Knight

IMO the salt that i've seen looks and tastes like rock salt that they sell in the supermarket, ok so i havent taseted it but i might :-? , I'm pretty sue that ppl with brackish tanks use marine salt and i was resecently wondering if i could use that in my fresh water beacuse of its added nutrients. Can the gold be good for fish? lol

Heya just wondering mainly if anyone in the Kapiti Area useing council water from the waikine river are haveing any troubles with there fish? At the moment I'm trying to investigate a bunch of problems that we're having with our tank. I know that i should be purifing the water (BUT DON"T WORRY I AM USEING A WATER CONDITNER-aqua plus) but its not in the budget at the moment and i cant install one cos i'm renting, will look at a bench top one soon. But that off the point, 2morow i'm going to the council to get the water stats and hopfully post them to see if theres to higher amount in any metals or minerals, does anyone know of a better place to collect water in the region without going up to wet pets in palmy every week? is the spring in petone a healthy water, because im fareing summer when the river drops again and we go back to bore water which not only tastes bad but i know has high levels of calcium. And finialy what does everyone use for there water just conditioners? purifying? Reverse osmosis? cheers, josh

Well thats a good thing to know still got fish dieing tho but i cant expect it to work overnite and she was very sick beforehand

Welcome

Really SUED? Well How are we supposed to tell ppl not to shop at some places, i wish someone had told me about certain LFS because of diseases b4 today :oops:

Hey, were fairly new to the aquatic world of keeping fish and have been to many pet stores well most that we no of in the lowernorth island area found most not to be up to the cut. Two great stores that i enjoy are The Pet house in Coastlands and Wet pets in Palmerston north not only beacuse they're the only Marine places that i no of but also beacuse they're never to busy to help you with what ever problems you have, you know, unless there busy. Just hopeing that anyone can give me a hand in finding other great pet stores or specialists in the lower north Island. Cheers Josh, p.s Anyone had a bad experience with Animates? P.s.s. I think that this web site should have like a pet shop review thread, who do i see about that??(or is there one that i don't know of?)

I just went down to our LFS GREAT PLACE!! where the guy gave us some antibiotics that will help with Fin rot and bacterial disease, they made the tank go green intresting hope this is normal well to late now lol. Any ways just wanting to know if any of you guys use antibiotics for anything out there would like to know a bit more on the topic, i do not have a brand name as he sold us individual capsules Cheers

We lost a Black Neon today I can't say I'm very suprised though. The poor things are covered in white spots, more than any one else and all but 1 of them are very pale in colour. I think our problem is that we have too many fish in the middle area of our tank (I'm Aimee, Josh is at work). We have 14 (was 15) Tetras all together, 6 Platies, 1 Guppy and 2 BNs, and the 4 babies. All our levels are pretty good, Ammonia and Nitrite at 0 and Nitrate is at 5 (the 22G tank has been at these levels for quite some time, the 10G tank has had Ammonia at 0.10, Nitrite at 0.25 and Nitrate at 7.5, But that's all evend off to 0's and a 5 for Nitrate now.), the only thing that I was worried about last week was a spike in our pH, it went up to 7.6 (it was gradually increasing from week to week), so I got some pH adjust and over a couple of days got the pH down to about 7-7.2. Could the increase of the pH been stressful enough to cause this? Josh very reluctantly disabled and packed up his marine tank (about 15G), so we can use it to put some of the fish from the big tank in, when they're better and when the tank has cycled. He made me agree that the next tank we buy is a 200-300L Marine tank (that'll be a wee way off yet)!

yeah well, just packed up the marine stuff into a polly box only had 4 kg of LR some substrate and some rocks, coverd it all with the water from the tank and made my partner promise that the next tank well buy will be a 200 - 300L marine one LOL!! :lol: so cleand out the tank stocked it with new media for the filter and water let it cycle the old fashion way and hopfully get rid of the whitespot in the other tanks then use it to sepertate some of our fishses out

We also have male and female bettas in the other tank, will they be ok? :-?

Hi so we've got whitespot in two of our tanks! We went down to the lfs and all they had was the wunder white spot cure, and the owners of the place weren't there to ask about it, there was a lady there but she didn't know much about fish. We hav Neon and Black Neon Tetras, Platys, Guppy and b/n's. We also have 3 baby platys that are a couple of days old and 1 that is about 2 months old. Will this stuff be ok for the babies or should we treat them seperatly with half the dosage? (1ml per 20 L, 3 days later 1ml per 40 L, it has 0.2% malachite green, 0.025% acriflavine, 0.02% quinine in aqueous solution). We also have live plants, will they be able to tolorate this stuff?

Cheers guys, I was looking at joining the Kapi Mana club but i work on wed nights so yeah. Our main tank is 30 by 40 by 80 cms with two BN 15 tetras 6 pilaties 1 guppy 4 baby pilaties and did have a betta but not anymore his in with his girls, we did do water changes weekly but are now doing them daily. Thanks Josh

Hi there, My name Is Josh and my Partners name is Aimee. We've Been keeping fish for about six months now and are really addicted ( we have three tanks already) so i'll tell you a little about them our first brought tank is a 60L which we stated off with 10 neons then 4 palties then we found Zeus ( hes our pride and joy, a royal blue male betta with a hint of red), oh yeah and a BN. We then decided that we needed a bigger tank so we went and got a 96L Tank and put them in that along with a few more neons and pilties and another bristel nose FUN!! I then decided that i wanted a marine nano tank so i turned the 60L into one with some live rock (thats all thats in there at the mo, well along with water DUH!). While on a scouring the pet shops in the lower north island we found some female betts, so we got another tank for them with zeus, just a small 38L one for breeding. which seems to be going alright but its only been going for a week. currently we've had a outbreak of what we belive is white spot and were going threw the steps to get rid of it. In this light were thinking that our 96L is over crouded and we need another tank BUT money is tight so I'm thinking of Caning the Marine tank and turning it back into a fresh water for our neons and growing up tank for some betta fry. however i hate to think that the cost of live rock and marine lighting was not in vein but i geuss that that can be used again in another progect down the line. Thats our story so far good to meet u all hope to be picking your brains soon, Knight 8)