alanmin4304

If I remember correctly Wonder tonic contains methylene blue,acriflavine, malachite green and quinine. The latter two are pretty effective against white spot but I am not sure about the dose rates. I don't think your clowns will like too much malachite and they may have cut back on that because of sensitivety by some fish. I agree with the previous comment about raising the temperature. My understanding is that the temperature is raised to speed up the life cycle with white spot and velvet (which can have an encapsulated form) because it encourages the vegetative state where the parasite is susceptable to the meds, not that it will kill the parasite.

My tanks are set up for Echinodorus sp. and I grow the crypts which will tolerate a greater range of conditions than soft acid water. I find C. wendtii (green, red and brown), walkeri, balansae and petchi do OK.

What you are creating is water containing infusoria that are alive and the fish will feed on, and since it is alive it will not rot like egg yolk which is a source of food for a bacterial bloom if you over feed. It is green because if you put water and food outside in the sunlight it will also encourage the growth of infusoria containing chlorophyl (which is green) There will also be lots of infusoria without chlorophyl as well. Other people may have better ideas but you can use lettuce leaves or banana skin. I use water from my turtle tank.

Can second that----best shop I have come accross for plants

You may be from Morrinsville but the pet shop is from Moronsville. There is more than one way to do it but the tank must cycle to stabilize. You cannot have too many plants as they will take a while to get established and start taking part in the chemical equation. Try to get hold of aquarium grown plants that will establish quickly and not die,rot and throw the whole equation out of kilter.

I got some killies from aquanut----they arrived in great condition and are doing well. They will be breeding soon.

My planted tanks have sand substrate and only get a surfacee siphon very rarely and I have no problem with methane. The substrate is between 50 and 150 deep river sand. In my view the problem is caused by overstocking with fish or overfeeding or both. I feed very heavily in bare tanks if I want fish to grow rapidly.

It is frequently for sale on Trademe.

Ronnies wee idea works a treat with a heater in it---happy as.

You should not be getting copper from your hot water cylinder (or it would have holes in it already)

My advice would be to get as much insulation onto the fish room as possible. There are cheap ways such as using polystyrene cover sheets or offcuts. Then get an electrician to wire it properly so you stay alive to enjoy your hobby. I used to heat 50 tanks with a one bar heater in a purpose built, heavily insulated fish house. The money you spend on insulation you will save many times over on power bills later.

Jager are fully submersable, not cheap but very good quality and can be properly adjusted to read the correct temperature.

It would have to be a genetic thing that has been inbred to maintain the gene. You can't breed a fish without a tail just by cutting the tails off. They are a diformity and should be treated as such.

If you turn the lights out they will often spawn when the sun comes up. I think it helps to condition them well until the female is obviously full of eggs, then if there is nothing good on TV---

I used to seperate them permanently until spawning time. Feed them up heaps and you will spot easily when the females are full of eggs. Try one pair only ( sometimes one lays and one eats) and put into normal tank. Do a water change at night with cold water from the tap and drop the temperature a few degrees. They will normally spawn next day. Remove fish when they have finished as the will start eating eggs often. I used to set them up Friday night so as to watch them Saturday morning. Good luck.

They breed outside in Christchurch from late November/ December.

The shape of a moor ,oranda etc is a development or inbred deformity and as nature does, some will revert back to the way the were originally either by body shape or colour. A black moor has a certain body shape and colour and fish that are not like that should not be sold as black moors. They sell red cap orandas that have reverted also and in my view they are not red cap orandas at all. They are all reverted gold fish---turtle tucker.

What sort of plant?

Selling turtle tucker----some will revert and should be culled (not by selling to the pet shop)

Thanks all-----I will set up Ronnies wee machine today and try the mix suggested----keep you posted

Ron, you mean you are going to rescue those lovely and very rare plants from your tank outside? Nice one

Thanks Ron, I have just finished making it up--- Will set up the system tomorrow now I know the mix

Sorry 1.030kg/10litre

Am I correct in assuming 1.030 = 1.030kg/litre?

I don't have a coke bottle or blue scoop. Can you tell me how many grams/litre they suggest on your instruction card and do you add baking soda or anything? Many thanks