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i've got a tetratec ex700 and don't seem to have much problems, I usually clean the hoses and pipes aswell though so everything comes out of the water. if you don't clean all that then just close the valves and lift the lever on the black thing that the hoses connect to, lift it off and the...

sorry for the delay but havn't been on for a bit, heres the pics of the parrot. if you need more pics just let me know, you should be able to see what I mean by him not going orange lol.

when small you dont see much of a difference but when they grow they look much different. Common plecs are more black and grey while gibiceps have a leapord like pattern to them and are a dark brown colour, I will see if i can find a good pic. When they grow gibiceps get reeeeeeeeally broad...

hehehe seems everybody has the same problem with gold sevs. I've had mine for over a year now and he's only recently started not bothering about my plants. He can't get my onion plant cause I have hid it away at the back. Don't get any plants with a red colouration to them as they will be pretty...

yeah it is a female, dunno about them getting on with common plecs though. My parents have a common and a gibby but for some reason the common hates the gibby, who knows why. All fish tend to be different, just wait and see if they all settle down. How big is your tank anyway?

I will post a pic later today. The parrot is doing great but I just found it so strange that he's not the slightest bit deformed or that he hasn't went orange yet lol

where do you live? I'm possibly looking to get rid of my 10" one.

ok so he isn't new but since I havn't posted on here for aaaaaaaaaaages hes basically new to everybody else. Anyway, yeah so I got a parrot with his baby colours ( greenish grey colour with black stripes) 3-4 months ago, he has now caught up with my other parrots now who are bright orange but he...

Thanks everybody for the replies. It's not my 180ltr Juwel tank that I am selling, it's the small 90ltr one, not sure if I have posted stuff about it on here or not. It is pretty heavy so I am guessing about £20 for postage.I am only posting it to dundee so it's only an hour away.I was gonna get...

Anybody know how I would go buy posting my 3ft tank to seombody, I have agreed to send it by post but just don't know how anything works.How would payments work? Do I send out the tank first or get payment first? What do I do to post it? sorry but I just really don't have a clue what to do or...

Hi wilder, after looking more closely I noticed the blood is under the skin so I am presuming it is septicemia, she is very lethargic also which also makes me think it is septicemia.Your probs gonna kill me but I dunno what my water stats are, I never buy test kits for them, sometimes test ph...

I tried easy fast growing plants but eventually they slow down and get eaten lol

ok just gonna make this short cos I am pretty tired and will also add pics aswell to help.The other day I noticed my female bristlenoses eyes were bigger than the males and my immediate thought was popeye, I have added good pics aswell to help, another thing is the weird bloody what looks like...

nice thanks people, can't wait for them to fully grow so the leaves can start spreading, thats if my severum doesnt eat them mind you

I'm glad mine are over and done with, I was pretty confident when it came to it,just got it over and done with.Shoulda studied more though cause they came out pretty bad lol

ok so just bought a nymphaea species in it's bulb form, when I get it do I plant the whole thing or just sit it on top like I did with my onion plant? if you go to ebay and type in "Live Aquatic Barclaya bulb & plant Nymphaea species" you will see what I am buying.

thats some good advice, i just thought some fish were capable and others werent, it's my parents 2 blue botias I am asking about because they are always together and 1 of them is really fat, she is comstantly like this but the other 1 is just normal size. the 1 that is fat is about 3 times as...

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I was hoping you wouldn't do that, I just had to remove my melafix and pimafix treatment because using both of them at the same time seemed to thicken the water and my fish struggled to breath and almost died.I didn't even get to the end of the treatment yet I was only 4 days in.

Hahahaha I'm not the only one sick of family issues involving fish, my parents never ever listen to me when it comes to fish and I am sooooooooo fed up with it, my mum was about to put her 2 grown botias in a 2foot tank to try and breed them, luckily after getting on at her she stopped lol.I...

ok so my parent thinks the botia is holding and they wanna breed them but everything I have read says they can't be bred in aquaria? I have tried telling them not to put them in a 2 foot tank but there not for listening.if there not gonna breed in a 4 foot then they arent gonna breed in a 2 foot!

well if I need to add salt then I need to add it, I have had these corys for a year and a half and there fine

bristlenoses and corys do have scales? plecs and corys and very hardy fish, I have both bristlenoses and corys and ad salt all the time and they do fine with it

sorry about that m8, I'm not the only to be having a bad week then :/ so far I have lost 7 fish to whitespot and finrot.

yeah I think you may be right there gill, weird it has the shape of a loach to it lol

yeah the first 1 is a synodontis eupterus (feather fin cat) last 1 is def a hoplosternum catfish and not sure on the others, will see if i can find anything edit: the brown 1 in the 2nd and 3rd pic is some kind of loach.go on www.loaches.com and see if theres anything there.

weird he looks like the redtail shark but without the umm red tail lol, I was gonna say black shark but I think they look different from that edit: just looked at the link and yeah he is a black shark.

55 gallons should be big enough for the 2 of them, both fish hit roughly 8-10 inches, more along the lines of 8 though.

don't worry about the rtbs, I have one (well had 1, died last night) and he never bothered about any of my cichlids.I wouldn't add bleeding hearts or anything with keyholes because they get long flashy fins and will probably get nipped,keyholes are the kinda fish that just hate stress.quick...

I superglued a flat stone to the bottom of my airstone to keep it down, never floated since lol :fun:

think that is roughly the full ammount, not to sure.bristlenoses are pretty hard fish and since it's nothing dangerous theres not really any need to add the full amount.ok just added it up,altogether you should add about 10 table spoonfuls but really you can cut that in half, even less.add 4 or...

yeah green away is safe,it's not really a fish treatment just a water treatment, it does nothing to the fish.If your water isn't bad don't worry but if your water is at the point where it's a light green in colour and cloudy then use it and you should possibly see a change in a few hours.Your...

constant water changes can just make your tank go through a cycle again, I did the same thing and my tank had to cycle all over again.Leave it be and see what happens, as for the rubbing,when it happens with my fish and theres no sign I just leave it or ad a bit of salt and everything turns out...

good luck with getting rid of the whitespot, if you have caught it early your in luck if not then sorry for your losses, I just lost 3 loaches a couple of days ago due to it and another 3 fish today :(

you could keep 2 or 3 in there I would think depending what ones you go for, I read that albinos grow smaller than browns but could be wrong althogh my albinos haven't grown anymore than 3inches and I have had them for a while.Just feed them plec tablets and cucumber, just anything that a normal...

I'll have a go lol, you should still have plenty of room in there after you add those if you don't have anything else in there at the moment.Keyholes are really really peaceful and all swim about together and peacock cichlids are usually peacefull aswell, I would go for them.Those mamelela's...

Yeah I just finished doing an emergency water change,seen my brislenose suddenly collapsing and decided I had to change it.Took as much of the meds out as possible and just added a half dose of meth blue to the tank and my fish seem to have changed a bit (in a good way) since I put fresh water...

so it wasn't just me who thought he was being harsh then :lol: he never reacts kindly when somebody moans about pets at home

ok just a quick questions, I have added melafix and pimafix to my tank and have been dosing it daily, just wondering can I add normal whitespot treatment to my tank along with the melafix and pimafix or will that be to much?

what do you run in that tank to keep it that clean?