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...a little chloride ... Malachite Green as a common name covers more than fifteen different chemical compounds. Many of them are not used as a fish medication at all. Malachite green oxalate (C52H54N4O12) CAS Number：2437-29-8 is used as an antiparasitic substance but you can use Malachite Green hydrochloride as well.

Fish medication malachite green is dye, organic compound not the mineral malachite :)

Copper is an essential trace element and any commercial fish food contain a trace amount of copper. Concentracion is so low that it's not worth worrying about. Rainwater has low alkalinity and pH will be unstable and difficult to maintain. Most fish will not tolerate rapid changes in pH. You should worry about that Rainwater has no minerals in it. To maintenance of the acid base balance fish must have Na+ K+ Cl- otherwise, fish will die so you need to add some salt mix (minerals in fish food ingredients???). Malachite green has no copper, it is not same as mineral malachite.

Betta splendens - Elephant Ear Plakat Betta

It was a working holiday I missed the focus on this shot Anyway, they looked stunning

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I think that Rainbow shiner have never been imported in NZ but who knows?

Texas Blood Parrot

Pseudotropheus johannii - Melanochromis johanni

Scleropages jardinii - Pearl Arowana

Badis ruber Sigara striata - Water Boatmen Anisops sp. Backswimmer

Poecilia reticulata - Luminous Cobra

I'm using Firefox, it doesn't work as it should. IE and Safari (ipad) are absolutely fine. It looks like a bug and I still can't see image. screenshot:

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Xiphophorus maculatus - Hi Fin Platy

Today's photos

It is quite possible, time will tell.

Badis ruber - Burmese Badis

Notropis chrosomus - Rainbow shiner

Botia histrionica or more likely Botia sp. aff rostrata ????

Sometimes I have an opportunity to take marine fish/reef photos but overall I have no salt water tank at home. My old photos Periclimenes sp. - Anemone Shrimp Lysmata amboinensis

Megalechis thoracata - Port Hoplo Catfish