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sorry about the number of posts... dunno what happened there(!) thanks for the advice. I'm doing it right now. if this is fish TB - I assume I should be careful when handling him? I have one or two cuts on my hands from my naughty cat - is there any danger of passing anything to me if it's...

Oh no :-( My beautiful double-trunk elephantnose - Mr Flipper - is very sick.... He's bent in a sort of "C" shape.... he's alive - just - but he's not moving and I think he's suffering.... Can anyone help at all? If he's going to die - I need to know. I love him :-( :wub: - I don't want...

Hi everyone, My apologies if this is in the wrong forum.... it's an emergency, I just don't know which category it would fit under :/ I currently have two batches of Axolotl eggs I'm trying to raise. One batch has started hatching and another batch is just freshly laid. I've read that by far...

Oh dear. So I need to buy a whole new Carbon pad then from my LFS? Is the existing one totally useless now? I added the treatment yesterday. How long should I wait before adding more treatment? I'm keeping the temperature a little higher at 29 degrees C too, as I've heard that helps. My two...

Hi everyone, I have a touch of whitespot in one of my tanks and added some treatment. I must have missed part of the directions on the bottle though that told me to remove Carbon and Zeolite sponges from the filter before treatment and I left all the sponges in my filter. I've taken out the...

Thanks for your advice so far everyone :D How long should I sustain a temperature of 30 degrees C?

Hi Wilder, Actually - my mormyrid - he is scaleless... should I avoid the salt if he's scaleless?

Hi everyone, I've recently posted in the oddballs forum about a problem I have.... Some of my fish have a little outbreak of white spot, but I have a mormyrid Double-trunk Elephantnose - a Campylomormyrus Cassaicus - and have been told to be wary of whitespot treatments. I have been advised...

Our 100 gallon tank complete with sand and 9 Axolotls is doing amazing. They seem to be able to to just suck all the water that the sand holds :D

Hi everyone, My apple snails have laid two "corncob" packages of eggs in one of my tanks.... I've never had baby snails before so just wondered how long it would be before I can expect to see some baby snails? :wub:

Here's what I have Campylomormyrus Cassaicus.... We call ours Mr Flipper :D Also known as Double-trunk Elephantnose's, and apparently [possibly] Angolan Down-Pokers (see other recent threads...) They're a beautiful fish and remind me of Dolphins :wub: Looks fairly similar to Sirminion's...

Yup. That's our Mr Flipper alright. They look like mini dolphins ^_^ We love him. And you're right, they are shy.... our hides most of the time but when he comes out he's very playful and normally plays with our two clown loaches :) I've got a 100gallon tank coming next week, so I'll have...

Hi everyone.... I remember someone mentioning that I was not to use whitespot treatment in the water with my elephantnose.... trouble is, I seem to have the beginnings of whitespot, so I was wondering how I could cure it if I can't actually use whitespot treatment? Any ideas?

Thanks for your kind words everyone. Knievel Cory has moved on to a better place, so it's OK :) I still wouldn't deny them the flow of water.... as you all say - it's obvious they love it..... they surf the currents that it throws out in turns.... it's rather amusing to watch ^_^ Thanks for...

Hi everyone, My parent's sailfin mollies gave birth to a load of live young, and I have 9 of them in a nursery net at the moment. I've had them for about 3 weeks now, so they're about 4 weeks old in total.... they're all stll white in colour though.... I just wondered if anyone could tell me...

If it wasn't so far for me to travel from Leeds to East Grinstead in Sussex, I would consider buying some for pickup.... However - since my car is out of action at the moment, I wouldn't consider taking them on a stressful long journey on a train or such! :no: Thank-you for the offer...

Oh dear...... I spoke too soon.... This morning my filter had stopped.... I checked right inside and opened up the motor and my tiniest little Cory Sterbae had swum up there and stopped the motor.... :-( :-( :-( :-( I'm so gutted - he was beautiful.... his side fins had just started to get...

Hi all I did a water change last night and that seems to have stopped him flicking.... however, I have now noticed one or two of my little cory's flicking a little too.... I noticed you advised so far that I don't use whitespot treatment... what can I do to treat their symptoms without harming...

Hi everyone, I've come across these little fellas in my LFS - it said Golden Rams on the tank as I flashed passed... I was in a rush and didn't have time to ask about them.... They remind me of a cichlid type shape, so I thought I'd ask in this part of the forum... can anyone tell me what they...

