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not sure, but didnt salt the tank anyway, as its a community tank with a wide variety of fish living in it. Looking at the ghost, it doesn't appear to have scales like the other fish do.

yeah i see shelly and craig alot out at redwood, and i emailed them before i posted last night... the help was great, but unfortunatly i was unable to save this fish... Time of death was sometime between me leaving for work at 12pm and my girlfriend getting up at 2pm (monday 13 feb 06) An unfortunate loss. this was our original fish (brought from craig at redwood) so around 3 years old now. such a shame... the tank just seems so empty without him in there... nevermind though, sometimes shit just happens i guess. Again thanks for all your help... Might by another plec in the weekend *provided the tank is healthy before then* but we do still have our Bristlenose Plec. thanks again for your help

im from christchurch. and ill try your suggestions tonight when i finish work (bad hours make getting to fish shops virtually impossible during the week) Anyway... thanks for the help.

Hi guys and gals... please help if you can. A couple of weeks ago, while doing a water change in our community tank, i noticed that a couple of small plants had died and appeared to have rotted? i just cleaned them out and thought nothing more of it (probably a HUGE mistake!). Anyway, today i began doing another water change... and notice alot more dead plants near the back of the tank... and appeared to have actually rotted ????? so i cleaned it all out and carried on with the water change... then i notice our largeish plecostamus's belly is beginning to puff up and swell and he really doesnt look very happy... now im worried, as 3 years ago our Albino Plec did the same thing and died in one of our other tanks... This isn't good, and now my girlfriend is upset that she is going to loose the plec and possibly everything else including our 3 year old LARGE black knife ghost fish that resides in this tank. We dont have another tank available to put these fish into, as one other tank is occupied by our pair of tropical puffer fish (who dont like having tank mates... they eat them) so cant put anything in there.... and the other tank is small, and in the cupboard, so trying to get it ready to accept fish would take too long to really serve any purpose... Anyway, can someone PLEASE offer us some help before all our friends are dead? id hate to loose the lot... any suggestions of cause of all the dead plants... and dying plec, and what we can do to remidy the issue would be greatly appreciated... Thanks in advance. Cameron & Skye.

Hey guys. Cameron and Skye here. Well, we enjoy tropical fish keeping and would like to delve into marine fish keeping in the future. What we have: 4foot tank: Tropical Community Tank containing a med size Plecostamus and a large Black Knife Ghost fish, bristle nose, among others. plus lots of plants, living logs, peat base etc etc 60litre Tank: Tropical Puffer Tank containing two tropical puffers, rocks, logs, artificial plants etc. Small tank: basic tank containing snails (breeding) and feeder goldfish specifically for feeding to the puffers. restocked regularily.

Went through a stage awhile back where we were into Bettas, had three Males and several females (the males wernt together obviously). Until the dreaded and hated DISEASE (and an overly aggressive Angel) wiped them out I am now thinking about getting the smaller tank back out of the cupboard and getting another male and a couple of females! Should be great!

Hi all, Cameron and Skye here. We are from Christchurch and are avid tropical fish keepers. At present we have one 3 foot tank with a peat base with the following fish: > 1 Large Black Knife Ghost > 1 Medium Spotted Plecostamus > 1 Medium Red Tourquise Discus > 2 Albino Cats > 1 Peppered Cat > 1 Bronze Cat > 1 Large unknown bottom dweller > 1 Large unknown bottom dweller > 2 Ram Cichlids > 2 Angels (1 black, 1 koi) > 1 Bristtle Nose Plecostamus And a 60 litre tank containing 2 Fresh Water Puffers (AWSOME FISH!) well, thats about it at the moment, will be adding new fish into the community tank in the near future and possibly 1 or 2 Archer Fish to the puffer tank.