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Redwood is kind of like a time capsule - unfortunately they forgot to get everyone out before they sealed it up.

Hmmm... hairy bogey.... :bounce:

In the first post Dantez mentions that there are no lids on the tanks

If these are Goldfish we are talking about, any whitish lumps at the base of the fins will probably be tumours.

So just don't tell him - and put some in his dinner too

Organism, 399 Ilam Rd, Ilam, Christchurch 0-3-351 3001. There is a coffee shop over the road. Nowhere else is really worth the taxi fare

Discretion - i.e. avoid putting it into your tank in the first place. Otherwise I like SeaChem's Phosguard.

Yes, most proper aquarium lights are designed to be used above open tanks - the main difference being that they have a metal body to disapate heat, and usually some way of attaching them to the tank, rather than just sitting on top. Better ones also have two tubes, rather than one, but like everything you get what you pay for, so expect to pay at least double what that cheap and nasty one is going for.

It doesn't look particularly well sealed judging by the cooling slots in the back, so it might be OK, but I wouldn't put it above my tank

If you know someone who bought into the whole 'AAAaARRRrGGgHHHH! Bird Flu - what will we do?!?!??!!!' mass hysteria and bought 17 cartons of Tamiflu, you could try that - its an anti-viral.

Yes, Zhacque has - PM him

At least one hatched and is roaming around, although most of them got eaten by Mrs. Daddy Hare for lunch.

It left babies there too! It doesn't slime up its little tank, but I don't need a little tank with a Sea HAre in it, really. Declutter time...

It is less interesting than I first assumed... :-?

I'll swap you a Sea Hare for it.

Bonfire.

Stop biting your nails!

What kind of Brittle Star is it wilson? A Tiger or the other type?

No it isn't - its a pile of poo. Maybe after they release a few service packs it might be... average. And as for their 'new look' command 'ribbon' and stupid new file extensions...

Option A - Do nothing / wait Option B - complete the coarse of treatement with Malachite Green Option C - I'll probably ruffle a few feathers here, but I would cull the infected fish (humanely), do as big a water change as you can manage, and add some JBL Filterstart / cycle / or equivalent to the filter, and add charcoal to mop up any remaining meds - the theory being that you have removed the main source of the pathogens, as much of any contaminant that might be in your tank, and ensured that you bio-filter is functioning. Other than that, there isn't much esle you can do short of a complete strip-down and re-start.

You can never completely get rid of it - it is in all freshwater anyway - just like there is always bacteria in the air. Fish with healthy immune systems aren't troubled by it, it is only weakened fish that will succumb to it. If you have an outbreak in a tank you need to kill as much as you can so that the fish's own immune system can recover, but you are really only able to create a window for that to happen before the fish is exposed to more pathogens at a normal level. Other than reducing the outbreak the key is finding what caused the fish to be stressed in the first place, which 99% of the time comes back to water parameters. Ich sucks. The example above is interesting - it sounds as if the fish was removed before the cysts popped, then replaced after they did, thereby keeping the population of pathogens in the main tank at a normal level. I'm a little suprised it didn't get re-infected though, although maybe the stressor had been removed from the main tank by that time.

Cool!

Me too! Dang having a life outside the interweb!

You can almost certainly download a cracked copy from the web, if you are into that sort of thing. Look up 'Botnet' whilst you are at it!

There are lots of people not using Windows 95 - I'm one of them :lol: