Search results

at least the peach coloursed one lived i wanted it but dont wanna put anything in the tank i have waiting as its for some reason full of some sort of planaria worms even tho ive never even put food in it? but the blue one wasnt there when i was looking just a load of dead or dyng red ones. they...

this dodnt happen to be the pets athome in ashton did it.... if so i was in the other day and out of 5 betta fish they had in only 2 were still alive... one was on its last legs propping itself up in a corner.. i desperatly wanted to buy the other but had to stop myself as my tank wasnt fully...

hi thanks where would i get any of those from? and are they likely to kill the filter bacteria?

from all the pics ive seen of planaria worms though their quite thick and slug like and hang onto the side of the tank, these just seem to swim freely around the tank. i could be wrong but their too damn small and fast to get a pic of.

come to think of it i had 2 goldfish in there before i cleared it out and they were fine but the tank is way to small to have goldfish in tbh. it was only being used as a temp measure coz i kind of got him from a fair as he was in a sorry state but then was really stressed so i had to buy one to...

yeah ive been googling parasites n all sorts just get mad tales about parasites that replace fishes tonges lol. when i had them last time i tried methylene blue and was assured it would kill all parasites, yet they still swam about. tried all sorts but dont want to be going adding chemicals...

hi i was wondering if anybody can help me. ive had problems with these worm like things in my tank for a while, so when id emptied it i decided to totally gut it change the gravel everything its currently cycling but these worms have come back. i thought they were planaria at first but having...

thankyou ... put salt in it today was abit confused coz the packet said to only put 1 in so i went witht he happy medium and did 1 1/2 ill let you know how she goes on.. thanks.

finally managed to get some half decent pics of her.. thought they dont really show much the white bits look like the edges of her scales and her scales do seem to be raised slightly.... but i could be wrong. do aquarium salts count as ive always used them? was told they help to...

yeah its only the hospital tank that has no thermometer as its still glued to the one that broke.. my main tank is fully set up etc. was just a temporary measure to keep her away from the others. tested the stats yesterday and they were posted above. though i didnt test amonia... think this is...

just been looking at the first links you gave me and it doesn really look like the pics.. now also scared as i just read your last post. though the rest of the fish in my main tank seem healthy..... i had the fish store baffled when it first started .. well either that or they were just scared...

yeah when my fry were all dying a few kinda bent and had a few get popeye but i put the popeye down to poor water quality. but alot of them did bend round. the last platy to die just went very skinny. and the molly seems to have totally different symptoms, i was wondering, if it was bacterial...

erm its a 20ltre tank only use for fry or isolating fish se did have a tank mate but it died, so only tank mates she has are the strange worm things and snails. not tested the water but can imagine the stats are all over the place as it wasnt cycled.. ill test them in a sec though have been...

w put the weight loss down to internal parasites and the others seemed ok after treatment, i had been seeing long thin white worm like things swimming in the water which have appeared agian in ,my hospital tank, im just confused about this fish, it did look like fungus at first but then seemed...

hi ive been having problems with unusual illnesses since i added new fish to my tank 5 months ago (pets at home) grr i lost a full tank of fry bar the 4 survivers, and 5 adults, i thought everything had sorted itself out, but recently lost another platy , she lost alot of weight until she was...

erm, havent really noticed much tbh not been paying as much attention as i should coz of the amount of uni work i have on at the mo did notice a while back that the poos looked a tad stringy but they have always done that on occasions, i hadnt noticed any swelling either or anything hanging from...

could it be planaria? i had them in my fry tank a while back from over feeding their horrid, they looked a bit like tiny slugs. try googling them, if it is i was told to cuy back on the feeding and they just seemed to disapear

lol doing tests on tapwater is one way of making sure i never drink tap water agian the ph is 6??? nitrates are 20 ish btw, my test isnt very accurate. and im bad at working out from charts lol

the platty that died origionally had been a bit tatty looking since i got it and i was shocked whenit did give birth because it looked slim to start off with and it got worse after giving birth it was eating.. or i saw it swimming round at the top when i fed them so im guessing it was. it could...

