clubbing80s

Hi. I got home to find one of my Fire Eels with its head down on the bottom of the take , twitching and gasping sort like an epileptic fit. When I touched it, it don't respond in a normal way. I was able to pic it out of the tank with my hand and put it in another thank. I though he may not make it so I put him in a tank that I'm already treating with "Tonic" , one of the angle fish has white parasites mostly gone cleared up at this time. I added Furan-2 to the tank, maybe not the best idea but in case he needed something stronger for an internal issue. Apart from heat burns which it already had when I got it I can't see anything obvious externally. It eats when ever presented with food up till this point. I did not once or twice he did swim around in a crazy manor as if he has an itch, as I couldn't see anything on him I assumed it was just an itch. The first thing I did was check the water parameters and all where normal, none of the other fish have these symptoms or anything to indicate sickness. What could cause this ? Thanks Greg

Ok thanks. Not so worried now . Just had a look in the filter and it was full of similar stuff . I cleaned out the loose waste don't want to over clean it. The flow is better .

Hi. My big tank gets this brown fury stuff on the plants. It seems to die back then come back. Thus far it hasn't had a negative effect on the plants to the fish. But it doesn't look so good, and I would like to know if it could be a problem. When looking close I can't decide if its a fungus that has dirt on it or is algae ?

Will do .

Thanks for the info. My big tank is against the center wall in the kitchen . I put it there on the asumption the appliances as suggested a chedt freezer would go there. And water spills are easier to manage . From what i understand the house is about 7year old. I have a spare room Im considering putting down plywood boards around the edge of the room this would spread the load over a much bigger area and catch small spills . Would be my office n fish room On the other have the wow factor for ppl arriving at the front door and looking into the big tank would be gone lol.

Hi. Im renting in a small "lock wood home" that has wooden floors under the carpets and vynel in the kitchen. Im used to living in houses with concreate floors so the weight of fish tanks is not an issue. Im wandering what the max size / weight wooden floors will carry? Im going to remove the feet from my tank stand and putting planks on so that the weight will be spread across the floor boards as aposed to a all the weight on a couple. Thanks

Cheers will leave them be. :-)

Just so that I understand correct the correct proceedure . With the air driven filters one does not clean them ? And if one does then it would be a single squeeze a bucket of aquaium water to dislodge heavy dirt ?

This is an unteresting implamentation of a HMF http://m.instructables.com/id/Introduct ... ilter-HMF/

I got 2 of those air driven spong filters $19 for both the arived today . Same as url provided. I had to turn the air pump down as they were realy noisy . How do i know what the correct air flow rait is ? Thanks for the warning about the foam. Will use the foam i got from work for thermal insulation behind the tank . Where do i get the correct foam from and what should I ask for ?

Wouldn't I need a power head to get the required flow ?

Think I'm going with the Hamburg Mattenfilter, I have managed to get foam here from work for free :-) . I don't have time for stuff that breaks.

Would help if the ppl selling you these items gave the correct advise in the first place. I was advised to do maintenance with the water changes and replace the filter pads every 1 -2 months .. I know better now .

Thanks for the advise.

So far the 2 small Amazon swards have been ignored , but another plant I put in had all the leaves stripped of the stem lmao .. And the pleco ate some floating plants I put in the tank, as an experiment to see if they would eat them ;-) .. Once is a while fresh plants should be good for them ;-)