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100% female Siamese fighter. 1. Head is narrow 2. Body is round from the gill and curve at the end near the tail. 3. Stomach is white/silvery colour 4. Egg spot is showing (Some Siamese female does not have egg spot showing - mine does not because it is a hardscale female) 5. No beard at the gill (males have black/dark red beard displaying even not flaring) 6. Body pattern changing when flaring (Male goes darker and does not have stripes) 7. Female Bettas stressing out quickly (showing horizontal lines) 8. Dorsal fin is too short/thin to be a male. Most importantly, this female is a Veil Tail Siamese by looking at her bottom fin and tail.

I have heap of Daphnia but I'm in Hamilton

Ahh old thread but just want to let you all know that all of my bristlenoses and Algae eater are healthy until today. I simply feed them Cucumber and some other fishes food that fall to the bottom. They are seemed to be doing just fine. Thank you all.

Apology accepted Drift wood from the beach takes a long time to sunk to the bottom. I had one piece from the river and it took me 4 months to sink it

Well just some reply to help you with the information that's all. But good luck with your sick fish

I'm a Siamese Fighter expert Do what I told you and your fish will be happily and healthy ever after. Add some real plants in there, 20% water change once a day for 1 week and a bit of salt and if the condition still the same then add a few more grain of tonic salt the next day before changing water. If you can find old sun dried banana leaf then he'll appreciate it more than Indian almond leaves. Banana leaves will make the water kind of smelly but that is normal I only had fin rot once when my betta fry really small. It has ich and then fin rot but after I eliminate the problem my betta kind of immune to it until today. So yes my fish never have any fin rot I have lots of Java Ferns, Java Moss, Amazon Sword, Indian Ferns, duck weeds, Anubias nano and anna and some other floating one. Cause of fin rot may be due to stress or immune system of the fish is getting to weak. Always feed bloodworm at least once a week or live foods even better. Feed variety of foods to keep him healthy and less picky later on. Bettas doesn't really like too much light. Usually they hide underneath the lotus leaf, water hyacinth, water lettus, oxygen weed and floating dead leaves in their natural environment in South East Asia. And usually the longer fin Siamese Fighters are prone to get fin rot easily. The Plaket or wild one won't get fin rot that easily. OH! Most importantly I have more than 20 Bettas in each tank currently. Before I had about 100-150 per tank, yes it is a lot, all that is from one batch.

Couldn't find any in Hamilton area. Pretty rare here because of too many pesticide being used by farmers. I also contacted Gold fish bowl but they don't have any either.

Ahh you have a lot of these little guys? Did you get from the fish store or you caught them from the backyard (somewhere in TA)? I'd be interested in finding them too.

Hello guys, I'm wondering if the water came out of my aquarium is safe to culture Daphnia? I added a bit of salt into the water (1 half a teaspoon to 50L) and I'm thinking of using this fish water to raise daphnia. But from what I read is that Daphnia will filter the salt in the water and will kill it. So before I start killing them, I am wondering if I can use this waste water for a better good or not. Regards Maxx

All my fishes are now HAPPY! Not sure why but bristlenoses are happy now than ever. They ate like a big V12 engine on Gasoline.

I have similar issues with Bristlenose (8 death). But now everything in the tanks are happily married to the water. Guppies are swimming freely with the Siamese fighters (lol) and many other fishes. My Siamese fighters didn't even eyes-balling my guppies at all

add some Tonic Salt to help kill bacteria + Temperature up to whatever the fish can stand (Slowly changing temperature to 28C?) Water change and more water change every day. 30-50% is ideal but do not forget to add slime coat and good bacteria supplements. Feed the fish just enough to eat within 5mins. Otherwise bacteria will boom even more.

water change 20%-40% each day and add tonic salt will repel this white spots and ich. My baby fish was like this once but cured in a week after 50 died in a night hahaha.

Alert: Fish STD!!

Do water change 25% each day and do not forget to add tonic salt into the tank. From what I can see is a bite mark.

very knowledgeable Jennifer Where can I find those high quality algae tablet?

Yes before he/she died, the bristlenose sucking up near the water surface and quickly breathe air and back to the same place again. But got a new bristlenose in the other tank with 2 chinese algae eaters They are so far so good. Those suckers are really working hard, they cleaned all my algae problems on my java ferns. I have both thermometers one on the outside and the one in the inside of the tank. Both reading 24c almost constantly (except on a really cold night). Heater is Aqua One 100W and one is turned to 24C (produce 24c) and one is turned to 26C (produce 24C). Just did a clean up last night, took the filter sponges out of the internal filters and the Mechanical/Biological filter cleaned it by squeezed it out in the syphoned water out from the fish tanks before put it back into the filters. Right now all my Bristles are at the bottom of my tank and hardly be seen sucking on to the side of the tank. The male Albino loves his driftwood cave and the female loves her air bubble corner lol. She loves sucking to the takeaway container with gravel inside. So far so good, no casualties and happy Bristlenoses

