candy

aww ur all suck beautiful people ..nice to put faces to names

aw caryl if u lived closer i would say u could of put your fish in our tank that been cycled for about 3 months but still has no finish in it (goldfish dont count) hope it all works out and u dont lose any more fishys...

oh sorry slappers im a bit slow..sounds like they dont like coming out of their hidyholes to eat

slappers u better get that little guy nice and fat i have to say they are my fav SW fish

blue why will u need to sell him? when he gets to big? we sadly resently lost our huge fire eel had a bacterial infection and he was to hard to medicated in the huge tank and we were just to late... they are beautiful fish and so much fun to hand feed

have you got any updated pic of your first lot of babies? soundsl ike ur having fun rasing babies.now if u ever need to find a home for one of them i would be thrilled to take one.

we have a aro that does this too.mostly its because we give him a big fright so we have learned to always walk slowely past the tank and to not rush up to it in any ways..also make sure your lid is on tight our aro is forever moving the glass when he bumps it...also he probaly thinks when ever u come up to the tank your going to feed him and then jumps for the food. we now hold the food in out hand and plunge it in to the water so he know to go down for it not up . also we dont aproch the tank at night as this it the best time to give the fish a fright.. i hope his mouth fixes soon.we have used melafix on our and no harm done by it,just sheck the other fish are ok with it.

its his swim bladder so im just going ot go put him out of his missery now ..poor little guy... it seems me and my bf are having a bad week with fish first this guy then nicks 2 foot long fire eel got a bacterial infection and would not come out of its hole so we could move it to a small tank to treet him so we tryed doing it in the big tank but it was too late... and a cherry brab has diserpeared but he did not look well after i got him home so i kinda expected it

stain it then get a felt and couler in the putty

deffinatly not old age and no strange poop or anything yes i wish i could ask him wats wrong s he is still hanging on and looking not good. we got him about this time last year and he was very little he is now about 10 cm or so.... poor little guy

hi everyone . last night my tire track eel started acting a bit strange, he was swimming in loops all over the tank and sitting on the gravel with his belly up. he is a bit pale and his breathing is a little shallow compared to normal.but its very strange that he is out and about and not swiming away when people come near the tank. all in all he does not look good all my water test have come back normal and nothing out of the ordenary has been added to the tank same food same time same place.im allway carefull about my tank stuf(buckets ect) staying as tank stuf and not getting used for anything thing elce so i dont think something has gotten in the tank.. also my bisher and pleco are acting normal ...so does any one have any idears about whats wrong.... any help or idears would be wonderfull

well i was working at food town when the power went out and quickly called home but we were one of the lucky houses and our power stayed on.. but i did think of all the other people with out power and hot water ect im lucky i got gass heating and water and stove so if we did have a big power thing it would just be the filters i would have to worrie about

we get the plant tank backing and stick it on with the back of it to the tank so its just black.looks realy good as makes the tank look deep and not over crowded.and unlike using fabric or stuf like that its not big deal if it get a bit of water splashed on it and its thick so u cant see through it ect

JoandWilly your pretty much nextdoor if your in torbay cause i am too.also about to set up a malawis tank at my bf so we have a some things in common, im mostly in to odd ball fish and have the big tanks at the bfs and the little ones at home

will have a look i thorght swimblader too..but food caused it never hurd of that b for the have been geting the same sortof stuf no change in diet the others are fine too

our Albino senegal or albino bichir last night died on us,in about a half hour period he went from happly swiming about to dead. tested water and its all fine.it looked like his swim bladder had gone all crazy as he could not say right side up and was swimming in to things, he also had blood in his fins. just wondering if any one know what might of gone wrong as we have some very expensive fish in that tank and are worried about the others

well im in torbay and the water is fine up here tastes good but i just add a little aqua plus to the fish water just to be on the safe side been keeping fish for ages and nothing has gone wrong so far

im in torbay north shore.there are a few of us eh

thanks for the replies. fish keeping is deffinatly intresting and fun, i have a bad case of mts but because of what fish iv got none of the tanks are planted as of yet. i think next weekend i will go in to hollywood and have mozy and ask lots of questions.i think my best bet would to go with the ball thingies they seem like a good product. had a look at my lights and called up hollyood to ask for there oppinion and they say i deffinatly have enough light and its allso on a timer so there is a sence of day and night in the tank. will also have a look at a co2 generator.are they costly to keep runing? my mum has even offered to put some money in to my tank as she says she wants it nice looking so i think she can pay for some plant has anyone bought plants of trademe? i see there is some one selling a heep of plants so might look in to that too thanks for all ur help candy

hi steve, the tanks going nicel about half way through cycling so looking fwd to having things in it. iv been playing around with plants in my smaller tank iv managed to try some moss stuf(java moss i think) to a bit of wood but it sortof of falls of every so offten, not all of it but small clumps so im going to try get a hair net or something and try using that if my apple snail does not eat it first that is. also been looking on the net for plants that grow tll and bushy but have not seen anything i like so far, also a bit confused with fertaliser(cant spell ) iv seen the little ball thingies and i know people say to add iron to the tank but depending on the leval of iron u have in your tank but iv never seen a test kit for iron around so a bit confused about that. otherwise everything going well,just need to start saving up the money so i can get the fish.sadly my bornio has died (wasl iving at bfs) so a bit guttered about that.andn ow wondering where i can find another one. anyway thanks for the help candy

wow love the rock thats so cool loocking did it just grow through the mesh ? i think im going to have to contact mis and get some sent to me .u dont mind me stealing your idear? thank you

hi everyone im just about to set up my first planed tank(tanks is set up now) and need a bit of help iv got 4 foot of lighting with twin bulbs both plant gro bulbs(forgot name) and my tank is 2 foot deep. i have an inch - inch 1/2 of fine dark gravel and two huge bits of wood on the left of my tank with the right hand side left for plants this fish im having are-black ghost knife - african butterfly - peacock eel -bornio tiger. so need plants that can handle being with these fish and cope with the depth of my tank. also would like plants that can be tied on to wood . help would be wonderful and also if any one feels the need to donate me plants that would be wonderfull cause im broke and a empty tank is sad. thanks candy p.s. how do u tie plants to wood anyway?

hi everyone, i am wanting to do a fishless cycle in my new tank but having a hard time finding pure ammonia on the north shore .does anyone know where i can get some or what i can use that is a good alternative? thanks

thanks klayman for the hints iv allready got the bornio he is at the moment living in my bfs 5 foot tank and is very happy.his fave food is shrimp and he eats it out of my hand ... im going to make sure he has lots of plants to hide amoungst and im sure he will be fine.. what other plants are eazy to grow and ok to take a bit of a bashing????

i think Ira is the closest to what im putting in mine ..... center peice is a huge twisted bit of driftwood and iv got dark gravel and im going to get amozon swords and other plants (i know the names but not going to atempt to spell them ) fish-arfican butterfly black ghost knife peacock eel bornio tiger gold spot pleco thats all so far..have been thinking about maybe getting a bisher but dont know if there will be enough room teratorial wise (sorry about spelling ) or a royal pleco....what do u all think i liek the octopus idear my bf has allways wanted one but i can just see it excaping.... im picking up my tank on saterday moring so realy excited about setting it all up of course it wont have fish in it for awile.... but will definatly get pics of it one its all finished.