darkfur

she loves everybody, especially her friend Spike who lives at the local petshop

lovely lady lumps?

saw in a tray of water housing some plants today Moving very quickly, similar in appearance to poppyseeds, perhaps a little smaller couldn't get a great pic am getting some axolotl eggs soon and wondered if these greeblies may be potential live food

I used to work for a sewage treatment plant that basically worked like a giant wet/dry filter - even had its own sort of bio-noodles. They had found in other plants that the plant could be revived easily if it had not been running for 2 weeks. The bacteria colonies just kicked straight back into action

I have mixed feelings about hedgies. They are less cute when they are raiding my hens nests for eggs/babies. They seem to prefer partly incubated eggs. :evil: I trap them and take them for a drive, as I have discovered they can home for about a km (did a tagging experiment on one that I thought I recognised and sure enough he came back repeatedly). I put them in the local park where they can be of use eating snails.

I used to have one that had those lovely red warratah anemones in it among other things. There are those glass shrimps, they adapt well but like jumping, and starfish are cool but will eat anyone that stays still long enough. I had a neat nudibranch that I found too. The hardest part is keeping things cool therefore rockpool dwellers are good as they tolerate changes in temperature and salinity better

maybe wait until the outside temps warm up a bit before moving birds that are acclimatised to inside out? course more of a problem in my part of the country than yours but it could be a bit of a shock to them

chooks like 'em I wonder if you could gut load them to make them more nutritious? Pop some reptile vitamins in the bran?

well done young scientisy

isn't it a pretty natural behaviour? I imagine they go after little flies and things in the wild

I think that's more or less what Wunder Tonic has in it, but I think it may have one other goodie as well

seen it done on Mythbusters with goldfish similar to this When I was a kid I had a goldfish called Pete who could tell you when he was hungry by spitting stones on to the side of the tank to make a plinking noise. He kind of came up with that by himself though.

PS Dr Axelrod doesn't like your chances with the one with the hole in it sorry I'd think about treating the whole tank with something too, perhaps something milder like Wunder Tonic (avail any pet store - its bluey) then doing a large water change

1. you can't overdose stress coat or so we are told but I don't think fishes like swimming in pure stress coat add it when you change the water in the container 2. Dr Axelrod says for bacterial tail and fin rot, add acriflavine, wait 3 days, change the water for fresh water, wait one day, do 3 days of acriflavine again. 3. If you want - might as well when you do the water change. Probably soothes the sore bits on the fish, has a healing action and treats the water too. 4. As per 2, but if the water gets scummy or the fish seem (more)distressed you might have to change to fresh water sooner. 5. Keep it isolated until its better, and so you can treat it easier + Dr Axelrod says after treatment if the finrot is advancing you might have to snip off the rotting bits with a sterilised pair of scissors to avoid the infection spreading. hopefully won't come to that. He says if it is already super-severe amputate the rotting bits and then do the acriflavine treatment Best of luck! + They're gonna need lots of air to cope with this, make sure you have an airstone in there although not so much air that they are getting buffeted around

you could always kill the gambusia on the spot and mince it up for a tasty treat for meat-eating fishies DOC won't object to that

I think you'd probably have to *drink* Melafix for it to be dangerous. The warning probably stems from melaleuca being used as an essential oil in aromatherapy, and some aromatherapy oils are known/believed to be dangerous to use during pregnancy. If melaleuca was that dangerous a lot of cosmetics would be off the shelves, including quite a lot of what the body shop sells

table salt usually has iodine added which is toxic to fish. especially sick ones! that said, you can get salt that does not have iodine added to it at the supermarket. its use is as a mild disinfectant

tonic salt and melafix are other possible treatments but they sound like they are gonna need the "big guns" treatments. With making up the treatments I think Lyndy is onto something, with such small amounts might pay to scoop out the water you are going to fill your container with, measure it and make up the medication in a measuring jug then put it into the hospital container

if you don't have a spare tank what you can do is put a fizzy drink bottle or a jar into the tank so that it's getting the warmth, and use that as an isolation tank. It will need its own (gentle) airstone, and just take water from the tank to fill it. Feed lightly as it will get dirty fast

be careful - can go downhill super fast. May pay to give more air than usual

bacterial septicaemia like a bacterial finrot Furan fixes it, some of the old hands here may be able to point you to a less drastic solution but I have had an outbreak that responded to nothing else

a "standard" 90cm x 45cm x 40cm holds about 150L

I think its some sort of bacterial thing - pic on Furan packet calls it hemorrhagic septicaemia

I saw a sign for Winnie the Pooh cushions at the red shed once that read "Pooh Filled Cushions" I was so upset that I did not have a camera or cellphone with me

I successfully keep a pair of gold gouramis (and their livebearer and GBA buddies) in a tank like that, being ananbantoids the surface area isn't so much of a problem. I think angels would probably do well in a tall tank like that but you couldn't keep many.