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RIP poor googly fish. She didn’t survive the night so I didn’t have time to make any decisions about treatment and euthanasia. Yesterday she could jump out of the water to take food from my hand.... at least it was fairly quick.

Aah this is what I’m afraid of. My fish still swims and eats and greets me at the glass, I don’t know how long it will go on. I am yet to find an example of a happy ending to the situation.

What treatments did you try for those 3 months that you feel helped? Do you think it increased his suffering?

I have heard survival is extremely unlikely once pineconing occurs. Despite this there are many remedies, treatments, antibiotics and routines around that claim to help. Have any of you personally had a success story? If so, what did you do that helped?

Beyond water changes and Epsom salts there isn’t anything else I can really do is there? I suspect I misdiagnosed the bacterial infection as ich when there was still time to fix it. Antibiotics are not easily available here.

@Colin_T this is a picture of my unfortunate fish, definitely looks like a pine cone to me, she also has fin rot and was treated last week for ich. My guess is the prognosis is terrible.

I have recently treated the tank for internal parasites and ich parasites. The overall health in the tank was stable for a few months and then plummeted. I’m going to work hard to get it back.

I will post a picture if her when I get home. The poop is chunky and white I think, I never seem to catch her in the act...

@Deanasue thankyou for the advice. I will try this. I haven’t seen her eat any fry and the numbers don’t appear to be dropping but I will try and organise a quieter tank setup for her.

I thought that last night she might been but decided it was a trick of the light. Today it is definitely not a trick of the light. She is still swimming around and eating, she just jumped to take a pellet from my finger. Should I add salt to the tank? I cannot get antibiotics here. She has...

Thankyou for this advice. There isn’t much space for more plants. The plants I have in the 10 gallon are limnophila, hygrophila difformis, hygrophila polysperma, Brazilian pennywort. There is frogbit but it is small and sparse. The other tank is 6 gallon and has African water fern, rotala...

Assuming that it is staghorn.... I have had it in low quantities for a while but recently it has started to cover the leaves of my newest plants. It doesn’t come off of the leaves here it is established. I am not adding liquid fertiliser, lights are on for 6-8 hours and are medium intensity...

@NCaquatics have you had any luck removing it? Most internet solutions involve either Hydrogen peroxide or liquid carbon.

Hello. I have a new problem algae in a couple of my tanks. It is a green/grey woolly algae edging some of the leaves in the tank. It doesn’t come off without damaging the plants. Does anyone know what it might be and the best way to remove it? I am already doing water changes every other day in...

It is, I grew it as a kid 15 miles from here without problems in low ph and low hardness water. I have something better now though, water wisteria, it grows rapidly and seems to help prevent algae.

Thankyou @seangee i will try this, my frogbit is definitely looking a bit stunted at the moment

I have finally got on top of my slime algae problem in one of my tanks. It is now heavily planted with hygrophila difformis, hygrophila polysperma, limnophila, frogbit, red tiger lotus and Brazilian pennywort. I have been using clay root tabs and nothing else. Will a liquid fertiliser upset the...

@Colin_T thankyou! This information just isn’t readily available on any of the planted tank forums or tutorials i have been following.

So I can see.... my investigation before led me to believe that it was much harder to over do it with the diy vs canisters. I will be more careful next time.

Thanks guys. I have done a water change and the fish are swimming around happily again.

I just set up my first c02 reaction using citric acid and sodium bicarbonate. I was was so focused on getting the bottle pressure right that I did t realise quite how much had gone in. I have turned it off, removed the airline and turned up my sponge filters. It was on for about 15 minuits and...

The tap water here is much more suited to live bearers then betta, I’m trying to counter this by adding a little rainwater to the betta tank to soften it a little. I can soon get acidic untreated spring water which is good for the betta but not the endlers.

Hi, this is a bit rambling...I have recently had a stocking mishap involving a new female Endler guppy who delivered fry in the post and 24 days later dropped more fry.... to accommodate them I have moved my betta from the 10 gallon he honestly didn’t like much to the 6.6 gallon that had the...

This is actually why I got anacharis in the first place, unfortunately where my blue algae coats the anacharis it is the anacharis that dies

I got amazing giant Anubias plants on eBay in the U.K. Ashby_pets_and_aquatics was the shop. They were many times better than any other Anubis’s I have bought it seen in shops.

So my list of possibilities now includes: Water sprite Hornwort Cabomba Hygrophila species Pygmy chain sword Pennywort Thankyou for these suggestions everyone. I will start researching suppliers.

The ends are buried and the lighting is on for 6-8 hours, this time of year a bit of direct sunlight light gets to the tank if I forget to throw a blanket over it.

That’s a good idea. Do they keep the pink colour or is that just for experts and photos?

No, my water is fairly hard. I grew anacharis very successfully as a child in very soft water of ph6.2 in an unfiltered unlit tank. My current setup is ph8, GH14 with lights, ferts and filtration.

I’m looking for hardy plants that grow quickly but are suitable for a small low tech tank. I am trying and failing to keep my anacharis from going see through and dissolving into messy mush. I love the look of it and I know is is supposed to be almost indestructible but mine isn’t. The plants I...

Here we can buy lion poop to put in the garden to prevent cats. But then you just have lion poop in the veg patch which is probably bigger and smellier and defeats the object.

That’s not so good.

Well there goes my plan to use cougars to deter cats...

I get mine from eBay. There are different colours and grades and they have always arrived alive and well. Postage costs a bit, although less than fish. Check the sellers rating and reviews before buying.

I bet that looks really cool, they are a very pretty snail.

Really? Mine haven’t grown any bigger in 8 months. They are 1.5cm. they don’t really have any food after they ate every single baby snail in the tank within 2 weeks of being introduced.