willie

sulky yes. I let my niece feed mine tonight and he won't come out now How do you teach them to play with the ping pong ball? I would love to have a go at that. Herp will eat out of my fingers now but he works up the courage and buggers off so fast he hits a wall :lol:

Frustrating isn't it. Don't panic, just think in horse terms. Check the paddock (tank), feed (overfeeding causes laminitis, foundering or bizarre behaviour, colic etc. fish die), etc. :lol: I had a bad run with fish stressing and dieing and the more things i tried the more they stressed out. I stopped and pretended they were my horses. Eventually worked it out, but damn its hard when your new and don't know what to look for. Good luck. Sorry no real practical advice but i'm new to this too. Ask me a horse question and i can help you. :lol:

So do I just turn up clutching some sweaty fee money? Hope that scares you off taking it. How much? How long does it go for?

Yes good lids because there is cats in the library lol. Been set up for a good year with no losses previous to this. I have a catfish, pair of kissing gouramis, 2 golden gouramis, 2 pearl gouramis, 2 dwarf powder blues, half an angel , 1 whole angel and a red tail shark and 4 neons. It is a 300 ltr tank with a via aqua 300 cannister filter. I do a 25% water change weekly. I'm doing them every second day at the moment or when the hitman has been busy.

I bought a male betta and female pearl gourami. I quarantined them and all seem fine other than the betta was ultra shy and hid a lot. Put them in my gourami community tank and all seemed fine other than the shyness still (stayed up the top of the tank behind the longest plants. 3 weeks on I had 2 black angels with shredded and missing fins. Treated them with a salt bath. A few days later 1 died next day the betta died, afew more days the marble angel was shredded. The betta had no marks fins fine etc. Then lost the other black angel. Today a neon was dead but a piece missing. 1 of my kissing gouramis and the female pearl have lived in hiding while all this is going on. I have 1 other angel who is fine. The male pearl has been a bit full of himself but haven't seen him have a go at anything . He is showing a bit of colour and chasing the female a bit . Help I don't want to lose any more and I can't figure it out. Is it Mr murphy in the dining room with a candle stick or am I missing something obvious?

Wierd. I thought I was going to lose my 2 kissing gouramis yesterday as they stayed on the bottom of the tank all day. Everything is back to normal today. My fish don't get the papers and I limit their TV viewing so I don't think it was media induced fish hysteria. :lol:

I have a 6 mnth old redhead. I have had him a couple of weeks and is in a 250ltr tank alone. He is a bit messy and aggresive. If I put my hand in he swims into really hard. :-? He also has a go at his reflection sometimes. Would a buddy help? Pref something like a plec that would do a bit of housework. What do you all suggest as a cleaner and to get him a bit friendlier? :lol: Thanks

just to clear up a couple of things. I bought 4 turtles off alan before xmas and he put me on to this site. I thought you guys were the experts. We went camping with the turtles of course (no license ) but everyone knows turtles have mobile homes My aquatic friends are gouramis, angels, neons and turtles. The zoo includes dogs, cats, sheep, horses etc ( a husband somewhere )

Hi, didn't know how to contact Alan any other way. Turtles are great and came camping at xmas. "Melon and Spike" are living in wellington. My computer died and I had to get a new one so sorry about the delay contacting you. "sid and scott" are happy i guess (don't see them smile , but assume they are) and doing well. They have have grown a cm since xmas. willie