alanmin4304

You can get planaria as well but they don't fit the description given. My turtles eat whiteworms but are not very interested in tubifex

If you have too many females your egg fertility rate is likely to go down also. I used to breed them on sand and that may have made a difference

It sounds like tubifex worms that I get in my tanks from feeding oxygen weed from the river.

I wouldn't put in two males as they will probably fight. I have bred one male to 3 females but if you put too many you can end up with one laying and the rest eating.

The cheepest and easiest CO2 diffuser is fish without excessive aeration.

I have been in quite a few fish houses with concrete floors and very few were not cracked. When I built mine I made a ring foundation and a slab between 150 - 180mm and heavily reinforced with steel. Most garages have an edge thickened slab only and are built to a very minimum standard. They don't need to be up to the standard of a dwelling (because they are not for human habitation)and seldom are. I would still be very careful to spread the load

I only point out the design floor load so that people are aware of the need to spread the load. I have a stand with 2 x 4 footers on it. One is 400mm and the other 450mm high. With the weight of everything combined this is probably 5 x design load. It is designed to spread the load and sits parallel to and over a couple of joists on a floor built in 1945. It is still on top of the floor. It is built from 25mm box section and I am sure if it only had 4 x legs it would be through the floor by now.

As Caryl said--it usually is caused by a bacterial bloom and they only do that when they have enough food. You are probably overfeeding and the uneaten food is feeding the bacteria. You shouldn't need to clean the gravel very often if you only feed what the fish are going to eat in the first few minutes. However I cannot agree that it is harmless as a big enough bloom of aerobic bacteria can deplete the oxygen and the fish will suffer. Cut right back on food, clean excess food from the gravel and do water changes till the water improves. The invoice for 2 cents is in the mail.

As Eddie used to say---"perishable goods". I am sure most of us have learned most of what we know the hard way---I know I have. You'll never get to heaven now but you will learn a lot and it is likely to stick.

It was comonly prescribed to kids. The two together have a greater effect than the two individually. A doctor or vet would know what was effective against that bug (if that is what it is). I think it is found in imported fish because the bug is in soil and many are raised in ponds.

Mrs Google is God's mother in law. It was bactrim and it was about 20 years ago and THE COFFEE PUT ME OFF. It was bactrim. It was also the same bug that caused rotting armpits at a pub from being in a badly maintained spa pool about the same time.

Females bigger and fatter.

I would go with supasi but buy the 7 + 13 they are cheaper and I only use them about once a year. They are trace elements also but feed through the roots more.

You need to do regular water changes to remove the nitrate and phosphate that feeds the algae, The flourish excel provides the available carbon for the plants to grow and they use up nitrate and phosphate but to starve the algae you need to make sure it is kept low with water changes and that also removes flourish. I dose after water changes and only use the normal dose. To be effective you need light as well or the plants don't grow. It also has algacidal properties.

The catch 22 is that you need to do regular water changes to also remove the nutrient.

I have kept them in a pnd that froze over in winter and they were OK. They come originally from waterawys around the White Cloud Mountains in China where it is very cold. They are realy a temperate fish rather than tropical and I have always felt that they look and do better in a pond or at least at cooler temperatures.

Bet his mother loves him

Flourish excel

Having had a couple of cups of coffee I now remember the antibiotic was amoxyl and I still can't remember if that is the same as bactrim. most antibiotics are used at 1/100,000 or 10ppm but amoxyl could be used up to 5/100,000 or 50ppm. The bacteria usually enters through a wound but if the fish are stressed they may have had a hard time from other parasites which could leave lesions.

In a previous life, when I imported goldfish, I did so because most of the goldfish in NZ where infected with a disease with similar signs. It mainly affects gold fish but can affect other fish. It is bacterial hemorrhagic septacemia and is caused by the bacteria aeromonas. I had a friend who was a Govt analyst in a micro lab at the time and kindly did some work on them for me. At the time the cheapest effective antibiotic was bactrim which can be used at a much higher dose than most other antibiotics if required. If my memory serves me correctly aeromonas is a common bacteria in soil. There is a viral type as well which would be more of a challenge.

It will be ok on a concrete floor. I am like you---a bit paranoid. The design floor load on a domestic dwelling is 2 kPa and that is equivalent to a tank 200mm high (water only) with the weight evenly distributed. I am therefore careful of puting all the weight down through legs which may be suppoted only by the flooring. I have always disigned my stands to distribute the load as much as possible. Some of my loads are way in excess but have been OK so far.

If it has 6 legs all of the weight will come down on to 6 sq inches and that is a hell of a force. My stands are built from 25mm box but have a ring bottom and top and sit on 18mm customwood to help spread the load.

Hot dip galvanised then powder coated. Wears well and looks good.

You mix the salt with a little water until it is still a paste and it acts as a soft abrasive that can be easily washed out when you have finished. As stated earlier it also acts by osmosis to kill bugs etc. Nature likes things to balance so a strong salt solution on one side of a semipermeable membrane (the cell wall of a bug) causes water to pass through the membrane to dilute it and this dehydrates the bug so it desperately needs a DB and doesn't feel well. Vinegar is acid and disolves the calcium deposits which are mainly carbonates (like what builds up in your jug).

Sometimes. Most people that breed them sell them when they are realy young and the trouble is just starting then wonder why they can't get a decent price for them. If you want realy good males you have to start with good genetics then seperate them but leave them where they can see each other and keep showing. This develops good finnage and prevents them from tearing each other up. They are called fighting fish for a reason. In my experience they will eventually start scrapping if you leave them long enough. The females will get beaten up as well and are better away from the males.