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hi all --one of my neons is acting funny -swimming in what's best described as "twitches" and seems to have trouble keeping position in the water and is lent over on to it's side some times . Colour and shape are fine though. Any ideas

hadn't mixed the med's -figured i'd better ask first, did my partial water change today & re dosed with meth blue... fish looking better-fungus is less pronounced - am planning to leave it a couple of days untill no sign of fungus then do water changes every day+put carbon in the filter. will then dose with Melafix for a couple of days before returning to the main tank

what sort of quantity of salt?

just thought -would adding some Melafix be a good idea?

figure i don't have enough of a delicate touch to dose something as small as a neon without squshing the poor creature- and staining the tank/silicon isn't an issue ,it's old and tatty anyway :-?

ok -finally caught the neon :- www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/help-catching ... 26739.html and got him into my quarantine tank,dosed with Methylene blue but theres no instructions on the bottle apart from the initial dosage - how long should i keep the fish there ?(guessing until fungus has gone?) should I redose? and when? what should I do about water changes? I'd normaly do a 25% change every day in this small tank

tried catching the little bugger last night but the neon's sleep in the weed and all i managed to do was rip up half my tank....

hi - one of my neons has small growths on its "nose" which i figure are a fungal infection (cotton mouth) my problem is that I cant catch the bugger without destroying my planted tank and stressing the other fish any suggestions please I've tried a home made fish trap and caught almost every one but him :-?

Unfortunatly lost all 4,one disapeared compleatly and i couldn't find him amongst the weed and gravel I'd in the tank for them, 2 died quite quickly and the 4th I had to euthanise as he was obviously in serious distress after a couple of days--sad i still dont know what happened -at one point nitrates were a little higher than I'd like (not bad though) but the regular(daily) water changes did nothing to help. I'd like to get more but I've kind of lost confidence now

Thanks just done another water change- nitrates ,amonia etc were not high though...am clueless here

any one?? - been out and found other loaches the same any ideas?

Hi all -I've 4 small loaches in my quarentene (20 liter aprox)tank and was to put them in my main tank this week, one of them is in trouble though . I spotted it going madly in tight circles this morning and didn't think any thing of it, i've just got in from work and found it curled up and breathing heavily. i've done a big water change and added an extra airstone...it's all i can think of right now . fish seems ok otherwise -no wounds that I can see and colour seems ok tanks small but ive been doing small(20 %ish) water changes every other day, temp normal (28 deg c) the other fish are hiding which seems to be the norm saw them all yesterday though- so I dont know what they're doing

Any one ever see dwarfpuffers for sale here?-If you did where and how much were they. I've been looking at them on the net and would love some.

mostly trumpet (i think) snails+ some regular shaped small ones

any ideas apart from clown loaches? I'm looking for somthing south American to go in to my Amason tank with dwarf cichlids ,neons and pencils