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otos are cute little guys, peaceful and great algae eaters. get a group of 3 or more and they'll always be munching away at visible and hidden algae.

I don't like the look of elite heaters anyway. Recently needed a heater and both elite and blue planet were on special. I didn't like the look of the elite but ummed and ahhed over the B.P .. got it even though I would have preferred a jager.. but the BP special was very god. Anyway , got it home, to find the glass was broken and there was no temp range on the dial.. yes I know it's inaccurate but usually there is some starting point! Took it back and got the jager I wanted in the first place. Pleased I did.,.. has kept the temp constant even on the coldest of nights in the coldest room in the house.

doh -- face palm. of course. I forget TC has different plans.

it's no secret that James Cameron loves the ocean. quotes below are taken from http://aquaviews.net/james-camerons-lov ... in-avatar/ etc.

interesting that Sam and I had such vastly different results from same ISP and very close geographically. when I click through to the ping test it always chooses tauranga as best server.

Levamisole (in Aviverm) should deal with nematodes. My very first guppy came from the store with callamanus worms and although he died (aviverm was delayed in the post) I did treat the other fish and didn't lose any more.

lol sorry diver21! was just meaning koi swordtails in general , as per the subject of this thread.

I've not heard of that Tetrahymena corlissi before. What are the symptoms please? A while back I lost a majority of my guppies after adding two imported guppys. only the guppys were affected and I put it down to columnaris at the time but meth blue, salt, lowered temp and then furan2 did not help.

i had some guppies infected by some newcomers and they all turned white at the head and part way down the body. It was fast and it killed. I suspect it was columnaris. Maybe google columnaris and see if the symptoms fit. At any rate. I would put some salt in the tank with the female bettas.

mine was new out of the box .. well a couple of weeks old before I noticed it. But it is submerged, just under the surface. I keep meaning to bring it up slightly but forget.

my little black whiptails don't eat algae. they prefer protein based food but will eat algae wafers.

some on trademe at the moment.

lol.. I speak to Sam.. I'm a girl. Sam is a he . I'm not scared of teenage boys. But someone on here thought that I was a teenage boy! I'm a Mum of two teenagers lol. I think there should be an optional gender to put with our location. Was also wondering if junior or student classification could be an option too.. sometimes it helps to know of we're talking to a teenager .. just sometimes.

aaaw poor little neons ! So far I haven't lost any fish during the cycling periods. I usually use guppies (fry if I've got any!) and a bacteria supplement such as TLC or JBL filter start. The two tanks I used JBL filter start cycled super fast.

i think your filter is similar to two of my tanks which are blue planets. Three compartments.. black bioballs, white filter wool and white noodles.

It might not be ich then if it's swimming about... Ich is stuck on the fish as little cysts, they don't swim about at that stage. this is my choc zebra who had ich .. the white spots stay in one place till they drop off. I successfully treated him with salt, increased temp and white spot cure. and after treatment - spots gone .. s I wonder if the white things in the water are something like planaria.. a harmless white wormy thing that comes from over feeding. They start off as little tiny leech type things that you can see on the glass, then they start to swim and later become longer thread like worms.

could be uneaten food that has started to grow fuzzy mold. Did you remove all the dead fish .. no bits left that the fish were eating? Gosh I hope you don't have ich in your tank. that's the last thing you need when you're starting out but it is treateable. The ich is on the fish itself and not floating about. not the visible ich anyway. the white specks you are seeing on the fish , are they the same as what you are seeing in the water?

yep, all my fish love them too. I fast my fish once a week and then their next meal is deshelled squasehd peas (the frozen ones that I have thawed in a little water in microwave or hot water)

I usually give my filter wool a rinse in the water from waterchange each week to get rid of any excess crud. it gets replaced approx every 8 weeks or so, at which time I also add some TLC (bacteria supplement) but you don't need to worry too much about that. It's just something I like to do. as for the cycling, you'll know when tank is cycled because ammonia and nitrite readings will be zero and there should be low readings of nitrates. Nitrate levels are kept under control with water changes - and plants help too. Don't add any more fish just yet , just let things settle in the tank and enjoy them for a while .

well I bought a single prawn from the supermarket deli. prefrozen but thawed and raw. The lady looked at me funny when i asked for one prawn and then i said it was for a pet eel and she said "that's way cool" Anyway, I cut the prawn into what I guessed were bite sized pieces and put a couple in the tank. the eel slowly came over to have a look, started to bite a piece and then spat it out and left it. Not interested! aggghh. thought i was going to be onto a winner. fussy thing. Just as well I didn't buy a whole bag. So now I'll have to track down some shrimp. He's a neat eel and likes hanging in the plants more than he hides. If he's hiding, turning the light on brings him out to see us. very friendly and interactive. There's a guppy trio in the tank with him. hopefully they'll grow fast and provide him with fry soon !

wow that's scary. I also noticed some condensation inside the glass of the heater. Mine has that too (same brand) and I was wondering if that is normal ?

we ended up making the tunnel in the driftwood larger so he couldn't get stuck anymore. problem solved. He was going in there to see what the kuhlis were eating.

hmmm this has been interesting. My hubby would like a sun conure one day after meeting a gorgeous one at a cickatiels breeders place. her conure was so friendly and knew some tricks. He likes the look of a sun conure and the fact that they are bigger than a cockatiel without being huge. Our two teils are sweethearts that like to "stick" to you. but he wants something more parroty yet still friendly. so.. sun conure or something else??

poor betta. I'm sure he'll be fine though. Give him good clean water for him to heal. One of my dwarf gouramis got stuck in a piece of driftwood twice. Both times he was really stuck and we had to push him out leaving broken dorsal fin and huge scrape on the top of his head and under his belly. We could actually hear the sickening sound of him crunching as we pushed him through. I really thought we were goign to lose him the 2nd time it happened as he seemed to be swimming very slowly and unbalanced . But several months later he is doing just fine and you can hardly see where his injurys were. The only noticeable difference is that he is smaller in size compared to the other dwarf gourami we got at the same time. i guess his energy went into healing instead of growing. But it's not a huge difference.

yep cats don't like the attention being elsewhere. My Birman (same one as the jigsaw chewer) will bunt me and try and push me off balance if I'm squatting to look at the tank in the main room. Then he walks off lie he doesn't care.