RochelleMay

The fountain is exactly in the middle of it. As there is a stand from the previous owners fountain. So I guess lillies aren't the best then, Could I put some other submerged plant in there instead? It is only a little thing I just thought I'd try brighten up that side of the house.

Lol yeah sorry forgot to add measurements - have done it now I know how to do all the tiling. Thats the part im good at. And it is in a shady area most of the day gets only a few hours sun but not full on sun. Its like a half covered courtyard area.

Hey guys, I have a little art cubby outside (courtyard thing) and there is an old tiled area that used to hold a fountain. I am planning on putting in a little fish pond, just with a couple of fish as it is an eyesore at the moment. Measurements: Deep: 30cm (it is currently only 20cm but Im going to add more bricks to make it deeper) Maybe even go up to 40 or 50cm depending on what mum allows me to do Length: 100cm Width: 100cm It has a draining hole which when I tile will put mesh over to stop fish going down it when it gets water changes. It is also going to have a statue I have just finished painting in the middle. possibly with water coming up from underneath it depending on how it is going to look and how easy its going to be. What would you recommend for pumps for pushing the water up under the Statue? What filter would I use? Any help would be appreciated, I've never made my own pond so not too sure where to start after i've tiled it.

If my tank does get another ammonia spike - is there any other way that I can get rid of it besides water changes. Im so scared of a spike again. Im doing 50% water changes daily just to be safe with all the fish back in it. And am feeding them every few days.

Lol well I can't afford a few at once but will slowly be adding more. Im not sure if the L260's were ready when we was there? Maybe they were? All the fancy ones are pretty cool.

Hey, Nitrates in the past have been visible normally around the 5-10 mark reading from my notes, I write them down to keep history. I thought they may have been low due to so many water changes?? The waterfall filter thing was fine but the internal filter had a build up (not blocked) in the pipe. - I just cleaned out that this morning. The discus did get cloudy eyes and frayed tails but that cleared up pretty fast. I am going to purchase a new test kit - which one do you use or recommend? Maybe when we come for a new replacement pleco when we get everything back to normal and can afford it I could bring over a water sample just to compare and see your thoughts (won't be for a wee while though)

Added in the discus and aynos today. all is back up and running. Doing daily aparmeter checks just until im satisfied all is well. And water changes also. I just want to say thank you everyone for your advice. Greatly appreciated. Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

I had exactly the same thing at Animates Albany. I didn't care what breed they were cause I loved the look of them and actually preffer them over cuckoos. But I was rather annoyed as I had made sure everything was correct for the cuckoos also and then found out when I got home they were decorus - after I googled to see if I could get another one That was maybe 6months ish ago. One of the best fish purchases I ever made though. They are so awesome.

If you google L066 then it comes up with some good photos. I have 2 L066 well Dad has 1 I have 1 I introduced him to these fish so I can claim it as mine but he looks after it. They were brought from Mr Pleco and they are so beautiful, exactly like the google pictures. I would recomend buying a few Im planning on more soon. So watch out for my pm Mr Pleco

Do keep an eye on it Zabman, thats one of the factors of me loosing some of my fish. There was more involved but the heat and too little oxygen just stressed them out to much. Sorry to hear that Dixon its not nice. Chin up

Good morning, Everything is going good so far. It was quite fun setting up a new tank well moving evrything around I have put the Gouramis and Kuhli Loaches back in cause whatever it was didn't effect them. Then this morning my synos are going back in and then tommorow the discus. So all is well at the moment. Doing regular water changes and tests, the tank is still getting pretty hot so I just been using silica pads which the gouramis love playing with. And I am also going to add in a CO2 today before the discus so they don't go in and then have another shock in the water, so fingers crossed. Now I am just after plants I have a couplle huge swords and sagitarria but the swords aren't looking the best as I took them out and put them in a bucket and forgot about them OOPS so now the are still alive but not the healthiest looking.

Cool. I had stopped using the flourish a few days ago when BGK started showing signs of damage and had done large water changes so there shouldn't have been much flourish left in the tank.. But that could be a possibilty. Umaga BGK dies this morning whilst I was at work unfortunatly. So we now have 2 healthy synos, 3 discus, 2 lace gouramis and 2 kuhli loaches. Not to bad considering I had given up on everything. And as for the question about when to put the fish in I was only asking as wasn't sure if I should wait til their better, wait a couple days for it to do a slight cycle, or put them all straight back in. Thank you dixon for answering that for me. The gouramis and kuhlis will be the first to go back in cause they are fine, I will give the discus and synos a couple days cause they had white eyes better to be safe than sorry. Thanks for all your help guys.

