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Back when I was a little lee I use to watch the Japanese Anime show Sailor Moon, looking back I cant believe how short their skirts were....lol

Haha I tried the Kinder suprise toy capsule and its ended being used by one of my Polk-a-dot loaches as a house.lol Still awsome to watch though! Thanks for starting a thread on it! :bounce:

Omg hes flaring thats got to be a good sign!lol Im so pleased you managed to pull him through! Give yourself a huge pat on the back! :bounce:

Ooo yay I wish my boyfriend had an interest in fighters, he doesnt really show an interest in my fighter fetish, but after dragging him into a fish store he has since declared that he wants a Ghost Knife fish and Butterfly Pantadon...getting closer I hope. I have my fighter in with some girl fighters, Pictus Catfish, Goldfish, Bristlenose, Blue Rams, some loaches, goldfish and a lone angel, its partner died:( People's experience with Angels and Fighters vary, what I was taught is that Angels and Fighters dont mix, but I personally haven't had a problem. I think that it is depending on the Angel, environment and fighter, and how they interact. Most Tetra's are fine, I like to stay away from the notorious fin nipper types (Barbs, Red eye Tetra, sharks can be a little problem when bigger). You can only have one male in a tank as a general rule, but depending on the size of the tank, (large and heavily planted, some people can get away with two in one tank. I would stick to the one per tank Fighting wise, they spend most of the time flaring and showing off and (this is going to sound weird ) hitting eachother with their bodies (thats is what it looks like, from what I've heard, a weird way to describe it I know,) most males will shred their opponents fins to get them to backdown, (but they dont outrightly go for the kill), I dont know how true this is but I have heard that the victor eats the remains of the shredded fins, more often then not fighting does tend to end in the death due to stress. Girls however are alright in groups of more than one, they probably will still have their little flaring and show off matches as mine do, but not to the extent as males do. If you were to keep a male and females together, I would stick to a small amount of females as you dont want the male being hen picked and driven to the local battered husbands shelter However, other people will probably have differing/varying opinions on Siamese Fighter Care, this is just what I've read, understood, learnt, experienced and discussed with other Siamese Fighter keepers and I look forward to seeing the views of others.

if you think it may be dropsy adding some epsom salts will help the retained fluid to pass through its organs, personally I think it maybe a female who is filling with eggs. Alternating its diet with some de-capped peas will help it to keep regular if it is constipated, just like Brookey25 said.

especially the male rats they smell the worst *shudder*

O yay! Blue Rams, put my name down for some of your Blue Ram babies My male and female fighters were at it all day yesterday, now i have a big as nest with quite alot of eggs sitting comfortably in the nest with the male being a very tentative dad! I like Spring :bounce: :bounce:

:bounce: :bounce: YAY im so pleased that all your TLC seems to be working! Bet handsome will be pleased too...lol Keep us updated I'll still keep my fingers crossed for you!! :bounce: :bounce:

Thats ok I just hope that he gets better my thoughts are with the both of you *hug*

Hi there Jaide and Mdodge, very sorry to hear Fluffy still doesn't seem to be getting better, I whipped the pictures from your email and put them on photo bucket and put them up as I heard your having problems with photo bucket. Hope this can help identify what he may have...

haha :lol: yes he is a little monkey! Glad to see he's keeping up his monkey-ing around up!lol definately keep me up to date! Oh little fighter bubbies are growing well most of them seem to be white with a sky blue sheen to them?! lol theres one white one that seems to have red fins, so Im finding it very interesting to see what colours they are evolving into!lol Will send you some pictures soon. (When ive got my new camera!!) :bounce: Fingers crossed for Fluffy!

Yeah i remember soaking a tablet in water after I gave up trying to pry one open (lol) and it became all soft and started to break up so hopefully the same is happening with Handsome :-? I'll keep my fingers crossed. In your last email....hang on. Ok just read it, last one I got was Monday...OMG I am so sorry to hear about Fluffy, I thought he was still able to eat. Im thinking at this stage Furan is probably the best thing to do at this point as it sounds bacterial to me. Gosh i hope very much that Fluffy pulls through this. Keep me updated on the both of them. Finger's crossed! :oops:

oh no!!! Was it Fluffy? oh gosh i hope he'll b ok. The coating does get softer andstarts to disinergrate the longer its in the water, so fingers crossed he'l be ok. How is he doing? :oops:

wow thats pretty amazing, sorry about your male though, and thanks for sharing that. :bounce:

Welcome!!

Congrats! Microworms goes down a treat too! :bounce:

I cry... nah try to fix it then go in a huff and spend the rest of the day surfing the internets and books trying to know everything possible about the problem.

You could try house training him in the mean time its relatively easy, my rabbit (Buddy) was trained within 12 hours. Would take a little longer with an older rabbit. But because they are generally tidy animals by habit the job is half done already for you.

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Father Ted :bounce:

O o what about a pet rock!!! U can decorate it yourself so it'll be unique!! :lol: :bounce:

Thanks, very sad to loose him but it proved to be a very interesting experience. I do hope to hear from other keepers that may have shared a similar experience, or even to get thoughts of other people. :bounce:

Yes they were Siamese Fighter fish, sorry I didnt state that more obviously. :oops:

Bulldog catfish? :-?

Last night I noticed one of my older males was dying so I moved him to an Isolation Tank so he wouldn't get eaten by the other community tank members. During the night I noticed two female fighters hanging around his Isolation Tank, but thought nothing of it. When I got up this morning I noticed that the male had died as I suspected he would, but more noticebly the two females that were hanging around his isolation tank had actually jumped in there at one stage during the night and were siting next to him on either side. They werent picking him to peices, just sitting there next to him. When I tried to remove the male's body, both females protested by jumping into the net and trying to head butt the body away from the net. I have never actually seen this sort of protective behaviour(if thats what it was) and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced behaviour like this before. I thought it was a moving experience, that proves to some extent that fish mourn and understand death.