Sophia

Found another naughty barb who escaped my net, so now 11, will be registering them in a few days. Killies have been going at it this week. Yesterday 3 eggs, Tuesday 6 eggs (3 went mouldy), 3 or 4 a couple of days before. The 2 fry are still alive and zipping about in their box and 2 more eggs had tails yesterday too.

Forgotten update: corydora eggs grew fungus. No more since. Got to see the loaches spawning but I didn't see any eggs. A funny sight of odd but zippy contortions and shenanigans. :spop: Also earlier this week Big Mac began dying of what we think was organ failure as he had a big pop eye one day which then shrunk a bit, then he didn't eat for a week and languished about with his fins a bit clampy. When I found him listing over to one side I caught him and euthanised him. I knew he was old when I bought him so at least he had a good few months eating like a little piggy and swimming about. Current occupants: 4 dwarf chain loaches, 2 mature peppered cories, 3 small ones, 3 loxozonus cories

I don't know, I only have the instructions for Aviverm. keep us posted because if he fattens up again I will get some.

:rotf: you are so funny Just say no to christmas shopping!

interesting that the axelrod anal fin comes up red in your photo, mine just look very dark. I will have to shine a torch on their finny bottoms and have a closer look :cr10:

I showed you mine so now you show me yours!

Alan, you can't get smoke in an aquarium :digH:

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do you mean Aviverm? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Aminopyridine

that's unusually good :thup:

poke them before they are gone otherwise we will never know! :nilly:

Where did I say that? I was telling you that my loaches have behaved like yours and then what happened after. If you want to try other wormers you can, but I never have, for no particular reason. I don't think you should or shouldn't put the fish down, it's up to you. I haven't put mine down as they seem to just fade away quietly which seems to me to be more humane than trying to catch them in that state. But that's just me. If you think he is suffering you should do what you think is best. I wormed my last 2 skinny loaches in the riverbed tank and they went downhill visibly in the next 24 hours and disappeared in the week after. I was advised that sometimes there are so many worms in the system that killing them is too much for the fish to cope with so they die anyway. What has happened since I've had loaches is that I've had 6 or 7 loaches at a time and over a few months I've noticed one get skinny and die. I replace the fish and then in a few months another one goes. I haven't replaced the last 2 and so far the last 4 are all fatties but it's not to say that one will not get whatever it is. It's possible they have the worms in them all the time but if they get sick or lose condition it's enough for the worms to take hold. Unless you know someone who can look at a fish and diagnose it and treat, you can only do what you know to do and then leave the rest to nature. That's probably not what you want to hear but it just seems really difficult to get fish health perfect when we are not vets or biologists, and that they are underwater.

they don't really eat algae though, more like clean up crew or small critter hunters

they are the colour of the cyano algae I used to get but I've never seen bubbles like that I would not be able to resist poking them with one of my various tank poking sticks :cofn:

that was cool :happy2:

If he doesn't appear to be getting skinnier he might go on like that for a couple more weeks before finally getting quite inactive and then seperating himself from the group for a quiet death. What is the most obvious change of behaviour is the not hanging out with the other fish, and mine would go after food but not eat it. I put the first one of mine to sleep but then after that I let them die peacefully in their home.

Good news from Chocolate World :mbh: Went to the Pak n Save christmas club night and got 3 blocks of whittakers for $9 and then at the end I won a spot prize of a box of Lindt Desserts they are half gone.... And more in the good news tomorrow at work we are having a retirement celebration for 3 old guys who are leaving... I was in charge of the event so I have ordered them each a different type of chocolate cake. Then out for a dinner for another work do...... It's going to be a delicious day tomorrow! :happy2: (and then exercising on Thursday :yaw2: )

I will test the theory later...

what's the tank looking like now?

I have a photo of myself dressed as an african woman for a village carnival back in the good old 80s... my mum put gravy browning on my face and i carried my gollywog.... sounds bad nowadays but that sort of thing wasn't frowned on then.... imagine a whitey kid dressing up as a maori or an indian nowadays, the uproar! in other news, I also went for a 3km run and could barely finish it. Not enough chocolate, clearly that's the reason

this thread is useless without hohoho :cr2:

same here, all my CPDs went down with it one by one. It was suggested that it was fish TB

Well I enjoyed reading Joe's post about how he felt about his parents friends and pigeons. People can rant as long as they aren't being hurtful to others. That's what this thread is for after all. in other news I found 4 killifish eggs today, that's a record so far :thup:

mmmm snails for tea at Caryl's :love:

they weren't just ordinary parental friends, they were Pigeon Lovers