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Man that is looking so good; it's amazing how fast it's all been transformed. Is it looking better than you envisioned? You must've planned out how that would look as it all appears flawless well done.

Aaron did you do anything special with the water parameters? (e.g drop pH, temp, add rain water?). Well done.

Thanks for posting/looking into that Blue it sounds good. I have also read someone recently posting (on another forum) that baby discus devour frozen baby brine shrimp, but something with higher nutritional content would be even better like your topless ones mentioned above.

SimplyDiscus.com suggests treating every second day at 1ml/10gallons. Treat like this for two weeks if you see improvement. Add extra air as it depletes oxygen, don't raise temp. Do a 50% after every 8 hours. It 'may' be different for rams than discus tho so perhaps check on simplycichlids.com. May impact biofilter.

FNZAS SNORKLE TRIP TO CARYL'S!

1. yeah, but cooler water induces them to spawn i've heard. 2. males have white edges on their fins

You can always keep them in a community tank or sell them cheap to someone who will have them in a freaky community or discus tank.

White cloudy or green cloudy? Is it by a window? Could be direct sunlight causing algae bloom. If white cloudy I'd do a few huge water changes.

They do the job fine, just hard to clean cuz ya gotta stick ya hand in there.

Sweeeeeeeet always love that feeling of setting up a new tank and the possibilities for design, planting, fish stocking etc

FranandMark welcome along. Depends how hard the water is. If it's too hard the eggs can't hatch, but like Ronnie (Discusguru) says, if it's harder they grow better because more mineral content. I definitely recommend getting in to them if you can dedicate to a lot of water changes (a few of us here do 70% water changes/day). They have cool personalities and are really interesting to watch their social interactions and breeding behaviour.

Don't unnecessarily treat the others, and it is recommended you move the infected fish to a hospital tank. I tried drontal on my rams that had those worms and it didn't work, but they were badly infected. The best med is levamisol. I found my rams lost their appetite in the end altogether, so it's hard to use meds that need to be added to food like panacur/fenbendazole. You can always try drontal and see how it goes. You can get the drontal plus tabs from your local vet.

hahahha had a similar incident once where my flatmate took the heater out of his tank to clean it, he didn't realise he unplugged the wrong plug and threw it back in the clean tank, it 'blew up' on contact with the water. Then...you'd think he'd really make sure he unplugged it, however I went back in there shortly after and could smell burning, the broken heater was catching the towel on fire he had it sitting on ... :roll: man my flatties are stupid

Ah well, better luck next time. Are you gonna get a tank just for them? Are you sure they didn't hatch and are just with the parents?

Congratulations! Very exciting isn't it? Don't worry about them being inbred. It only really affects fish a few inbred generations down the line.

wicked fresh! please take some pics

Worm her asap and remove to hospital tank. The worms are called Camillanus. Treat using fenbendazole (aka Panacur); mix it in with fish food at a rate of 0.25% and feed for three days, then repeat in three weeks. Capillaria is a common roundworm found in Angels too and the good thing is fenbendazole nails it too. I have a big bottle of fenbendazole and also some medicated food so if you're over this way let me know. Levamisole is ideal too, as can be added to the water column and treated for just 24hours. Goodluck

Now if only it could also control the pH and tell you the levels of ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, CO2, carbonate and general hardness, and predict earthquakes then i'd buy one

Nope. But you will need to cycle it first. All the info is in a sticky in the beginners section. You may have heard talk of new tank syndrome, which is just the shock for the fish going in to a brand new tank, aslong as the water parameters (pH, DH, KH, temp, no ammonia or nitrite, chlorine) are right the fish will be fine.

Adult male in breeding tank

Talk to Alan the moderator, he's knows how to do it, you rig up a (additional?) thermostat to it somehow.

Caryl, did you mean on step 5 moved "goldfish trough" by paddling pool? As opposed to moved paddling pool beside paddling pool? Might wanna edit unless you have 2 paddling pools that is? Bummer bout the barbs, are you thinking of trying any others? Nice effort esp after your marathon

I would say they would definitely be interested especially if you can provide them at a cheaper price than their current suppliers, but you'd need to approach them and ask of course.

Awesome! they look good really nice red eyes. Keep us posted brother. Funny thing, my pair laid again today (my female is sister to Blue's female).

I don't think anyone in NZ worries about that, but apparently they do grow quicker with harder water that has minerals in it.