HummingBird

I use Flourish bi-weekly and Flourish Excel every other day, both at the recommended dose, in most of my tanks. I had a problem with BBA for a while and I double-dosed flourish excel until it cleared up.

I also use both of these products regularly, I've never had any problems with them and my ammonia is always 0. Maybe it was another factor - do you feed them bloodworms? There was someone a while ago who lost a few of his fish to what he thinks were bloodworms that had been refrozen.

I have this stuff in one of my tanks too. It's pretty annoying.

$4 Cardinals? Where?

Yet another point in favour of cardinals 8)

You'd need the following item(s) to convert the tank into a tropical one: -a heater Axolotls with goldfish? I tried that once, the Axolotls won. Big time. They were like bulldogs or something, they tore the poor things in two. Freaking awesome display of power though (Apologies to anyone who isn't a teenage male)

Sure it couldn't be some Hyrda?

I just grate mine frozen too.

I have two bulbs that are supposedly 14000k and one, by the same brand (don't know the name off hand), that's supposedly a 10000k too. Are you saying they aren't what they say they are? The 14000k ones are white and the 10000k is pinkish.

Welcome to the site. Can you get in golden albino Axolotls?

Just out of curiosity I'd like to know who here keeps albino guppies. I've got a male and a female and three babies that came with a tank I bought. I know Eon was line breeding some totally awesome looking ones and then his male died (so I gave him one that I had, my female was being bullied on anyways). So speak up if you've got any. Pics would be great, cause IMO albino guppies look better than normal ones (body-wise, that is, obviously fin/lower body colours vary).

*throws stuff at you*

Another thing that can be in your tap water is Chloramine, which is just as bad for your fish except it doesn't evaporate. If you're going to get a water treater get one that removes both. I use aqua plus, because it helps reduce stress by adding to their slime coat or something. It's worked fine for me. As for the temperature of the water, I usually just fill up a bucket from the tap (with water treater) and dump it in the tank. That stuff's cold. It hasn't affected my guppies or any of my other types of fish negatively at all, that I've seen.

I'll try to get some pics of the cinnamon loach tonight. I had the camera out last night but he didn't want to make an appearance.

I've got 5 normal sized Khulis and 2 giants, they are quite neat when they deign to come out of their hiding places. I've also got a Cinnamon loach, which is physically quite similar to khulis except it's a deep red. They're all pretty neat.

'salright. The salt I was treating it with (it had white spot and then recovered) didn't seem to have any affect either.

I had this same problem a while ago with one of my clown loaches. Unfortunately, it died. It was suggested on here that the slime may have been extra mucos produced as a result of another type of infection or malady.

I also had this problem with some large Val that I bought. Could have been cause I left it in the hot sun inside the car for a few hours though.

The best trick for getting fish out of a container that you don't mind pouring out is to pour the water through a net. Too bad you didn't know that beforehand eh Caryl

Frankly, from Pies post it doesn't sound like Perky knows what hes talking about to me either. Pie shared an experience to illustrate this. I'll leave it at that.

Cool, how big are they? Here's one of my pairs: The male is about 12cm and the female's under 10.

As it turns out they still have TONS of babies in the tank with them. Another pair of convicts in the tank have spawned as well and they have a cloud of babies hovering around too

Yeah but my reply just then mentions what I mentioned before so you'd better remove it too

I know a 12 year old who keeps fish and if he went into Jansens he wouldn't be impressed if the person serving him didn't know which fish was which. I fail to see how relating a similar story to that would be inapropriate for a 14 year old or considered 'bagging' a place. Not if you didn't put a slant on it and told simply what happened, which is what I did and got my post removed for.

It's not really playing god if they do it themselves. "But" you may argue, "They might never meet in nature"- it's still no more playing god than keeping fish at all is. (eg. a community tank with Angels and Siamese fighters, they would never meet in nature)