Scarletmonuka

No shed did not get the water tested before it was emptied. The results that i posted were after the tank was emptied and cleaned, wood, substrate, rocks and plants were taken out, filters were cleaned and had new sponges put in them. There was the tiniest bit of sand left at the bottom of the tank. Tank was run for a week with no fish or feeding put in then the water was tested. Theoretically no cycling should have taken place. Since then tank was treated with seachem prime at three times the strength fish (guppies) havebeen added and cycling has begun. Everything seems to be fine.

the owner of the do lfs told my wife to do this. she told her to do it this way so the tank would not start cyclying and that way the water in it would be free of the wunder tonic that she was treating it with and would also have no water conditioner in it so. there is no substarte in there just a bare heated tank. filters in the tank contain no bio media at the moment just sponges and carbon (you'll obviously correct me if I am wrong about carbon being a bio media).

Ok so the tank was emptied and clean. filters were taken out and cleaned in boiling water and all media was replaced. Tank was refilled and filters were put back in the tank. with a week of it running with no fish in it (so basically tap water). water was taken to the LFS and this is what came back. PH: 7 Ammonia: 0.50 ppm Nitrite: 0.50 ppm Nitrate: 10 ppm KH: 1 (not sure about this one?) and 17.9 ppm From what they said the nitrite could have been the problem? any thoughts?

Aren't Pink Tail Chalceus's really skittish? At least the two we had for a bit were. Or is that because we only had two and they do better in schools? And if you are gonna have bottom dwellers I vote for the pictus catfish.

R.I.P CHOCOLATE TALKING :cry1: :tears:

a direct quote from Katie "it looks like he has little white heads all over his body, it's annoying coz I wanna pop them"

I'm sorry but what do you mean?

Nah its not white spot. Had that before on other fish.. looks a lot different

yeah most likely godly. Just need some idea's on what to do next (besides getting the water tested). She has read if it is cotton mouth that she should pull him out and remove the growth from his side. this comes off the net. does that sound right????

Farm supply boar water. same water that was in the tank to start and in all other tanks. guess the only way to know is to get the kit and test the tank and hose water. it is our drinking water too..

to be perfectly honest we don't have any test kits at the moment. but if it was a problem wouldn't the water change drop it?

Hey guys so my wife has a 480 Litre tank that she had a silver aro, bala shark, 2 pictus catfish, blue phantom pleco and a choc talking catfish it. A few days ago the bala shark and smaller pictus died. We thought it was just the aro being agro and attacking them. Anyway after that everything was fine and happy for at least a week. Then we did a water change the other night. 25% cold water change. temp dropped maybe 2 degrees if that. we went out for dinner came back an hour later to find aro upside down in the tank dead. Pictus and blue phantom were dead the next day. choc is still alive but has a cotton like growth on the side of him. Katie has just done some research and belives it is cotton mouth. and believes it came with the pictus as it was the latest arrival to the tank and everything was fine before he came. here is a couple of photo's of the chocolate talking tell me what you guys think. She is currently treating the tank with Wunder tonic that is why the water is blue Cheers

Really? I've read they are quite territorial and you should only keep more then one if the tank is big enough for it.

boar water. don't know if it could have affected it.. same water that was in the tank to start with. he was fine we wen't out for dinner and when we got back it was dead. next day pictus and blue fantom were dead too. was a cold water chage. bout 25%. droped the temp bout 2 degrees for an hour or so. :dunno:

1 water change killed him plus my baby blue phantom a large pictis catfish a large chocolate talking and i cant find my horse faced loach

:cry1: R.I.P TURBO :cry1:

Black paper on both sides and back he seems alot happier

We got a silver arowanna named turbo hes a awesome fish around 25cms at a guess he came from a aqua one 820t i think he now in a 2 metre long one but anyways he constantly swimming at side of glass like hes gonna attack himself he jumps and hits his head on glass i recently put white gravel in his tank it shouldnt make a difference should it? I really dont wanna wake up tomorrow to find him dead any help please

Katie forgot to mention this is about a 15 cm fish. Its bigger then a full grown angel. That would rule out a dwarf flag would it not?

:tears: omg its sooo cute Katie

Can anyone help id this fish please

I guess there isn't muchpoint in asking if you had any baby browns or snow whites youd be willing to sell then.... What a shame you shut it down

What u want forbclown loaches and snowballs

Yeah the problem is getting all those differend fish down here. Or rather the cost of getting them down here. Would be awesome though. Speaking of male fish do you have any spare males out of those brown haps you might be wanting to sell? Surely they colouring up by now. As for filtration thanks for all your advise withe the sump am still debating it as i have found i can get a new fx5 from diaks for $600.

nah... but hey do you still have those obs? nah not interested in them as in southland just about every African cichlid keeper has them