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Looks fungal, melafix and salt , from memory, had a similar problem with one clown, I put it in a hospital tank by itself added salt and a fungicide, at only half strength as clowns dont have scales and are sensative to meds. Keep the water real clean.
sombody with more recent experence may shed a little more light on the treatment
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Welcome Back, What sort of tank will you be setting up? What fish will it home?
Hello
It will be a freshwater, planted and will mainly be the home of clown loaches,
filtration will be with an 80 ltr sump and have a DIY co2 system, Twin 6ft T5 light tubes lighting 600 ltrs of water.
one of the chalenges here is the water quality and the summer temps that can be 40+ deg c over the summer, just right for overheating tank water
so a small water chiller designed for aquariums will be added.
I had 14 tanks in Christchurch and all the water came straight from the tap with no treatment or filtration and never had any problems, here may be a different story
may haveto invest in a RO/DI filter system to get perfect water to add into the tank.
Should be an intersting setup, just hope I can keep to one tank, or maybe 2, at the most 3 but definitly not 4 ,,, maybe :facepalm:
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Lets see,, my last logon was Mon Feb 23 2004 , :sage: and my name is still register'd on the forums :thup:
Well done to the forum admins for keeping my name on the list
I shifted to melbourne 5 years ago, hope im still welcome here ,
I am going t be setting up a 6ft x 2 x 2 ft tank here and hope to post the purchase , setup and running of the tank for new users can see how easy and somtimes hard new tanks can be.
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Im just around the corner from you in Retreat rd and problely on the same main water line, never had any problems at all, just straight from the tap and into the tank.
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Try letuce leaves, de shelled peas, cucumber, they love that.
Two large slices of cucumber and a large letuce leaf lasts about 5 hours with my 9 loaches.
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I have 1 1/2 biowheels here if you are after one, one is missing a water fitting,
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The only elements I have had fail were Tronics, one after 5 months and its replacment after 2 weeks, never purchased another Tronic again.
Terry
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I have made a filter using a brewing barrel, there is a 1000 ltr/hr submersable pump in the bottom which the outlet is connected through the drain hole at the bottom where the tap should be and a hole drilled into the lid with a large plastic water fitting screwed into the lid, the cable is threaded through a small hole in the top and secured with hotmelt glue.
The pump is covered with stainless mesh and the rest is contents of a large bag of filter wool, you could use 1/2 a barrel of bio balls then the filter wool ontop if you want to.
If pics are wanted i can supply them.
and it cost me a total of $130
Terry
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unfortunitly its not that easy for me to get time off, need to book in at least4 weeks in advance :evil: but im working on it
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I would love to be there but im working in the evenings,
got to find another job
one with normal hours 8) terry
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The negative people can go and find somthing else to complain about, I have been known to be thick skinned and according to the guys at work thick headed as well
CHCH area the only FNZAS club registered has 7 current members.well lets just say i have spoken to a few people and they are intersted in starting a seperate group, ( ive beed trying to type somthing PC here but words fail me at the moment , proberly a thick head moment
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With the amount of people who i see in the fish shops here im shure there will be a bit of interest if they are approached and I know of 2 shops that are intersted in suporting as well.
Thanks for your comments, I aprecieate them all
Terry
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There is already a Canterbury Aquarium and Pond Society (CAPS).
I know there is but they are not very active and after talking with quite a few others I have decided to form a second and hopefully more active group of fishy people.
And Caryl thanks for the offer and will call on you in due course for your help,,
Thats if I dont get to many bad and negative comments to make me dump the whole idea of the club completly
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I need to hear from anybody in the cantabury region who may be interested in being the founding members of a Cantabury fish society/club/group/bunch/gaggle/school/flock,, pick one
Any comments or thoughts on the subject may be emailed to me directly at [email protected].
If I can get enuff interest, flyers will be sent ot shops to try and get a bit of interest going and hopefully a few members together for a bit of a fun and an informative time for all.
Any comments welcome
Terry
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He has improved alot, almost back to normal, looks like ill have to get another couple to keep him happy, he has been a bit stressed after changing to another tank.
Terry
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I shifted a silver shark into another tank, he was fine thismorning but when i came home tonight he had one eye bulging slightly and the other not as bad, I proberly feel he has run himself very hard and fast into the side of the tank and given himself a very bad headache, hopefully he will recover.
My question is, does popeye become visable after a short time, 8 hours, or would my theory about hitting the glass be more likley, he does seem to dash about madley and iI have seen him hit the tank side quite hard.
Terry
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This is sounding a bit like a comittee
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If you need a hand let me know and ill drive down.
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Macka
after seeing your tanks I had to do somthing about my big one,, email with a pic sent your way.
terry
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Those fish are gigantic, the photo's dont do them justice
terry
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I also use a phillips energy saver lamp on one of the tanks,, it is mounted in one of those flexi type tabl;e lamps,, they are cheap from the warehouse
terry
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I have not had any problems with the good old under ground filter, three of my 600x300 tanks have u/g filters so has my 36x18x18 inch and also my 1300mmx500mmx450mm and two more 600x300's with small sponge filters.
the 36x18x18 has 9 clown loaches and a large plec and silver shark so this tank has another internal filter just to clean up the muck that the clowns seem to stir up from the bottom at times. http://www.globe.net.nz/~biteme/clown.html
In my opinion the u/g will be fine unless you are going to heavly stock the tank with fish, or as Caryl says
UGF work very well but it depends on what sort of fish you plan to keep. Large fish would benefit from better filtration as they create a lot of waste and you don't want fish that like to dig in the substrate if you have an UGrgds
Terry
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Like a bad penny,,
in Welcome
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Good to be back
Of course photos will be included, will be buying everything instead of making myself this time :thup:
Ill start a new topic in the correct forum after i get a couple of pics taken 8)