casey05

hey guys.thanks for your great advice.did a water change today(about 25-30%) and took the carbon out and added a dose of meds again.Its been like 4-5hrs and theres a considerable lesser amount of white spots on my clown loaches :bounce: I think the whitespot cure might actually be working Im in happier mood now about the whole situation.thanks again guys.Especially alan

how long does it take to get rid of whitespot with methylene blue?

yeah guys im having alotta trouble getting rid of my whitespot problem.starting to think why i ever gotfish in the first place.is there any real easy way to get rid of this problem?

I rang up Levin petworld today and they said that clown loaches get it when put from chilly water into warm water.he advised me to put the temp up to 28 degrees celcius and use that methyl(not sure :-? )blue but i told him i'd used whitespot cure and he said just wait a day or two and the cysts will fall off and then you do a water change to get the cysts off the bottom.Does that sound about right to you guys?

yeah i suppose your right alan.about the it would be worthwhile part.dad got the wunder whitespot cure and it has that malachite green in it.put half dosage in and keeping a good eye on fish.says 1mL per 20L i think and to dose again in the next 3days and if fish look discomforted than do a 50% water change.has anyone had to do water changes and is it compulsory?

Im from Linton,Palmerston North.I cant go to levin til the weekend.dads going to get some whitespot cure today.so when he comes back from work than i'll do a 1/2 dosage as mentioned above.and to alan well if i had the money to buy a new heater and air pump than i would setup a quarantine tank but i dont so i unfortunately have to take these kinda risks.

Thanks Lynda. I got them from Levin Petworld today and they looked fine when i bought them.I will make sure though in future to check real carefully though.Thanks for the recommendation of whitespot cure.Does it work well and efficiently?

i have another tank to use as one but i dont have a heater for it.so no.so i put the temp up to 28-29 and i'll go to the LFS(animates or wetpets) and see what they have.do you have any recommendations?

Just bought two clown loaches today and well they have lots a little white spots on em and i think its white spot.Can anyone help with perhaps any info as to how to really identify it and if theres any possible cures and if its deadly?Please help as i have over $300 worth of fish and i want to help em if possible

hey rory.ive got a 2ft tank and have glowlights,neons,black neons,black widow tetras,zebra danios,serpaes,diamond tetras and kuhli loaches.i definately recommend kuhli loaches as they are really cool and do a good job at cleaning the bottom of my tank ie. leftover fish food and they dont grow that big and get on fine with my pleco.glowlights,neons and black neons are cheap and cool andwould go well with your black gravel.im not sure about fighters tho.good luck with the fish selections.

Thanks Kim&Dan Yeah i hope everything goes well now too! All fish looking well so im hoping that i'll have no further casualties in the new year.

oh...........................................i didnt know about the fish down the toilet problem :oops: i was always told to just flush it.I cant bring myself to throwing it on the ground and adding it to the gardens.my mate did that and her cat fished it out and left half of it on her bed.talking about coming back to haunt yah what if i in future just stick it in a bag and then chuck it in the bin?i dont have the guts to "smash" it on the ground that just sounds muderous to the first degree :evil: any other nicer ways would be kindly accepted however

Thanks lynda, yeah it had been weak and sick like for a while and was on its side at the top but still breathing but suffering so i flushed it down the loo to put it out of its misery.i had a feeling that fish would take out the sick i suppose its their way of putting them out of their misery.I found grant at petworld to be great and he did me a great deal on my tank from 500 down to 450 and the powerfilter and bubblewall for 50 so yeah he's really great.i like animates in palmy also as they have a great range of community fish and yo can sometimes get 10% off stuff.they tend to have a better range of fish stuff than wetpets.i had bought 5 diamond tetras,5 black widow tetras,5 serpae tetras,3 glowlights,2 black neons,5 khuli loaches and well ive had them for a 2-3 weeks now and none look sick or have died except for the danio yesterday but yeah.my pH had climbed to 7.8 so i went to animates and got pH 7.0 and now my tanks at 7.0 so thats good.i just did a water change after reading your message and will do another tomorrow and do another test but i tested it a few days ago and the nitrite was pretty much at zero but i'll aim to have it "at" zero.do you know of any good top swimming fish you know with the whole layers thing how theres the top ones middle ones etc?i need a few more top ones.oh and yeah i did find a home for those fish.mums friend wanted them and so we went to her place and she put them in the tank with the other to rasboras she had and they were swimming with them quite happily so i knew they were in a good home.

