Sophia

if you like I can get my teacher's pen out and 'mark' your posts so you don't miss your english teacher too much? 8)

one last test on the males tonight - gave them a truckload of daphnia for dinner so will see if that kills them. One of the problems of my divider used before is that holes were big enough to let a fish through, so have siliconed some mesh over the top of those so I can use it to seperate the fish without needing the box. However that brings a new problem of needing to find a way to cover the egg laying area so they can spawn and not be able to eat the eggs. I shall keep thinking :smln:

I wish I had been, then at least I would have something to show for my trouble !drool: no, have to replan my experiment and then get me some new fish :facepalm:

that's what I thought too &c:ry I will have to rethink my experiment for the next batch .... Thanks Burn, no medication used by me on these fish, maybe at the store but I don't think so

issummerhereyet?

:cofn: tea or coffee?

more dead rasboras at my house :facepalm:

My breeding experiment came to a halt today when I found my last 2 female rasbora (maculatus) floating belly up. These 2 look like yesterday's casualty, their eyes are bulging and appear to have been bleeding, bodies a little fat but not too much different to what they usually look like. No pineconing or other obvious things that I know of. Do they look like any particular ailment you could put your finger on or just another slightly mysterious fish death? Other details/incriminating evidence on me: Tank was divided in 2 with 3 happy alert males on one side, females on the other in a floating 3 litre lunchbox with some plant cover. Females possibly a little subdued compared to the males who were swimming in the current, possible cause being fishy-unhappiness? Ammonia and Nitrate both 0, pH, hardness, temperature etc all normal. Presence of daphnia in the lunchbox with them. Can you overfeed on live food? They weren't dashing for the food when I was there, compared to the males who were. There were still daphnia left in there today, whereas the night before they were all gone. I bought them on Sunday only, none of the ones in the shop had their usual orange colour, I put that down to the fact that they'd only arrived that week so hadn't settled in yet.

yep that's the one! thanks about page 30 has the gourami :thup:

found 1 dead female rasbora today, she was floating upside down ... looked a bit like death by implosion. Never mind, that's 3 males to 2 females, should get lots of fertilised eggs when they meet again in the breeding tank :love:

who... me again?

so I can move them into another tank AND change the lighting? I don't think so :sml2: the ones in my loach tank are pretty happy at least.

if HFF sold those you'd buy one :slfg:

I was trying to find Phoenix44's planted tank thread to show you, at one stage he had lots of gourami in there and I think it is a 3 foot tank so maybe similar size to your ... this is the best I could do, hopefully someone else knows what the name of the thread was http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=55139

that estuary is teeming with sealife though :dunno:

Thanks for all the photos, I will see if I can find some in Cornwall Park or at Uni, lots of different trees there. I will let you know if I find some too.

The crypts are melting again.... :yaw2: I want to know why ones that are nowhere near where the new plants went in also react. It's getting quite frustrating.

ever tried getting water from Cox's bay? There's a stream that goes up into Herne Bay so you could probably still get water at low tide, and not have to go over the bridge for it.

the word on the street is that instead of silicone he used stainless steel screws :digH:

who me...

just remember it was your suggestion not mine, I am innocent!

I'm not sure ham is the best thing to feed fish, it has various chemicals and preserving nitrates in it. Maybe other meat that isn't preserved would be better :dunno:

we seemed to have reached a sort of moderator-truce, where out of deference to our 'position' we can't get any ruder hahaha :sml1: *waits politely for Anthony to come back :cofn:

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