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Hi, I have what looks like eggs attached to the side of my tank they are small, clustered together and have a clear appearance. In my tank I have platy's (livebearers so cant be them) tetra neons albino cory's peppered cory's a pim catfish could any of these laid eggs or could it be more...

so what can i do with all my other fish espcially when i need to sterilize things? i soaked my net in bleach and cleaned it all out. am i supposed to do anything else? i dont breed on purpose, she just turns up pregnant. should i clean out my tank and start again, but then i have all these fish...

thanks wilder, ur always a great help. going to sort it first thing in morning. my platy is pregnant again, we already got three of her babies in isolation tank. so we need to sort it qucikly.

well we removed him and he died, just stopped breathing and moving and all his fins came apart on the toilet roll we put him on. now i m worried about the rest of my tank, will it infect everyone else and will the infection be in my gravel, plants etc?

Hi my tank is a fluval 80 Gallon Its water is good ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 5 ph slightly over neutral I have 4 albino corys 2 peppered corys 5 tetra neons 5 orange neons 2 platies I also have a mini clown loach(or so the fish shop said he was) he is tiny It is the clown loach I am worried...

hiya, thanks. i think i may possibly have done it. im keeping an eye on them everyday but it seems okay. thanks again everyone. :*

My fishies are in a 68 litre fluval tank with undergravel filter, bubble stone and fluval 2 plus filter. Happy chappies they are. sj :*

So how are we meant to know when to zap the parasite when it leaves her body? i've put her back in the big tank as its been three weeks but she could still be carrying it. I'm going to clean my tank today properly and put the carbon filters in to remove any meds left in the tank and possibly...

Well it would sound like the parasite has left her body however i've been observing her and the tank and i've seen nothing fall to the bottom of the tank and swim around. Can we actually see the parasite? what does it look like?

hi, i've had my swordtail in the quarantine tank. I've tested the water and its quite high in nitrites as if its cycling however we used water from the big aquarium and its water stats are perfect. She does not appear to have white spots any more either. They dissapear and then reapperar again...

thanks to you both, im guessing the parasite is in my fish at the moment as she is covered in wihte spot, when this decides to leave her body will it kill her like it did my platy? i thought if i quarantine her it will be easier to see the parasite and then i can sterilise the quarantine tank...

Hi Im having trouble with my fish and i think its white spot. My tank is 14 uk gallons or 68 litres. It has a fluval 2 filter and it has went haywire. Everything was fine its been set up and cycled for about 6 months and now everything seems to be going down hill. I have a combination of cory's...

hiya go to www.home.zonnet.nl/...corydoras_ hastasus.htm they have loads of cory info. have you tried google images search?

hi, she apears to be getting better, we have treated her twice with the revitalising tonic and white spot control and the fluffiness has disappeared. However I checked my water stats and we have still a Ph spike, it is sitting at about 7.5 which is strange as it normally sits at 7.2. I also have...

her belly isn't swollen, she appears quite fluffy all over her fins, the white spots appear to have lightened in colour and look less grainy. we started treating her with white spot control and this is to be done every 48 hrs for a week. no other fish appears to be infected but we dont have a...

Hi This morning as i was counting my fish i noticed my female silver platy looked a bit distorted in shape i.e her spine has a huge curve in it just behind her head, her anus area also looks thinner, we also feel she looks fluffy around the edges and Im also p[ositive she has three little white...

Hiya, I've had my tank for about 4 months now and I have quite a lot of green algae on my undergravel filter tube and on the glass i keep on removing it by using my algae scraper, is this okay? Is it also true that green algea develops because of good water conditions? I dont think i really want...

did u put ur fish in the same day u set up the tank? i hope for your fish's sake u didn't. U know ur meant to let ur tank cycle first?

these are the first pictures ive ever put on. im trying to figure out how to crop the size of my digital camera images. these are phone photo's

hope u like him

after this amazing journey im so sorry to hear what happened. I was getting really excited to see your tank fully done. What do bristleworms do? and how is the new set up doing?

I probably have the least, but i want MORE!!! 4 albino Cory's 1 Peppered Cory 1 Swordtail 2 Platy's 7 Tetra Neons 1 Pim Angelicus catfish Need to get a replacment female platy, another swordtail. no more though coz i dont want to over stock. :-) I just but a BIGGER tank, but shh dont tell my...

add a carbon floss to your filter, this will really help to clear the water up. i put in a new substrate after cleaning it but it still went cloudy, our carbon floss or the white floss really helps.

yeah the people in lfs's really dont have a clue, i never ask them for advice any more. research and this forum seems to be the best method. If u need any more advice pm me.

I would be careful with the neons in with him, my neons killed my betta, the nipped away at him til he died of shock, they are nasty little things when they want to be. Nice tank though, i want a bigger one.

yeah will try, all my fishies are quite fast my female comes to front of the tank when i look in.

Hi, what u need to do is first of all get a WATER TESTING KIT, aquarium pharmacheuticals do a great one. this measures your water conditions. You need to know what your AMMONIA, NITRITE AND NITRATE are sitting at. These readings are part of the cycle, the cycle which happens is called the...

Hi, I had the same problem, my tank was at the normal 26degrees then shot up to 28degrees. What I do is turn off my tank lights, (they get enough light in the room anyways, fish kinda like natural light sometimes) I sometimes add cool dechlorinated water or float a plastic bowl of cool water in...

look Karah's_mommy: Stop being so pig headed and admit your wrong, fish are fine for up to 2 weeks without food, i dont see why u need 'proof' or 'evidence' I actually dont see more people who agree with you? where did u get the evidence QUOTE: "There are certainly more people out there that...

yeah think i will get another female on friday, we lost our other female, she died about 2 months ago. her gravid spot is quite black and is about 2mm across i think in size. we always thought she was a male however I did some research and realised she does not have the small tube beside her...

Just a couple of days i think, i never noticed it before. why would my male be chasing her? is that normal?

Hi, I have two platy's, a male and a female, over the past two days my female one has been hiding and the male keeps chasing her, I also noticed that she has a gravid spot appeared beside her anus. do you think she may be pregnant and do platy's keep semen for up to 6 months like guppies? My...

how do you mean your water is bad? whats are your stats? i.e ammonia, nitrite and nitrate? these are the biggies when you are cycling. Are you doing daily water changes of 10-20%? even every second day is okay.

yeah the one on holburn street is called Holburn tropics or tropicals or something similar, the guy who owns it is very nice. However I did get fish from pets @ home at the beach and my neons from the fish shop at kittybrewster. my neons are all healthy and huge even though I did my cycle with...

I have had my platy for 3 months, i think it is because the male keeps chasing her and probably the stress of water change, she seems fine this morning and fred is definetly a male as he has the tube beside his anal fin, cant remember how to spell the technical term. Cheekeyarab: I use Pets @...

I actually think that the male platy is wanting a bit of ho ha!! if u know what i mean, we did have two females however one died, i've noticed the male chasing her. the male has the small tube beside his anal fin is that right? is it normally quite transclucent to white in colour?

hi, Imho, what to do is 10-15% water changes every 2nd day to help lower the ammonia levels. Have you got any real plants in your tank as these eat up ammonia. If not I suggest getting a couple. Keep testing the water and you should see a difference in ammonia levels. Do you know how the...

I hope so, the rest seem okay however his platy friend(fred) keeps going over to look at him. its quite cute, i just worried coz he has never hidden before, i've turned their light of anyways to see if he will chill. Thanks. :)