lol thanx though my thermometer reads 32 so i was just maiking the assumption it was broken on the other hand that may well be the reason. argh im rubbish! lol erm yeah all the others seem ok, at the moment, one mickey mouse platty is looking a bit slimmer than normal but she could have given...

ok, ive had nothing but problems just recently with my tanks Today i found yet another dead fish, but he seemed healthy yesterday? first problem was 2 mollies i took out of sympathy from my mums work as they had 8 molly and 4 cory dora catfish in a 21 ltr tank they lasted 3 weeks then died...

ahh ok thanks, it wasnt like that before but it does seem to be getting a little better, was just worried in case it was an internal parasites or anything more serious. i read it could be caused by constipation but i feed cooked deshelled frozen peas weekly. i have had a few deformed fish before...

ok its not exactly an emrgency but one of my 2 month old molly fry has "bent" erm. its back has sort of curved round to the left so its head and tail are closer together, it otherwise seems happy and is attempting to swim about. it seems to be eating but im sure it wasnt like this all the time...

not really its a bit of a loner just hovers round the back of the tank, not really doing much, well it did i spent 10 mins looking for her this morning and cant find her. i was going to try anti bacterial med but my fry would have had to go in the main tank then and some of them werent big...

i use a sandwhich bag when im transferring fish between tanks, tend to rinse it first then basically do what they do in fish shops, and then acclimatise themto their new tank. if ou do it that way i cant see any problem with moving him into another tank so long as its fully cycled etc.

she does eat, i took the babies out well, rescued one from the first lot and 1 from the second, dot think she was giving birth to many, the ones i rescued could have been the only ones as she was tiny to start off with, she never really interacted with the other fish before giving birth as not...

hi my platty female seems to have lost alot of weight, she was always very small and i was shocked when she gave birth as she looked extremmly slim, however since shes given birth she has got even skinnier and now idnt a usuall platty shape her stomach goes inwards, and she looks very tatty...

ok i was considering getting algea wafers, to be honest my tank will be too small for him once he hits about 4 inches anyway but by that time i might have convinced my mum to let me have a bigger tank, hes kept with molly platy and tetras got a fairly big peice of bogwood which he likes and it...

:blush: blame it on the mum, she said itd look pretty there :P though there isnt anywhere else in the room it would fit, bit of afunny shaped room, dont suppose the 19 yr old cat that sits on top dribbling helps matters either.

the tank is right in front of full patio doors, that get full sunlight during the day, ok as much sunlight as you get in sunny manchester! though i do tend to switch the light on from when i get up to when i go to bed about 5 days a week so i guess i could cut back :P

kill? :( but he looks so sweet i just needed something to get rid of algea, my tanks no where near big enough for aplec and shrimp creep me out, and the snials were rubbish at it. i was keeping the glass clean manually but everything in my tank was covered in the stuff. hes about 2 inches long...

aggressive,he he it gets bullied by my 3 month old molly fry, spends most its time hiding, must admit it did go after my platty the first time it went in the tank but now it stays well away.

this is going to be a huge dissapointment when you finally do see the pics.

mabe this one will work? or this one.... im not getting desperate...

managed to get somebetter pics, finally found out ho to work my camera yey! Visit My Website Visit My Website

ok ive had this loach for a few weeks but i dont know what type it is how big ts going to get etc , thought it was a CAE at first bit its the wrong colour, asked at the shop and all they said was its a sucking loach? hopefully the links will work, im just interested. sorry for the poor quality...

dont know the names of the test kits but i was reccomended seachemprime as a a dechlorinator, as it also detoxifies ammonia, nitrates etc, helped me out when i had a nitrate problem. can prob get dechlorinators from most fish stores though

id heard of popeye, just didnt know what caused it. been using internal bactieria treatment and melafix seems to be going down a bit but i guess itll take time the second treatment goes in tommorrow so hopefully he will be ok, hes the unluckiest fish i know.

bought a new heater. wouldnt have asked in the first place as its not something i would have done but one of my mollies got injured and needed keeping in a hospital tank with meds which left me in a sticky situation. all sorted now, my rooms permanantly warm as im the biggest wimp with the cold...