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  4. Dwarf Puffer fish

    in Rare and unusual fish

    Posted

    Awesome :D

    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?

  6. how do I start to treat - guppies are dieing . PHOTOS ADDED

    in Diseases

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    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: :cry: (there was no other species of fish in the tank).

    So good luck :D 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.

  15. Dwarf Puffer fish

    in Rare and unusual fish

    Posted

    I had two dwarf puffers, I started off with some ottos and them, they were living happily except for the occasional nipping from the puffers and one day POOF ottos gone never found them, so just be aware. Thought I would warn you as ottos are quite pricey. My puffers ate any size snails even the ones I thought was too big, they would just vigorously nip on the until they were empty, another friendly warning, feed only snails when they need them as food, do not think you can put 20+ in the tank to breed while they are in there, they assasinate the lot and only eat some of them when they get hungry LOL

    Just sharing my experience with them. I learned they are a fish only species, any other fish is food, even big bristlenoses.

    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 :D

  16. Dwarf Puffer fish

    in Rare and unusual fish

    Posted

    Tank size is fine, not much current. Snails WILL die. Otto should be ok I think.
    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.

    best to have 3 otto's, but it should be ok, i'd limit it to just one puffer though
    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 :D

  17. Dwarf Puffer fish

    in Rare and unusual fish

    Posted

    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?

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    Cheers :lol:

  18. live bloodworms

    in Freshwater

    Posted

    Yes feed away, I get a few too but mostly mozzie larvae :)

    Cheers

    Yea I was trying to get some mozzie larve or algae in a tiny paddling pool, but I forgot to tell the landlord that it is supposed to look like that and he tipped out when he mowed my lawns :( Oh well he was trying to be helpful.

    :slfg: That almost happened to me as well.

  19. live bloodworms

    in Freshwater

    Posted

    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:

  21. Panda cories dying

    in Diseases

    Posted

    How many guppies and what is used for filtratation?

    34L sounds a bit small - what are the tank measurements?

    What are they being fed?

    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.

    What are your ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and kH readings on the tank? What is the pH? What type of filter and what is being fed and how often? Do the cory ever come out to feed or do you never actually see them eating. What is the substrate and also do they still have their barbells?

    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. :D

  23. Panda cories dying

    in Diseases

    Posted

    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 :)

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