies , which i got still now :) have a watch about ya tank see if u can see any , mine were hanging...
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    My Tank , :)

    not done a tank with many deco's before. so thought i would show ya all i have not seen much of my 8 clowns today as i put in some fake grassy bits and i think they like it lol ...oh and too many hidey holes for clowns lol ..and in the breeder net i have 5 baby platys i think lol
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    Lost One Very Large Clown Another Seems To Have Gone Mottled Colour An

    i dont think he ment any harm , i had a case of ich in my tank , i had 3 clowns , when ich was about 3 of them didnt look happy , u can tell im guessing by how they react , .when one of mine died he was covered in ich , and the other 2 clowns were im guessing gutted cos they went into hiding for...
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    Ich- When Will It Ever Go Away.....

    during my case of ich which lasted 3 weeks just over , :S i lost 2 clown loaches and heeps of neons , if u look for my thread in here somewhere , i had some very wise advice from cpl people ..what worked for me was what tizer suggested also wilder helped heeps .. go have a read heres my thread...
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    Betta Has Ich?

    looks like ich to me , but someone with more experience will confirm it . sorry if it is , hope he will get well soon x
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    High Nitrites In Goldfish Tank

    ill continue with water changes then :S only just got main tank cleared last week from ruddy ich n now this ..years ago it was easier to do this hobby , so changed over 20 years arghh !! Thanx :)
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    High Nitrites In Goldfish Tank

    the filter sponges gets a rince in the bucket from water from tank which i remove .. the sponge gets dipped and squeezed out then replace , this so it doesnt wash out the bacteria , surely after 12 weeks it should be cycled? i know the goldfish waste is a lot ..so is there anything i can do...
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    High Nitrites In Goldfish Tank

    When posting a request for help can you please include the following info 1. Water parameters. (ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, PH, temp', Hardness etc) ammo25 nitrites 25 ph 7.8 nitrates 30-40 2. A full description of the fishes symptoms. non 3. How often you do water changes and how much. 30%...
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    White Spot And Clowns

    i like the leafy bgrounds :)
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    White Spot And Clowns

    its on its way :) ordered one off ebay few days ago ;) just taking its time , ..noone at any of the lfs has any grrrrrrr i went all over
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