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arcanine

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  1. :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

  2. 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!

  3. 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 )

  4. 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

  5. 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:

  6. 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!

  7. 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?

  8. 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!

  9. 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

  10. 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.

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