alanmin4304

What media are you using to incubate the eggs in?

I am aware of all that. I am simply pointing out that if the drug (as claimed on the packet) will control positives and negatives then it is a broad acting agent and is likely to have an effect on the good bacteria as well. Many drugs will do that and I think people need to be aware of that possibility. To the best of my knowledge bacteria are either pos or neg as I have not heard of ac/dc bugs. But I live and learn.

If you are on Christchurch water supply it contains no added treatment such as chlorine so you just need to mix hot and cold until it feels about the same temperture as your tank.

It is massive. I used to sell it to the shops 30 years ago before it was classed as it was known then "class A noxious weed."

It is one of the less aquatic plants sold for aquariums.

Pathogenic bacteria can be gram negative or gram positive. Staphs that cause boils and supporating sores etc are positive and Salmonella is negative for instance.

Agree. Agree.

My point was that if it controls (as claimed) gram positive and gram negative bacteria then it controls (by whatever means) all bacteria including the good ones in the filter. My other point was that although toxic many of these things have been used to control pathogens in humans. In the end as Ron said you use what works for you. I would agree that Furan is very good but because it is expensive the temptation is to treat the fish seperately then put it back into a contaminated tank or to only treat once rather than four times as advised. If that is the case in my view it would be better to use something cheaper and use it properly.

If acriflavine is a fungicide why is it used to control bacterial infections on cuts and abrasians? "That is a nasty mouldy scratch you have there my son" I still think that every bacteria is gram positive or gram negative, or do we have ac/dc bugs

Discusguru, wunder tonic contains acriflavine along with other things. I do prefer to use things seperatly but I also suspect that furan works so well because of its broard spectrum aproach.

I have used them both successfully as well as the ingredients in wunder tonic individually and they all have their place.

I would have to agree that it is best to treat the actual problem only but the problem for many people is correctly identifying the problem. If Furan 2 as claimed is effective against gram positive and gram negative organisms sensitive to furazolidone, nitrofurazone and methylene blue it is also a brood spectrum treatment effective against a wide range of organisms, as is wunder tonic. The differece is the ingredients and price.

As stated furan can be expensive. Wunder tonic is a lot cheaper and you are best to treat the whole tank or you put the cured fish back into an infected tank. Hatchets and neons can be a bit tricky to keep and wunder tonic is a broad spectrum treatment that contains a number of ingredients all good at treating different things

Ozelot is looking good.

The problem with your proposal is that most carpet plants need good light and it is generally hard to get good light on a nano tank. I have a couple of types of tenellus for sale along with Sagittaria microfolia on Trademe but they need good light. I also have glossostigma you could have for the cost of freight but it also needs good light. I don't know how much light Riccia needs but it might be worth a try (if you can get some free of pond weed)

Furan 2 is avertised as being good for the treatment of gram negative and gram positive bacteria. Since all bacteria that are not gram positive must be gram negative I find it difficult to see how it will have no effect on the bacteria in the filter. Some fish are I understand sensitive to furan 2. Methylene blue is a dye and useful in treating fungal disease and it stains (dyes do that) Malachite green is a dye and is useful in the treatment of fungus, bacteria and parasites like white spot but some fish are sesitive to it and it is a poison. Acriflavine is used mainly as a bacteriacide. Quinine is used to treat parasites like white spot and it is a restricted poison (can cause abortion I understand). So you pays your money and you takes your pick. Any drug which kills bacteria, plants , fungi or parasites is not likely to be much use unless it is a poison. Treat your fish with it and not yourself or your kids. Having said that quinine was used to treat malaria, meth blue to treat athletes foot and acraflavine to use on cuts and abrasions.

Wunder tonic is meth blue, malachite green acriflavine and quinine. It is therefore good for bacteria fungus and whitespot.

Only problem is we breed week and good looking, Mrs Nature likes strong and not fancy so as to easily hide.

Small tanks are good for most tetras. 300 x 150 x 150.

My guess is only a few months old but so much depends on how well they are fed. Too young to sex yet. They all look the same until the males develop longer front claws and tail.

The problem is that you want something that gives a reasonably accurate reading around tank temperature rather than 0 or 100 deg C. I gave up on all of them years ago and invested in an electronic digital thermometer. Most aquarium thermostats would be lucky to maintain a temperature of plus or minus one degree and the temperature is not usually that critical anyway. It is only the fact that you are getting different readings that is throwing you off. You are welcome to borrow mine if you want to check yours against it.

When I was breeding fighters I used to put them into a setup I made so they could see each other and regularly "show." This is what you are doing with jars but it can be hard work. I made a tank slightly smaller than 2ft x 2ft with stainless steel mesh on the bottom and it sat in a 2ft x 2ft tank. Excess food and droppings fell out the bottom and was siphoned off and a water change was done by lifting the inside tank and letting it go. The internal tank was divided into sections about 100mm square. This takes a lot of the work out of it and as Amazonian said you need to have them showing to develop good quality finnage. Some of the bettas around now would be way better than what we had available then so there is every chance of breeding realy good quality now.

I was trying to get reasonably constant temperature through all the tanks and that was why I used a fan. Without a fan you will get layering to one degree or another because hot air rises. This can be an advantage so it is up to you and what works best for you. I was also trying to avoid using heaters in the tanks.

That one is available in the nurseries here as well. It is sold as an aquatic plant but I have never been able to convert it to submersed. The green variety is the one that looks good once converted but I have never seen that.

In other words JC been dead longer than thought by some