i had an unfortunate death of my female zebra danio today.it was the one without the tail and well i found it today on its side with its fins torn i have a male and another female and i was wondering if fish tend to take out the weak ones or something cos all my other fishes are fine except the tailess one can anyone help with any info or something?

Congrats apisto :bounce: Well done you did really well and im not suprised that you did really well

got some new fish for my tank and well i think they might be stressed as their mouths are always opening and shutting not fast though.pH is 7.2,ammonia at 0,nitrite at 0.25(any suggestions on how to get that down?)and nitrate at 0.10.is these results the answer as to my fish problem.They look happy enough just that mouth movements constant.

thanks shae.yeah their loving it which is good.do you know of any interesting community fish?

i ended up flushing that sick fish and risked moving the fish.they are now very happy and enjoying the new tank :bounce: the danios are swimming through the bubble wall all the time and like swimming fast as now they can with a bigger tank.

oh okay then :-? they are beautiful fish but i dont want to take any chances in getting fish that may be aggressive.thanks everyone for your messages of kindness.I fed my fish some frozen bloodworms as i havent for a few weeks now.the tetras and danios seem to love them especially.can anyone give me some ideas as to what kind of fish to get then as i want more and have plenty of room left in my tank but i want something different from tetras and danios and rasboras (which i wanna get rid of.does anyone want 2 swift rasboras in good nic and can pick up?)i want to get rid of them as i want some guppies but my rasboras might nibble their lovely tails

Yeah i am very grateful it was just the one although a few months ago it happened to just one neon but he was a weak looking fish since the beginning but this last one i dont know about.im just glad the others are happy and healthy.i just did a water test and everything was good except the pH which is at 7.6 but i dont know if thats anything to worry about.i'll retest this weekend.its a new tank n all so i dont know what to expect.i also tested the water from my old tank which has no fish or heater now and it was a bad ammonia level of 1.0.no wonder my fish didnt like it. :oops:

thanks lynda.its nice to know that.i see that you live in levin.do you get your fish stuff from levin petworld?

the fish also seemed to be quite relieved and excited to be in the new tank.in the old one the didnt move much but now they are swimming around quite happily in their little groups.i think thats a good sign.

yeah thanks alan.i ended up flushing it down the loo it was practicly dead and suffering which was causing the other fish stress so yeah the best way i could think of killing it was to flush it:( i feel bad but may have saved the others from being infected.i put them straight into my new tank last night as i couldnt stand them being in the other tank any longer.smaller tanks are so much harder to keep up then bigger ones.they all survived the night and are looking healthy and happy.my zebra danios are swimming through the bubbles from the bubble wall and the tetras are swimming around.they are all much happier now.im testing the water today so i should have alright results if the fish seem okay hopefully.and i couldnt do a water change for the other tank cos i didnt have any water so i had to put them in the other tank.desperate times call for desperate measures.oh and what do you think of cockatoo dwarf cichlids.i was thinking of getting one or two if i can find out their compatibility and price and somewhere nearby to get one.

i put my heater in my tank last night and my fish also.i havent done a water test yet so i was worried about my fish but they had to be moved from the old tank.the fish survived the night and are all looking good.plants should be happier now that their in warmer waters.its good to hear that java fern doesnt grow fast.would you guys recommend it?or any others?

yeah i know and i feel soooooo bad.did you read the above threads about the tank scenario.do you think i should move the other fish.i might have to flush the infected fish as he's upside down and well almost dead i'll wait til he dies tho.