Oh no poor you. I actually c an't find a use by date they just have lot numbers but they make no sense to be a date either. My discus seem to be nearly better no white eyes that I can really see. Gonna clean the tank out today after work, I only working the morning thank goodness. If I am using my dads filter media and about half a tankish of his water, how long do you think I should leave it before I put the fish in?

The kit isn't that old, only a few months. How often do they expire? Where is the expiry date I can't find it.

Check the photos on the other page of our BGK and this is him now. Hes not covered in white any more its kind of all peeling of with new skin like sunburn would. Now its just resetting up the tank and cycling it for them to go back in, if they alst the night which im hoping they do.

Yeah im not sure what went wrong so from the begginging... I had been using flourish excel on a particular cavee in which my BGK was living and then he got we think a chemical burn from flourish? So I stopped using it but he still continued to get worse. Then we did a 50%water change and added salt to help them produce more mucus? Then my fish started breathing at the surface for air. So I did another water change and lowered the tank level so the waterfall filter could create a gas exchange and help them to breathe and also added in another air stone to help. Then with having such hot weather I also put the breathing for air possibly down to such a high temperature in the tank compared to normal. So I put in a silica Pad in a bag which they liked and played with a bit. Then my tetras and discus got cloudy eyes and fraying tails and weren't happy at all. Then all my tetras started dying off slowly so I did what LFS said and put in Furan. Then my plecos started dying and BGK was flat but still breathing along with my synodontisis so thats when we paniced and moved them all around into the tank water from upstairs. It was kind of a last resort to do this, but so far so good. BGK had all of him white and fraying as in the photos and now that has already flaked off and he's looking 100times better than he did. And yes the ammonia, nitrate, nitrite was all 0. Nitrate was not bright yellow but I couldn't say that it was at .5 either. So that is why it is kind of puzzling and I put it down to the flourish as that is the only different thing that I did to the tank. Now however we have put it down to the water, but still don't know what in the water. I think it was probably a combination of low immunity from flourish, then not breathing and high water temp? I have no idea if the council has flushed something, I hope not cause then dads tank is next. We have the same water supply in their house and ours. I was also using stress coat to help. I think thats it, im just relieved that the ones we have taken out are picking up.

Ok so had a mad rush to save fish as they were dieing like flies. Lost all of our plecos including our lovely latest addition Tiger Pleco. So we decided to get dads water out of his tank and put it into our tiny tank and put BGK into it and he has picked up big time, swimming around - although the tank is prob a bit crammed for him hes doing so well compared to his death bed he was on before. I also put our synos in with him cause they always share caves so they'll be ok. And then we put the gouramis and 1 kuhli loach (Other half didn't want to leave him) into a bag and the discus into another bag with dads tank water in it and our discus have colour again and arent all dark and stressed. So fingers crossed, we have some survivors in the morning. Chances are I wont get much of a sleep though. Then tommorow If we have some survivors we are going to do a big tank clean out. Maybe even buy a new one with a stand, do a big cycle and add some of dads water and filter medium so that it cycles faster. What I would like to know now please is... 1. What should I use to clean all of the ornaments and gravel thouroughly so nothing bad is transfered? 2. Should I clean the plants if so how. Or just buy some new ones? Thanks so much for your help.

BGK up close. oh my poor thing in like 3minutes has gone down hill. My poor fishies!

The Baby Discus Eyes

This guy is still hanging in there.

Discus were fine and their eyes are now going white. I did put the furan in out of pure desperation. With the stress coat how much can I put in and how (onto the problem fish? or straight into water?) I have nearly gone through a huge bottle. I am still trying to get a photo they are all shy and hiding the poor things - i feel so bad cause they are so helpless but im doing all i can. I have lost nearly all my tetras I think I have one left. Otherwise everything else is coping - JUST! Nitrite - 0 Nitrate - 0 Ammonia - .10ish its just off yellow if you know the cards

Yeah have been dechlorinating. I will post some pictures for everyone to see so you can help. Just got to find the camera.

That is probably the only thing I am certain about at the moment is that they don't attack each other. ha

Hmmm still dont think so, sorry. I have alwyas kept an eye on that since our gouramis are suppose to get very territorial as they get older but we havent had any problems and they are fully mature now, and with our BGK I've always been scared of him eating things as hes got older but he hasn't. Those would be our main ones to damage anything else.