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started on his wen and have now started down his lateral line? i have been adding salt but it doesn't seem to be doing much, the other 3 fish (one being another oranda) are fine? sorry about the pic, i'm not sure how to add them on here https://trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver ... 193533.jpg

:tears: i picked up this fish yesterday, and when i was putting him into his tank i noticed he had red veins in his tail, his tail is a bit tatty and his body has a redness to it, bought off trademe and when i picked him up, he was in a bucket, so looking down on him i didn't notice grrr! :an!gry my fault for not inspecting him properly, i know the cause can be septicemia so how can i treat this? will he affect the other fish? i will do plenty of water changes to make sure the water is super clean for him. fins don't seem to be clamped but he is a bit dopey

thank you, have messaged them.

are there many of these around? i have a couple and would love to get some unrelated(distantly related) ones to breed with my ones. :f77: :thup:

are these pretty common? just picked up two wee ones from a local shop and they are so cute, i remember seeing a couple a year or so ago but nothing since. i didn't even go in to buy anything!, now i have to get a new tank for my albino guppies i plan to buy :gigl: what a shame.... im a sucker for albino anything!

i would too! are they around?

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looks like its got a white belly? didnt think fire eels had spots down the spine either

oh dear! &c:ry hope that doesn't happen anytime soon to my fire eel, he's a good 75cm now. there have been a few times when i've thought "oh crap here we go" because hes been found upside down...turns out thats the way he sleeps! either that or draped over a vertical ceramic pipe.... silly eel !

haha dead right you dont want them too big anyway mines a right pain in the bum, only eats worms and took him a month to eat anything, wont even look at anything else. he gets 20-30 worms a day/ second day. hes grown about 7cm since november after being fed bloodworms at bird barn is mr Eel yours henward? (i cant look at youtube, uses too much internet :an!gry )

lol 35cm a monster :sml2: mines 75cm

its not just one chasing another , one will sort of charge at the other then the other will charge back at it, then they will go off and charge at the other ones, i will leave them to it, just wanted to make sure they wont die of exhaustion or anything

i have had 10 neons for about 8 or so weeks, they are in a 5ft tank, and are the only "swimming" fish other than a male fighter who minds his own business, there is bristlenose in the tank and a 75cm fire eel. they were bought as live food for the eel but hes not interested in anything that doesnt come from my hand or isnt a worm! they have been fighting with each other constantly chasing, nipping etc for the last few weeks, what could they be fighting over? and how could i stop it? or do i leave them to it? i dont really want to get more as they were for food so didnt really want them living in the tank in the first place! :lol:

i got two, hopefully not the same sex. need fattening up very badly but hopefully once they get there will start growing well

cold water for me = no heater needed. i dont keep track of coldwater temps only tropical, but im guessing as my room is quite warm from all the tropical tanks the leopards tank is probably around 20 deg. :dunno: i must be doing something right as they are going strong since sept last year!

yeah sold lots suprisingly very popular! they are in a small 20L tank with no filter, heater they get water changes every 3 or so days and i dont check the temp lol they are left to their own devices. one of my females dropped a new batch yesterday they are cold water so not sure why you would use a heater?

interesting isnt it! i just realised my daddy bristles has a black spot, on one side of the spikes that they stick out when stressed, i always thought something was stuck in there but no its just a black patch. this is the 3rd batch i have had and my guy is the first with a black spot, so hopefully i get more!

thanks for that! very interesting! i like it to be honest something a bit different

this little guy is a golden black eyed bristle, but i think hes gone a bit far! looks like hes been punched in the eye literally! is this just a birth mark or maybe some type of disease? both parents are GBA's and all other offspring are normal??

these are my christmas day babies

thinking back i think my filter was too strong, i now have no filtration and do water changes more frequently and havent lost any

yeah my male is far more spotty than the females, the females seem to only be spotted on the second half of their bodies. the male down the bottom in my picture is my only male as the other one vanished without a trace, but he is far far more spotty than the one i lost and seems to be doing his job very well so its all good, i lost the first couple of batches to being eaten so the last two i have kept really well fed and i havent had any go missing, i will update a pic of them for you

its neat isnt it! my 3 girls have had 2 drops each since i got them so i have alot! had around 15 fry each drop so now im swarming with the buggers! these are my guys

we have success! hes been here a little over a week and has turned his nose up at everything so far (even bloodworms) apart from baby bristlenose which he is sucking through the plastic breeding container AND through a net that is around the container! grr but this morning he has had atleast one worm, one that i saw him eat and another that got into the gravel. so im happy with that! :happy2: , i certainly have no issues with luring him out as hes never hiding! hes out looking for stuff 24/7.

okey dokey, will see how it goes