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Thanks for the warning, our water is good, we are on tank water. I had a big emmergeny once where something went horribly wrong with a smaller tank I had first and I had to take my baby bristlenoses and quicly put them in a little container water while washing and refilling their tank with water and that bristlenoses are my two big ones I still have. I am positive he will be ok, but like you said I am preparing myself for the worst. I will be heartbroken though, its the little guy in my avatar pic

Thanks Jennifer, in that case then I am just patiently waiting for the water to heat up. Its so cold tonight its taking so long. I feel terribly guilty and sad that I now know that I am causing the poor little guy more pain with the medicine I used. I just want him to get out of that tank and into nice clean water that would make him feel better. Tomorrow as animates opens, I will be outside their door to buy the furan 2.

I thought so too, that is why I am suprised that he is still hiding out at the heater if its burning him :-? As I am typing this, my quarantine tank is busy heating up with all clean water, I will use the sponge from my main tank in the filter for the smaller one. Tomorrow morning first thing I am going to go and buy some furan 2 and start treatment, I hope its not too late for him, I will be very sad if he dies. Thanks for your reply I realy appreciate it very much

Please help me I am extremely worried now. This is what happened so far. I went to the petshop and they suggested to not use Melafix but Primafix instead. I have for the last week treated my main tank with 20ml of Primafix. All my fish are fine except for the loss of one guppy, but don't know if it was the medicine or just a sickly guppy. Now he looks even worse, I don't know what to do. I attempted to take another photo and this one is blurry but not as blurry as the first one, perhaps you could advice me. I am almost in tears here, seeing the poor little fellow looking like that Here is the pic I took.

See, that shows you how much I know about plants, still a newbie LOL

Its ok I am a super busy mom at the moment. My daughter is turning six on Thursday and we are expecting 20 kids I am extremely busy with arrangements. And if it still take months, I can live with the plastic ones, they don't bother me that much

Hahahaha I can just immagine that :lol: I will wait for a day Hubby is on his off days, he is very good with directions. I however seriously need a gps with a lot of patience LOL

Oh goodness, you don't clean it with plants, no wonder your sand is dirty :lol: That is not too far, its ok for me to drive. I am still a bit weary to drive especially with my kids in the car. I get lost quickly hahahaha

LOL Sam :lol: I have no idea how I will clean it after I planted the plants, cause currently I am taking everything including my plastic plants out, so I can do a nice thorough gravel vac. (that is why its so clean) I would love to, if its not too far away from me.

Yes its a Blue Planet Vista. The filter and lighting is all that came with the original tank. I will go to our animates tomorrow and see what they have there. Thanks John and Jim, all help is greatly appreciated

Above is what my tank looks like currently. As you can see its got three plastic plants instead of live ones. The reason for that is I hardly ever switch both my lights on, during the day I don't even switch them on. I like to see my bristlenoses and chocolate zebra's and I only see them if the lights are off, or at night if only one light is on and not both. But as you can also see, the tank looks fake and borring. It used to be much more borring but I changed the gravel to the midnight fine gravel. So now it looks a bit better allready. My question is, What plants can I use that is easy to keep alive and maintain for a newbie. Phoenix44 mentioned that I should get some and I would like to give it a try

Both my husband and I are leaders in the sea scouts and would appreciate it if you save our scouts group as a favourite seller on TM (look under Tepuruseascouts) and pop in every now and then to see if we have something interesting that you might like to bid on. If you have some stuff in the garage that is gathering dust and would like to donate it to us to sell or use, that would be great too. Just pm me here and I will get in contact with you

Bikbok, it might be best hey, so glad your little guy pulled through and is back in the community tank Firenzenz I will put the degrees up to what you suggested Phoenix, I did not pick up my little guy by himself, he was sucking onto the bottom of a little bridge and I picked up the little bridge and tipped it over so I could view him, then I lifted it up so I could inspect it from closer, after seeing and feeling very lightly that its not slimy I put the little bridge with him still on it down in the tank. I would be too scared to even attempt picking up my fish. I do a 20 to 30 persent water change once a week, to make sure I don't forget I have it set on my Marina alarm. I will try to get a pic of him, by lifting the little bridge again. Pic is very blurry sorry, will have to try again later, he swam of as I took the pic :roll:

I saw today that my chocolate zebra had a little whitish (more see through than white) spot just where his top fin starts. It looks slimy, but when I lifted him out and felt it, it was not slimy at all. I was wondering whether I shoudl quarantine him and treat with Melafix or perhaps its better to treat the whole tank. Only changes I did was my substrate change a couple of days ago. I am concerned about medicine in the tank, because I have three glass catfish and know they are sensitive to most medicines. Could you please advise me what to do

Mine goes up by about 40 dollars in the winter. But I guess its because in summer we only switch lights on at about half past eight, where in winter we switch them on at about half past five and on dark rainy days even have them on all day. We also run three electric blankets and three heaters so mmmm yeah I would say my little 300 watt heater is not doing the most damage LOL

How are you doing with facebook Caryl, are you seeing a home page you are happy with?

Caryl what I do is on the home page I hide everything I get tired of seeing, you just hover at the end of the post and the hide button will appear. And on the page where you accept applications you click block, then your name will never appear for that application with any of your friends. And on your profile page you can also hide irritating little applications as well. My pages are spam free, I only see what I want to see

I am a fan of them too. I just love them, I can stare at my male for hours if he comes out at night

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring/ Found this quite interesting

LOL my english makes me say funny things sometimes :lol: I will just keep an eye on them, they probably best friends

Would they be able to have fries, they look almost the same but are from different types of pleco? Perhaps I should name them Pinky and Brain :lol:

That is what I was thinking. You never know, they started of fighting until everyone got their own little spot in the tank. Now they both abandoned their hidey hole and both sleep under the same bogwood....right next to each other. No more tailslapping just playfull little chases during the day :roll:

You guys are as dumbstruck as I am :lol:

Hi as most of you know by now, I have one large bristlenose male (10cm) and a very smaller female (6cm) I recently got two chocolate zebra's not sure of their sex yet, but they are now also about 6cm in size. They have all sorted out their terrority(sp) and is living happily together. My male bristlenose is not bothered and is living on as per normal. My female however has been very playful with the one chocolate zebra and I see the two of them moved in together under the bogwood. Which is very strange cause each one of them had their own hide out for a while now. I was wondering if they are becoming an odd couple or whether they are just friends.

I am so glad we are on tank water, so I can monitor my own water supply