I have a functional bacterial filter. But my problem was I have too many Siamese fighters before, they are pooping none stop. Now that I got rid most of them, they are much less problematic to other fish. Hints: I have 350+ Siamese fighter in a single breed lol. But my Siamese fighters can survive the most atrocious water conditions (Super hardy fish) than the one you see in the Pet Store that was breed by normal breeder. I used to raise Siamese fighters and breeding it when I was 10 to 14years old. And 13 years after I am back to breeding them again My Siamese can happy live in tap water beat that! But yes the Ammonia spike has now stopped. But now I have bacteria blooming after putting cucumber/courget into my tank. But everything else are sweet.

I have two 50L tanks. I got Siamese fighters in both of them. They were about 5cm-7cm but I split them up. I had total of 8. But I get them 3 to 4 at a time to replace the dead bristlenoses. Technically I have 1 on one tank and 2 on the other and they all died out. So I got the Albino one and they are lively and loved my tank. Even the Siamese are scared of them I have terrible luck with the Black one somehow. @caryl, No, sorry for not saying it correctly. I had a total of 8 black bristlenose (deceased) + 2 golden albino (living). 8 of the deceased Bristles are bought at different time. First I start with 1 of them. Then I got another 3. Total of 4. I put 2 in one tank "A" and 2 in another "B". The two from "A" died after 1 week, 1 of 2 in tank "B" died after 2 weeks. 5 months later only 1 survivor from tank "B" and it is a female, I got another 2 Golden Albinos (one male and one female) and put him into the same tank "B" as the survivor bristlenose. 2 weeks later the last black (7cm) bristle in tank "B" died (cause of death could be starvation). I got another 4 black spotty bristles and put them in the same tank "A" (not the one with golden albino inside). 2 weeks later the 8cm black one died, followed by another one 2 days later. One of the bristlenose gone missing in the tank, couldn't find him and one came outside and sucking the glass. I moved it to my golden tank "B" to prevent more death. But 1 day later that one also died So all I have left now are the Golden Albino bristlenoses. They loved their cucumber and very active.

I only add half a tea spoon of tonic salt to my 50L tank. So should be okay.

I feed them cucumber and driftwood. Just checked my PH, Amonia and Nitrite last night. PH: 6.4 (albino bristle tank) and 6.8 (the one with chinese algae eater) Amonia = Neutral Nitrite = Neutral Nitrade = Ran out of test liquid Added some tonic salt last night to help kill bacteria grow in the tank. My black Bristlenose always dropped dead but my golden one are thriving and growing

Nitrite : 0 Amonia is not high at all. I always changed water everyday and when it raise to 0.5, I do a water change right after. So Pretty much stabalised. No substrate, just bare base tank with plants on the driftwood and in a takeaway container with gravel. I use the Malaysian driftwood. And the PH is in the range of 6.5-7 (rough estimate). So somewhere about 6.5 because this is based on the colour I can see last time I did a PH test. It sit in the middle. But PH shouldn't kill my fish. All of the fish are happily in the tank exept the black bristlenoses. Yellow one are doing fine. I have heaps of plants by the way. Java ferns, java sword, java moss, java fern narrow leaves, anubia, indian fern and two other long grow plants (similar to oxygen weed but fine leaves and big leaves floaty one). I have full filter system: external filter and internal filter. Tank size is 50L BluePlanet and a Glass 50L tank. All have plants in it.

Come and get some Siamese off me in Hamilton. I guarantee that my Siamese will eat your Neon instead of the other way around Long fin Siameses are prone to diseases and have a short life span. Mine is not long tail and they are super hardy.

Hello Guys and Gals, I'm having this problem with Bristlenose pleco. I bought 1 bristlenose from the petstore and he lasted in my tank for 5 months then he died out may be from starvation. I tried to feed him cucumber and chickpeas but he didn't care, he was sucking the driftwood dried. But one day he just dropped dead. I had 8 common bristlenose in my tank in total. But one by one seems to drop dead in a week or two. The only thing that make me scratching my head is my Albino Bristlenose are happily swimming in the tank and eating the cucumber I feed them. Not just that, they even clean up the left over flake at the bottom of the tank too. They're looking really healthy and fat. But the black common bristlenose looking skinny then one by one dying on me. I test the water and everything seemed to be in the acceptable range. PH: 6.4-6.8 (Driftwood inside and constant water changed) N: 0 Amonia: 0-0.3 (before water change and now it is 0 and constantly at 0) plants: Java ferns Oxygen: Air pumping all night/day Temperature: 24C My siamese fighters, one female guppy, 2 Golden Albino Bristlenoses and a sword tail female are doing great in the tank. I am lost for words for the cause of BNs death.

Omg! did I just missed this meeting? Damn can we have one more soon in Hamilton