Vervo

That is really helpful information you got there, my bf and I donno what brand was it, as he already throw out the box and manual, his dad demanding a cleaning room without many stuffs :roll: so he throw it away, I cant see the brand on the filter anywhere. My bf was the one who bought the filter and set it up while I was at work, so I am not too sure about the water filtration volume it does. We will get those thing sorted before we going away, I think his uncle is happy to help us to change the water, but we still have to put those holiday food block in.

I've seem it, it is quite cute, but I prefer the director's classic works.. still quite good tho.

lol... fish died... >< the disease ate her away... even tho she was trying to survive up to 2 weeks

that is a really good thing to know thanx, would you know if it is a good media to put in if I have to go away for a month, risking not changing water?

some are easy for me to open, some aren't >

about 110L, haven't check the PH so far, cos the tap water we have is always pH7, but we put a little bit of PH down for the rams. most of the time we tested the water, ammonia, nitrite always at 0, only the nitrate would be around 5 to 10 if we got lazy change the water. we got some real plants in there with light hood, and it is no way that it is over stock. we also put cycle* in every 2nd time we change the water. Sometimes may over feed a little, but we do twice a week water change. we haven 't been using the carbon media at all, and sometimes I do mix a little bit of medicine the filter is really powerful that even if I treated the tank with medicine, the 2nd day the tank water is almost colourless again when we got the most of the fishes in this tank were like 4 bettas, 5 rams, 4 rammsy noses, 2 medium clown loaches, and 1 bottom feeder. now we have 1 betta, 3 rams, 3 rammsy noses, 2 medium-large clown loaches and 1 bottom feeder. some fish die much earlier than what I have describe in this thread earlier, we think the female betta were picking on each other for the 1 male left, that's how they got stressed. not sure what's up with the ram that die earlier. Maybe the loaches were stressing other fishes by bullying others, even tho they r funny, but we may consider selling it and get smaller ones. p.s. we started fish keeping since earlier last year, not on this tank, but others. We are still are not so good on treating diseases, but we do know the basis on setting up tank.

something like Fluval 105?? my boyfriend already throw away the box and manual :-? We also have Bio Chem Zorb Large instead of carbon media in it (for 8 months now). it has been well, we never got high ammonia but nitrate.

yeh, I've make sure I got air stone in there 24/7, still awaits for my boyfriend to finally clean the filter... he set the filter up, he wouldn't want me to touch it. cos people told us no need to clean the filter as there are good bacterias in there, so we never change the filter media and clean it so far we got those big external filters with big tubes. but thanks for you advise, I'll do the 50 water change, and make my boyfriend clean the filter.

got some white spot happenning with my male betta, so I have raised the temp up to 29.6 c for the last 3 weeks. from the method you described, will it lose any good bacterias in the tank too?

Heya, so far I have 2 of my betta females die after another, then my male ram die last week like after the last betta female die. Now the last male ram looks sick... what shall I do? what happened was the first female betta got attacked or something, it had a very bad white spiky/fur like fungus on its anus, then it has white patch grown behind on one of her fin, then it keep eating her away... I did treated her with furan 2, and some melafix the whole time in a coke bottle, she was in there more than 2 weeks. during that I put the other female in a floating breeding trap as it keep teasing the the sick female, and I think she maybe caused the wound of the poor fish. So it will stop stressing the sick fish. after the first betta die, I let the fat female better out, not long after, she had some fungus /white patch sign on her chin (where her gills meets). Then it just getting worse, and during the time, I treated her as well in a coke bottle. but it die not long after. then, one of the male ram stayed at the bottom corner of the tank, breath rapidly, and I could see some mouth fungus was on him. My boyfriend said it cannot live in a small container like bettas, so may as well treated the whole tank, as we didnt set up the spare tank water, it is not that suitable to use as a hospital tank. So I treated the whole tank with furan 2, and we got some advice from the shop to drop 2 drops of methalene blue directly on the fish (we did that on the last female betta, seen to be kinda late), but it still pass away in 3 days. from last night, I can tell the last ram we got start to do the same thing, but can't really see any fungus on his mouth. we ran out of the furan 2 ( the Animates in Mt Eden said they have to re-order them), we are using tonic instead for the whole tank.. Maybe there are just some disease needed to be treated in the tank water, is there anyway to do this than do water changes?? I do my water change like twice a week for 25~30% water each time, sometime delayed but still will be 4 times 2 weeks. I saw there are UV-light filters, will it helps??

http://cms.marsfishcare.com/files/msds/furan2powder_2979.pdf I AM GONNA GET TUMORS

I happen to be a stage 1 chemistry student. but still need a more accurate way to do this. I am sick of the furan 2, I think I may get cancer >< why dont they design a easy applicably solution instead of the powder in a capsule, which on the description says please avoid touching it with bare hand, but how? putting a glove on is just gonna making it harder.. I find a link about the product data sheet, but it's API one http://cms.marsfishcare.com/files/msds/furan2powder_2979.pdf

thanx :bounce:

I just found out it is ich http://www.nippyfish.net/ich.html does anyone know what medicine in NZ is best to treat this disease?

Hi all, I was just checking out my male betta, it has 2 white bubble on his head, really small like 0.5mm long each. it looks just like bubble or a flea egg, not like white spot that's kinda flat, any idea what is it? is it some kinda of micro-organism try to eat him?

thanks

Hi all, my female fighter has a wound and has white fluffy fungus grow over it, I am treating it in furan 2, i am not sure if I put enough in, as I separate the finish in a 1L coke bottle. I aso put a little bit of melafix and salt in. Is that too much?? :-?

Hi all I keep male fighter in a float breeding trap, I have about 2 years experience having fighters, I know males can't keep together, I still have not breed them yet, once very unsucessfully, now just the male is not very good at nesting, females aren't interested

Good day all, my name is Vivien, I am new here, but I used to look up this website seeking tips setting up my first tank 2 years ago, now I am offically a member :bounce: I and my boyfriend used to have a few tanks for our fighters, now we only have 1 decent size (110L) tank as a community fish tank. we had 3 fishes died so far since we set up this tank earlier this year, we found that fighters are really hard to keep... but I still adore them. now we have 2 female and 1 male fighters, 4 rams (2 couples), 2 crown catfishes, 3 ramsy noses and 1 golden bottom feeder cat fish. once again, hello from me and my boyfriend, we will post here (mainly I) for some professional fishing keeping advices.