phoenix44
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Only cupramine needs to be used at 1/2 dose in FW, and treats Ichthyophthirius . far far cheaper to use white spot cure though. :lol: This from the seachem site
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Oooohh! do you have him? I was wondering where he was... Let me know if you ever get bright blue offspring like him. I want a male. the males I have now, only have a blueish face and grey body. not breeding them.
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it mainly has to do with a product called cupramine. best thing to get rid of ich. .. not sure if many freshwater aquarists use it, but used by salties. the UV breaks the amine-copper bonds, increasing the toxicity of Cu. as a general rule - when medicating, turn off UV. in a salt water tank, turn off the UV at night as well.
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it explodes no seriously... the UV breaks the Cu bonds with other chemicals and then I think you have Cu2+ ions floating around? that's really really toxic.. just like CuSO4
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was it a cure or a preventative?
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always turn off the UV if you are medicating. especially remember NOT to use it if you add any medicine with copper in it.
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I don't think any one can find you offensive jenh.. I on the other hand have ruffled a fair few feathers in the past :lol:
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:lol: LOL I have been getting a lot of requests for wallpapers recently. If I ever see another male like the one I had (posted above) I'll buy him. They are dead easy to breed but the babies are a real pain.
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lol.. moss balls.
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Know about and seen birds with PBFD but never thought of the after effects.. if its a virus, then its host specific.. so can it be carried by humans? any effect for human beings? it is truly sad to see a native species on the brink of extinction, being effected by a disease it would normally never have encountered.
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glosso and ludwigia arcuata if you can find it then. if its a hitech setup, then go for rotala rotundifolia.
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That's really sad... makes me think twice about random birds interacting with Rusty etc...
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The red one came in as a red rose discus as far as I am aware. He loses the bars and then brings them back as he likes. The checker boards don't seem to like either of them :lol: but will have no choice but to get used to them, cause they aint going any where.
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Just could not resist..... I tried and tried and tried to resist... honestly. :oops: They are still settling in, though they are eating, I apologise for the wonky colours. And for those of us who appreciate the more natural earthy colours in discus - Annnnddd... I think they are pairing up. (count those bars)
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Oh no! That is horrible news. They say it is incurable.... how come people claim to have treated budgies with it?
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Would rule out the last 2 unless you have a hood above the tank, to stop the light from shining in your eyes. I like option 1, maybe with a hood.
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Glosso only. having grown mosses (tank full of moss) I can assure you it is not the easiest thing to train. especially when you are confined to the species we have here.
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dose the whole tank. all my tanks (except the puffer tank, and the snail tank) have a load of salt in them. its good for the fish.
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UV steriliser. But firstly... Tried good old salt? its the best thing ever. also.... are you sure its gill flukes? if they do the odd rub on something its fine, but if its constant, then not so good.
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don't use meth blue either. meth blue + molluscs = not a good recipe.
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inject some blue food colour into their food :lol: (no seriously, experiment on one of them).
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I can get bluer ones, but pay more than that for each snail! post nice pics when they arrive! i wanna see.
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Glosso! Nothing but glosso. Rotala Macrandra would look nice at the back, but not just on its own. Best used to break up the green colours. i would put a dark green plant like sag. subulata at the back, forming a wall of subulata, with the odd bit of macrandra, or hygro. polysperma rosanvig.
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very peaceful and beautiful fish. was imported 2 years ago as borellii but is apsito. steel blue. the steel blue is a man made hybrid, and somewhere along the line the opal borelli was used in breeding. I too have about 8 of them. sold my alpha male last year - females go bright yellow when breeding, and the fry are absolutely minuscule.
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oh no! And I wanted king killies as well! But I won't be at the show this year, as my grad ceremony is on the same day.
