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Thanks Stella! That is exactly what I am doing.... i think with my new busier schedule and with my upcoming 4th year of uni - i will be able to handle a few fish better than a mass of fish as i have had in the past. so still looking at sourcing 6 pictus's , a delhizi and a few borneo tigers. I will put the remaining tetras on here once i am sure there is no disease left at all - and those that cannot be caught can just stay in the tank until whenever.

that is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! breed them! :bounce:

im only thinking...... just yet... lol when the tank is 100% A ok. 6 pictus shall go in first. then the borneos. then ill be happy until they decide to die.

loaches are ok with both those treatments.

water change done too... they are much better now. im just about to do another 50% water change or so. so now that i can get new fish i was thinking of 4 small borneo tigers and a delhizi - growing them up as big as they can in this tank and then passing them on... disease looks pretty ranky huh? the smell was terrible too.

oh snowman... that sucks man.. i know how sucky it feels to lose fish like that. I too recently lost a lotta fish ... it sucks big time.

so if i wanted to buy a good camera (canon, nikon or sony) with a lens that can take these "macro" photos. how much would it cost all up?

happy new year everyone! here's to a year without tank related diseases and fish deaths! :bounce: hope everyone had a great new year.

alanamin refer the diseases section topic titled "on a brighter note". no one really knows what it is. basically the tank has been treated with meth blue, meth green, quinine, amoxocillin, oxytetracycline, furan II and a few other things. Not all at the same time though don't worry, lol. the quinine and CuSO4 seems to have done the trick though.

pull them out? the roots are far too established. i couldnt pull them out when i moved house. i pulled one small clump out and it removed a chunk of gravel. this 4 foot tank has no visible gravel.. its all plant. the gravel is only visible from the sides of the glass where you can see how deep the layer of gravel is. the treatment is almost over :bounce: ill give it a couple of days at most and then ill have to think of some new fish. :roll: plants seem fine so far. thanks for the info though :bounce:

im using 3 tanks to treat fish at the moment, and the 4 ft which has the plants in it is being very severely treated. so no choice there im afraid. cleaning the tank wont be a problem, i just dont want my plants to die too.

v v interesting thought. i had turned my cannister off when i medicated, so i will do a water test on what's in there and let you know how it turns out. thanks for that tsarmina.... i use an eheim 2010 with an air pump attached to in for aeration, and additional water flow over the heater etc.

nopes. both are healthy as ever. i thought they might get sick, but nopes... not sick at all. 3 bolivian rams are healthy too now, and the black neons and the glowlights are healthy too.

Thats CL number 3 down. this is what happens to them as they are dying:

OH! LOL HAHAHAHAHA.. ok then. wishful thinking huh? sorry.. been a loooooong day at work... yeah i will ask around on some other forums, but this is the only forum i regularly go on.

awesome thanks adodge! let me know if someone knows any thing at all. its definitely the weirdest thing i have seen for a long time.

just thought i'd keep you guys posted on whats going on now..... there are no mortalities i know of today... the tank is treated with a mixture of quinine, melachite green, meth blue and acriflavin. fish seem happier, but the eye thing is still a little creepy. any ideas if it will grow back, from a cavity? may not have vision. but was wondering if it would regenerate.

not at all.. unless you count 40 seconds of footage as crucial, lol :lol:

it was busy busy at work for me! if its not busy at the pet shop on the weekends when i go to work at the bank, its busy there too cause of this crazy season! lol

make sure its a sony bravia. lol or a toshiba.

orange stripe! so ill have orange and blue? wow... i think i should get somemore when tank sorts out.

the fish look much better now guys, i think the copper and the water change helped heaps. i lost a large solitary clownie that ive had for ever - he used to hang out with the ghost and not the other clownies, but he always had the first handfeed serving of the day, lol... navarre - ive heard that too, but when you have no option then you have no option. oxytetracycline is used in human eyes as a cure for tracoma, so i presume the scaleless fish will be ok. i hope so any ways, lol.. im very bummed about the larger fish losses, would have been ok if the tetras had gone, but it seemslike the fish with the personalities (my favourites) are going...Thanks for the kind words everyone.

can you use an old toothbrush to get it off? i dont know how willing the koura will be though. maybe you could hold it in a towel.

brilliant. lol.. that's one less worry. it takes a lot of patience and care to grow pet shop plants submersed (properly) and the last thing i want is for them to die, ha ha. thanks alan.

that last water change i did seems to have helped a bit. the bolivians are swimming though i can only see 3 of them. i think i will lose 1 big clown loach but i cant see the others. so fingers crossed. Thanks everyone, you have all been so helpful - im actually quite amazed at how much concern has been expressed! to all of you! im hoping someone out there knows exactly what on earth is truly going on.