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Fish will eat all critters small and wriggly Culturing Paramecium: Paramecium is a ciliated, slipper-shaped, single cell protozoan. Easy to culture and feed to small fry. It has 2 advantages over infusoria. 1. Infusoria reproduces rapidly and if not eaten by fry will pollute the tank. Paramecium use very little oxygen and if cultured in a sealed jar, a pure culture can be maintained as other infusorians die due to lack of oxygen. 2. Paramecium can be seen with the naked eye but are still small enough to be eaten by the smallest fry. Prepare a jar or wine flagon by filling with tap water and letting it stand overnight. Add paramecium culture. They feed on any rotting vegetable. One of the best methods of feeding a culture is on a sliced turnip (approx 40mm x 20mm x 30mm) dried in the oven. 2 or 3 pieces will keep a culture going for 3 - 6 weeks, when the culture should be restarted. The frying of the turnip prevents a scum forming on the surface. Place cap on container and stand in light, but not direct sunlight. If a starter culture is not available, a banana skin is placed in an open container for a few days until the water turns cloudy. Remove banana skin, add some dried turnip and seal container. Spoer will have settled in the water from air and in a few days will clear and the paramecium will appear. Feed to fry by siphoning from culture, replacing the water removed with fresh water.

Hi and welcome Shane.

Hi Seth. Welcome and thanks for introducing yourself.

Never heard of it myself. What are the symptoms?

I seem to remember someone saying they had used the ones from the $2 shop and they worked well. Can't remember who it was though

Whereas I rarely do water changes at all! Generally speaking, it is usually recommended you do 10% weekly or 20% fortnightly, but as said, it depends on your fish and stocking levels.

How long has it been set up? Have you any driftwood in there? It has been known to drop pH.

Hi and welcome. Good luck with your fish keeping. You ought to be able to keep a couple of axolotl in a 2ft tank.

Hi Lynne. Sorry for the late greeting but I have been in Auckland for the weekend :lol:

Welcome from me too. Join a local club (half of the Kapi-Mana Club are members here anyway) for even more help.

Love the shrimps! The fish and others look good too I don't think we can get shell dwellers in NZ.

Welcome to NZ JMa. I have had an interesting time looking at your site (don't tell my boss as I am at work!) We have quite a few crypts available here, working out which ones they are is sometimes difficult though. Do you have any photos of your fish and tanks? Are the photos in the link's gallery yours?

I wondered if it wasn't deliberately put there for 'added pleasure for the ladies' but thought I had better not as this is a family forum :lol:

Hi and welcome to you both

Wow exploding riccia!

They do vary in colouration even if not stressed. Mine change colour for no apparent reason sometimes. Moody perhaps

A red line indicates infection in humans so I wonder if it is the same with fish? Perhaps something got under the scale then got infected or it was some sort of tumour, although I would expect a tumour to grow. Examination under a microscope is probably the only way to find out what it was.

A cottony growth like that is usually the result of fungus growing as a secondary infection so I suspect he has damaged the fin. If it stays like that, or improves, I would leave it alone, otherwise isolate (cheaper to treat that way) and treat with a fungal med.

Make sure you take a good close-up shot of the flowers and send it to Cees for the plant data base please!

Tell them you had a small quake You could also say the stand beneath it warped. Tanks crack for a number of reasons, age, stress, being hit with a solid object... It takes the smallest grain of dirt between the tank and the polystyrene to be enough to stress the base and have it crack. Sometimes it will take years to do so. There may also have been a fault in the glass, unseen to the naked eye.

It woud never have occurred to me to use mesh as a lid! So simple for those with kari-kari fish!!

Sorry we have not been of moer help. Black bits (if on humans) can be dead skin. Perhaps it has that flesh eating disease, necrotizing fasciitis, that makes the news every so often

Depends on the height of the people most likely to view it and if the position means it will be viewed more from a standing or sitting position. Don't forget to make sure you have easy access.

Does Hamilton have anything added to the water supply, like chlorine? If so, you need to add chlorine remover. 28 litres isn't a very big tank. How many fish did you add at once? What sort of filtration do you have? Why is your pH that low? Is that the pH of your tap water? (It isn't too low though)

Clown loaches like company, need a good sized mature tank, and are very sensitive to water conditions. They are prone to white spot too.