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I'm really sorry to hear that, RPP. Rest in Peace, Ty :( I also recently had one of my guys jump about a foot, landing within an inch of the desk's edge. Luckily he was only out for about 5mins, and survived, but now all my guys have lids. Definitely make sure they're covered, but if...

Oooh, good to hear I'm not going entirely crazy! Only 2 out of my 4 do it, & it just seems to be completly randomly. Looks almost like they're clicking their back or something crazy. :blink: Yay for me not being completely batty :D

Carrcn, I wouldn't recommend getting a malaysian trumpet snail - they definitely enjoy algae, but from my experience, they also happen to like most plants, and breed like *crazy*. And they don't even need 2 snails to reproduce :blink: I had the misfortune of getting one of these guys in my...

Thanks for the reply, Whiskerz. I know I didn't know it was his stones, but I still feel bad for the poor bloke :( I've never seen suck-on plants, but I don't think I will put any plastic or anything in there - I'm a wee bit paranoid about him hurting his tail now, lol. I'll see if I can't...

[useless ramble] Alright, so you all probably already know this, but: No matter how smooth the stones, don't assume the substrate is safe!! For literally 2 months I have been thinking my poor betta Titan has been battling tailrot, and finrot on his 2 front hanging-down fins (ventrals?). But...

Hey Georgia, welcome! :) As far as I'm concerned, the flake manufacturers would very much like you to feed your fish that much so they make plenty of money. I usually only feed my guys once a day, and I certainly don't give them "as much as the fish eat in 5 minutes" (what the stuff I have...

:D Wow, that's awesome, lol. Guess that explains why he's not seeming ill then. Thanks for all the help!

Thanks, Black Angel. Unfortunately, there seems to be little chance of the poor guy getting a bigger tank, or a filter for that matter - I'm working on it, but she doesn't "see the need" :unsure: On a happier note, she has promised me she'll replace all of his water every day. I know this...

Rofl, what great names!! Haha, my poor cardinals are just "the cardinals". My grandma told me it's blasphemous, though, because she's really religious & Cardinals are like one step down from being a (Catholic) Pope, I think, lol.

Hey Danny, Your neons are fine. When it's dark, they just kinda tone down their colours a bit so they don't stand out so much. My cardinals have a lovely time changing their shadings, too, and so long as they come up a good colour within a while of the light coming on, it's nothing to worry...

Well, I'm not too familiar with pounds, but here price depends on where you go. There's one place that's pretty cheap (about $2-$3 Australian), but they have less of a range. Where I go can get more expensive (about $3-$15), but there's a huge range, you get a *bunch* of the plant rather than...

Hi everyone, My grandma has a couple of black moors, goldfish, & apple snails in her pond - not perfect conditions, but they've been doing alright. The problem is her smallest black moor, she says, seems to have had parts of his skin eaten away, as if by a small snail. I'm figuring 2 apple...

Yes, jumping into another male's tank wouldn't be a good idea.....then again, neither was jumping 1ft and landing an inch from the edge of my desk :rolleyes: Still waiting to see if the silly guy's okay :unsure:

Just don't forget to take the fish out before you suck out all its water, though! Lol. I usually just catch my guy & sit him in a small container of fresh (dechlorinated) water with his plant & get to work on his tank. Of course, now I know he's taken a liking to jumping, I'll also be...

:blink: WEIRD

Thanks guys. Sorry to hear about your fishie, Wendy. Titan seems to be doing ok, but I guess if he's still ok tomorrow then I'll be able to say he's fine. His water is fine, I think he just got a fright first from the phone ringing, then me bumping the table. He's taken a liking to doing a...

I hate, *hate*, HATE those Japanese Bubble-Eyed Goldfish. I'm sorry, but they do not look healthy....actually they look just plain wrong, IMO!!!

Hey everyone. I have a slight "situation" on my hands, hoping someone can help me please! My betta Titan just jumped out of his tank/bowl, landing at least 30cm (1 foot) from it, and only about an inch from the edge of my (his) desk where he lives. I had the phone sitting on the desk, and...

Wow, thanks a million, everyone. I think I do indeed have a black khuli - looks fairly well like the pic that The-Wolf posted (thanks for the pics). I was worried it'd turn out to be a dojo loach, but I do trust my LFS, so it's a khuli unless it gets too big, lol. Thanks for the pics, some...

