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Will do! Thanks Wilder :) Sue

Hi We already had the test kits, which I thought he'd been using, but apparently not - my fault, I should have checked that - I am going to check the water supplies with them also, yes. The man at the pet shop has sold me a balance for the water and we've done two treatments so far, so I'd best...

Thanks to you both for your answers, and for your time and patience. This morning I took a couple of tests of the water myself and was horrified to see that the PH reading was down to 5 - really acidic :( I drove straight in to the pet shop and asked their advice and am now putting two caps of...

Hi! Thanks - I'll research the more complicated (for me) stuff tomorrow, but I can say that they are showing no unusual signs at all - no flicking, no apparent breathing problems and their colours havent changed until they are about to die and get pale and raggy. Actually, I just checked again...

Hi 1. Water parameters. (ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, PH, temp', Hardness etc) - cant answer this myself but will ask tomorrow. The levels are checked every other week though. 2. A full description of the fishes symptoms. No symptoms except they start to look raggy once they are dying 3. How...

Hi :) No there was no sign of bloating, his eyes looked fine, and he looked perfectly as normal. It just looked as though he had been sucking the glass and slipped off sideways - he was lying in the water at a slight angle on the bottom. It was hard to believe he was dead, but of course he was.

Hi Thanks everyone - a week has passed nearly and nothing has changed but neither of the gourami looks ill. The smaller one still spends most of its time right at the back of the cage behind a log. He only comes out for a quick feed once a day and then goes back. The larger one hangs round the...

Hi We bought three fish from a friend of our son's, when he had to move house and couldnt take them. They are all fairly large - a plec (?) around 11 inches long and two large kissing gourami. We don't know how old they all are but we have had them for about 18 months and they all seemed fine...

hi You can buy screws to hold chunks of cucumber down - just google 'screwcumber' and you will find them - we got ours from ebay and they work perfectly! Sue :)

Hi My name is Sue (obviously!) and I am here to learn!