bikerbabe

Had to put him down yesterday :tears: he was just lying on the bottom of the tank The 2 girls have been very subdued today

he'd be around 2 yrs

Hi. My beautiful male pearl gourami has been fading away for a few weeks... he started losing his colour & getting thinner. He still likes his food.. but is now looking terrible :tears: whats happened to him??? all the other fish look fine.. incl 2 girl gouramis Tank gets weekly water changes/gravel siphons please help.

Sweet.. thanks :cr9:

Picking up my new tank off trademe tomorrow :happy1: It's 1000 x 450 x 480... Scuse my ignorance.... but can someone please tell me how many litres that is... :spop:

Oh.. bugger Cam... :tears: here's hoping for a happy outcome!!!!!! :f77:

Hi guys... Any ideas from the above pics??? :spop: I've trimmed off a lot of the brown bits. Things seem to be holding their own, for now.. the lights are on for 8 hours, no airstone, still have to get tropical bulb (should get that today) plus JBL balls. :f77:

It's a 60Lt. I've done a 50% water change, gravel vac & plant cleanup tonight. Have been feeding twice a day.. but will drop that to once a day! :f77:

I did have 4.. (2 smaller ones & 2 slightly larger ones. the other one that died about a month ago was one of the smaller ones.. now the sick one is the other smaller one... :tears: ) the 2 larger ones seem happy, as do all the other fish.. :dunno:

just tested now ammonia: .5 :nilly: nitrite: 0 ph: 7.4 I don't have a nitrate test.. but another Nelsonian has one.. so hopefully will get that done over the weekend too temp 26 tankmates: 2x clown fish 3 x pearl gourami 2 x dwarf honey gourami 1 x platty 1 x male siamese fighter 1 x golden bristlenose approx: 12 male guppies Will do weekly gravel siphon/water change/plant cleanup tomorrow!! then test recheck !!! :spop:

Hi Adrienne. I haven't seen any spots on any of the fish.. & I'm wondering.. how do they get a parasite if there haven't been any new fish introduced into the tank for ages??? :dunno:

My clown loach is sick.... :tears: he seems to be breathing very rapidly!! & of late is often seen laying upright in a corner, or wedged in under the driftwood. His top fin is clamped down :nilly: He's the 4th one I've had.. 3 others died :cry1: the 2 slightly larger ones in the tank both seem happy It's a community tank, well planted, with big bits of driftwood & places to hide. he gets fed a mixture of tropical flakes, frozen bloodworms, sinking algae wafers & dried bloodworms. & sometimes cooked shelled peas Any ideas????? :fshi: ps: sorry mods.. should be in diseases section... :facepalm:

wow.. awesome plants!!!! :thup:

Here's our darling Ted :love: She's another BIG cat!!! & we think her daddy was a possum!!! :slfg:

Soooo.... when can I expect you to arrive in Nelson to make MY tank look like that then hmmmm...?? :love: !drool: :bggrn:

Thank you for your replies everyone!!! :thup: The main 60L tank is 580cmW x 390cmH (water level) & 300cmD The small 20L Hexi tank is also having the same issues with the Windelov & the Ambulia.. :tears: I trimmed the Ambulia down in the small tank when I did a water change/gravel vac tonight. I don't have a nitrate test Things I will try: increasing the lighting another hour every day for a week & see how it goes. some JBL balls for the swords leaving the air stone off for a few days & keep an eye on the fish. In both tanks the internal filters create some surface movement, will that be enough then with having all the plants as well? I do have more of the same gravel spare.. shall I add more to the tank to create a deeper layer in which to bury the JBL balls?? Here's a couple of (bad) pics.... :facepalm:

The bigger java fern leaves on the left are going brown & grotty & full of holes, so have trimmed them off. The ambulia at the back is looking rather shabby, & the tops of the windelov are browning off.. all since this pic was taken a week ago. :tears:

inhabitants: :f77: 3 x pearl gourami 2 x dwarf honey gourami 1 x male fighter :love: 1 x golden bristlenose 3 x clown loaches 1 x male platty about 12 x male guppies :facepalm: not too many???

Yeah, I will do that.. coz the bulb thing has been bothering me for a while too!

I did have several bunches of Ambulia.. but they have thinned out a lot & the roots are very sad. Do I need the airstone at all then? or just for less time? I'll set the lights to come on an hour earlier tomorrow. There is a little BBA (I think.. from what I've read on other threads on here). At each water change, I do a plant cleanup & remove any leaves etc that I see it on.. so it's very minimal. The tank is probably getting close to a year old now Some of the plants have been in there for a little while (also have some anubias & val, which seem to be looking ok) & a couple of new swords.. which went in the same time as the windelov.. (I've only had those 2 for a week.. I did a swap with another Nelson lady & her windelov went completely brown very fast :tears: ) & substrate is fruitsalad gravel Thanks

I know.. that's why I got them... I thought they were fairly idiot proof plants :facepalm: bulb says ''sunlight' 24W. The lounge gets a lot of sun all day (big windows right across.. although in saying that.. they are tinted windows.. would that make a difference??) No CO2 at this stage.. but am in the process of putting together a sugar & yeast mixture setup

Hiya.. I need some advice... My plants are not doing so good.... :tears: The Windelow is turning brown... & the ambulia is disintegrating. I do a 40'ish% water change & gravel vacuum each week & am using Valrays fert (2 drops per day.. 60Lt tank). The light is on for 5 hours in the evenings. The light is a sunlight bulb (lady in the LFS said I don't need to worry about going to a tropical bulb...??? :dunno: ) Temp 26'in a community tank. Couple of bits of driftwood. The tests I did a week ago showed no amonia, no nitrite & ph 7.2 Internal filter with 1 piece of foam which I rinse each week in tank water & an airstone which is on all day (usually turned off at night) I'm not hugely experienced.. but have done a lot of research before I set this all up.. but I don;t know what's going wrong... it's getting expensive to have things fail.... :nilly: & upsetting :tears: Any ideas please......??

WOW!!!! :thup:

Hi. Leave a comment on another one of her auctions :thup: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =595899138

The poor woman was quite distressed by the comments left, & removed the auction as a result! She has done her best to try & look after them. It would be helpfull if someone in the Palmerston North vicinity could offer to help, or take the fish to a more suitable home!! Anyone.......????? :dno: