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Well thanks everyone, you guys taught me some stuff and one of you even offered to come over and help. It meant a lot that you guys wanted to help but unfortunatly Derek the Ghostknife didnt make the night. Found him at 3 this morning just up right and gone. His breathing got harder, he was...

Thanks that means a lot :) Such a shame though, i really hope he pulls through

I'm in sydney australia or did you need more info?

So i guess bad news but he is now breathing harder and swimming very erractically like something is really bothering him. I don't know what to do anymore, I'm not even sure that he'll make it through the night for me to get the water tested.

Sweet thank you! I'll read through it some more and update the thread once i get the water tested :3

Ohh yes I plan to remember all of this, try and do everything right next time. I wish i didnt have to get rid of em but I guess someone could take better care and possibly use the eggs the dollars give off. Ah is the article part of the two links you gave me or am i being dumb again?   XD...

the tetras are fine and the ghostknife and the loach fight but they normally have 3 caves and keep to themselves. I know, it terrifiyed me when mine yawned once and it mouth was massive.   the ph has settled to 6.6 from what i can tell, Derek (ghostknife) is swimming a little more, have to move...

Ah i never knew that, might explain so much as to why it's so skittish in the tank. Welp thank you! Hopefully i can get the test tomz and the ghostknife pulls through for another night

he is one of these http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/loaches/images/KuhliLoachWFLo_Ap4A.jpg I cant get a pic of him cause he's hiding and tucked into the rocks. He looks healthy over than the breathing from what i can see of him.   This tank is a mess XD

I just had a look at my tank again, got a peek at my worm loach thing (got not idea what he's called i named him Eel ¬¬) ahd that one seems to be breathing heavily too now, before he wasnt

They sell those for $50 here otherwise i would have bought it already. Would have been the first thing i bought XD I fed the tank community small pellets and occassionally frozen brine shrimp. Might get the blood worms as well ad see if he goes for that since i usd to give a mixture of pellets...

thanks so much for the help, i'll see how he goes for now and try to trick him into eating. Might do a 25% in the morning as well. Just wanna get that heavy breathing to go down, that swhat worries me the most   Thank you, i got this tank about a year ago or well longer but it was ditched to me...

Ok i only mnaged to do 50% becase a family member through a fit about me transporting so much water. On the plus side i did a quick ph test just to see for now and it's at 6.6 same as before with the ph buffer, i used prime as the conditioner and also foud an old pvc tube that he used to have in...

ok will do :3 i'll do a 75% so that they can still be underwater XD

I'm not sure, the ammonia they said seemed high still but i cant afford any other kits at the moment.

T^T so cute I'm doing a water change now, would it be fine to do a 50% in the mornign and then 50% at night?

Would that not mess with the bacteria though? sorry for all the questions

Ok I think i'll do a 50% water change to see what happens, might ease the amount of stuff i've put in there. The ghostknife did have a bigger cave the one in there was just for the loach cause he kept hiding under the ghostknife. The whole area has a water reading of 7.5 maybe higher. If he...

My tap water is dark dark blue alkaline, dude at the shop couldnt understand how my water went acidic. The ph buffer is also a water conditioner so im worried that i may have added way too much.   The tank is barren, used to have a few large rocks in there but i took them out so i could scrub...

Yeah if i could I would rehome to somewhere better but with how he was when I thought about it he was already sick, At the moment none, just two rocks for the loach to not stress out. Tried to see if the ghostknife would move into it but it has no interest in any caves. The tank was stripped...

My ghostknife is around 10-15cm. He was given to me a little smaller and did well for a year and then suddenly the whole tank crashed. I if i could i really would rehome him but a certain someone in my home has a habit of throwing away any of my old tanks. At the moment said person either wants...

Hi I'm sorry if this is a bit wonky but I really need help with my ghostknife.   A week ago he was acting a bit funny, swimming straight up, going after bubbles and bumping into things but then on wednesday he was on the floor gasping. I panicked, ran to the fish shop to get my water tested and...