oO SKIPPY Oo

does anyone have any ideas on how i can get rid of this algae in my pond. its about 2 inches thick in places and breaks up if you run your hands through it.

i would stop using the PH Up and Down products - you dont need them. if you "need" to have you PH at a certain level then you should be using natural products ie wood to lower it or oyster shells etc to raise it. using products will cause you more grief than you need.

have you got a test kit ? you need to post what the levels are really. sounds like something in the tank is toxic though if you have lost over 20 neons in less than a week

what about a complete blackout ?

she could probably go to employment relations i guess - i tried to find out what my meeting was about but no one would tell me what it was - ended up ok because it as redundancy and i got a good payout but if they said to her its about misconduct or serious misconduct then that sucks when she doesn't know what it is that she has done.

i think this goes along the same lines as when i was made redundant from my last place - they said they wanted a meeting 24hrs later - and reading that link that livingart posted its about the same - tell the employee you want a meeting, and then tell them what its about in the meeting - sucks for the employee when you dont know what the heck the meeting is about !!!

update - On Saturday I had some time to have a look at the CO2 again - also because i didnt want to kill my fish in the mean time i waited for everything to settle back down again. * At about 9 am before the lights turned on I checked the PH - it was at 7.4 * Then I turned the co2 on - this time i tried to get about 1.5 to 2 bubbles per second coming out the end of the hose with no atomiser installed * Installed the atomiser and got everything back the way i wanted it. * Everything was looking good in the tank for several hours and the fish looked happy enough so I tested the ph again at about 3pm - this time it was at 7.2 I'm happier with that range of ph fluctuations than the previous possible 7.4 to 6.4 that may have happened the other week Now i need to get a fert regime in place so that i can grow plants rather than algae

hmm - i agree that 6.4 is ok but my issue was it was about 3.30pm and the lights were still on when the fish decided lay on the side - i took the reading about 90 mins after i had turned the co2 off, and changed about 60% of the water so i dont actually know what the PH reading was when the fish were on deaths door.

does anyone know how long it will take oyster shells to change the PH ?

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Thanks will take a look at bunnings tomorrow night.

I've stopped the co2 now so the fish can recuperate and then will strat it at a low amount for a while

yeah i have a needle valve on the regulator - where do you get oyster shell from ? not being an oyster fan i have no idea

thanks for the reply - that test was about an 90 mins after i had found my discus almost dead, had changed the water, and left the light off for a while. at the worst point the boy had no buoyancy and was being pushed around in the current from my filter laying on his side - the girl wasnt that much better but was still upright, im worried that if i turn the co2 back on its going to kill them as that has been the only change to the tank. this morning all the fish look alot happier and seem to be swimming around normally. What would be my next step as far as trying to get the pressurized co2 back on again ? do i increase the hardness of the water to stop any ph swings ? i wasnt able to test the water before i did the change yesterday so i dont know if it had changed too much. cheers skip

Jusr checked he ph and its sitting at about 6.4 thats a bit on the low side i thought. But will leave at this stage. Any other suggestions? What can i do to stabilise my ph more when i want to switch the co2 back on?

Can anyone tell me if the PH Shock symptoms for fish would be slow breathing and laying on the side at the surface ? i recently setup my pressurized co2 on my discus tank and today i noticed that my 2 discus were both at the top (all other fish swimming about happily) so i shut down the co2 and did about a 60% water change to try and bring things back in order - so far my big discus that was affected the most appears to be doing a bit better - no longer on his side but still slow breathing... edit is a large water change the right thing to do - is there anything else i can do to help matters. I just tested my GH and KH levels at they are at 6 and 4 degrees respectively. im going to run to work to get my other test kit but is there anything else i should do? cheers Skip

so its been a little over a month since i set this up and thought it was about time for an update

congrats on the boy - but its more like shitty neighbours than useless cops. Sorry but there are bigger crimes out there to solve than who let your dogs out.

In Wellington I would agree with these - Lower Hutt Pet Centre, Porirua Pet Centre, - then there is Petone Animalz (have recently changed name but cant remember it), and Animates in kaiwharawhara is ok but the other shops are better. Cheers Skip

no i was squirting the plants but the stupid fish came and swam through the flourish - it was still quite concentrated around the plant

as long as the fish dont come and investigate - that was how i lost my fish

ive had issues when putting the flourish excel directly into the tank as the fish seem to think its food so swim straight into a concentrated mix - but ive had no issues when ive been mixing it in a bucket of water first.

arent they otherwise known as rainbow sharks - if so then yes they are on the list and they are Epalzeorhynchos frenatum

you can double dose flourish excel and a siamese algae eater should help

thats what i said when i saw the fish - what is prazi in ? not drontal is it ?