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Thanks Jane, looks like she had other things on her mind I'm having a new baby on the 2nd too - my second grandchild!

A few nights ago one of my Gold Gouramies starting doing the same sort of thing - I only noticed because she was headbutting the thermometer which would then clink against the glass of the tank! She constantly did it all night - then I noticed the other fish - mainly the two Swordfish - were pecking at her, not just chasing but actually pecking at her skin/scales parts of which were staring to turn red. She didn't have the energy to chase them away so I rescued her, put her into a breeding cage, and dropped a few drops of Antiseptic straight onto the red parts of her body - I did this twice and then yesterday let her out and she seems fine once again.

Blitz, are you talking about the Dwarf Cobalt Blue Gouramies? When you say 'a pair' do you mean one of each sex - if so where did you get them please?

Penejane, I think you should be treating him, sounds like he is ill. If you think he's too far gone then put him out of his misery or else put him into a hospital tank and treat him with something like "Antiseptic" from your LFS. If you don't have a hospital tank you can put him into a net and put a drop or two of the treatment straight onto him and leave for as long as you can before putting him back in the water.

Shelley - have you done any tests on the water at all? Maybe you have an ammonia spike or something similar - it does seem strange the fish are perking up when you put them into a different tank doesn't it?

It's not that bizarre PomeReef! Goldfish can be kept in tropical tanks quite well although it is not the normal thing to do for them. Just be careful Caper that Sam doesn't eat the Three Stooges, he's quite likely to when they are asleep one night!

Eon, I THINK I saw one of these at Hollywoods (Mt Roskill) over the weekend - can't be sure if that was the one though - have you rung around?

There are lots of guppy auctions of TradeMe and new ones being added all the time. I bought 10 babies for $15 last week, you could probably get them cheaper but I couldn't wait and so did a 'buy now'. But as Phillz says you don't know if they're going to be any good when they're that young. I hardly ever see REALLY nice guppies in the shops but I was in Hollywoods in Albany yesterday and they had some really lovely coloured males - bought one with a bright yellow tail, unfortunately I found it dead when I cleaned the tank today but I'm not blaming the shop, I THINK it might have been one of my Angels that chewed his tail!

Aqua - are you sure 1.5ml is right? If you are going to be double dosing (to get rid of algae) it must be a very small tank! What size in litres is it? BTW the top of the container is 5mls so you should be able to use that to measure with. Your LFS would probably have a 1ml measuring thingi - something like the one you use to get the water to test your PH etc.

> undergrave heating cables < I don't think it's gonna work!

Haha I thought oh lovely this one has green spots, unusual! It certainly looks like my two GZLs but it is quite a bit darker than mine so might be a different one.

Maybe he has indigestion did she put the pea in frozen, thawed/uncooked or cooked?

That's a fantastic photo BabyMama. Sorry I was so pessimistic about them, didn't mean to be! Hope they're still going strong.

Yours are larger Snowman but I guess Pupuke sells theirs a lot quicker being a shop.

Sounds like the normal run of the mill ancistrus to me PeneJane. The size you have would probably be about 2-3 months old I would guess. But then I have some from the same brood who are about half the size of some of the others so who knows!