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Hmmmm from what I know it should be no less than an inch.... but i guess it all depends on what type of fish you are keeping. Other people might have different views

If you give the tank more natural sunlight a green algae will grow instead and some malawi fish will eat it, but i dont think plecos like the green algae... they dont seem to eat it in our tanks.

Forgot to add.. originally thought it was worms or something so just started treating tanks with cure-ex but then after reading all this about TB in a T.F.H book on deasises think it could be that... can someone please help us otherwise we could loose $500+ worth of fish.......

hmmm ok after all the trouble we've been throu lately I now think we may have TB in 2 of our tanks.... In our africans tank some of the fish were going really dull faded colours, withdrawing themselves to the corner and not eating and then eventually dieing which is all symptoms of TB... all hte fish left in the tank look healthy now... In our other cichlid tank the geos have sunken in bellies and there scales are flaking off but it seems to heal.... the geos had been in a high ph for a while so thought it could have been alkaline posioning.... but those are aslo symptoms of TB Neither tank has had fish added to it for ages so wondering if TB can just strike and start whiping out fish one by one... if the fish are healthy and deasased fish have been removed can they still get it and die???

Have a look in the beginners section for a thing on algae I put some good url's to some websites.

Chomp on him and see how he likes it :lol:

Heres 2 web pages, on is on types of algae and the other is how to control them. Hope they are useful. http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/algae_types.php http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/algae_control.php

Hmmm ok tried the drontal but the giraffe looks even worse off now... looks like he's coughing or something in his tank.... and now it looks like another one of our peacocks has fallen ill... ooo dear what to do??

Hmm we are waiting to borrow the digital camera when my(Willy) girlfriends parents get back from ozzie. then we will take pics off all our fish and send them away.... We will need all the book references though cause none of the fish club's library books have many cichlids in them the red headed cichlids we have, now what are there scientific name... can find htem in a book we have here as a Theraps but cant find anything with that name on the interenet....

Ok going to try that today but anything else i can try if that doesnt work?

We think one of our Giraffes have worms... Brain and the goldfish bowl in hamz thinks so to. Clear, whitey/yellowie poos with other lil white bits in it... now brain had nothing to treat it and said most of the chemicals for sale wont... does anyone have anything or know of something we can use to treat this??? any help would be much appreciated.

Cant remember what they are called but they come about from over feeding. IF there are alot of them you will probably loose all the discus eggs as they'll try eat them... best way to get rid of them is to not feed for a few days or feed very lightly so the discus just get enough to eat and waste none at all... thats how you should feed all the time ot stop these worms and nitrates and things building up from rotten food.

Hmmm ok done a 20% water change... couldnt have been anything on my hands cause it was the 2nd or 3rd water change i had done, temp was roughly the same... ph would have been different from the tap water to tank water.... ph of tank is 7.6 to 7.8 and tap water is 7 Brain at Goldfish bowl said it could have been the fishes lateral line that somehow got disrupted but couldnt see how a water change could do it... Im putting it down to the water change... maybe the fish decided to go through the water being poured in and got slammed into a rock or something...

Just after we done a water change today, one of our auratus started spinning around un-controlably and had no sense of direction... any ideas what made this fish do that? He has since died so we cant help him but is it a disease or parasite???

Lol they do but plecos have really hard scales and are quite spikey in some places... gets the odd damaged fin but recovers before the next time he feels hungry for some eggs

Lol we just use ours to clean up unwanted spawnings of fish when we've run out of tank space..... lately he's had salvini eggs, geo eggs, jack dempsy eggs... and soon maybe redheaded cichlid eggs

Lol ours are lazy... one never comes out from under a rock and the other never comes out of its terricota boot

Its normal for a new tank to stay murky for a few days but we've never had as much trouble as you have... anything in your water or something that could have cause an algae bloom in your tank? And electric yellows are naturally shy fish untill you have a lot of fish in there then they will come out. Ours are in a tank by themselves and they are quite skitterious but if we put them in the community tank they are perfectly fine.

yeah they are fine with cichlids.... but they are quite lazy... bristlenoses do a much better job and apparently chinese algae eaters do to

Cheers, checked them just before and they still all seem to be alive and only been in water with a airstone all night and no fungus seems to be growing anywhere.... probably 30+ of them so better start up the brine shrimp hatcheries.... Also found out yesterday that our bristlenose's have babes... and just our luck they finally decided to breed after waiting for them for so long just after we went and brought another 8!!

He's probably just sulking from hurting himself... Im sure everyone of us would want to hide and sulk somewhere if we took a big chunk out of our heads banging it on a rock. But who knows fish could get brain damaged.

Not sure about the eye but melifix will help the scratch heal and will prevent any fungus from appearing.

Hmmm we have no methyl blue... will melifix work???

I just had to collect a whole lot of blue dolphins fry that the mother spat out on to bottom of the tank... and cause there were other fish in the tank had to do it... good thing i was watching at the time.... i have them in a small seperation container with a couple of air stones to tumble them around but is there anything else i should do.... they still have there egg sacks.

Yeah seen some good designs on a website using plastic storage draws so thinking about following that. By any chance do you have a small marine tank on your desk at work?