Hey everyone, long time no visit! First order of business: I've been offline for a while, so hi to everyone, especially all the newbies out there! *waves* On topic - I've been progressively setting up a new tank, and got a khuli loach for it yesterday. Only problem is, I'm not sure it's a...

Well turns out that 3/4 of the dose wasn't enough - poor guy died this morning :-( Someone I know went up to my LFS yesterday to get a fighter & the guy sold here something with melaleuca (an Australian?? tree extract, maybe Melafix???, she's not sure)....anyways, the guy said she needed to...

I have no idea - the guy at my new (very awesome) LFS filled me a small 30mL empty dechlorinator bottle for me & gave it to me for $3!! It's rather watery in consistency, but has a greenish tinge (but no copper). Having said that - despite being cured of his aweful tailrot for nearly 2wks, my...

Well, I'm definitely no expert but I feel extremely sorry for any poor betta that gets put into one of those. "The tank is a littler bigger than the cup you buy them in" (quoted straight from the site) ==> I don't know how big the cups they've seen bettas in, but I really hope they're bigger...

Hey everyone - I'm baaaaack (for anyone who actually remembers me anyways lol). Just thought I'd tell you all about my discovery of a fantastic all-purpose kinda med called Bactonex. Well...maybe you guys already had it where you are but I'd never seen it before & it works like a charm - fixed...

Hi Emz, how's the fishy going? I can't recommend that you add salt (aquarium salt, & definitely not any other kind!) because none of your catfish will like that. It's sometimes used as a general tonic type of thing, but fish without scales (ie. catfish, & probably a few others) are generally...

Hi WheatS, is it possible for you to post pics of this at all? How big are the spots & are there getting to be more spots? If they are very small, small as/smaller than grains of salt, it might be Black Spot, which is a parasitic thing, much like Ich. I *think* this can be treated with a med...

Well, the poor guy died yesterday. The black patches had gotten a lot worse even though he still seemed to be fine. It's got to be something to do with the black patches but I really don't know what....Nobody else has them at this stage, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for them all.... If...

Hmmm a mystery indeed....they do definitely sound stressed, maybe they have some kind of external parasite that's too small to see? I really don't know I'm sorry but hopefully someone else can help you....The eye thing really baffles me. Don't worry too much about the not eating much - fish...

Any ideas?? Anyone???

Thanks all. I don't overfeed at all, & anything that does sink to the bottom gets eaten by the cories. The only thing these snails seem to be eating at the moment is any algae growing - they've cleaned my tank up nicely, even eating algae growing on my LIVE plants (I didn't know that was...

Could it possibly be something like Slime Disease? I don't know much about this condition, but it might be worth you looking up to see if it's similar to what your fishies are experiencing. It happens when a fish produces too much slime coat (I think), & can give a grey, whitish, or sometimes...

And a pic of his other side:

Hi all. I lost a colombian tetra that I'd had for about 6 months, but that was probably nearly 2 months ago now. He had developed these patches of dark/black on both sides, and went downhill very suddenly after having had these for at least a month. He was probably nearing 1 1/2 - 2 inches in...

Hi everyone. Looking for a bit of advice on what might have caused the death of my apple snail. I'd had him for at least 3, maybe 4 months, & he's never been particularly active, but in the past week he hadn't moved (at all), except to pull his trapdoor thing in every now & again. Nobody...

I don't use cucumber coz my fish all ignore it but just another thought on the fish dying thing - my lfs told me when they first put me onto it that you should use young/small cucumbers coz if they're too old/big they can have a toxin in them that builds up & can harm the fish. Otherwise yeah...

I think definitely go with a couple more cories - 200 gallons is massive, & these guys love being in groups, the more the better, & the same goes for the lone black neon tetra who I'm sure would love some company of his own kind. Anyhoo, just my opinion. Goodluck :)

Albinos ugly? No way!! lol nah I just got 3 albinos & they're just gorgeous...a little odd looking but I'd like to think they're just a bit different (much like me ;) ). Adorable & very active - I definitely recommend them :D

Could be not much to eat in there, or it could be that angelfish quite often like eating snails. To find out if a snail's dead or not take it out & sniff - if it's dead it will stink to high heaven. Otherwise, it's probably alive - some snails just seem to like floating, as I've recently...