trace&steve

awesome looks really good!!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

im after a english bull terrier pup (male) in the christchurch area please please contact me on 0210579150 or p/m me back cheers

lol lucky we have not small fish in there!!!! it works great thanks for the info!!!!!

ok so were just set it all up .. one question the pre filter thats inside the tank do you put anything in it or just leave it as it is ??????? :bounce: :bounce:

has anyone got one of these guys omg its massive our african tank is going to love it :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

pet world,,, ferry rd christchurch have one i think!!!!!!!!

not sure look like some cross breed.. does anyone else think it looks like it has a rather sunken in tummy?????

haha so have i an ice blue ended up in the sump still alive :bounce: :bounce:

ive lost a black ghost knife

morning!!! well i had to get up twice through the night to check on him the white fleshy stuff has fallen off now hes eating again :bounce: :bounce: i was wondering if our rather large chinese algae eater could have done this i seen them having abit of a blue earlier in the day because the algae eater was in my ghosts home!!!!!! ive heard that they can suck quite hard to hurt fish!!! the algae eaters about 13cm long!!! ugly looking thing its my partners so anyway i have decide not to put my ghost back in with the cichlids

its white and fluffy!!!!! he was eating last night but wouldnt touch anything tonight the cut has only happened today ill try get a pic can i email it to you to load up as i dont know how to do it :roll: :oops:

omg talk about stress with fish lol i have just got home and noticed my large black ghost knife has white fleshy looking stuff coming out of a cut under its mouth!!!!! could my cichlids have done this my ghost has always been in with them never any problem :-? i have taken it out and treated it with melafix will this do the job??????? he wont eat!!!!!! has this happened to anyone else????? will it be ok????? grrr im so angry right now!!!!! :evil:

hmm ok ill take your word then ill treat them how you have said... see what happens!!! they aint skinny at all its just under the belly under there fins!!!! it isnt that bad anymore but i might treat them just in case!!!! cheers for the info ryanjury :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

i have someone coming over in the morning to she what she thinks!!!! my vet i go to she seems to know abit about fish so fingers crossed were just gonna take the water down to 200litres but cos its all bio were going to drain the top water into a big drum and save it to put back in,, then treat the tank with 200 litres with all the fish in it!! once they have finished being treated for 5 hours as the vet has said get them out do a full gravel pump get all the water out and refill the tank with the water we drained out put back in a top up with fresh stuff !!! does this sound ok????

just heard back from the vets she reckon ill have to take all the cichlids out put them in containers and treat with for 5 hours then put them back in!!!!!!! does this sound about right?????

the filtrations all good ill take some pics but dont know how to load them to a photo bucket!!!! :roll: yeah i have mbuna in with my peacocks there only 2 peacocks though rest are mbuna and a large ghost knife and a large pleco!!!! they all get on fine never really had any problems...

what size is your tank that you have 30 in??? ours is 700 litres we have about 22 malawis about 7cm to 18cm do you think thats to much in the tank ????? ive just noticed a white stringy poo from the eyebiter i got off this person i got the peacock off to!!!!!!!

yeah ok ill keep the feeds up everyday for the next few days and see how they go!!! thanks heaps for your help smidey,,,, ill keep ya posted!!! so blood worms as a treat then thought as much omg so your tropheus is ok with blood worms my brother just lost his the other day it just sat on the bottom lost all its colours then died afew days later!!! he thought it may of been the bloodworms!!!

ok we were feeding them up to 3 times a day and they started scratching so we were told to feed them once a day and they came right!!! i would always sneek in a lil extra :oops: :roll: are cichlids ment to have flat tummy or abit of a round shape??? peacocks are flatter but i think this peacock i have is to flat!! i fed them extra last night went and brought some new pellets nutrafin max cichlid spirulina meal sticks some of them love them some are abit fussy they look abit better today... hpefully the vet will get back to me asap!!also ive heard blood worms can be bad for malawis ???? does anyone live in chch that knows abit about malawis that could come over and have a look??? ill give u gas money of course im in hornby!!! cheers

so its worth treating with prazi then!!!! i also have a huge ghost knife in with the cichlids hes about 25cm long should i treat everything in the tank it wont harm any will it??? on to it calling the vets thanx for your help :bounce: :bounce:

ive just got home from trying to buy some worming stuff for them no one has it in chch !!!!! so ive been told any ideas where to get some from!!!!!!!

hi firezenz... ok ill start with the worming thanks the unknown peacock i got is about 15cm give or take and there was an malawi eyebiter its about 10cm to i got from the same person that has the same problem!!!! i have never had this problem seen it in other peoples tanks !!!! other wise they are all eating fine and seem to be fine just the sunken in tummys are a bit of a worry :roll: thanks for your help...

try find the real little pots about 8cm high and grab a pair of pliers and break a lil door out of the top rim of the pot and stick it in up side down ours love them!!!!

hey there... we feed our demasonis flake to brine shrimp & pellets ,, we scored another 9 yesterday so we have 20 havnt lost any yet fingers crossed!!!! when we first got our first lot we would have to swirl the flake around in the tank so they see it and they would come out and feed demis are quite shy cichlids as we have found!!! where did you get them from????

hi all :bounce: :bounce: im abit concerned about my cichlids theres a mix of malawis and peacocks!!! i brought a peacock the other week and it looked as so it has abit of a sunken in tummy so i thought it may have been abit skinny so i put it in our 700litre tank with the rest of our babys!!!! i have always taken notice of there bellys i always make sure they are all good now ive noticed afew of my malawis look as so they are skinny and a hollow tummy is this a parasite?????? im so worried all our water tests are fine they are not skinny all over just under there bottom fins or is there ment to be a little indent from folding there fins up??? if its a parasite how and what do i treat it with????????? any help please!!!!!!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: