Adrienne

What do you mean by pellets ?

Filter wool is guaranteed to slow the flow quickly. What are pellets? I compared my ones flow the other day with another fx5 and they have about 5 times the flow. All they have are two baskets with noodles in it plus the big sponges that go around the outside of each basket. Mine has one basket of noodles and two of sintered glass. The other thing you could check is your impeller to see if the intake is blocked slightly or perhaps the impeller itself is full of muck. What sort of substrate do you have? What sized tank?

Have you looked at the dead fish with a magnifying glass? Whatever it is might be invisible to the naked eye. You could do an autopsy and see if its some sort of internal parasite although certainly sounds more like swim bladder. Do o have the same types of fish in your other tanks?

What sort of media do you have in it? Do you have the filter wool pads as well? How old is it?

Its a fabulous day in Auckland today. I hope you have a great time. Mike and I have just celebrated our 31st Anniversary.

I have heard of people at thing it this way with great success however can not remember if his was in plant only aquariums. I don't know the make up of the glue so not sure if it would be toxic to fish. I use cable ties.

I really don't understand what you are asking - is it a tank or stand as your heading says tank and the first few words mention stand. Perhaps you might like to try again

A school of Ember tetra, cherry barbs, neons, celestial pearl danio or cardinals, ottos for algae control.

dattofish - I do hope you are joking. Yes the others will most probably go to the top because of the ammonia being caused by the dead fish. Dead fish can be used to cycle the tank but this is before you add live ones.

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How big are the tanks?

The ammonia and nitrites will be causing it. If this is your readings after a large water change I hate to think what thy were before it. The chlorine was strong in the taps today, well strong enough to smell. Do another 50 per cent change tomorrow and daily until they go back to 0. Unfortunately gill damage may have already been done. Add an air stone if you have one. What do you think has caused the ammonia and nitrite to rise?

The colour comes up well in your tank and your tank looks good!

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What are you feeding the clown?

Give it a go, you are a talented photographer! You have lots of time with the holidays starting.

NZ couriers in Auckland will not take fish.

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Another update, pics will follow tomorrow. Stocking is nearly completed and I have the following - 2 Nigran rainbows, 1 confirmed female, 1 unknown 2 Blue rainbows, both males 6 Parkinsons rainbows, all males 2 Red rainbows, male and female 3 Bosemani rainbows, 2 males, 1 female 10 Pristella tetra 5 Rosy tetra 1 White Fin Ornate tetra 1 King Tiger Plecs 1 Long Fin Blue Eye Ancistrus 1 Long Fin Bristlenose 1 Red Fin Black Shark 1 Siamese Algae Eater Still to add - a couple more algae eaters and some smaller loaches. Plants - 20 bunches Twisted Vallisineria 2 bunches Red Pine Approx 50 assorted crypts 4 bunches Magdelensis Chain Sword 3 bunches Congo Fern 3 assorted green swords 3 Red Swords 2 bunches Stargrass 2 bunches Water Rose 3 Anubias Assorted java fern 4 bunches Cabomba 2 bunches Glosso, not the common one Temperature 25 degreesC PH 6 or less 0 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 5 Nitrate 1 KH I am waiting with anticipation to see if the Water Rose and Stargrass will convert successfully to their submersed forms and also am waiting for the Crypts which have nearly all melted to regrow. I hope that my lighting is sufficient for the glosso to spread. My Congo fern was not in a good state when I placed it In the tank so it may take a bit of time to recover. The tank has mostly recovered from the inevitable outbreak of brown algae, aided greatly by my algae eaters.

From Auckland Post haste is great. Deliver to their depot as close to closing time as you possibly can. Not sure of cost but around $30-35 for a box under 5kg. There is also a certain cubic cm limit on the size of the box.

Hatchet fish need a tight lid. Dwarf gourami will max out at 8cm depending on what sort you get. Go for the smaller ones.

They are unlikely to be tropical if in a pond and goldfish theft from ponds is common up here.

That is absolutely correct. You can not release back into the wild as you may be releasing diseases, even though the fish look healthy, which will have the potential to wipe out our native fish populations. Catching fish etc to put in native tanks is not a game, its something to be taken seriously.

Plants will stretch upwards instead of out sideways if they are looking for light. To get the carpet effect you will need lighting that penetrates through to the bottom of the tank. Wiith the hairgrass insufficient light will cause it to die off, however if you have just enough light in a few weeks (2-3) you will see the new shoots hanging off out the side. Replant these.

White spot appears to be a lot more resistant to treatment these days. I have just spent 3 weeks completely eradicating it from my tank, it was not severe, just a few spots on each fish, moving around the fish in the tank. Whitespot is always present but tends to present when the fish is stressed or not in full health. It has a 7 day cycle therefore the treatment should be continued for a week after the last spots are visible. To eradicate my whitespot I used the following - tonic, dosed at one, three and seven days with 25% water changes between, after the first 7 days I waited a day and resumed the treatment again. This I did 3 times. The tank temperature was bumped up to 30 degrees and my lighting period was significantly reduced as the effectiveness of tonic is reduced with lighting. There is plenty of evidence available on the net that increasing temperature does shorten the cycle of white spot significantly, therefore decreasing the risk of fish death.