BigBossPants

I put mondo grass, black taro and white lilys in mine. And some moss

Blasphemy! Ive seen you consume quite a few tuis Nymox Im using one of these traps too and found that the cats get into it if I use meat, so make sure its out of their reach Found coke attracts flies well

One in a two foot or 2 in a three foot. 2 can be kept in a 2 foot while small but they will need more room as they grow. I dont think they require company but they do interact with each other and its more interesting IMO. If you keep more than one then they all need to be a similar size to avoid predation

She wouldnt be here without your expert advice stella! She does appear to have some damage to the edges of her fins but Im sure it will come right in time

Has spots too. A spotty, salty, swimmy fish with fins

Pfft its not a cat if it dont eat birds and make ya sneeze

Pretty sure it was culminaris or however its spelled... I took them off the system and used 5g/l salt with a 50% water change every 2-3 days. Gave her salt dips for about the first week, she didnt react too well to those tho so stopped them.

I think she was genuinely mistaken, but still lol. You want him phoenix?

Mrs bully has fully recovered thanks heaps for your advice stella!

Lol yeah, he doesnt seem to mind tho, answers to anything

Bit of a long story, this guy came to me through work. A lady rang claiming she had a purebred exotic cat that needed a home urgently as she was moving out of town that afternoon. Thinking I could find a home for him quickly being a purebred, so agreed to take him on. Lady turns up in tears with the cat who clearly is a moggie and I didnt have the heart to turn her away. We have named him Cletus, but his original name was Da Vinci. He is 6 years old, is up to date with his vaccinations and is desexed. He is an extremely affectionate cat, loves to be around people. Ideally he would suit being the only cat in a household but he has learnt to get on with my two. Would anyone like to give this sweet wee guy a home or know anyone who would?

6 tanks and a pond. 3ft planted with kribs and barbs, 2 ft native, 2 ft with axies, 3 20l fry tanks

Not sure if it helps but mine got black fin edges when he was angry

Never know, one minute you are having a routine surgery the next you are an unwitting puppet... Scary

I did consider that but she is still swimming around and eating, doesnt look overly depressed. Plus the boys have it too so will need to treat the whole tank anyway.

I initially thought it must be whitespot but the spots are massive and kinda clumping together, never seen whitespot like it. The initial spots looked like little cysts under the skin. Doing 50% changes daily and adding salt removed. Temp is up a bit since taking off the system but am combating that with fan and airstone. Boys now have spots, mainly on their fins but spreading to their bodies. Almost seems the more I treat the worse it gets :'(

Pic from today, looks to be getting worse

Our shop pretty much wont sell goldfish to anyone with a small tank. We stock the small ones but replace some of the instructions with our own (splish splash telling people to do a wc once a fortnight and a full clean once every 8 weeks). We would probably get in trouble if we did sell a small tank and goldfish. I wish more stores were like us! We have had quite a few customers get quite upset when we tell them that they cant put 2 goldfish in their 10l bowl! Many many times you tell people tho and they just dont care, the attitude seems to be 'its just a fish'

Ok I will give it a go taking them off the system and dosing with salt. Am weighing out the salt

Had a look at furan today, a bit too expensive for me. Will those concentrations of salt be safe for the axies too? I could put the bully tank on a canister but its a bit of fluffing around. With the water changes, do you think that changing 50l twice a week will be enough or should I do more?

I gave her a salt dip the other day, she has more spots since then and is clamping her tail a bit. Have never seen the temp over 20*C

The bullies are in a 50l tank, plumbed to another 50l containing axies, on a 60l sump. Not sure how she got this... Have been draining the sump weekly. She had been laying lots of eggs. Could have been introduced from other tanks? Tanks at work?

My female bully has what looks like whitespot... I have been treating the tank with salt and white spot cure but she is getting worse. It started out with just a few larger spots which came and went. The spots are larger than I have seen before with whitespot and do not seem to respond to treatment. Any suggestions as to what it could be or possible treatments?

Wow the one in the middle looks really yellow, why is that? They are gorgeous

Fly traps sound like the best option then, how about over winter? Are there enough flies around? Or do most people feed cultured insects during this time?