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A friend has a goldfish that has a cloudy eye, its in apond, has been for 4 years, the other fish are fine. said fish is still eating and acting normal. how do u treat this? does fish need to be separated?

Will do. and thanks for ur help :bounce:

yea i did use a gravel vac when i did their water change. maybe i shocked them when i changed the water.

I dont do a water change very often :oops: maybe every couple months, they got whitespot when i added in 4 more neons. there are no visible signs of the whitespot but i should keep treating even tho?

oh its 22degrees. its always been about that and i turned it up just a smidge thinking they mite get cold coz of winter to 24degrees but have since turned it down to 22 and they still sad! they seem to nly swim around when ppl go near the tank. maybe they are bored!

Hey all, i have 8 neons and 1 bristlenose in a 20L tank. they have all been fine as up until i did a 40% water change almost a week ago. i put in stresscoat when i did it. but now the neons seem to just sit on the bottom, they still are colourful and come up to eat but just dont swim around like they used to! i tested the water and pH is 6.8, zero ammonia and nitrites. i usually do a 50% water change and they have always been fine. the bristlenose seems as good as gold. its just the tetra im concerned about. i can see any obvious signs of disease, altho i have treated them recently for whitespot and this is why i did the waterchange. should i maybe dose them again?? i just dont know........

ok thanks but can u tell me what they are commonly called in the pet stores please?

will try that alan and will also buy a few more plants that are close to the bottom and see if they grow.

i just replaced a tube on my small 2 ft tank and bought a 10000k bulb from the LFS for it. cost me $20. ill have a think about adding an extra lighthood to the 4ft tank, but i dont have any more spare plugs so will have to work something out!

ok thanks. also i know of people using regular tubes that people would have on their own ceilings. is this advisable? or is it best to get the proper ones thru the LFS? and if so why arent the regular tubes ok?

oh and alan you are right about the plant it is what you said. do i need more intense tubes?

lights are on about 12 hours a day, maybe i should up that? 1 tube is only about 2-3 months old and the other mite be about a year old.

the plants i have been trying to grow are polysperma and hygrophila mostly, some of the red hygro has survived and getting quite tall and the leaves at the top look really healthy compared to the lower part of the plant. The water is 45cm deep and the light is 4cm above the water. i am pretty sure one of the tubes is a grolux and the other one could be a standard one? i dont think a 4ft hood will fit inside the lid on my fish tank coz it will be ever so slightly to long.

i was reading another thread about this but didnt wanna invade it with my question. i have a 200L tank, with only about 20 neons, 1 blue ram and 1 bristlenose. the tank is about 500 deep and the lighting isnt very strong and most of the plants keep dying, the plants in my other tank seem to do ok coz they are very deep and the lighting is stronger. Do i need to get metal halide? the tank is 4ft long and i have a 3ft double lighthood in it.

The duboisi orange belt fish ur talking about is probably an orange flame tropheus and yeah i think its from lake tanganyika, the black and blue little stripey ones are probably demasoni most likely form malawi but they seem to get along ok. (tropheus) duboisi are black with white dots as juvies, very cute but very expensive and from memory u guys dont have any.

hey Sharn I forgot to tell u that when i was on the fish there, i was writing the scientific names of the africans on the back of their templates. any that Kathryn added may not have the scientific name on the back.

Hi All Name: Angela Sex: F Age: 25 Family: live with my partner Hayden and expecting our first child on May 7th. Job: LFS Hobbies: Talking, listening to music, um i think im quite boring lol Pets: b/w cat=sophie, tortie cat=molly, ginger cat=hungus, seal burmese cat=chika (chika has currently been evicted (coz she meows too damn much!) and lives with my mum on the farm) Fav food: chocolate, chips and dip, tamarillos, popcorn, and takeaways. Car: 1990 red mazda 323 (has all mazda familliar parts :oops: ) Book: fav is power of one by bryce courtenay

Its works along the same lines as 'cycle' and 'stresszyme'. we have customers that swear by it and only will use the TLC. It also does clear cloudy water and helps reduce algae. While i was in charge of fish at AA i used it and it definitely made a difference to the water quality and the fish deaths were at an all time low. I do believe its true about it being trialled in rotorua lake, also used in hamilton gardens and in a lot of sewerage plants.

what would you say they are then?

i have a 50l tank and i have to do a 30% w/c on it once a week or else they die from to much ammo, maybe more frequent water changes?

if u wanna see what they look like check out gannets animal shack thread on commerical trade and exchange and theres a pic of the blue melo on photo 11 (i think) of a blue fish, well thats them.

I got some of the blue johanniis in, def not johannii. i rang the supplier who was convinced they were, so i told him to look at a pic and read up about them and he was like errrr um yeah they dont look like johannii and johannii juvis are all yellow. i had to say "I TOLD U SO" :lol: so nows hes trying to find out what they are. they look the same as another lot of "blue melanochromis" we got in froma diff supplier, so no one really knows what they are.

i am the lfs ha, this is a supplier im talking about so i havent actually seen the fish, but they dont sound like johannii. wasnt keen on getting em in they sounded dodge but mite have to get them in so i can have a look at them, and maybe post a pic on here and see what u guys think.

the pond isnt very deep (like 30cm), should i maybe suggest she get lillies for the pond, do u think she needs to empty and scrub the pond first? not sure if the pond is concrete. does every body think a small filter will help things?

Would it be just best to scrub and empty the pond, refill it and maybe put a pond filter and uv unit on it to get rid of the algae?