phoenix44

I've done 4 years of research (first hand) into this matter, cause I want to open a chain of stores after I work for a few years ... all my findings lead to :

you should see neons with a borneo tiger on their tails :lol: glad to hear your discus are doing well. try feeding them colour bits (tetra) its a real good food for them. Hikari is good too.

very few stores i know off actually make a profit (net) of dogs and cats. they are normally crowd attractors and have the OooOOhhh and Awwww factor. fish have a far higher profit ratio, but that is usually offset to a certain extent by electricity, mortalities, treatments etc etc. But yes.. I do wish more stores in NZ could specialise in the aquatic section... but in most places it involves the highest capital outlays.

That really looks amazing!

*nods

Barrie - don't worry about it. seriously. if no one posts on here, then this place shall not exist and that shall make people sad so smile on and everything shall be fine :bounce: it is very hard to convey emotion when one types a message.

they get slower with age :lol: . but its pretty sad they are eating your neons, and its not like you only have a couple in the tank. are the discus hungry? (I know all fish are always hungry , but you know what i mean).... if you keep them full, they will possibly be less likely to want to eat your neons. provide shelter for all the fish in the tank. discus like having their space.

lol.. what a dude! :lol:

banks haven't sold them since the gold standard was dropped. Jewellers should.but the cheapest place to get them from is dubai and the rest of the emirates.

evil syno aye? did it get punished?

it should be. its fairly common in the manawatu - wellington region.

just remember if you use ammolock and then do a water test.. it will still show a value for the amount of ammonia. ammolock just converts the ammonia to a harmless / less harmful form. HTH

the tank has a lot of driftwood, plants and caves. Many many hidey holes etc. I'll PM you a pic. sorry, cant figure out what this means .. if it helps, the fish images i posted before were of my fish. No. it was just given to me ages ago. L168 seemed ok with her. none of that territorial flaring up, and/or nudging her etc.... though once the L134 - (if we can call her that) explored the tank, she preferred being at the rear LHS corner under the internal filter.

ok. so do lots of water changes. and add some salt to your water. now you dont want to go crazy and add a lot of salt - just enough to stimulate the growth of the slimy coating that fish have. if you change your water often, it reduces the chances of something nasty getting to your fish. (think of it like an open wound).. a fish with no slime coat or a compromised slime coat is susceptible to disease etc.

hey lynda, I'm pretty gutted too.. I just wish I had a male too, then things would have probably turned out well. These things happen though. It was a good learning curve, though... its good to see im still good at my dissections though.

no signs at all. all i noticed ever since i got her was this breeding tube like thing.. but then i dont know as much about plec as id like to. her stomach was convex at the base... and i have some plecs that are fattish, but they don't have bulging stomachs. so they are definitely eggs? cause they are huge! i couldnt believe it when i saw them... cant imagine how something that big could come out a fish that small its a real pity.. was only 40 bucks.. but was such a cool looking fish.

still using that flourish ?

yeh, i agree. stress coat does no harm. as i remember i used a good 400mL when i needed it. :lol: I hope you figure out what's going on.... its v sad that someone on TM would do something like this.

it did jamie, but that was cloudy eye. We don't really know what this is yet if its damage, meth blue and stress coat should do the trick, with a LOT of water changes. same deal with cloudy eye.

ah. i C. that makes sense. Thanks Ryan, its all a bit baffling really . was such a cool little fish. had a very fat tummy.

http://www.fishyfarmacy.com/fish_diseases/eyes.html that link is the best one i know of for treatments.... a pic would really help though, cause it very well could be something completely unrelated.

you mean egg laying disease? PS- water was changed after the "disease"- gravel was removed and cleaned, plants removed and disinfected. tank was cleaned. haven't really lost fish after that... plus that was aaagggess ago!

can you put a pic up? what makes you say they are blind? are the eyes covered, or non existent or just not there?

did the test this morning. water stats are good BN's dont live cause of the temp in the tank (29 degrees) apparently. all the other plecs are happy as.. eating... pooing.. doing normal pleco stuff. there's a good chance the snowball is still in there, :lol:

DEAD! no visual signs to why she is but after the necropsy it was clear why she died look what i found in her: about 15 - 18 eggs. least i think they are eggs, she was pretty fat - and she looked like a breeding tube or something similar was coming out of her. I knew the menstrual process still takes place in females, but i thought they would have laid the unfertilised eggs? any help would be nice. especially if you know more about the anatomy of fish than I do.