I have two little Panda Cory's that are about the same size - they're still teeny-tiny! :wub: Nice pictures :nod:

heh heh everyone likes his name :D :nod: I really need to get a digital camera so I can take a picture.... he's a flame red colour, with white tips going round in a semi circle shape round all his tail/fins.... When he stretches out in an almost perfect crowntail shape, he gets stripes of...

*tee hee* :D it's so funny to watch - i'm glad it's so common.... knowing that lots of other fishies are making their owners giggle too ^_^ I still can't believe my Crowntail Betta was unharmed though... he's so delicate... I can't look when he does it :o :hyper:

Aww! Those are so cute! :wub: (runs down LFS to buy another 10 gallon tank ;) :nod: )

Hi BettaMomma.... I'm looking at the pictures of those Betta's of yours and I'm thinking "listen to BettaMomma"!! (they're beautiful!! :wub: ) Thanks for the advice.... again, the thought struck me that perhaps if I've made him so happy to build a bubble nest, he's best left right there! :D...

Over the last few days, I have witnessed almost every member of my 26 gallon tank try to swim against the flow and up the filter outlet(!) :o At first, it was my Crowntail Betta who tried.... I was watching the tank and I just watched in horror as he charged the whole way up the filter outlet...

Of course - I forgot about their need to breath at the surface :rolleyes: It will be about 24 inch deep.... compared to my current 16 inch deep one, that's quite a difference Oh well, I suppose I can still consider it..... he's still very young and very active..... there would be no harm in...

Wow. Just WOW!!! :nod: I need a camera that takes a picture as good as that so I take pictures of mine :D

I agree. My crowntail Betta - Mr Crankypants - is very aggressive at times... I recently tried a couple of Clown Loach with him and he wasn't having any of it... I took them out after he performed a 4 hour constant "threat" - flaring them like mad.... when he finally took pop and missed, I took...

Actually - I think you're right... especially in Mr Crankypants' case... he is very cranky sometimes :lol: I think females would just stress him out and make him flare like mad..... Didn't know about the 100 gallon tank thing though... I was only going to keep small species in there (just as I...

Hmm.... it's very puzzling..... None of the other fish in my tank seem to be doing it at all... infact, I posted earlier about my betta building a bubble next because he's so happy, so I don't think it's the general water quality that is causing some irritation.... so, the question is, do I...

:D Yay! I thought so, but I just wasn't sure with the lack of female company.... I have a 100 gallon tank arriving next month, so he'll be going in there.... How many females should I add to keep him happy?

Hey everyone, I have a beautiful crown-tail Betta called Mr Crankypants and this morning I noticed he had been building himself a bubble-nest next to the nursery net currently containing some sailfin molly babies... There are no females in the tank, so he's not preparing to breed or...

_fish_a_holic_ seems to have the same fish as me.... this pic he posted is the same fish as mine, only the one in the pic is much more metallic and silver.... my Mr Flipper is much more grey and monotone, which is more reason he looks like a Dolphin! :wub: :nod: I'll get a photo together...

Hey there fish_a_holic!! I know what your fish is - I happen to have bought one today.... he's also known as a double-trunk elephant.... notice he has a line down the middle of his trunk making it look like a dolphins muzzle? That's one of the main obvious differences between him and a...

The LFS advised to get either one on his own, or at least a group of 4 - which sounds about right by what you've said.... I'd love 4, but it would be a bit of a squeeze putting another 3 into my 120 litre with my current mix of cory's/plec's! (26 UK gallons) Once Mr 100 gallon arrives, it will...

You're right - I meant to type litres as I did for the other tank... That's 460 litres! :lol: (about 100 UK gallons...) It's been a long day! :rolleyes:

He's about 2 inches long, and will stay in my 120 litre tank until I get my new 460 gallon one next month and cycle it.... ^_^ He's so unusual... I've seen quite a few LFS's stocking Peter's Elephant nose, but i've never seen one like this before.... the head is so much smoother that it matches...

I actually invested in two 12inch blue glo tubes for my tropical tank - what's the difference between that and one of similar colour containing Actinic which you mentioned as essential for a marine setup? Does the addition of a UV tube literally mean a "black light" bulb? Would that harm the...

Wow! :o Thanks Wilder - that was some good info... :nod: It mentioned that their growth rate was slow, and the ones I've seen are still teeny tiny :wub: , so I suppose I could buy 2-3 and see how they get on... it will take them some time before they need a 90G tank, and I'm certain I will...

No - I didn't know they needed something as big as 90 gallons!! That's a big tank! :o We successfully kept a pair of clown loaches when I was much younger, but we never had a Betta with them..... They stopped growing at about 10cm or so... Is it guaranteed that a Clown Loach will get big...