mts sufferer

Any updates on how your jellies are going Smuggz?

Thought so

Hi welcome Were you the reptile guy at the pet expo by any chance?

Awesome I got one as well but Bruticus sadly past away about away about a week after I got him. &c:ry I'm not sure why he seemed healthy, was eating live mosquito larvae and was active but nope he died . RIP Bruticus. When our house has been fixed I'll hopefully get another one. :bounce: What are you feeding your one?

WOW :cophot: :nfs: !drool:

I've seen this happen before in a group of about 70-100 young guppies that I had bred (no direct relation to imports that I know of). Their eyes and body seem to darken slightly- as you can see in the last photo of the one resting on the bottom, they get the shimmies, clamped fins and flick themselves periodically, they rest on the bottom of the tank or on a leaf and they don't really gasp as such but they sort of have their mouth hanging open a bit also like in the last photo of the guppy resting at the bottom. But strangely they still ate food as they did normally. I have no idea how this "mystery" disease was introduced into my tank as no other fish had been introduced or plants/ornaments. Ammonia, pH etc was normal. I tried treating with salt, meth blue Wonder Tonic stuff, increasing temp, water changes, changed some of filter media etc nothing worked, every single one died over about two weeks :tears: (there was no other species of fish in the tank). So good luck and I hope you find a cure to this, keep us posted as I'm interested to find out if it affects other fish and if there indeed a cure if it ever happens to me again.

I Hate Smugglers :an!gry

I have exactly the same tank and light. I find the lighting really good and bright and plants grow great as well so it might just be that you need to change the bulb because its getting too old.

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Cheers

Thanks , I think Ill leave out the ottos and just have the puffer. And I have a separate little tank to breed the snails in so Ill just feed them as many as they can eat at once. What size tank did you have your puffers in? Cheers

I was meaning would the snails be too small for them to eat as they only get to a few mm in size, I can easily set up a tank to breed them in or do I need to get a bigger type of snail to breed ie normal ramshorn. Yes definitely thinking only one puffer. At the moment I am cycling the tank with a few guppies so should be ready in a few weeks. It currently has water wisteria, java fern, java moss and some ambulia for plants. I know puffers like to have floating plants so need to get my hands on some water sprite, which I some how managed to kill all of what I had. I have a rock and a fake log ornament in there as well. Do I need anything else? Cheers

Hi, I have 20L blue planet tank that I am wanting to put a dwarf puffer fish in it, so I was wondering if that is enough room for one and ideally Possibly an Otto which seems to be one of the only other fish that they are fine with? It seems abit small to me but everything that I have read outside of FNZAS says there is plenty of room. But I know how you guys are with fish in too small tanks so I don't want to risk my life. I was also wondering if they will eat white ramshorn snail (I think thats what there called) or are they a bit small for them? Cheers :lol:

Cheers :slfg: That almost happened to me as well.

A couple of months ago I chucked one of those blue, shell shaped kids paddling pool outside and filled it with water to see if I could get some mosquito larvae. I got heaps of them. I have been away on holiday for a few weeks and it has been neglected and no mosquito larvae had been harvested. Today I ran a net through the water and I caught a live few live bloodworms (as well as millions of mosquito larvae). Is this normal in New Zealand because I have never heard of live ones here and are live ones ok to feed to fish? Cheers :ton:

yes every few weeks.

There are four guppies about 1.5 -2 cm long and another 3 much smaller, these aren't permanent in the tank, just fill ins until she has the money to get more fish. Here is the Tank http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=60157 its an aqua one 380 aquarium. Dimensions 380 x 250 x 460 mm. Filtration is a built in biological wet/dry filter that does 400 Lph. Ammonia is 0 ppm and pH is 7.2. I don't have any of the other test kits. They are fed once a day a mixture of either nutrafin max flake, nutrafin max micro granules, crushed up algae wafers and every week or so bloodworms. All of which the pandas have come out and eaten. The substrate is some stuff that I got from organisms there is a pic of it in the link above. They still do have there barbells.

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Hi my sister got 5 panda cories about 6 weeks ago. And about two weeks ago we could only see 4 in her tank (34L) but I wasn't too worried because it is heavily planted and it could easily be hiding. This morning my sister saw a dead one, it looked quite recently dead so it wasn't the one from two weeks ago. It didn't have spots or any other visible symptoms of any diseases I know of. We decided to clear some of the plants out to see how many she has left. There were two alive ones left out of the five and no more bodies :tears: :cry1: &c:ry . The two left seem healthy, are eating and active. The other fish in her tank (guppies) seem fine as well. Does any one know why this is and how to treat it? Cheers

ok sweet as. :thup:

So the paint stuff won't do anything either.