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Nice, ah...laptop? Bud! Caper

Hi & welcome! What kind of fishies are you planning on keeping? What size tank? Take care & have fun, Caper

Hi & welcome! Sorry don't know anything about raising babies...ah, of a fishy kind that is! Looking forward to your pics. Take care & have fun, Caper

Oh, so it is you Billaney! Just read the announcements & it did say Paul but wasn't sure if it was you. CONGRATULATIONS :bounce: Caper

:lol: :lol: Agree with Afrikan, love the name :lol: :lol: Hi & welcome! I find the most difficult part of getting pics posted is the correc size; I have no brains when it comes to right pixels...kb...all that stuff :-? :-? But if you can't get it sorted out, someone always comes to the rescue! Take care & have fun, Caper

Hi & welcome! hehe...as you can see I'm your neighbour up north! Never been to Florida but have a sister who spends winters down there. I haven't seen your tank pics just yet. I was a away for a bit so just trying to catch up on missed posts. The people here are totally awesome as you will learn, always eager to help and you can be quaranteed a good laugh as well Yes, funny how they are heading for winter, we are heading for summer here and you're lucky (except for the hurricanes) to have summer all year round! Take care & have fun, Caper

Nice pics Why was the iguana destroyed ? Ooops, almost forgot to say hi and welcome :oops: Take care & have fun, Caper

Hi all! Well, I'm back home in Cape Breton now. Two days after being home (came home last Sunday) I gave all 3 tanks a good cleaning including the filters. I suspect my son Ryan did a better job of feeding my fishies as there was not alot of detris on the bottom. Perhaps I've been feeding my fish a tad too much! Anyway, the last 2 days I noticed one of the barbs having a real difficult time with his swimming/buoancy. Nothing visible on the fish so I'm thinking it is defenitely swim bladder, swims a bit then on his side and ends up on the top upside down. Did a search here and didn't find what I was looking for. Anyway, searched the net & one recommendation was to try epsom salts. I didn't have the necessary measuring tools to get an accurate measurement (spoke to pharmacist at the drug store when I picked up the salts) so I think it might have worked out to approximately a 1/3 third of salts added to a cup or 2 over 1 litre of water :oops: :-? Put fishy in for the recommended time of 5 minutes. Question, if this was going to help would I notice a difference right away? Should it be done more than once? I read not to feed the fish for a few days also to see if this helps so will try this as well. Oh, by the way, didn't test before I did the major clean up but tested today: ammonia = 0; ph around 7.6 (little difficult to tell but never changes); nitrates between 10 & 20. All set to check for nitrites when I realized that the test kit I bought in Calgary was for nitrates, duh :-? Caper

Hans wrote: Which means??? :oops: :oops: What's it for? Caper

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Very nice looking fishy Ah, had to look up on the internet...so its a bichir, right? If your other new family members come out of hiding post pics! A.Prophecy wrote: I was wondering what the difference was...so from what you are saying there is none??? Caper

Sorry to hear Those that had the "blisters" when you took them out were able to see anything that might have given an indication as to what they were? Caper

Never heard of it over where I live. Caper

Caryl wrote: Suicide or just trying to find a different tank and resulted in death! Sorry to hear about your neon ...Neon, good luck with the babies! Caper

Ok, sorry almost a week late responding to this but since I'm here in Calgary haven't been spending much time on computer for obvious reasons namely being with Tracy, Cody, and Matthew But in response to your Sunday being bad (sorry to all who had a bad day!)last Sunday was a great day for me. I was supposed to be on my way home (to Cape Breton) but got to stay here for another week...YIPPPEEEEEEEEEEE :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: Caper

Gee, is there anything you folks don't know about Geesh, I know how to hold a camera, I can charge the batteries, take good pics sometimes...but that is it. When I bought the camera the guy did a quick review of the different "settings?" and seemed easy enough, HA! I can't even figure it out using the book that came with it....dumb dumb dumb Now Afrikan, unless you have the strength of an elephant you couldn't have pushed that "thing" in if it wasn't already on the downside of working incorrectly, RIGHT Soooo, the way I see it, you did nothing wrong would haved happened to anybody, RIGHT! Caper

So, did you have to send the fishies to heaven or did they recover??? Caper

How's the fishy doing? Is it defenitely dropsy? I guess just by looking at the pic and reading your description (seems to be one area) wondering if it is? Caper

Have you finished the stand yet???? In the pics you posted with the tanks on a stand, how would access the lower tank to clean and such??? Caper

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Awesome Are you and reef using the same photographer to get your pics because they are always awesome pics...hehe :oops: I'm just kidding you 2 always take awesome photos Caper

I have one word for all these pics...WOW Amazing tanks folks Cam, in the right upper hand corner of your first pic what are the, ah, square things (looks like one says pH on it)??? When visiting the pet store, noticed something like that but, shoot, didn't check them out to see what they are! Caper

Beautiful pics, so clear! I'm terrible at taking pics good thing it's a digital so I can take many with hopes of getting one good pic :oops: :oops: :evil: Love that you also included the names of the fishies Caper

Thanks for the fish name, uh, does it have a "common" name as well??? Nice pics Caper

Hi & welcome! I can understand why people would like to have a marine tank, they are awesome (of course, so are freshwater 8) ). Any particular reason you don't keep the freshwater fishies anymore? Take care & have fun, Caper