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alanmin4304

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  1. Probably best to put it down if treatments are not working.
  2. Good luck with your adventure.
  3. 'Ulcer" is about where I would expect a wound from a bird such as a kingfisher attacking it
  4. I think you will find they are not a standard size and have to be purchased from the pet shop. Most are in feet but I have a terrarium that is similar and is 2.5 feet. You can get the ones for plants or cool white---I have one of each.
  5. The starters only cost about a dollar each.
  6. A bit hard to tell but my guess would be two males. If one lays eggs I hope I will be forgiven.
  7. Most people might refer to this as Echinodorus quadricostatus or common chain sword.
  8. That would be some distance from home I would suspect.
  9. Bettas prefer neutral to slightly acid conditions but can tolerate higher pH provided it is stable. Adding chemicals to lower the pH usually ends in it fluctuating all over the place. I would suggest you really take your time getting the fish used to the new water and leave it as is. Put the fish and water in to a container and slowly add tank water until it is virtually all tank water, then add the fish to the tank
  10. Tell us about your set up and we can try to help.
  11. alanmin4304

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    Welcome and enjoy your time here.
  12. My point is that it will always be there in a chlorinated water supply so use prime. The amount of chloramine present will depend on the chlorine demand and therefore how much chlorine will need to be added before obtaining free available chlorine (which is the point in adding it). Water from a river will have a lot higher chlorine demand than a pristine water supply.
  13. When you add chlorine to water you get hypochlorous acid which reacts with nitrogen compounds like ammonia,urea and the amines (in all proteins) and forms monochloramine. When you add more chlorine you get dichloramine and even more you get trichloramine. All these (and other reactions) form part of the "chlorine demand" in the water. You cannot get free available chlorine until this "chlorine demand" is satisfied. Therefore when the reaction is pushed towards trichloramine there will be virtually no monochloramine present. In some states in the US they treat the water with monochloramine (made by reacting chlorine with ammonia) because chlorine will react with other impurities in the water and form some compounds that are not so nice (such as acetone) where as monochloramine will not. Monochloramine is not as effective in treating water as chlorine which is used in NZ but is still a strong oxidising agent. When people complain that the chlorine in a swimming pool is too strong and it is burning their eyes the problem usually is that the free available chlorine has been used up by contaminants in the water (such as urea) and this has pushed the chloramines back towards the monochloramine and this is what is burning their eyes. The problem is fixed by adding more chlorine. When you allow water to stand or aerate it to get rid of the chlorine the chloramines all move back to monochloramine and this will react with your fish the same as an under chlorinated swimming pool will with your eyes. Chlorine and all chloramines can be converted to more harmless chemicals with the addition of sodium thiosulphate which is the active ingredient you are buying from the petshop with dechlorinating products. Drinking water will contain various impurites that add to the chlorine demand and will form chloramines and other compounds. Ammonia is a bi product of the reaction when adding thiosulphate to chlorinated water. Chlorine only is used to sanitize water supplies in NZ and when you add chlorine you will always get chloramines unless you use distilled water.
  14. Any water that is chlorinated will contain chloramines because they are created by the chlorine demand before free available chlorine is available
  15. If you look after them and feed them well they will breed every 10 to 14 days. Get more tanks or let them get eaten.
  16. A suggestion: Your fish have some pretty mixed up genetics. Your female looks like it has black and marble genes and your gold has marble as well. When you raise the young look for black fish without the marble, marble without the black and and gold without the marble. Anything with the pearl scale gene would be good to keep as well. You then be able to breed some really good fish with "clean genetics".
  17. You look like you have it sorted. They will hatch and still be connected to the leaf by a thread. Be patient and do not feed them until you look at them one morning and they are swarming before you feed them nuplii. Turn the airflow down a bit at that stage and only feed them once in the jar. You will see that their gut changes colour to that of the nuplii. At that stage you can move them to a larger tank and keep feeding them a little and often. Remove any waste each morning with a siphon.
  18. All the plastic "solvent cements" are the particular plastic dissolved in a suitable but differing solvent. They "weld" the plastic as the solvent evaporates.
  19. There are two types of twisted Val and one is more twisted than the other. The untwisted ones are the not permitted ones.
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